Episodes

  • Tue May 19th - Healthy Mayo Message

    Tue May 19th - Healthy Mayo Message
    May 19 2026

    Have you ever felt a hunger that wasn't for food? A loneliness that no crowd could fill? If you have, you're not alone. John Moriarty called that a soul-deep ache. A longing for meaning in a world that had forgotten how to dream. We are not primarily rational creatures, he said. We are mythological ones.

    To find out more tune into Teresa from Mental Health Ireland.

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    2 mins
  • Mon May 18th - Healthy Mayo Message

    Mon May 18th - Healthy Mayo Message
    May 18 2026
    In Ireland, sunny days can feel like gold dust, brief and brilliant, but the benefits of sunlight are more than poetic, they're physiological. Sunlight triggers the body's production of vitamin D, which is essential not just for bone health, but for our mood and immune system too.

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    1 min
  • Fri May 15th - Healthy Mayo Message

    Fri May 15th - Healthy Mayo Message
    May 15 2026
    The sociologist Ray Oldenburg described the importance of what he called the “third place” — not home and not work, but the shared spaces where community naturally happens. Libraries. Cafés. Sports clubs. Parks. Community centres. Places where people can simply meet, talk and feel part of something larger than themselves. This is Teresa from Mental Health Ireland reminding you that your mental health is just as important as your physical health.

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    2 mins
  • Thur May 14th - Healthy Mayo Message

    Thur May 14th - Healthy Mayo Message
    May 14 2026
    Psychologists speak about something called “co-regulation” — the calming effect safe human connection has on the nervous system. A warm voice, eye contact, humour, understanding. These are not small things. They are part of how human beings regulate stress.This is Teresa from Mental Health Ireland reminding you that your mental health is just as important as your physical health.

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    2 mins
  • Wed May 13th - Healthy Mayo Message

    Wed May 13th - Healthy Mayo Message
    May 13 2026
    In ancient Ireland, the hearth fire meant far more than warmth. It represented safety, gathering, identity and belonging. A home without a fire was considered abandoned long before it stood empty. Loneliness today can feel something like that — not always dramatic, but a quiet cooling of human connection.This is Teresa from Mental Health Ireland reminding you that your mental health is just as important as your physical health.

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    2 mins
  • Tue May 12th - Healthy Mayo Message

    Tue May 12th - Healthy Mayo Message
    May 12 2026
    Carl Gustav Jung once wrote: “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.” It is a remarkable insight because it reframes loneliness completely. A person can sit in a crowded office, a busy café, even a family home, and still feel unseen if the deeper parts of themselves remain hidden. This is Teresa from Mental Health Ireland reminding you that your mental health is just as important as your physical health.

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    2 mins
  • Mon May 11th - Healthy Mayo Message

    Mon May 11th - Healthy Mayo Message
    May 11 2026
    Human beings are wired for connection. Long before modern psychology, survival depended on belonging to a tribe. To be excluded even once meant danger. Neuroscience now suggests our brains still respond that way today.Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles found that loneliness activates some of the same neural pathways as physical pain. In other words, connection is not simply emotional comfort. It is biological safety. This is Teresa from Mental Health Ireland reminding you that your mental health is just as important as your physical health.

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    2 mins
  • Fri May 8th - Healthy Mayo Message

    Fri May 8th - Healthy Mayo Message
    May 8 2026
    In 1909, a little-known biologist named Jakob johna von Uexküll( ucks cull) published a short, unusual book called A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans. In it, he made a simple but unsettling claim: every living creature inhabits its own version of reality. To find out more tune into Teresa from Mental Health Ireland.

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    2 mins