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Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin - Counselling & Psychotherapy Services Psychotherapist (MA), Supervisor & Mentor. Explore Irish folklore, myth, language & ancestral wisdom. www.teallach.com

Connemara native Irish speaker offering International Jungian Depth Psychology workshops, online programs, and 1:1 sessions.

07/11/2025

Samhain marks the beginning of the darkest part of the year, the beginning of winter. In mythology, at Samhain, the Cailleach, the old hag or the wise crone of winter, leaves the mountains and begins her walk across the lands bringing the winter storms, snow and darkness with her. Darkness is associated with new beginnings. The potential of the seed below the ground. These are liminal threshold times in the changing seasons of our lives.

The Cailleach's Descent to the Underworld- Crossing the Dark Seas of Loss into Strange Country is an online course program that explores how grief and loss are natural responses to changes in our lives. Even the most welcomed change requires us to let go of something. These threshold times are often called 'the dark night of the soul'. This workshop will deepen our understanding of what happens for us at threshold times and how we can begin to support ourselves in ‘this strange country’.

This course draws on understanding from Jungian depth psychology, psychotherapy, and the wisdom of an ancient gaelic world through Irish mythology and folklore, in a visceral, visual experience that aims to engage your heart, mind, body, and spirit.
Looking forward to sharing it with you.
Learn more by visiting my website www.teallach.com or Link in bio.

Grá mór, Eileen
www.teallach.com
  # irishmythology

'Zarathustra says to go back to the body, go into the body, and then everything will be right, for there the greatest in...
05/11/2025

'Zarathustra says to go back to the body, go into the body, and then everything will be right, for there the greatest intelligence is hidden'.

~CG Jung: Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939.
Painting by Jan Van Eyck 1432
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I am often asked, "what Deepening the Senses course do you recommend i do first? "This is a great question!.

I always recommend, my online course 'Embodiment, Soul and the Celtic Spirit- Healing the wounds of the Abandoning Self' as the foundational course to any of the Deepening the Senses course series. It provides the anchor, and container to the work, because it brings us back to relationship with the body.

This online course invites you to reconnect with the wisdom of your body as a path to healing and self-trust. Through Gaelic myth, folklore, and Depth Psychology, we explore how to cultivate a deeper relationship inward—learning to listen to the body’s wisdom, release old survival patterns like self-abandonment, and create a grounded sense of safety. Returning to the body becomes an act of remembrance, helping you feel present, worthy, and whole.
Curious to learn more - visit my website - www.teallach.com/embodiment (link in bio above or comment section below).
Beidh fáilte romhart. You will be very welcome.
Grá mór
Eileen
www.teallach.com

05/11/2025

One of Ireland’s most revered poets, Patrick Kavanagh, was born in rural County Monaghan in 1904. His poetry celebrated beauty in the ordinary in everyday life. Seamus Heaney once said that Kavanagh was the poet who inspired him to write about the ordinary rural landscapes that he knew so well growing up. He described it as having permission to write about "the nettles behind the hen house." 

One of Kavanagh's best-known poems, Raglan Road, is close to the heart of many Irish people because it was immortalised in a song by the wonderful Dublin singer Luke Kelly. ."I gave her the secret sign, thats known to the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone".
It is a stunning poem about unrequited love.

"On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
away from me so hurriedly
My reason must allow.
That I had loved, not as I should
A creature made of clay,
When the angel woos the clay, he'll lose
His wings at the dawn of day. (Excerpt)"

Patrick Kavanagh, Irish Poet.
"the true gods of sound and stone".

To learn more similar stories and Irish writers you are welcome to visit my website www.teallach.com and subscribe to my mailing list or avail of the FREE MEDITATION in the link in my bio above, as a gift when you subscribe. It is a meditation on the Irish landscape. I share reflections and similar videos regularly that may be of interest to you. 
You are welcome to join me there.
Grá mór, Eileen 
www.teallach.com
  # irishmythology

'Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or ha...
04/11/2025

'Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe, say or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate'.

Dave Chapelle
Photography- Anders Peterson (Swedish Photographer b.1944 - Street Photography)
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Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you ...
03/11/2025

Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Painting by Godfried Schalken (1643-1706)
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The desire to go home is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines d...
03/11/2025

The desire to go home is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood'.

Rebecca Solnit
Photography- from The Future Kept photo journal
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  # irishmythology

'Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they wil...
02/11/2025

'Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent'

Fyodor Tyutchev
Painting by Malwina de Brade
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Still, what I want in my lifeis to be willingto be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of factsand maybe evento float a lit...
01/11/2025

Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking

into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—
that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and falling. And I do.

Mary Oliver, House of Light
Photography Sam Abell - A solitary fisherman's cottage keeps watch on a quiet Bay inNewfoundland 1974.(National Geographic archives).
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31/10/2025

Samhain marks the beginning of the darkest part of the year, the beginning of winter. In mythology, at Samhain, the Cailleach, the old hag or the wise crone of winter, leaves the mountains and begins her walk across the lands bringing the winter storms, snow and darkness with her. Darkness is associated with new beginnings. The potential of the seed below the ground. These are liminal threshold times in the changing seasons of our lives.

This online course program explores how grief and loss are natural responses to changes in our lives. Even the most welcomed change requires us to let go of something. These threshold times are often called 'the dark night of the soul'. This workshop will deepen our understanding of what happens for us at threshold times and how we can begin to support ourselves in ‘this strange country’.

There will be a presentation that draws on understanding from Jungian depth psychology, psychotherapy, and the wisdom of an ancient gaelic world through Irish mythology and folklore that aims to engage your heart, mind, body, and spirit.
Looking forward to sharing it with you.
Learn more by visiting my website www.teallach.com or Link in bio.

Grá mór, Eileen
www.teallach.com
  # irishmythology

The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats.Tom Skelton shivered. A...
31/10/2025

The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats.
Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.

Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
Painting by Frank Antoin Bale 'Carving the Pumpkin'
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30/10/2025

Explore the wonders of the Gaelic Otherworld, in my online course 'Embarking on the Mist-Filled Path - The Journey of Individuation, Sacred Time and the Numinous'.

As we approach the threshold of the Celtic New Year at Samhain this online course is an immersion into ancestral ‘deep’ time and the numinous, interweaving insights from Jungian Depth Psychology and Psychotherapy to support your exploration of the hidden terrain of the psyche on your own personal development journey.

These workshops are a visceral meditation of images, symbol, Irish language and, with sweeping footage of Ireland and the landscape, it is designed to evoke and stir the senses and imagination, where we come to explore and understand our deeper selves, what is passed down the lineage, how the past continues to shape the present and how we can come to break old unconscious patterns, in order to step into our own authentic life.

This program is designed to be an oddessy of the soul and spirit. I am so excited to share it with you. To learn more, visit www.teallach.com/mist. (Link above and below in comment section). You can DM me also for the link.
You will be very welcome.
Grá mór, Eileen 
       

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Dual Located: Galway And Nevada In The United States
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https://teallach.com/sanctuary-sign-up, https://teallach.com/individual-services

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Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin (MSoc Sc and MA Psychotherapy) is a Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist and Supervisor. She lives and works in Galway city where she has a private practice. Eileen has over 14 years experience working with individuals and families in Adult Mental Health Services, in both acute and continuing care settings as a Mental Health Social Worker and as a Psychotherapist. She is a manager of a Mental Health Social Work Department in the Health Services in Galway City.

Her background includes a Masters in Social Science (Social Work); Masters in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy specialising in Psychodynamic, Existential and Gestalt Psychotherapies. She has a diploma in Advanced Reflexive Supervision. Eileen is a fully accredited member of the Irish Council of Psychotherapy (ICP) and the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP).

Her work also reflects her additional training and experience in facilitating group work, Gestalt Body Work, Somatic Trauma Therapy ,Attachment and Emotion Focused Therapy as well as her interest in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Jungian Psychology and Marion Woodman’s BodySoul rhythms work. Eileen has completed Jungian training intensives in both London and the Jungian Institute in Zurich. Eileen lectures in the National University of Ireland Galway in the School of Social Work on Mental Health and Health Promotion. She currently chairs a National Specialist Interest Group for Social workers in Adult Mental Health and has also provided consultation on service development nationally in Adult Mental Health Services in areas such as Specialist Peri-Natal Mental health Services and others.

Eileen grew up in the Connemara Gaeltacht. This has influenced her particular interest in exploring the deeper memory world of archetypes and how they resonate in the body and senses and the ancient landscape around us. Eileen is a poet with her work published in a number of literary journals both nationally and internationally. Her poetry reflects her interest in Celtic mythology, our sense of place in the living history of the land and the tribes we belong to.