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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…

Love Unfiltered – Communication

Jaye May 16, 2025

This week on Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale is talking about talking. One thing every relationship expert agrees on is that communication is key – and yet we’re still not great at it. Why is that? Because most of us never learned how. So…

Love Unfiltered – Coercive Control: The Abuse You Can’t Always See

Jaye May 9, 2025

Listen again as we unpack what coercive control really looks like, why it’s so hard to spot and how to support someone who might be living in its shadow – because naming it is often the first step to stopping it. Domestic…

Love Unfiltered – Divorce

Jaye April 18, 2025

Divorce, especially after decades together, isn’t just a legal process – it’s an emotional earthquake. Maria McHale talks to life and leadership coach Alana Kirk, to explore the emotional rollercoaster of divorce, particularly in relation to people in their 40s, 50s and…

Love Unfiltered – Domestic Abuse against Men

Jaye April 11, 2025

This week on Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale is joined by Derek Byrne, Education Officer with Men’s Aid Ireland, to shine a light on the often-overlooked issue of domestic abuse against men. We explore coercive control, emotional abuse, and why so few men…

Love Unfiltered – Is modern dating broken?

Jaye April 4, 2025

This week on Love Unfiltered, we dive deep into the world of swiping, ghosting, red flags, green flags and unrealistic expectations, with none other than Genevieve Gresset, Master Certified Matchmaker and expert featured on Married at First Sight and the BBC. Dating apps were…

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