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everymumFinding the balance as a single parent, with Liadán HynesMy guest this week is my lovely friend, author, and journalist Liadán Hynes, who is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to parenting, and life in general really. She's a single parent to one daughter who's 9 years old. She's self-employed and works flexibly to be as present as she can for her little girl and writes often about her experiences as a working single mother. We talk about everything from facing what could be lonely weekends without your child or children, the imbalance that exists for mothers in the workplace and so much more. Lia's got so m...2024-05-2153 min
How To Fall ApartSophie White on RecoveryI spoke to the author Sophie White about recovery from addiction, about the decision to stop drinking, the first year of sobriety, and why sometimes the later years are even more challenging. The first half of this episode is available to everyone, the second half is available to paid subscribers of my Substack, How to Fall Apart, where you will find more episodes and some of my writing. I would be absolutely delighted if you wanted to subscribe.
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2024-02-1625 minHow To Fall ApartFinding Love In An Online World with Dr. Nicola Fox HamiltonDr. Nicola Fox Hamilton is an Online Psychologist and in this episode we discuss her fascinating findings on how we behave online and how we find love amidst the endless swiping. If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to hear more, or read the How to Fall Apart column, you can go to my Substack, How To Fall Apart.2024-01-1454 minHow To Fall ApartBetsy Cornwell on Finding HomeI talked to author Betsy Cornwell about being a single parent, finding a home for herself and her son, about creating your community, burnout and financial pressure as a single parent, and her beautiful NYTimes Modern Love essay2024-01-0243 minHow To Fall ApartLife After An ADHD Diagnosis with Sooby LynchHow To Fall Apart is a podcast about picking up the pieces.
This is our first episode in quite awhile, so maybe just a reminder, this is a podcast of conversations with people who have been through something challenging, about how they coped, and also the times that they struggled to cope, and what that felt like.
From now on I'm going to be putting this podcast out first and foremost through my new substack, also called How to Fall Apart, where my writing will also sit. Most episodes...2023-12-1551 min
How To Fall ApartSophie White on putting herself on the pageIn this episode I chat to Sophie White about her beautiful collection of essays, Corpsing. We chat about how often times, personal work can begin as one thing and transform into something else, the need to protect the truth and still portray the truth, the tension between needing to create and needing to mother and the process of writing such personal work. 2021-11-261h 09
How To Fall ApartLynn Ruane on putting herself on the pageI’m lucky enough to get to work with Senator Lynn Ruane regularly through her column for rogue, and she is one of the most emotionally intelligent people I’ve ever met. We talked about the experience of writing her 2018 memoir People Like Me, about revisiting traumatic experiences, and learning how to protect yourself in the present when revisiting the past, about the responsibility that comes with writing about other, especially your children, and also when you are writing about experiences of your own that then can become a voice for your community, about switching off from the comments sect...2021-10-131h 05
How To Fall ApartDoireann Ní Ghríofa on putting herself on the pageEpisode one of our latest series of How to Fall Apart - the putting herself on the page series
This series was inspired by a conversation Liadan had with writer Doireann Ní Ghríofa, in which Doireann talked about being asked of her book A Ghost in the Throat, it is very exposing, to write about yourself so honestly, how does hat feel? Doireann explained how she feels that in asking that, what people really mean is are you ashamed, to be be seen so fully on the page. To present such an honest ve...2021-10-011h 00How To Fall ApartHolly Carpenter on depressionLiadan talks to Holly Carpenter about her depression, about retreating from life when you’re struggling, how friends can help in those moments, toxic positivity on social media, the effect of modelling on her body image, and finding it hard to reach out when you’re struggling.
Tw- this conversation covers eating disorders2020-11-1742 minHow To Fall ApartLiving with loss | HTFA with The Irish Cancer SocietyThis episode of How To Fall Apart with the Irish Cancer Society aims to be a support for all those who are living with loss. I speak to Irish Cancer Society night nurse who talks about the support she offers families in those final hours. Orla Judge talks about how the pain of losing her mum is easing over time and Tríona McCarthy opens up about the loss of her sister ten years ago and finding the things that helped her cope. 2020-10-231h 12How To Fall ApartCoping with grief and living with loss | HTFA with The Irish Cancer SocietyConor Ferguson talks about his wife Keelin Shanley; meeting as teenagers, their life together, her memoir A Light That Never Goes Out, how they coped with her breast cancer diagnosis, and managing grief. 2020-10-211h 03How To Fall ApartLiving with and beyond breast cancer | HTFA with the Irish Cancer SocietyThis series of How to Fall Apart with the Irish Cancer Society aims to be a virtual support group for this currently affected by breast cancer.
We will talk to women who have themselves received a cancer diagnosis on coping with treatment, living with cancer and what happens in the aftermath. We will also speak to a number of health professionals – GPs, consultants and nurses, for advice on different stages of the process.2020-10-1659 minHow To Fall ApartLiving with cancer with Trina Cleary | HTFA with the Irish Cancer SocietyThis series of How to Fall Apart with the Irish Cancer Society aims to be a virtual support group for this currently affected by breast cancer.
We will talk to women who have themselves received a cancer diagnosis on coping with treatment, living with cancer and what happens in the aftermath. We will also speak to a number of health professionals – GPs, consultants and nurses, for advice on different stages of the process.2020-10-1437 minHow To Fall ApartThe treatment episode | HTFA with The Irish Cancer SocietyThis episode looks at the impact of breast cancer treatment, and the ways in which women learn to cope. Aisling Reilly, Aileen Murphy talk about their experiences, and consultant oncologist Dr Cathy Kelly explains what to expect.2020-10-091h 01How To Fall ApartEvelyn O'Rourke on receiving a breast cancer diagnosis when pregnant | HTFA with the Irish Cancer SocietyIn 2010, two days after she found out she was pregnant with her second child, broadcaster Evelyn O’Rourke was diagnosed with breast cancer. In the second trimester of her pregnancy she underwent chemotherapy. We talked about how she created a support about her, ‘outsourcing’ parts of her life, how she dealt with the fear, what her husband said to her that helped her get through, and coping with anxiety in the aftermath of cancer2020-10-0735 minHow To Fall ApartThe diagnosis episode | HTFA with the Irish Cancer SocietyThis series of How to Fall Apart with the Irish Cancer Society aims to be a virtual support group for this currently affected by breast cancer.
We will talk to women who have themselves received a cancer diagnosis on coping with treatment, living with cancer and what happens in the aftermath. We will also speak to a number of health professionals – GPs, consultants and nurses, for advice on different stages of the process.
This episode features insight from Dr. Doireann O Leary, Helen Cody and Marie Fleming.
We would ask that at a time...2020-10-0222 minHow To Fall ApartSarah Donovan on her breast cancer diagnosis | HTFA with the Irish Cancer SocietyThe first episode in our new series, How to Fall Apart with the Irish Cancer Society.
Over eight episodes, we will speak to a number of women about their experiences of cancer, from diagnosis, through treatment, to coping with the aftermath.
In this episode Liadán speaks to mother of two Sarah Donovan who was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer at the age of thirty-seven.
Sarah underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as well as double mastectomy.
After discovering she had the BRCA 2 gene, Sarah had surgery to have her ovaries removed. She is now cancer free.2020-09-301h 07
Owning It: The Anxiety PodcastOwning It: Coping with anxiety surrounding a break-upSomething I have yet to really dive into is the anxiety surrounding a break up, which is something so many of us, if not all of us, will probably experience at some point in our lives. Maybe it's a split from your first love, or maybe, as is the case for my guest, journalist and author Liadan Hynes, it's a separation from your husband or partner with whom you share children or someone with whom you've built a life that you expected to see continue forever. It's a very tangible anxiety: that realisation that you need to remove yourself fro...2020-08-1747 minHow To Fall ApartLife after cervical cancer with Anne NallyAnne Nally was twenty-nine years old and twenty-nine weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with cancer. We talked about how she coped with the treatment involved and the multiple symptoms she continues to suffer eight years later, as well the new Life After Cancer treatment centres she is involved in. Anne is one of the group of Irish women whose smear test was incorrectly read, and she talks about how she had tried to come to terms with the fact that her cancer would have been preventable, and finding her voice in advocating for herself and other women.2020-07-281h 35How To Fall ApartLife after Burnout with Daniella MoylesDaniella Moyles talks about coming back from a breakdown, the behaviours that led there and learning to live slow. 2020-07-0352 minHow To Fall ApartSophie White interviews LiadanIn this special episode of How To Fall Apart, Sophie White steps in as host as Lia becomes guest. The friends chat all things book related - from writing process to boundaries to the flower dress renaissance.
How to Fall Apart is out now.
https://www.easons.com/how-to-fall-apart-liadan-hynes-9781529381214?gclid=Cj0KCQjw0Mb3BRCaARIsAPSNGpWiOK8UiP8xp7fc8icA_G8h8YEURzaVkuTYUIk-z0DxKEMYHM43IE4aAq4SEALw_wcB2020-06-231h 10How To Fall ApartLife after direct provisionEllie Kisyombe talks about grief and trauma in the aftermath of nearly a decade living in Direct Provision, how she is coming to terms with the lost years, and the new home she is building for her family. Liadán also spoke to Katie Mannion, Managing Solicitor with the Irish Refugee Council, who talked about some of the issues being experienced by people living in Direct Provision, and some of the ways we can help people currently in the system.2020-06-151h 12How To Fall ApartThe mother episodeIn our latest episode of How to Fall Apart, the Support Series, sponsored by Dunnes Stores, the Mothers' episode, @liadanhynes spoke to a number of mothers about how they are coping since Covid-19 began. How are they balancing career with no childcare, are they managing to mind their mental health?
We spoke to @jenniemcginn @nataliebcoleman and @sashahearts2020-06-081h 02How To Fall ApartBonus Episode: Stefanie Preissner on lossThis week we have a second episode, an interview with writer, actor and broadcaster Stefanie Preissner. Stefanie's beloved Nana Eileen Keary passed away last September. In this interview, which took place in two parts, just before Covid-19 restrictions and several weeks into social isolation, Stefanie discussed the nature of grief, our current collective grief, and what it is like to grieve in isolation.2020-05-241h 05How To Fall ApartThe Grief EpisodeThis week's episode of How to Fall Apart, the Support Series, sponsored by Dunnes Stores, is The Grief Episode. Liadan Hynes spoke to Elle Gordon, who lost her father Trevor Gordon, about experiencing the final weeks of a loved one's life as a family in isolation, and the support offered by neighbours from a distance,
to Siobhan Cullen whose mother Eileen O'Neill was the third person to die of Covid-19 in the country, on her mother's final hours and how hard it is to move through grief in lockdown, to clinical psychologist Nicola McGlade who spoke from he...2020-05-241h 09How To Fall ApartThe mental health episodeThis week in the mental health episode, we're covering what's often called reactive depression; depressed feelings caused in reaction to a specific situation, something a lot of us can relate to right now. @liadanhynes spoke to clinical pyschologist Dr Tony Bates @jigsawYMH and Gillian Roddie @evidentiallyyou about how they coped with their own experiences of depression over a number of years, and chartered psychologist Aisling Leonard-Curtin about how to help someone you are living with who might be suffering.2020-05-1559 minHow To Fall ApartHow to support in workThis week's episode of How to Fall Apart, the Support Series, sponsored by @dunnesstores is The Work Episode. We talked to psychotherapist Jason Brennan, psychologist Aisling Leonard-Curtin and @MuireannO_C @FionnualaJay and @aislingmkeenan
about dealing with the current stresses within the workplace, managing the lack of boundaries and switching off when working at home, and the impact on mental health when we lose a job.2020-05-051h 00How To Fall ApartHow to Support Single ParentsThis week's episode of How to Fall Apart, the Support Series, sponsored by Dunnes Stores is about single parents. @liadanhynes spoke to Zoe Desmond, founder of @FroloApp Karen Kiernan of @1familyieland, Sam Dunne of @treoir, as well as clinical psychologist Rachel Warman, herself a single parent.
We spoke about how to manage the issues facing single parents including loneliness, financial fears, and co-parenting challenges, and also how single parents might be in some ways uniquely equipped to deal with certain aspects of social isolation.
2020-04-2853 minHow To Fall ApartHow to Support Children at HomeThe first episode of How to Fall Apart - The Support Series, sponsored by Dunnes Stores is live now. For this six part series we’re asking the experts for advice on how to cope with the challenges we’re all facing. This episode focuses on children - how this affects them, how we can support them. We spoke to clinical psychologists Dr Tony Bates, Dr Nicola McGlade and Dr Olwyn Finnegan, as well as clinical psychotherapist Dr Joanna Fortune, sleep consultant Lucy Wolfe, and parents Kate Gunn, Sophie White, Jackie Lynam and Helen Steele. We covered small children to te...2020-04-141h 05
The Vulture Club x ROGUEEpisode 3: Gwyneth’s No Make Up Party // Peak Ted Bundy Content // Lia Hynes On Power In Anonymity // Justin BieberOn Come Again this week, The Vulture Club discuss Gwyneth’s new empowerment kick: the no-make up party.
With the arrival of Amazon’s Falling For A Killer by Trish Wood, Jen and Sophie examine the latest offering in the Ted Bundy canon and compare it to last year’s Zac Efron-Bundy vehicle and the grotesque Conversations With A Killer: Ted Bundy Tapes.
And Sophie is joined by Rogue contributor and author, Lia Hynes to discuss her monthly column, ANON, in which she tells the stories of women who for reasons of safety, sanity or simply...2020-02-231h 00How To Fall ApartLife after ADHDOur guest this week is designer, artist and mother of three Helen Steele. Helen talks about having ADHD, how even from the first day of school she felt like there was something different about her, about the anxiety it caused which subsequently led to her developing an eating disorder. She talked about how sport and art helped her cope, about having a baby and isolation in motherhood after she moved away from Dublin, about her fitness range for Dunnes Stores and how for her exercise is about the mind rather than the body, and how she coped with a...2020-01-171h 02How To Fall ApartLife After Losing A Loved OneMy guest on this week’s episode is Nadia Forde. We talked about her parents separation when she was seven, her subsequent estrangement from her mother, how she coped when her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and letting go and accepting that their relationship might never be what she had hoped. We also chatted of course about Nadia’s experience on I’m A Celebrity, body shaming and her own path to motherhood. Thank you to Nadia for her honesty, humour and openness.2020-01-0647 minHow To Fall ApartWhat about when Christmas Isn’t the most wonderful time of the year?We spoke to Jen O’Dwyer co-host of The Creep Dive and Mother of Pod, Soobie Lynch, @standingbythewall and all round creative genius, and Esther O’Moore Donohoe, host of podcasts the 80% and Esther is in Bits, about when Christmas isn’t all joy and festivities, and it feels like the rest of the world is having the time of its life.
We talked about when a family member is ill at Christmas time, about separation- both your own and your parents, about wanting to create new traditions or not wanting to for fear of things falling apart a...2019-12-1946 minHow To Fall ApartLife after going freelanceWe did our first panel! Aisling Keenan Sarah Rickard and Dawn Nolan talked to me about freelancer fear- what it is and how to deal with it. We spoke about making the decision to go freelance (or having it made for you by redundancy), anxiety and the ways in which freelancing exacerbates that, the isolation of working on your own, talking about money, valuing yourself, the never-say-no freelancer mentality, not getting paid, being self employed and single parent, and always being on.2019-11-081h 19How To Fall ApartLife After IVFIn this week's episode, boutique owner Mary Greene talks about her 10 year journey to conceive. It's an unconventional story with many highs and too many lows but an eventual surprise ending. 2019-11-0556 minHow To Fall ApartLife after becoming a single parentMy guest today is Zoe Desmond, the founder of Frolo, the single parent networking app. Zoe became a single parent two years ago when her son Billy was one. At the time she really struggled with the sense of isolation from not knowing any other single parents, the loneliness and the sense of otherness. After finding nothing online that would help her meet others in a similar situation, she went on to create Frolo. The app launched five weeks ago and is now both a source of advice and an instigator of meets. Zoe talks about loneliness, how to...2019-11-0131 minHow To Fall ApartLife After Miscarriage with Yvonne HoganEditor and journalist Yvonne Hogan speaks about losing her baby when nineteen weeks pregnant. “Grief is a physical thing, you can’t think your way out of it, you have no control over it,” she said in our interview. “Until something bad happens to you, you don’t realise bad things can happen. I just thought you got past twelve weeks and that was it.” We talked about the exhaustion of grief, about the decision to have another baby, figuring out just how to deal with this loss, how to talk about the loss of a baby. “There is no blueprint”...2019-10-1040 minHow To Fall ApartLife After Your Child’s DiagnosisStylist Paula Hughes talks about her daughter Kayla being diagnosed with the rare degenerative brain disorder Rhett syndrome. About chasing a diagnosis, advocating for your child, how they taught Kayla to communicate, looking after your marriage while also caring for your child, raising a second child within this situation, about still finding the joy in life, and about how their daughter’s love of food led Aura and her husband to create their food delivery business Kayla’s Kitchen.2019-10-0150 minHow To Fall ApartLife After Alzheimer's with Sophie WhiteSomeone recently asked Sophie and I if we ever run out of things to talk about, the answer is no. When we originally sat down to do an interview for HTFA, we chatted for nearly three hours. So we kept this second half for this week, when Sophie's first novel, Filter This, comes out.
Sophie talks about her dad, Kevin Linehan, who died in 2017 after a long illness with alzheimer's. About when a loss takes place not in one moment, but over a number of years. Of what it is like to grieve for someone while they...2019-09-0552 minHow To Fall ApartLife After Breast Cancer with Georgie CrawfordGeorgie Crawford was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 when her daughter was just seven months old. A year after her treatment finished, she talks about coping with her diagnosis and her treatment, about mothering through sickness, and the aftermath of cancer-living with fear, the guilt and shame she sometimes feels around food, setting up her hugely successful podcast The Good Glow, and how the experience of having cancer changed her totally.2019-08-091h 08How To Fall ApartLife After SuicideOur new episode of #howtofallapart is up now. Trigger warning, this episode is a conversation about life after suicide. I spoke to my friend make-up artist Eilis Downey, who two years ago lost her sister Lyn, who died by suicide.
“Knowing Lyn was to love her,” Eilis says. They had lived together, worked together and hung out together. In the aftermath, she said that she didn’t know how to be herself without her sister. But Eilis faced into her loss in a way I think is totally awe inspiring and a hugely helpful roadmap for anyone who has...2019-07-2058 minHow To Fall ApartLife After Loss with Elizabeth GilbertWith her book #eatpraylove @elizabeth_gilbert_writer essentially wrote the manifesto for what to do when your life goes off the path you had expected it to go on. Here she talks about how her biggest mistake back then was thinking that she needed to stop going after one year. And that our lives don’t end in tidy happy ever after packages. We talked about her grief over the last year, in the wake of the death of her partner and best friend Rayya Elias, of how depression is often caused by blocking all feelings, about when grief fe...2019-07-0856 minHow To Fall ApartLife After Your Body Breaks Your HeartJournalist Elle Gordon was born with cerebral palsy and later developed hip dysplasia. She talked about feeling other, about the grief around letting go of expectations, on why acceptance is a process not a destination, and about talking honestly about living with a disability.2019-06-301h 08How To Fall ApartLife After CancerOur newest episode of #howtofallapart is up now with my brilliant friend and colleague journalist and author Emily Hourican, whose new book The Outsider is just out. Five years ago she was diagnosed with HPV mouth cancer. We talked about her husband David kept everything going so she could let all the balls drop, her treatment which involved her bolted to the table in a mask she compared to the man in the iron mask (swipe), about being self employed and having to keep going (she wrote an incredible column for the Sunday Independent during all of this) and...2019-06-201h 23How To Fall ApartLife After a Break-UpTv presenter Cassie Stokes talks about coping with the recent break-up of her relationship, speaking publicly about grief, coming out, and being “the gay one” on Xpose.
How to Fall Apart is presented by @liadanhynes and produced by @talltalespodcasts2019-05-3057 min
The Good GlowThe Good Glow with Lia HynesThe Good Glow podcast will hear how Georgie Crawford put her life back together after a breast cancer diagnosis that changed her perspective on everything. Georgie feels there is a need for women to have more in depth conversations about our health and well being in order to drive awareness of self care. This week, Georgie talks to Lia Hynes. Over the past year, Lia has documented her marriage separation and all that goes with it in her brilliant column with Image magazine called How To Fall Apart. Lia speaks so honestly about building a new life with new traditions...2019-05-2644 minHow To Fall ApartLife in Direct ProvisionFounder of Our Table, activist and Social Democrat candidate Ellie Kisyombe talks about living for almost a decade in Direct Provision, in a life over which she has virtually no control. About the strength she draws from the memories of her family and her life in Africa, overcoming depression, the importance of your own home, raising children within the Direct Provision system where they do not even have a kitchen table to sit down at, and the difficulty for teenagers integrating their life in Direct Provision with that of their school life, how the support and empathy of Darina...2019-05-2453 minHow To Fall ApartLife After Your Marriage Falls ApartAuthor and head of social media for everymum.ie Kate Gunn talks about how she put life back together after her marriage fell apart, about how grief can feel physically painful, how to mind your children through this process, learning to live without another adult, living with a spouse suffering from depression, about building a new home, dealing with panic attacks, and introducing your children to a new partner.
How to Fall Apart is presented by @liadanhynes and produced by @talltalespodcasts2019-05-231h 02How To Fall ApartLife After a Nervous BreakdownAuthor, journalist and podcast Sophie White talks about having a nervous breakdown in her early twenties, how recovery from mental health issues is an ongoing process rather than a one off thing, what to do when your sense of who you were deserts you, when depression looks like someone who is highly functioning, and post natal depression.
How to Fall Apart is presented by @liadanhynes and produced by @talltalespodcasts2019-05-191h 08