Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin - Counselling & Psychotherapy Services

28/01/2026

RESTING UNDER BRIGID'S MANTLE - 'The Returning of Light' - Cultivating Sanctuary and Self Compassion in Everyday life.

Learn more about the self guided workshop available online that supports you to connto Brigid at this threshold time.

https://teallach.com/brigid

Brigid the Goddess is connected to fire and the hearth. She was said to light the fires of inspiration in the hearts of poets and musicians.Brigid is the Goddess of filíochta (poetry), and the filí, the bards/poets, who were the oral transmitters of the ancient culture and lore and the essence of the soul of this country.

These bards included the storytellers, folklorists, balladeers, singers, composers and musicians. The bairds (bards) were the honoured guests from cottage to castle. The word fili, is related to the word feic – which is the irish 'to see'. They were inspired by the otherworld and could see into the soul and heart of thtimes.

We willl explore how Brigid, in times of suffering and strife, would place her mantle on the ground, and it would expand to cover the whole of Ireland when we needed her most.

What needs Compassion and care in your life this coming Imbolg?

In this 0nline Workshop experience we will draw on understanding from Depth Psychology, Psychotherapy, Philosophy, Literature, and Poetry using images and music that evoke and stir the senses and imagination.

This online course will share with you the wisdom of irish mythology and folklore and will invoke the landscape of Ireland, which aims to engage your heart, mind, body and spirit.

You are welcome to visit www.teallach.com/brigid or click link below.
https://teallach.com/brigid
Grá mór, Eileen
art by Dee Nickerson
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28/01/2026

The days are getting shorter and colder, but I ask you to remember: even as the winter comes in, there is hope, and there is light.'

Seamus Heaney
Art by Kerrie Ann Gardner
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26/01/2026

'The moon shone fitfully through the clouds. It was piercing cold. The waters of the Boyne carried slabs of ice towards the sea. The heights outside the walls, beyond the mill mounts, were covered with the white gear frost that seemed to be part of the fortifications.
The men moved cautiously through the orchard, putting each canvas covered foot carefully on the frozen ground, their weapons gripped tightly in their hands, almost five hundred little white clouds rising from their mouths each time they breathed. The path through the orchard wasn't large enough for their numbers as more of them came in through the small blind door. There they scattered out, merging with the gaunt, leafless, black, distorted fruit trees...'

This is the opening paragraph of the book- 'Seek the Fair Land' which was written by Galway author Walter Macken (first published in 1959).
I have always loved this book since first reading it as a teenager. It is the first in a trilogy set, a fictional story that begins in 1641 with the invasion of Drogheda by Cromwell's army. A family escapes by the river at nightfall and make their way west to the mountains of Connemara in an attempt to seek shelter there. The beautifully written story is an account of the journey by foot, from Drogheda across the country, crossing the wild landscapes and forests to evade capture.

These Iron Age shoes, found in a Danish bog and dating from around 400 BC, always remind me of Seek the Fair Land. They carry the echo of long journeys on foot, and the stories such journeys hold.

There was something about that archetypal journey which, having grown up at the foot of a mountain in Connemara, I have always found deeply moving — finding safety not in walls or towns, but in wildness itself: in mountains, bogs, and remoteness. The land becomes both refuge and home. Walter Macken was a beautiful writer.

Have any of you read the trilogy?
Grá mór Eileen 🤗
Photograph - Iron Age Shoes c.400 BC found in Danish bog. (National Geographic)
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25/01/2026

James Joyce (1882–1941) was an Irish modernist writer widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. Born in Dublin, Joyce is best known for his innovative use of language and experimental narrative techniques. His major works include Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939).

He was married to Nora Barnacle, a woman from Galway who became his lifelong partner and muse. Although Joyce spent much of his life living in continental Europe, his writing remained deeply rooted in the life, culture, and streets of Dublin, once declaring, “When I die, Dublin will be written on my heart.”

For similiar Irish words and stories, you are welcome to visit my website www.teallach.com and sign up for free to my mailing list and avail of the FREE MEDITATION in the link in my bio above, (or messages below), as a gift when you sign up.

It is a meditation on the Irish landscape. I share reflections regularly from Irish Mythology, Folklore,  Psychotherapy / Depth Psychology, and updates on courses and exclusive discounts that may be of interest to you. 

You are welcome to join me there.
Grá mór, Eileen 
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23/01/2026

'A mother who radiates self-love and self- acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low Self esteem'

Naomi Wolf
Photography Vintage 1970s New York City Harlem.
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23/01/2026

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is one of Ireland’s leading poets. A beacon in Irish literature, she recognised the beauty and emotional depth of poetry in Gaeilge long before the language was widely acknowledged as it is today. I remember her signing my book many years ago in Galway, feeling utterly in awe and deeply moved to have met her.

She has been an inspiration throughout my life. Irish themes are central to her work — myth, daily life, and, above all, language as an anchor for identity, place, and belonging. Born in England to Irish parents and later immersed in Gaeilge in County Kerry, Ní Dhomhnaill chose to write in Irish as an act of cultural and spiritual reclamation. She believed that when Irish people shifted to English, deep emotional layers were left behind in the language no longer spoken or passed on.

This resonated deeply with me. I had no English until I was five years old, so Gaeilge, the Irish Language, shaped my psyche and continues to do so. The native language of any country carries the soul of its people — to lose it is to lose a unique way of feeling and knowing the world. This understanding lies at the heart of my Deepening the Senses work. To connect people back to a sense of that soul place, is what the work is about.

This poet, as all poets and artists, their work is pivotal to understanding the soul and psyche within a tradition and a nation and Nuala is one such beacon in the ancient Gaelic tradition.

To explore more Irish writers and similar reflections, you are warmly invited to visit www.teallach.com, and my free mailing list where you can subscribe and receive a free meditation on the Irish landscape. The link is in the bio or below in the comments section.
Grá mór,
Eileen

21/01/2026

".there ain't no journey what don't change you some".

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Photography Ted Chin
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20/01/2026

Welcome to my YouTube channel (click below)- click LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE to get all my updates.

You are also invited to Koin me LIVE for a 4-hour International online gathering on Brigid’s Feast Day, February 1st, 2026, where we explore The Bean Feasa: Wise Woman and Mediator of the Gaelic Otherworld.

The Bean Feasa—the “woman of knowledge”—is one of the most enigmatic figures in Irish folklore: a healer, seer, and mediator between the human world and the Otherworld.

This immersive experience weaves Jungian Depth Psychology with Irish folklore, mythology, language, poetry, and the ancestral landscapes of Ireland—an invitation into deep time and ancestral wisdom.

Designed to support a visceral exploration of the Wise Woman archetype for your own personal development, this gathering is a meditation on heritage, culture, and the wisdom of the ancestors.

Learn more via the link in my bio or below in the messages section or visit teallach.com/bridge.
This series has been years in the making and is very close to my heart—I’m so excited to share it with you.

Grá mór,
Eileen 🥰

Read by: Eileen Ní ShuilleabháinLearn more/Purchase the Course at: https://teallach.com/You are invited into ancestral “deep time” and the numinous. These c...

20/01/2026

'Fear can accumulate in our body, causing stress and tension. Rest is a precondition for healing. When animals in the forest get wounded, they find a place to lie down, and they rest completely for many days. They don’t think about food or anything else. They just rest, and they are able to heal themselves quite naturally. When we humans become fearful and overwhelmed with stress, we may go to the pharmacy and get drugs, but we rarely have the wisdom to stop our running around. We don’t know how to help ourselves'.

- Thich Nhat Hanh
Painting by Anna Christine Roda - French Contemporary realist artist
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20/01/2026

"What makes photography a strange invention – with unforeseeable consequences – is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”

John Berger
Photography Henri-Cartier Bresson, Tarascon, France 1959
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19/01/2026

Join me LIVE for a 4-hour international online gathering on Brigid’s Feast Day, February 1st, 2026, as we explore The Bean Feasa: Wise Woman and Mediator of the Gaelic Otherworld.

The Bean Feasa—the “woman of knowledge”—is one of the most enigmatic figures in Irish folklore: a healer, seer, and mediator between the human world and the Otherworld.

This immersive experience weaves Jungian Depth Psychology with Irish folklore, mythology, language, poetry, and the ancestral landscapes of Ireland—an invitation into deep time and ancestral wisdom.

Designed to support a visceral exploration of the Wise Woman archetype for your own personal development, this gathering is a meditation on heritage, culture, and the wisdom of the ancestors.

Learn more via the link in my bio or below in the messages section or visit teallach.com/bridge.
This series has been years in the making and is very close to my heart—I’m so excited to share it with you.

Grá mór,
Eileen 🥰

18/01/2026

Join me LIVE for a 4-hour international online gathering on Brigid’s Feast Day, February 1st, 2026, as we explore The Bean Feasa: Wise Woman and Mediator of the Gaelic Otherworld.

The Bean Feasa—the “woman of knowledge”—is one of the most enigmatic figures in Irish folklore: a healer, seer, and mediator between the human world and the Otherworld.

This immersive experience weaves Jungian Depth Psychology with Irish folklore, mythology, language, poetry, and the ancestral landscapes of Ireland—an invitation into deep time and ancestral wisdom.

Designed to support a visceral exploration of the Wise Woman archetype, this gathering is a meditation on heritage, culture, and the wisdom of the ancestors.

Learn more via the link in my bio or below.
This series has been years in the making and is very close to my heart—I’m so excited to share it with you.

Grá mór,
Eileen 🥰