Book Review: Dear Life
'Dear Life' answers our questions about death without us having to ask them out loud. Junior doctor Rachel Clarke is not afraid to take...
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- Jan 1, 2021
- 3 min
We have had a glimpse of who we can be as individuals and a society – we cannot afford to lose it
We need to talk about love. Not romantic love, or the love of a family, or between friends. We need to talk about love as an act of...
- May 23, 2020
- 2 min
8 little podcasts about life and love in a time of coronavirus
Our lives as we knew them came to a sudden halt. Our worlds changed overnight. We had little or no warning. There probably isn't any...
- May 14, 2020
- 3 min
Interview: How hospitals are trying to protect staff’s mental health in social distancing era
Paul D’Alton brings in psychological first aid at St Vincent’s hospital as form of support Social-distancing measures have diminished the...
- Apr 28, 2020
- 3 min
We're so much more than our fear - as brave frontline staff are showing
Fear is hard-wired into the human brain and is a completely normal response when we are in immediate danger. When fear strikes, our...
- Dec 10, 2019
- 4 min
What positive psychology teaches us about resilience
Positive psychology looks at how people survive, bounce back and thrive from the inevitable losses that no human can avoid. Trauma is a...
- Dec 8, 2019
- 3 min
Seven Signs of Life review: Bold, courageous and most welcome
Aoife Abbey gives voice to the complexity of what it means to be a human being. Over the past number of years a genre in literature...
- Dec 3, 2019
- 4 min
How a corporation house saved me from life on wrong side of the tracks
When I was five years old we were living on the 'wrong side of the tracks' in a rented house in Rialto, in Dublin 8. Late one afternoon,...
- Dec 3, 2019
- 5 min
The death of a loved one breaks open the heart and strips us back to our most tender selves
We humans are the only species with the capacity to reflect on our own mortality. The outpouring of grief for Anthony Foley touched the...
- Nov 29, 2019
- 5 min
Terror's true threat: the 'us' and 'them' feeling
On January 7, 2015, Lassana Bathily, a 24-year-old Muslim from Mali in west Africa, was working in a kosher grocery shop in Paris. He...
- Nov 28, 2019
- 4 min
How the death of a child breaks open the human heart
The tide has turned. The image of three-year-old Aylan washed up on a beach in the holiday resort of Bodrum, Turkey, has cut through...