Emotional Wellbeing

Owning It Mini Episode: What CBT is and why it helps with anxiety

CBT is something that’s naturally woven into each and every podcast, you probably use CBT tools yourself without realising it, so I wanted to give this hero therapy some time to shine and discuss what it is, how it works, why it worked for me and how incredibly helpful it is when you’re on the […]

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Owning It: Coping Strategies with Melanie Murphy

In this episode, author and YouTuber Melanie Murphy shares her experience of anxiety along with her smart coping strategies from writing, to breathing techniques to something she calls ‘hyper-focusing’ during moments of panic. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/owningittheanxietypodcast.

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Owning It: Claire Balding shares her anxiety story and her incredible life lessons

In the latest episode of Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast, Claire Balding – who I know as Claire Fullam from school – joins me to talk about her experience with hair loss and the reasons why that happened – stress – the anxiety that went along with this turbulent time in her life, coming out

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The Problem Gambling Podcast S2 Episode 7 – Interview with Minal Jain, Co-Founder of RecoverMe App

Interview with Minal Jain, a co-founder of the RecoverMe App, which has been designed to help people in recovery from gambling problems, using CBT and Mindfulness approaches.  For a free  trial, go to their website.   Co-hosted by addiction counsellors Barry Grant and Tony O’Reilly, from Extern Problem Gambling.   The podcast is proudly sponsored by Gamban.

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Where is My Mind? Episode 27: Jools Holland with the Scientist

In this episode, Niall is joined by TCD professor of immunology and rock god Professor Luke O’Neill to talk science, Luke’s brush with depression, the latest research on addiction, the pandemic, staying chilled out in the face of some serious pressure, and to play some tunes with his band, the Metabolics.Produced by Niall Breslin and

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Where is My Mind? Episode 24: This Is Who We Are

In this episode, Niall speaks to sound engineer Mike and some more live events crew whose careers have disappeared since the very start of the pandemic.Niall records a live streaming gig with his band, the Blizzards; and speaks to Mike and some of the rest of the crew there about how they’ve been coping and

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Where is My Mind? Episode 22: Rumour Has It

In this episode, Niall talks about life in the public eye, and shares an intimate secret from his own life which he has had to keep secret.He speaks to Dr Ciaran Dunne from the School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies in Dublin City University about how and why rumours spread in social groups, and

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Where is My Mind? Episode 18: Bored and Brilliant

In this episode, Niall talks to host of NPRs TED Radio Hour and Zig Zag, and author of Bored and Brilliant, Manoush Zomorodi, about our relationship with technology, about that weird human-meets-machine interface, and how we’ve adapted to the startling pace of change in the technology around us.Produced by Niall Breslin and Ciara O’Connor Walsh

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Where is My Mind? Episode 16: Fear Is Your Only God

In this episode, Niall meets Andrew Huberman, renowned Professor of Neurobiology in Stanford school of Medicine, and they talk about the latest science in physiologically controlling the fear response in the brain. Andrew’s lab at Stanford works to understand how the brain allows us to sense, evaluate and respond to the world around us. Produced by

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Where is My Mind? Episode 11: What’s Love Got to do With It

In this episode of Where Is My Mind, Niall explored how love is one of the highest forms of connection that humans can experience, and its transformative powers on our minds, including a conversation with special guest, bestselling author Marian Keyes. Produced by Niall Breslin and Ciara O’Connor Walsh

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Where is My Mind? Episode 10: Ironmind

In this episode Niall delves into his own experience of sport and exercise and how it impacted his mental health, how exercise can be both a healer and source of solace in hard times, and speaks to Mark Pollock, an adventure athlete competing in ultra- endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps

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