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Love Unfiltered – The Best Bits

Jaye September 6, 2025

The 25th episode of Love Unfiltered makes way for next week’s Life Unfiltered. Listen again as Maria McHale looked back at some of the most powerful lessons from the wonderful experts who’ve joined the show. From learning not to make assumptions, to…

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 – 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 – 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…

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