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Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin - Counselling & Psychotherapy Services International Psychotherapist (MA), Folklorist & Educator. Native Irish speaker. . Location: Connemara/Nevada. visit www.teallach.com.

Irish folklore, Myth, Language & Ancestors.International Consultancy for Personal and Professional Development.

We gave ourselves up in old times to mythology, and saw the Gods everywhere. We talked to them face to face. . . . Even...
01/09/2026

We gave ourselves up in old times to mythology, and saw the Gods everywhere. We talked to them face to face. . . . Even today our country people speak with the dead and with some who perhaps have never died as we understand death; and even our educated people pass without great difficulty into the condition of quiet that is the condition of vision'.

William Butler Yeats
Photography- 'O'Hollarans 'out in a field' by Dorethea Lange. The irish collection.

Yeats evokes an older Ireland where the boundaries between the visible and invisible were more porous,where the Otherworld was not somewhere distant, but intimately present within the landscape and human experience.

I’ll soon be launching my next LIVE online workshop, part of the six-course series Meeting the Gaelic Otherworld- Encountering the Numinous | Individuation & Ancestral Healing.

Interweaving Jungian depth psychology and psychotherapy with Irish mythology, folklore, Gaeilge, the Irish language, and the living landscape of Ireland, we encounter the Aos Sí-the mysterious beings of the Gaelic Otherworld, associated with ancient mounds, hills, lakes, and those liminal places where worlds were believed to meet. Here, we enter the wisdom of the ancestors and explore what these ancient traditions might still reveal to us.

Through the lens of ancient lore and myth, we explore the hidden terrain of the psyche: what has been inherited, forgotten, or left unnamed; how ancestral patterns continue to shape the present; and how bringing the unconscious into awareness can open the way for transformation. To encounter what lies beneath the surface and return with a deeper relationship to ourselves and the life we are here to live.

Each course can be taken individually or as part of the unfolding six-part journey. Check out the first in the series by visiting teallach.com/mist.

To hear about upcoming courses, you’re warmly invited to join my mailing list and receive a free guided meditation as a gift. Visit the link in my bio or teallach.com/free to sign up.

Grá mór,
Eileen
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(Click on images to view in full). Today marks 13 years since the poet Seamus Heaney passed away. A soft rainy day in Ir...
30/08/2026

(Click on images to view in full). Today marks 13 years since the poet Seamus Heaney passed away. A soft rainy day in Ireland. By way of remembering the great poet, I ventured to the beautiful Glendalough, a place he knew well and visited often. He once described it as one of Ireland’s most “wooded and watery retreats.”

Nearly fifteen centuries ago, St Kevin came to this valley seeking solitude and a life of prayer. Others soon followed him, and the small settlement that grew around him became an important centre of worship and learning. Surrounded by the Wicklow Mountains, ancient woodland and the still waters of its two lakes, it is not difficult to understand why this extraordinary place has inspired people for centuries.

Glendalough also inspired Heaney’s 'St Kevin and the Blackbird', his meditation on the old legend of Kevin holding out his hand so patiently that a blackbird nested in his palm. Heaney asks us to “Imagine being Kevin” — surrendering the self to something beyond it, becoming part of the living world around him.

Walking here today, among the old stones, trees and water, Heaney’s poem felt especially close. A fitting place to remember a poet so attuned to landscape, memory and the deep connections between people and place.

Glendalough means "Valley of the Two Lakes,” and the ruins sit in an extraordinarily beautiful landscape of wooded hills, native trees of white oak, rowan, birch, and holly, and the rivers, the still deep lakes and dramatic Wicklow mountains. Ancient stone churches, grave slabs and the famous round tower seem almost to belong to the landscape itself. Walking through Glendalough today, there’s a wonderful sense of history and tranquillity — and you can reach out and touch it, the same qualities that moved Heaney to write his beautiful poem and the same qualities that must have drawn St Kevin here nearly 1,500 years ago.

RIP Seamus Heaney. You are remembered. (Click on each image to view in full)
Grá mór, Eileen
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'I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part o...
29/08/2026

'I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.'

Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe, Locus Magazine, September 1998
Photography- ken Williams

Deepening the Senses is a mythopoetic journey of soul and self-discovery, exploring our inner psychological and symbolic lives through the lens of Irish folklore, myth, ancestors, and the Gaelic Otherworld. Rooted in depth psychology and the cosmology of Ireland, it invites us to deepen our relationship with psyche, place, and the more-than-human world—and to rediscover a felt sense of belonging within the greater continuum of life.

If this speaks to you, join my mailing list by visiting www.teallach.com/free (link above in bio) and avail of a free meditation on the landscape of Ireland. Beidh fáilte romhart. You will be welcome.
Grá mór, Eileen
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I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, fl...
28/08/2026

I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers in a vase, a tree turning red. I have learned to be glad at dawn and when the sky is dark. Only children and a few spiritually evolved people are born to feel gratitude as naturally as they breathe, without even thinking. Most of us come to it step by painful step, to discover that gratitude is a form of acceptance'.

Faith Baldwin, Many Windows, Seasons of the Heart.
Photography - Dorothea Lange-"Red-haired Bridie O'Holloran speaks Irish and English with equal fluency" 1954.

In 1954, Dorothea Lange, the famous American photographer, persuaded Life magazine to send her to Ireland for a photo essay on Irish country life. She came up ith the idea after reading a book called The Irish Countryman by anthropologist Conrad M. Arensberg. She spent six weeks observing and recording daily life, mainly in rural County Clare. The collection is just stunning! Here is Bridie ❤️
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'Healing does not mean wallowing in or identifying with injury. Nor does it mean defensive Inaction. It means having the...
28/08/2026

'Healing does not mean wallowing in or identifying with injury. Nor does it mean defensive Inaction. It means having the courage to see, acknowledge, grieve, and repair the holes ourselves (with, if we are fortunate, loving help from others). It means moving on, patches and all'.

Marion Woodman
Painting by Raffeallo Sorbi (1944-1931) Italian painter. Drying laundry 1920.
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The Bean Feasa—the “woman of knowledge”—stands as one of the most enigmatic and enduring figures in Irish folklore. Cele...
27/08/2026

The Bean Feasa—the “woman of knowledge”—stands as one of the most enigmatic and enduring figures in Irish folklore. Celebrated for her ability to heal both physical and spiritual wounds, she was seen as an intermediary between the human world and the Otherworld, tending to ailments born from imbalances with the Aos Sí, the faeries.

Gifted with second sight and a profound attunement to the unseen, her wisdom was believed to originate from the Otherworld itself, bestowed upon her during her own encounters with the Otherworld and the Aos Sí.

The second course in Meeting The Gaelic Otherworld series is “Bridge to an Unseen Shore – The Bean Feasa: Wise Woman and Mediator of the Gaelic Otherworld – Trauma and Meaning Making,”. It is available now as a self guided course program.
This series offers an immersion into ancestral “deep time” and the numinous, weaving together insights from Jungian Depth Psychology and Psychotherapy. It is designed to support your exploration of the archetype of the Wise Woman from a Jungian Depth Psychology perspective.

Together, we will come to understand the Bean Feasa not only as a traditional folk healer, but as a symbolic bridge to our own unseen shores — a guide who moves fluidly between the conscious and unconscious, the rational and the imaginal.

Through this work, we explore our deeper selves: what has been passed down through our lineage, how the past shapes the present, and how we can begin to release old unconscious patterns in order to step into a more authentic life.

Visit my website www.teallach.com/bridge to purchase the course and to learn more.

This series has been in development for a number of years and is close to my heart, so I am so excited to share it with you.

Grá mór
Eileen
Photography Marina Shcheglova
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Rest in Peace - Suaimhneas síoraí Dolly Parton."I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out ...
25/08/2026

Rest in Peace - Suaimhneas síoraí Dolly Parton.

"I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world"

Dolly Parton, from 'Dream More'
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I wanted to say hello and introduce myself to so many of you who have joined me here in recent months. Thank you for you...
23/08/2026

I wanted to say hello and introduce myself to so many of you who have joined me here in recent months. Thank you for your company here. (Click on the first image and scroll from there 🤗).

Where I grew up in Connemara, if someone doesn’t know you, you answer by recounting something of your family — your parents, and those who came before them, your lineage. In the telling, you are placed within a web of kinship, community and place. You are known through your lineage.

So, by way of introduction, I wanted to share something of my own people: some of the women who came before me, the landscape and traditions that formed the world of my childhood, and something of the path that eventually became my work.

The older I become, the more I understand that piecing together the stories of our lives — who we are, where we come from, who our people are — connects us to the ground of our own being.

And perhaps returning to the ground of our own being is the journey of the soul.

My work with Irish folklore, mythology, language and the Gaelic Otherworld, alongside Jungian depth psychology, has become a way of exploring that return — what these old traditions might still have to say to us, and how they might bring us into deeper relationship with the inner world and soul self.

Perhaps this work is, in some small way, my own bridge back to them. My ancestors.

If you follow me on Instagram you will hear the voice accompanying this post is Joe Éinniú (Joe Heaney), the renowned sean-nós singer who came from my own community in Connemara. His voice, too, is a thread back to that world.

Míle buíochas agus grá dóibh.
A thousand thanks and love to them.

And thank you for your company here.
Wishing you a lovely Sunday.
Grá agus Beannacht, (love and blessings),
Eileen
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' I never cease to marvel at the capacity of men and women to leave home and venture into the unknown. I never cease to ...
23/08/2026

' I never cease to marvel at the capacity of men and women to leave home and venture into the unknown. I never cease to admire the courage of those who first crossed mountains, who navigated the wine-dark seas, who went down into Hades' Kingdom and wrote "sonnets to Orpheus" or the fifth symphony. And I ask myself as Yeats did "why should we only honor those that die upon the field of battle, a man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself"

James Hillman
Photography Conamara (baile) home in the Autumn
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'Don't hold on to what must die and don't fear what lies ahead. Life/death/life is the universal cycle of transformation...
20/08/2026

'Don't hold on to what must die and don't fear what lies ahead. Life/death/life is the universal cycle of transformation that keeps reoccurring whenever there is time to grow and expand. It's a leap of faith one must take, surrender into or sacrifice, in order to be grown into the next version of oneself. There comes a time in your life when the life you have been living is over and you have no clue who you are becoming'

Marion Woodman
Painting by John Caple
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