https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandwellbeing/arid-41758514.html Workplace Wellbeing: How to take a positive approach to to-do lists If you’re finding the combination of work pressures, social obligations, and festive planning overwhelming, our experts have a number of strategies to help you cope. IRISH EXAMINER FRI, …

Newsletter September 2025 Our mindsets often operate outside our conscious awareness A lot of my work, both one to one and in courses, is concerned with getting people to change their mindset. Our mindset is our outlook on the world, …

One of the key messages I try to get across to students on my courses is that stories are more important than facts. The stories you tell yourself, the mental dramas you participate in, have more of an impact on …

IRISH EXAMINER FRI, 02 AUG, 2024 – 02:00 Abridged from the full article by Sharon Ni Chonchuir https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandwellbeing/arid-41448088.htm Experts say entrepreneurs, athletes, and writers all enter ‘flow state’ when they really concentrate on the task at hand — it’s a …

 In my practice and courses, I often see some clients with very high anxiety levels.Almost without exception, they think it is good to examine in minute detail, what is fearful about a certain situation, what is the worst that could …

WHAT HAPPENS BETWEEN YOUR EARS, MATTERS! Your brain is an integral part of your body and nervous system. I think of that space between your ears as a theatre, where many dramas unfold. When you play emotional, fearful dramas in your …

As a psychologist who runs courses on Mindfulness which include positive psychology research and techniques, I often have questions from people who are afraid that I am going to ask them to deny their feelings,  to force them into “positive thinking” …

Take the Steps Mindfulness and Wellbeing Courses Take the Steps Mindfulness and Wellbeing is a structured five week program based on up-to-the-minute research in neuroscience, psychology and meditation.   The program combines training in Mindfulness with techniques derived from yoga, …

­ ANXIETY AND PRESSURE TO SUCCEED ARE ON THE INCREASE Over the summer, I was interviewed for a couple of newspaper articles, one by Olive Keogh in the Irish Times on Anxiety, and the second by Sharon Ní Chonchuir in …

I was interviewed by Olive Keogh for her Irish Times article “Anxiety in the workplace: ‘Friday Jul 14 2023 Organisational psychologist and psychotherapist Margaret Forde says anxiety is one of the most common reasons people seek her help, so it …