Mary Murphy, Counselling & Psychotherapy

29/05/2025

Dear All,

Please find a range of courses for the Cork area being organised for Autumn 2024 for Health & Wellbeing. These are short courses and run once a week for 8 consecutive weeks.

The courses are at No Charge and are supported through Cork ETB and SHEP with tutor hours. There are on-line and in-person options.

Please pass on the information to people you think might benefit from the opportunity and who might be interested to know of them or to apply.

Easy to apply Online, see link below.
https://socialandhealth.com/short-courses-2025-online-application-form/

29/05/2025

Ok folks,

Its here, the application form for one of SHEP's flagships courses 'the year long Cert in Personal development' course is now open. There are a few tweaks to the payment structure this year but the course remains as fabulous as it always was.

Spread the word far and wide, everyone knows someone in their life that would benefit from this course. Application is simple and easy and can be done on line in a few minutes online See link below.

https://socialandhealth.com/cert-in-personal-development-application-form/

21/07/2022

How gorgeous is our lovely new logo?
The Old Shapes Of Grief Heart needed a little more Heart :)
New website coming end of August and our Grief Training Programme will double in price. Now is a good time to sign-up for the reduced introductory offer price of €199, it won't be this low again! Sign-up today on www.shapesofgrief.com

21/07/2022

Sadness is not something you need to fix, cure, or transform. It need not be healed but held. You need not shift sadness into some “higher” state or apply teachings so that it will yield into something else. For it is complete and pure on its own. https://mattlicataphd.com/

30/01/2021

Cork - St Jean Pied de Port In the weeks leading up to my departure, even though I longed for what I hoped the experience would bring, I was filled with fear about travelling alone, and if my flight had not already been booked, I might have backed out. Each night before bed, as I completed my routine with a variety of potions and creams, I thought about how few of them I could take with me and how little control I would have over my daily life....

Cork – St Jean Pied de Port In the weeks leading up to my departure, even though I longed for what I hoped the experience would bring, I was filled with fear about travelling alone, and if my…

30/01/2021

On my first night in St Jean Pied de Port I walked around to get a feel of the town and to shop for provisions for the 27k trek across the Pyrenees in the morning. Then on my way back to the municipal albergue (pilgrim hostel) I noticed the church and I decided to enter. I sat with my shopping beside me just absorbing the atmosphere within the small church, beautifully lit with tall, thin, white candles....

On my first night in St Jean Pied de Port I walked around to get a feel of the town and to shop for provisions for the 27k trek across the Pyrenees in the morning. Then on my way back to the munici…

23/01/2021

Tara asks an important question for all of us.

The Power of Inquiry: Healing Conversations with Tara Brach [this live exchange was recorded on 2020-11-14]Lucy finds herself constantly driven by the need t...

23/01/2021

So impressed by herself and her wisdom on inaugeration day.

My favorite line from the poem by Amanda Gorman today: “We lift our gazes not to what stands between us but what stands before us.” She is amazing.