#2 | The Relationship Women Have With Alcohol

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Insight Matters

Dil Wickremasinghe

12 episodes

8 months ago

Welcome to our Insight Matters - Inspiring Change in Self and Society podcast! Dil and Anne Marie are the Co-Founders of Insight Matters and with a team of 55 therapists they support the mental health of over 400 clients per week through their two city centre practices in Dublin. The support services are affordable, inclusive and accessible. Since its inception, it has been Dil's and Anne Marie's vision to make Insight Matters a national service. Dil and Anne Marie have been through their own mental health journey and grappled with depression, anxiety, eating distress, sexual abuse, sexual identity, homophobia and discrimination. Coincidentally in 2006, before they met, they both reached out for help, Anne Marie became an in-patient in a psychiatric hospital and Dil started attending counselling in a centre for sexual abuse survivors. Both Dil and Anne Marie discovered their passion for mental health and 4 years later they met at a mental health retreat. Since then they have become passionate mental health advocates and they hope to raise awareness, break down stigma and inspire change in self and soceity. For more information please visit www.insightmatters.ie or email info@insightmatters.ie

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#2 | The Relationship Women Have With Alcohol

Insight Matters

38 minutes 5 seconds

6 years ago

#2 | The Relationship Women Have With Alcohol

Dry January—giving up alcohol for the first month of the year—for some, it’s an annual tradition/new year’s resolution to drink less, while for others it acts as a detox from drinking excessively over the holidays. On this episode of the Insight Matters Podcast, we are looking into the relationship between women and alcohol.

Joining Dil and Anne Marie for this episode is Louise Currie, a counsellor and psychotherapist with Alba Psychotherapy. Louise works with a broad range of issues including depression, anxiety, stress, addiction and addictive behaviour, alcohol and substance abuse, low self-esteem, family and relationship issues, eating disorders and phobias. Louise explains how she got into psychotherapy, and opens up about her relationship with alcohol.

Dil, Anne Marie and Louise discuss issues surrounding alcohol consumption in Ireland: conflicting lessons we are taught as kids, that alcohol is a good thing, but alcoholism is a bad thing; the power of alcohol as a stress reliever, how one glass of wine in the evening can become two, two can become three, and so on; the reticence of people to seek help, due to the stigma of addiction in this country; and the normalisation of regular drinking through memes on sites like Facebook.

They seek answers to difficult questions: when do you know that you have a problem with alcohol? And if you know you have a problem, when do you do something about it? As well, from the therapist’s point of view, how does a therapist approach the issue of addiction?Find out more about Louise on her website: https://www.albapsychotherapy.ie
If you need to talk to someone, call us now on 01-891 0703 or email info@insightmatters.ie for a confidential discussion and initial assessment with one of our senior therapists. Alternatively please fill in the online booking form (www.insightmatters.ie/book-online/) and we will contact you within 24 hours.