{"id":60737,"date":"2026-04-24T14:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=60737"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:48:29","slug":"life-unfiltered-siobhan-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=60737","title":{"rendered":"LIFE Unfiltered &#8211; Siobh\u00e1n McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life Unfiltered - Siobh\u00e1n Mccarthy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Flife-unfiltered-siobh%25C3%25A1n-mccarthy%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"L1\" class=\"xu0zwpn x1eio638 xjfdlto\">Ireland is the loneliest country in Europe apparently and the people feeling it most are not who you&#8217;d expect &#8211; they&#8217;re in their 20s and 30s, with full lives, full phones and not enough genuine connection to show for either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"L2\" class=\"xu0zwpn x1eio638 xjfdlto\">This week on Life Unfiltered Maria talked to psychotherapist Siobh\u00e1n McCarthy about adult loneliness and the structural reasons friendship becomes harder in adulthood, the difference between being alone and feeling unseen, and why loneliness has a particular talent for making you feel like the problem is you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"L3\" class=\"xu0zwpn x1eio638 xjfdlto\">Siobh\u00e1n works with clients at Summit Counselling in Swords and you can find her at\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"L4\" class=\"xu0zwpn x1eio638 xjfdlto\"><a class=\"xfrw1on xm811qx\" href=\"https:\/\/summitcounselling.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/summitcounselling.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is the loneliest country in Europe apparently and the people feeling it most are not who you&#8217;d expect &#8211; they&#8217;re in their 20s and 30s, with full lives, full phones and not enough genuine connection to show for either. This week on Life Unfiltered Maria talked to psychotherapist Siobh\u00e1n McCarthy about adult loneliness and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":57124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29671,29672,26438,27715,27330],"class_list":["post-60737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-adult-loneliness","tag-friendships","tag-maria-mchale","tag-siobhan-mccarthy","tag-summit-counselling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60738,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60737\/revisions\/60738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}