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The Cartography of a Small World, or It’s Lovely to be Here! – Episode 40

In this deceptively positive episode, Dara is emerging from a fortnight of disruptions and disturbances that have laid him low. Over the course of the show, he examines not only the necessary compromises and recalibrations that must accompany a successful recovery, but also the contradictions that can occur in normally reliable wellness strategies.

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Snowflakes, Pain Storage, and the Power of Subjectivity – Episode 36

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In this episode Dara delves into the places we carry and store our pain. He looks at how unaddressed wounds can wield a disproportionate amount of power over us and how that relates to our fear of uncomfortable places.

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Restructuring Time and the Pursuit of Evolution – Episode 33

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In this episode of the podcast Dara has a good look at why the arrival of a new year makes us feel change is both possible and something to which we have all been conditioned. He argues that we shouldn’t have to wait a whole year before we try to effect change in our lives.

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The Bridges of Wellness and Bounty – Episode 25

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In this episode Dara waxes lyrical about bridges of many kinds. He starts off with Lloyd, Jeff and Beau Bridges before turning his attention to the usefulness and aesthetic pleasure of actual bridges.

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The nostalgia shark is coming for my squirrels! – Episode 14

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In this episode Dara walks the corridors of nostalgia and explores the underpinning emotion that informs that longing for the past. The journey takes him to the movies of his childhood and starts him thinking about when childhood ends and adulthood begins.

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Flex it, baby!

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Positivity is a muscle – the more you use it, and the more you use it in a variety of ways, the more effective it gets. Do you ever think about the muscles you use? If you don’t, that could mean several things. It could mean you’re very young, and it hasn’t even occurred to

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Staying in the room

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“Houses have their own ways of dying, falling as variously as the generations of men, some with a tragic roar, some quietly . . . while from others the spirit slips before the body perishes.” EM Forster, Howard’s End “It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of,

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The importance of connection

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Continuing to explore presenting my material in audio form, here is an adapted audio version of my post from last December, We have contact. Thanks for listening.

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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. Pablo Neruda It’s Halloween! Feeling spooky? Feeling scared? Looking over your shoulder? Cowering in the dark? Dressing up or dressing down? We have always celebrated Halloween here in Ireland and I have liked the associated festivities

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Taking Care

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Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise (Daniel 12:1) In a crisis, I look to myself. It is rarely my first instinct to seek help or counsel elsewhere. I partly do this because I have a certain amount of faith in my own resources, and I partly do it because I

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The Cartography of a Small World, or It’s Lovely to be Here! – Episode 40

Snowflakes, Pain Storage, and the Power of Subjectivity – Episode 36

Restructuring Time and the Pursuit of Evolution – Episode 33

The Bridges of Wellness and Bounty – Episode 25

The nostalgia shark is coming for my squirrels! – Episode 14

Flex it, baby!

Staying in the room

The importance of connection

Open

Taking Care

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