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Love Unfiltered – Soulmates

Jaye August 15, 2025

Love Unfiltered turns the spotlight on soulmates. A lot of us grew up reading Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice, two novels that, let’s be honest, made emotionally avoidant men seem impossibly sexy. All that brooding and mystery… it felt like love and a…

Love Unfiltered – Listener Stories

Jaye August 8, 2025

We’re used to seeing love stories in movies, in which two people typically meet, fall in love, experience some extenuating circumstances that make them fall apart, and then come to a resolution that helps them live happily ever after. Real life may…

Love Unfiltered – Legacy

Jaye August 1, 2025

In this episode of Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale asks the uncomfortable but essential question: are we living in a way we’d be proud to be remembered for? Drawing on the Japanese concept of Ikigai, and the wisdom of Bronnie Ware’s Top Five…

Love Unfiltered – Infidelity

Jaye July 18, 2025

On this episode of Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale is joined by psychotherapist Sean Adams from Summit Counselling in Swords to talk about one of the most confronting topics in relationships – infidelity. From secret messages to the now-infamous Coldplay concert cam moments…

Love Unfiltered – Grief

Jaye July 11, 2025

This week on Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale talks about something every one of us will face in this life: grief. Grief is the natural emotional response to a significant loss, like the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship,…

Legends of Our Lifetime – Maria McHale

Jaye July 4, 2025

On this episode of Legends of our Lifetime, Orla Diamantino is joined in the studio for a lively conversation with Maria McHale, Journalist, Communications Consultant, and overall queen of positivity. Born in the UK, Maria spent most of her youth in Bearna,…

Love Unfiltered – Blind Spots & Listener Stories

Jaye July 4, 2025

Love is the thing we crave the most as humans, and sometimes, the thing that breaks us the deepest. We all have blind spots and habits that trip us up, so on this episode of Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale takes a look…

Love Unfiltered – Our Stories

Jaye June 30, 2025

On this episode of Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale delves into stories – not the kind you post online or tell at dinner meet ups or a party, but the quiet ones that live inside you. These stories play on a loop when…

Love Unfiltered – Neurodiversity in love and relationships

Jaye June 20, 2025

Listen Again as Maria McHale explores Neurodiversity in love and relationships. Joining Maria is Psychotherapist and clinical director of Inner voice, Inner Journey, Dermot McCarthy, who himself was diagnosed as autistic in 2021. So what does being neurodivergent mean for love and…

Love Unfiltered – Sex & Intimacy

Jaye June 7, 2025

**Hot Topic Warning** Back in the day, sex in Catholic Ireland was buried under shame, silence, and sin. You didn’t talk about it, you didn’t ask questions, and God forbid you enjoyed it. Pleasure was seen as dangerous. Dirty. That legacy runs…

Love Unfiltered – Emotional Connection

Jaye May 30, 2025

This week on Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale explores something that underpins every meaningful relationship: Emotional Connection. What is it really? How do we build it? And perhaps more importantly, what do we do when it slips away? Listen Again as Maria chats…

Love Unfiltered – Blended Families

Jaye May 23, 2025

On Love Unfiltered this week, Maria McHale and couples therapist Damian Morgan from KerryCounselling.ie talk about how to navigate the beautiful, complicated journey of blended families. They explore the pitfalls, the growing pains, the moments of joy – and how to build…

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