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You Have It So Easy! Resentment, Ease, and Reaching for the Good – Episode 176

In this episode, Dara considers the elements that contribute to our resentment buckets and shoulder chips. He believes time and the ease of others are two key ingredients in the mix. He confesses to giving voice to some very uncharitable resentfulness around the time he became a father. He also speaks carefully around a significant source of resentment in his marriage.

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What Do You Do If You See a Space, Man? – Episode 173

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This episode is all about the presence of absence. How are your comfort levels with empty space and dead air? Do you struggle when the void isn’t filled with something to stimulate? And more importantly, with what do you fill empty spaces and awkward silences?

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Is That What You Believe? The Thoughts That Shape Our Reality – Episode 149

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In this episode, Dara once again finds himself considering his mental health battles. Emerging from a very recent depression, he examines the difference in his thinking when he is embattled versus when he is well. Why would he choose to believe one reality and not the other? Why, in spite of very persuasive negative thoughts, does his ‘better’ self prevail? And why does he compare these differing states and beliefs to acting reviews?

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The Voice of Truth and Anguish – Saying Farewell to Sinead O’Connor – Episode 115

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In this episode, Dara takes his time to say goodbye to Sinead O’Connor and speaks of her relevance to him from the early days of her career right up to more recent times when life presented her with a terrible burden to bear. He includes a clip from Ep 34 of the show when he spoke about the death by suicide of her son in January 2022.

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Survival, Transcendence, and the Myth of Whatever Doesn’t Kill You – Episode 108

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In this episode, Dara talks about the affection for survival narratives and considers the respective legacies of the recently deceased singers and songwriters Tina Turner and Christy Dignam. He wonders whether we should be defined by what we’ve overcome in life. He also questions the value of legacy and argues for the need to be more concerned with our present-tense impact.

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The 100th Episode Stocktake, or Stick Your Teachable Moment Where the Sun Don’t Shine! – Episode 100

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In this, the 100th episode of the show, Dara permits himself a stocktake. He reaffirms the recurring themes he has continued to weave through the podcast and examines what wellness with attitude means.

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Looking Adversity in the Eye, or The Things That Make Us Stronger – Episode 70

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In this episode Dara talks about the importance of cultivating resilience and positivity, especially in a world that appears to be falling apart at the seams. He discusses the idea of understanding the potential of our response to be a stabilising element in the reality in which we find ourselve

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The Face We Meet the World With, or The Pressure of Presentation – Episode 66

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In this episode Dara looks at two English sportsmen – the boxer Anthony Joshua and the cricketer Ben Stokes – and their recent public displays of personal crisis and compromised mental health. He lauds them for their candour and for their ability to face the public with their vulnerability showing. Dara discusses the pressure that many of us feel to present a functional and successful face to the world.

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Wiggly Bits, Jiggly Bits, and The Dangers of Penetration! – Episode 61

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In this episode, Dara discusses some hot potatoes that are being passed from hand to hand in Hashtag Blessed. Beyonce’s new album art raises some concern, as does Marilyn Monroe’s appearance on the screen on Dara and his daughter’s scheduled movie night. Are these icons of female beauty and performance actually problematic? Is there a radically different experience in how they are perceived by men and women?

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You Have It So Easy! Resentment, Ease, and Reaching for the Good – Episode 176

What Do You Do If You See a Space, Man? – Episode 173

Time

Is That What You Believe? The Thoughts That Shape Our Reality – Episode 149

Survival, Transcendence, and the Myth of Whatever Doesn’t Kill You – Episode 108

The 100th Episode Stocktake, or Stick Your Teachable Moment Where the Sun Don’t Shine! – Episode 100

Looking Adversity in the Eye, or The Things That Make Us Stronger – Episode 70

The Face We Meet the World With, or The Pressure of Presentation – Episode 66

Wiggly Bits, Jiggly Bits, and The Dangers of Penetration! – Episode 61

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