Ep. 18 | International Men’s Day

We are celebrating International Men’s Day in today’s episode. It takes place on November 19th and highlights the positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities. It raises awareness of positive male role models and men’s wellbeing. I am joined by Dan O Mahony, PCI Faculty lecturer and psychotherapist with Pieta. Dan generously shares his own story to demonstrate how society holds very strong ideas of what it means to be a man, e.g., what job you should have, how you should dress, how you should speak etc. He also shows the strong response to men who don’t match up to these expectations and how damaging that can be to your sense of self. 

We do discuss suicide in this episode and want to highlight the supports available through Pieta https://www.pieta.ie/ , the PCI low cost counselling service https://www.pcicollege.ie/counselling-service/lowcostcounselling and the International Men’s Day website https://internationalmensday.com/