After leaning into the solace of some online shopping, Dearbhla considers the dopamine process behind it and how choosing connection over consumption is her better solution.
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After years of broadening our awareness and worldview beyond a mainly Catholic upbringing, connectedness is more important than religion, suggests Dearbhla.
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How do you keep the fires burning decades into a relationship? Dearbhla Kelly offers three touchpoints that work for her.
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After many stressful months having a troublesome effect on them as a couple, Dearbhla and her husband recently went on a short trip to the sun for some time out together and remember how to relax and play ‘in lieu of getting a divorce’, as Joan Didion said…
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People may think the Irish identity to be one of oppression, not openness, but Dearbhla explores its now more modern nuance, complexities and downright sexiness in this brilliant long-read.
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Here, on day 45 of her cycle, Dearbhla examines how she feels about being in perimenopause and missing her periods.
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For this writer, yoga has provided a pathway to confidence, resilience and a level of self-trust she could never have achieved without her daily practice.
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To achieve true intimacy and self-knowledge you must take the harder route and dance upon the razor’s edge of vulnerability.
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Meditation is a process of watching, of honing your awareness. Dearbhla observes the positive, long-term effects of daily practice and explains it from both a mystical and scientific point of view.
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As her husband is away, Dearbhla muses on long-term love and the exquisite vulnerability enshrined within deep connections.
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Is looking at life through the ‘love and light’ lens really serving us? Dearbhla takes on toxic positivity - and finds its upgrade to be empathy.
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For the first time, Dearbhla writes about a significant trauma in her past that has helped shape her life ever since. For the better.
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In perimenopause now, Dearbhla muses on her relationship with her menstrual cycle, and how she’s not ready to let it go.
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In an age when yoga, crystals and meditation are coming to the fore of the mindfulness movement, yoga teacher and philosopher, Dearbhla ponders on spirituality, and what it really means in changing times.
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Yoga teacher and philosopher, Dearbhla, makes the case for being your own best advocate by quieting our inner critic and building strong boundaries within ourselves, as well as with others.
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Dearbhla Kelly writes about the lives of the women in her life who passed on their love of lipstick to her.
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It’s taken Dearbhla Kelly until her midlife to really see that being beautiful is loving the skin you are actually in, not the skin you wish you were in.
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Dearbhla writes on the importance of having an inner life as well as an outer one, and the independence it ultimately brings.
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A stronger sense of self serves a relationship better than constantly seeking to merge and yield when things get tougher.
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