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LIFE Unfiltered – Judy Moloney

Cait May 8, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sat down with Judy Moloney, psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and founder of The Boundary Specialist. They discussed why boundaries are so much harder than anyone lets on, what a boundary actually is, why knowing you need…

LIFE Unfiltered – Dr. Edith Eger

Cait May 1, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered Maria looked at the life of Dr. Edith Eger, Holocaust survivor, psychologist, and author who died during the week aged 98. Eger survived Auschwitz at sixteen, went on to get her PhD in her fifties, and didn’t…

LIFE Unfiltered – Siobhán McCarthy

Cait April 24, 2026

Ireland is the loneliest country in Europe apparently and the people feeling it most are not who you’d expect – they’re in their 20s and 30s, with full lives, full phones and not enough genuine connection to show for either. This week…

LIFE Unfiltered – Dr Ray O’Neill on Alcohol Addiction

Cait April 17, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sat down with DCU’s Assistant Professor of psychotherapy Dr Ray O’Neill to talk about Ireland’s deeply complicated relationship with alcohol – not just the statistics, but the culture underneath. They discussed how addiction so…

LIFE Unfiltered – Tara Thompson

Cait April 10, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria spoke with Tara Thompson, Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher, Wellbeing Facilitator and founder of The Quest Yoga. Tara returned to her own story in her early forties and spent four to five years processing a trauma she had…

LIFEUnfiltered – Eamonn Brennan

Cait April 3, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria spoke to Eamonn Brennan, a somatic therapist, to talk about something that I think a lot of us don’t fully understand – what stress, anxiety and trauma actually do to the body, and why so many…

LIFE Unfiltered – Barbara Scully

Cait March 27, 2026

This week on Life Unfiltered Maria talked to writer, broadcaster and one-woman force of nature Barbara Scully about getting older and why she thinks women should stop dreading it and start absolutely revelling in it. Barbara’s first one-woman show Older Bolder Wiser…

LIFE Unfiltered – Caoimhe McLaughlin

Cait March 20, 2026

This week Life Unfiltered tackles parenting an autistic child – which can be one of the most rewarding and one of the most isolating experiences a person can have. But what happens when the support systems let you down? When the world…

LIFE Unfiltered – Orla Diamantino

Cait March 13, 2026

Life Unfiltered this week takes on one of the big issues, the lessons life actually teaches you. You know those lessons that can sometimes turn you upside down – the ones you learn the hard way and the ones nobody warns you…

Life Unfiltered – Paula Pinzon Hernández

Cait March 6, 2026

Life Unfiltered marked the upcoming International Women’s Day on 8th March with a look at women’s lives in Ireland over the last 50 years – where we’ve come from and where we still need to go. Maria took a look at some of…

LIFE Unfiltered – Sex and Intimacy

Cait February 27, 2026

We think we know what sex is. But do we know what intimacy is? Dr Ray O’Neill is assistant professor of psychotherapy at DCU and a psychotherapist at www.machna.ie and he joined Maria to discuss what we get right and wrong about sex…

LIFE Unfiltered – Willpower and Lent

Cait February 20, 2026

Have you ever tried to give something up and found yourself thinking about it every single minute of every single day? That’s your brain working against you and in this episode of Life Unfiltered Maria looked into the real science behind why…

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