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Podcast #32 | Having the Freedom to Love

Do we fill our hearts with the right things? In this podcast we discuss what the human heart is made for. Do we fill it with the right things? We discuss how our hearts are made for greatness.

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Relationships Orlagh Walsh Relationships Orlagh Walsh

Getting excited as a family

I sometimes panic when I look up from my phone and see other members of my family glued to a screen. There’s something vacant about it, as if we’re zombies in a trance. I feel the need to light a fire under us, get us excited, or motivated to do something energising!

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Podcast #31 | Why Self Advocacy is Not Bragging?

What would you tell your 20-year-old self? In this podcast episode, Helen Hughes, the first woman Director appointed to Transport Infrastructure Ireland. shares with us why self-advocacy is not the same as bragging.

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The joy of missing out

Very few of us want to miss out on things.

Fun, laughter, connection with others, and celebrations are always a draw for us. Let it be said that there is no joy in missing out on these experiences.

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Podcast #30 | Do We Need a Spiritual Guide?

We may often ask ourselves wondering what’s God’s will for me? But the idea of getting spiritual direction can seem a little “too” much, perhaps controlling or at best a little onerous. In our latest podcast, we explore why the Church recommends spiritual direction and that it has made many great saints.

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Saint of the ordinary

One thing that this current pandemic has brought to light is our tendency to normally be ‘on the go’ – to be busy with something, to be going somewhere, to be meeting someone, to be hurrying from one place to another.

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Summer viewing – new and not so new

Cinemas are open! And what a treat after 18 months of lockdown. If you haven’t managed to venture back some of these films may just tempt you. We have also included some which can be watched still from the comfort of your own home.

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No love without laughter?

Horace a popular lyric poet in Rome in the time of the emperor Augustus once said that, ‘Without Love and Laughter there is no Joy.’ Is there love without laughter?

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Going places

I was talking to a friend recently while we were on a walk. We were sitting in front of Dublin Bay. I asked her for ideas on blogpost topics. Topics that would interest people, and even inspire them a bit.

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Collaboration over competition?

Have you ever heard the phrase “stay in your own lane”? The illustration I’ve heard that accompanies that phrase is that of a swimming competition. As a swimmer the moment that your mind, your vision, your body starts veering over to another lane is the moment you’ve lost the race.

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Mothering with Mary

May is a month that is welcomed for many reasons – not least because it marks the start of Summer – for Irish people at least!

It feels as though brighter, longer days are ahead and there are more reasons to be cheerful.

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