Mind Your Self - Four Swans

What happens when your reputation, confidence and livelihood feel under attack?

In this deeply personal episode, aesthetics practitioner Melanie O'Brien shares her experience of workplace bullying and the profound impact it had on her mental health, confidence and family life.

Rather than focusing on individuals, Melanie reflects on what it feels like to have your professional identity challenged, how anxiety can affect every aspec...

Our skin can influence far more than our appearance. It can affect confidence, identity and mental wellbeing.

This week, we speak with skin practitioner Meghan Kiely about her personal experience with acne, overcoming self-doubt, and building the business she'd always dreamed of.

Meghan also shares how a serious heart health scare transformed her outlook on life and inspired her to stop waiting for the "perfect time."

A powerful co...

This week on the Mind Your Self podcast, we're joined by Davitt Meenaghan and Euan Callow, co-founders of Luma Health, to explore the science behind recovery, chronic pain, stress and preventative health.  We unpack infrared therapy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, photobiomodulation, PEMF, and the simple everyday habits that can make a real difference to our wellbeing. 

The Luma Wellness Suite at Four Swans in Duleek Co Me...

Episode 28 of the Mind Your Self podcast "The Silent Struggle" is now live on Spotify ✨️✨️TW✨️✨️ Trigger warning: this is a powerful episode that includes themes that some may find distressing including miscarriage and pregnancy loss, hysteroscopy and internet trolling 🤍 In this episode of Mind Your Self, we are joined by Siobhán O'Neill-White, founder of mams.ie, to discuss the realities of women's healthcare, motherhood an...

In this deeply honest and inspiring conversation, Lorraine Hogan opens up about her personal journey through motherhood, burnout, and hormonal transition, and how these experiences led her to create transformative spaces for women across Ireland.

As founder of Festival Mná and multiple wellness platforms, Lorraine speaks about the rising call for connection, community, and a return to slower, more holistic ways of living.

She shar...

Actor and filmmaker Cian Doyle shares his remarkable journey from addiction and adversity to recovery, purpose, and personal growth. Cian speaks openly about getting sober, navigating the devastating loss of his mother, and learning to face life's challenges without returning to old coping mechanisms. We explore grief, resilience, imposter syndrome, counselling, spirituality, and the role creativity has played in his healing, inc...

In this episode of the Mind Yourself Podcast, Tara Thompson of The Quest Yoga shares her personal journey through trauma, dissociation and healing.

Drawing on both lived experience and her work in trauma-informed yoga, Tara discusses the connection between childhood trauma and the body, the challenges of recovery, and the hope that can emerge through reconnecting with ourselves.

A powerful conversation about resilience, healing a...

Accredited psychotherapists Tina Leonard and Laura Mc Hugh Harrington from Lighthouse Wellness Events explore the often misunderstood reality of narcissistic abuse. 

Drawing on both professional expertise and lived experience, they discuss how manipulation, gaslighting, coercive control, and emotional abuse can profoundly impact a person's mental health and sense of identity. 

Together, we unpack the warning signs of na...

In this deeply honest and compassionate episode, psychotherapist and breathwork practitioner Krystle Phelan shares her lived experience of grief, parental loss, estrangement, and navigating motherhood without family support.  Drawing from both personal experience and her work with clients, Krystle explores the hidden layers of grief including living loss, fractured family relationships, and the long shadow of COVID bereaveme...

In this powerful and reflective conversation, we meet with Darren Reilly, founder of Brotherhood, to explore modern masculinity, emotional intelligence, purpose, and the growing need for deeper connection among men.  Darren shares his personal journey through healing, leadership, psychotherapy training, and transformational work, offering insight into what healthy masculinity truly looks like in today’s world.  ...

We welcome former heroin addict turned neuroscientist Dr. Brian Pennie and his sister Anne Pennie, a trainee psychotherapist, for a deeply honest conversation about addiction, recovery, resilience, and the impact of addiction on families.

Together, they reflect on their shared journey, the challenges they faced as siblings, and the lessons they've learned about healing, hope, and personal growth. 

Drawing on both lived exper...

In this episode, we sit down with outdoor business owner and digital creator Max Cody to explore the healing power of the outdoors, the rise of adventure culture in Ireland, and why more young people are stepping away from traditional nightlife. 

Max shares his personal journey from long nights working in Dublin’s bar scene to building a life centred around sea swimming, hiking, connection, and wellbeing. 

Togethe...

What happens when the version of you that’s been holding it all together starts to fall apart?

In this powerful conversation, Myles McKenna shares his journey through burnout, hidden work addiction, and the quiet pressure many men carry to stay strong at all costs. 

Together, we explore how emotional suppression shapes our lives, why vulnerability still feels out of reach for so many, and what it really means to come b...

We sit down with Lisa Browne, founder of My Mind and Me Kids, to explore children’s emotional wellbeing, modern parenting pressures, and the courage it takes to reconnect with yourself.

Drawing from her experience as a primary school teacher, mother of three, and now wellbeing entrepreneur, Lisa shares why so many children are struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional dysregulation and how simple tools rooted in conn...

Mum to triplets and a teen, Emma Lennon shares her journey through survival mode, motherhood, therapy, neurodivergence, and healing. From navigating a high-risk pregnancy during Covid lockdown to raising neurodivergent children while learning to understand herself, Emma speaks openly about chaos, resilience, and the courage it takes to keep going when life feels overwhelming. Together, we explore emotional exhaustion, ADHD, sin...

In this honest and deeply human conversation, Tracy Martin, author of So Not Me, shares her lived experience of trauma, chronic pain, and life-changing disability. 

Becoming a wheelchair user at 18, Tracy reflects on loss, identity, and the long journey of finding her voice after years of staying small.

This episode explores the realities behind disability, the weight of layered trauma, and what it means to rebuild a life wi...

<span;>In this episode, we are joined by Veronica Martinez, a psychotherapist specialising in perinatal mental health, to explore the often unspoken realities of becoming a mother. <span;>Veronica shares both her professional insight and personal experience of postpartum anxiety, shedding light on the pressures, expectations, and emotional challenges many new mothers face. She explores topics like intrusive thoughts, ...

In this powerful and grounding episode with a focus on men's mental health, we sit down with Niall McHugo of The Breathwork Project to explore the life-changing impact of Conscious Connected Breathwork. 

From the intense pressures of school leadership to experiencing deep burnout, Niall shares his personal journey back to balance and how breathwork became a tool that didn’t just help him cope, but helped him truly reset

We sit down with psychotherapist Ciara Conlon, founder of Clear the Clouds Counselling, to explore what it really means to lose, and rebuild, your sense of self.

Ciara shares her personal journey through identity loss, weight gain, and the emotional challenges that followed becoming a mother of three. 

From reaching her heaviest point to making the life-changing decision to undergo bariatric surgery in Latvia, she opens up abo...