Tips on self care

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Christmas is an incredibly stressful time, you already know this. In order to maintain and strengthen your mental and emotional health, it’s important to pay attention to your own needs and feelings. This is hard when everything around you is about other people and their needs, friends, family, in laws..   Don’t let stress and negative emotions build up. Try to maintain a balance between your daily responsibilities and the things you enjoy. If you take care of yourself, you’ll be better prepared to deal with challenges if and when they arise. This is good advice all year ’round of course, but now in particular.

Challenges will arise by the dozen in the next couple of weeks!

Domestic Violence against women

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This was the first commissioned article I wrote for the Farmer’s Journal. It looks at issues around domestic violence against women. It’s old, and  so some of the info is out of date!

In the Journal we often get telephone calls from women who are being abused by their husbands. Many of them have never spoken to anyone about the abuse and do not know what their rights are. Here, Cork psychologist Sally O’Reilly looks at the problem of domestic violence and outlines the options open to women who are being abused:

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