Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin - Counselling & Psychotherapy Services

26/05/2026

Join me LIVE for an International Online Workshop June 28th 2026 9am PST, in this 3rd course in the six part series 'Meeting the Gaelic Otherworld- Sacred time and the Numinous. This course explores the Bean Chaointe- The keening woman of Irish Folklore - Irish Ancestral Rituals of Death, Grief and the Gaelic Otherworld.

This course invites you into an older understanding of grief rooted in Irish ancestral tradition and Gaelic cosmology, where the visible and invisible worlds are deeply intertwined. Together, we will explore this remarkable woman of irish folk tradition- The Bean Chaointe—the Keening Woman—and how, from a Jungian depth psychology and psychotherapy perspective, she can guide us in meeting grief, loss, and life’s thresholds.

With sweeping footage of Ireland’s wild, storied landscapes, irish myth, folklore and the gaelic otherworld, this experience is designed to stir the senses and imagination. We enter the world of the Bean Chaointe, exploring how death is held alongside life, how ritual supports us in meeting loss, and how ancestral wisdom can guide us into a deeper relationship with both grief and life.

**if you cannot attend live, the course seminars are still available to you in a full self guided course program**
To learn more and to book your place visit
www.teallach.com/lament. Link in bio above or messages below.
Grá mór, Eileen

24/05/2026

Don’t worry there’ll still be a lot of suffering
For now you have the right to cling to the sleeve
of someone’s blunt friendship
To be happy is a duty which you neglect
A careless user of time
you send days like geese to the meadow
Don’t worry you’ll die many times
until you learn at the very end to love life.

Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska.
Art: “Under the Burden of Adversity,” Teodor Axentowicz (1859–1939). I love the light in the window of the house.
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23/05/2026

It is our unexpressed sorrows, the congested stories of loss, that, when left unattended, block our access to the soul. To be able to freely move in & out of the soul’s inner chambers, we must first clear the way. This requires finding meaningful ways to speak of sorrow'.

Francis Weller
Painting by Fredrick William Elwell (1870-1958)

Join me LIVE for an International Online Workshop June 28th 2026 9am PST Lamenting the Dead - Bean Chaointe- The Keening Woman- Irish Ancestral Rituals of Death, Grief and the Gaelic Otherworld.

This course invites you into an older understanding of grief rooted in Irish ancestral tradition and Gaelic cosmology, where the visible and invisible worlds are deeply intertwined. Together, we will explore this remarkable woman of irish folk tradition- The Bean Chaointe—the Keening Woman—and how, from a Jungian depth psychology and psychotherapy perspective, she can guide us in meeting grief, loss, and life’s thresholds.

With sweeping footage of Ireland’s wild, storied landscapes, irish myth, folklore and the gaelic otherworld, this experience is designed to stir the senses and imagination. We enter the world of the Bean Chaointe, exploring how death is held alongside life, how ritual supports us in meeting loss, and how ancestral wisdom can guide us into a deeper relationship with both grief and life.

To learn more and book your place visit teallach.com/lament. Link in Bio Above or messages below. You can also private message me (DM). Beidh fáilte romhart. You will be welcome.
Grá, Eileen

22/05/2026

Join me LIVE ONLINE June 28th 2026- 9am PST, for a 4 hour Gathering. This course is the 3rd course in the six part series called
'Meeting the Gaelic Otherworld- Sacred time and the Numinous.

This course explores the Bean Chaointe- The Keening Woman - Irish Ancestral Rituals of Death, Grief and the Gaelic Otherworld.

In the workshop you are invited into an older understanding of grief rooted in Irish ancestral tradition and Gaelic cosmology, where the visible and invisible worlds are deeply intertwined. Together, we will explore this remarkable woman of irish folk tradition- The Bean Chaointe—the Keening Woman—and how, from a Jungian depth psychology and psychotherapy perspective, she can guide us in meeting grief, loss, and life’s thresholds.

With sweeping footage of Ireland’s wild, storied landscapes, irish myth, folklore and the gaelic otherworld, this experience is designed to stir the senses and imagination. We enter the world of the Bean Chaointe, exploring how death is held alongside life, how ritual supports us in meeting loss, and how ancestral wisdom can guide us into a deeper relationship with both grief and life.

Go to www.teallach.com/lament for details.
Beidh fáilte romhart. You will be welcome.
Grá mór, Eileen

**if you cannot attend live, the course seminars are still available to you in a full self guided (lifetime access) course program**
To learn more and to book your place visit
www.teallach.com/lament.

21/05/2026

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

William Butler Yeats
Painting 'May Moon' - Gaedening by moonlight. Nicolai Astrup.
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20/05/2026

'In my early professional years, I was asking the question :
How can I treat, or cure, or change this person?

Now, I would phrase the question in this way :

How can I provide a relationship that this person may use for their own personal growth?"

Carl Rogers
Photography - Edna and Barbara' Point Lobos, California 1947, by Wynn Bullock 1902-1975 American photographer
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19/05/2026

'Life is still good, and it is worth living on a May morning...I assert that life is beautiful in spite of everything! This "everything" includes the following items: 1. Illness; I am getting much too stout, and my nerves are all to pieces. 2. The Conservatoire oppressed me to extinction; I am more and more convinced that I am absolutely unfitted to teach the theory of music. 3. My pecuniary situation is very bad. 4. I am very doubtful if Undine will be performed. I have heard that they are likely to throw me over. In a word, there are many thorns, but the roses are there too'. -

The composer Tchaikovsky - finding beauty amid the wreckage of the soul - May 1878 letter Tchaikovsky wrote to his patron, Nadezhda von Meck when he had depression and struggling with anxiety about his work.
Painting by Bato Dugarzhapo
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14/05/2026

Join me LIVE for an International Online Workshop June 28th 2026 9am PST, in this 3rd course in the six part series 'Meeting the Gaelic Otherworld- Sacred time and the Numinous'.

This Lamenting the Dead live online workshop explores the Bean Chaointe- The keening woman of Irish Folklore - Irish Ancestral Rituals of Death, Grief and the Gaelic Otherworld.

This program invites you into an older understanding of grief rooted in Irish ancestral tradition and Gaelic cosmology, where the visible and invisible worlds are deeply intertwined. Together, we will explore this remarkable woman of irish folk tradition- The Bean Chaointe—the Keening Woman—and how, from a Jungian depth psychology and psychotherapy perspective, she can guide us in meeting grief, loss, and life’s thresholds.

With sweeping footage of Ireland’s wild, storied landscapes, irish myth, folklore and the gaelic otherworld, this experience is designed to stir the senses and imagination. We enter the world of the Bean Chaointe, exploring how death is held alongside life, how ritual supports us in meeting loss, and how ancestral wisdom can guide us into a deeper relationship with both grief and life.

**if you cannot attend live, the course seminars are still available to you in a full self guided course program**
To learn more and to book your place visit
www.teallach.com/lament. (Link in bio above or in messages below).
Grá mór, Eileen
www.teallach.com/lament

12/05/2026

Hi Everyone,
A few people reached out to ask about my videos.
I do have a YouTube Channel that have a number od videos available there for you to explore. You are welcome to follow the link below and subscribe so you don't miss any coming up. Beidh fáilte romhat. You will be welcome.
Below is the link.
Grá mór, Eileen 🤗

Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin is a psychotherapist, folklorist, and educator whose work weaves together Irish mythology, language, folklore, and ancestral story with Jungian depth psychology. Raised in South Connemara within a Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking community), her work is deeply shaped by the physic...

11/05/2026

Join me LIVE for an International Online Workshop June 28th 2026 9am PST, in this 3rd course in the six part series 'Meeting the Gaelic Otherworld- Sacred time and the Numinous. This course explores the Bean Chaointe- The keening woman of Irish Folklore - Irish Ancestral Rituals of Death, Grief and the Gaelic Otherworld.

This course invites you into an older understanding of grief rooted in Irish ancestral tradition and Gaelic cosmology, where the visible and invisible worlds are deeply intertwined. Together, we will explore this remarkable woman of irish folk tradition- The Bean Chaointe—the Keening Woman—and how, from a Jungian depth psychology and psychotherapy perspective, she can guide us in meeting grief, loss, and life’s thresholds.

With sweeping footage of Ireland’s wild, storied landscapes, irish myth, folklore and the gaelic otherworld, this experience is designed to stir the senses and imagination. We enter the world of the Bean Chaointe, exploring how death is held alongside life, how ritual supports us in meeting loss, and how ancestral wisdom can guide us into a deeper relationship with both grief and life.

**if you cannot attend live, the course seminars are still available to you in a full self guided course program**
To learn more and to book your place visit
www.teallach.com/lament.

Grá mór, Eileen
www.teallach.com

09/05/2026

It was a memorable and emotional day for me today. A rainy Saturday here in Amherst, Massachusetts, visiting with the poet Emily Dickinson. I have wanted to come here for 30 years or so, having spent some of my first ever wages, at 16, on an Emily Dickinson poetry book.

Her poems return again and again to immortality, and her intimate relationship with the possibilities of what that might mean. To "dwell in possibility" she wrote. She seemed to describe not only poetry, but consciousness itself — the sense that reality is wider, stranger, and more numinous than ordinary life admits. Her friend Susan wrote a few days after Emily died, May 15th 1886 that to Emily "life was rich and she walked this life with the gentleness and reverence of old saints".

As I stood in her bedroom, the place where she wrote so many of those poems and where she died, 6 days to the 140 years that will mark her passing, I recall her words. That we are a “soul of fire in a shell of pearl.” She lived in conversation with immortality.

As it happens, Emily Dickinson had two Irish maids during her adult life, but the most important — and beloved — was Margaret Maher, known in the household as Maggie whom, it is believed, she had entrusted many of her precious poems to. Maggie came from County Tipperary in Ireland and worked in the Dickinson home in Amherst for more than thirty years. Dickinson wrote of her with deep affection, calling her “good and noisy, the North Wind of the family.”
Maggie, no doubt knew plenty about the Otherworld too.
I will write more again on that - (you will find me on substack very soon!), but for now, from a rainy Amherst, tá mé buíoch. I am grateful.
Thank you .museum for your kindness today.
Grá agus Beannacht,
Eileen x
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Photography- her grave and in her bedroom - the wallpaper in her room 🥀.