by Gill Kenny | Aug 1, 2023 | Pain & vulnerability, Alcohol, Authentic self, Being bold, Believing you're bad, Calling it out, Compassion, Control, Courage, Craving, Cruelty, Daring, Demons, Empathy, Labels, Lived Experience, Mental health, Parenting, Recovery, Self-love, Shame, Sinéad O'Connor, Stealing as a mechanism of control, The power wielded by Catholic priests in Ireland
Dear Readers, I hope this finds you well. Those of you who follow my fortnightly blog closely will have noticed that I didn’t send one out last week. I had been away for the weekend with himself, walking barefoot on a sandy beach, shrieking playfully every time the...
by Gill Kenny | Mar 7, 2023 | Addiction, Alcohol, Anger, Anxiety, Benefits of sobriety, Compassion, Internal Family Systems, Labels, Mental health, Mental health awareness, Mind, Pain & vulnerability, Processing trauma, Recovery, Self-love, Self-worth, Shame, Sobriety, Staying sober, Stigma of labels, The essence of our being, The Many Parts of Us, Trauma
Hello! I hope you’re doing OK. Here’s the link to the audio version of this week’s blog if you’d prefer to listen. Sober reading When I stopped using alcohol to cope, I channelled my energy into something healthier instead – learning about the human mind. A few...
by Gill Kenny | Jul 27, 2020 | Labels, Stigma
My daughter is at the age now where she is being impressed by designer labels and influenced by the endless stream of subtle marketing coming at her on every screen she looks at. I’ve never been a fashion victim, nor have I succumbed to the belief that wearing labels...