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A dietitian shares how she shapes her days to support her health and wellness

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This is the ultimate gift for the woman in your life

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Inside Thornton Lodge, an exceptional home with views across the Curragh Plains
Inside Thornton Lodge, an exceptional home with views across the Curragh Plains

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Team IMAGE share their favourite audiobooks

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The owner of this Georgian Dublin home rebuilt it from the ground up

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March Guide: 10 events happening around Ireland this month
March Guide: 10 events happening around Ireland this month

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These four non-surgical treatments will transform your skin
These four non-surgical treatments will transform your skin

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Nicole Kidman stars in Scarpetta – here’s what to watch this week
Nicole Kidman stars in Scarpetta – here’s what to watch this week

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WIN the full Max Benjamin candle collection worth €300
WIN the full Max Benjamin candle collection worth €300

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What Jonah Hill’s messages teach us about boundaries and manipulation  


by Roe McDermott
12th Jul 2023

Thanks to the current proliferation of therapy speak, anyone can use an enlightened façade and therapeutic vocabulary to make themselves sound reasonable and fair, even as they try to control others and deflect from their own actions and responsibility.  

“Surfing with men.   Boundaryless inappropriate relationships with men.   To model.  To post photos of yourself wearing a bathing suit.   To post sexual pictures.   Friendships with women who are in unstable places from your wild recent past beyond getting a lunch or coffee or something respectful.”  This list is not just my goals for the summer; nor is this list just the reason one of my Whatspp groups is now called “Unstable Women From My Wild...

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