The Earthly Delights Podcast

En este episodio nos adentramos en la experiencia íntima de emigrar: cómo la identidad se transforma cuando dejamos atrás el lugar que nos vio crecer, el peso dulce y doloroso de extrañar un hogar, y el desafío —a veces agotador, a veces hermoso— de construir uno nuevo en otro país. Hablamos de adaptación, de choque cultural, de las pequeñas victorias cotidianas y de la nostalgia que nunca desapar...

Our guest this episode is Tatiana Fyodorov, creator of Deep Chats. Deep Chats is a community where people have...you guessed it...DEEP CHATS! It's a space where people feel open and comfortable enough to talk to absolute strangers about real, nuanced topics that create real connections. Tatiana talks to us about her upbringing and how it shaped her into being the type of person who isn't o...

Our guest is Tom Hopcroft, founder of the "Guiris de Mierda" community. Seb talks to Tom about his unconventional path to Madrid, Spain, and how slowly but surely he went from being a primary school teacher teaching English to creating his own community, hosting events in various cities in Spain, allowing people to connect and create their own community, something he himself was missing...

Rob Doyle is an Irish author of four internationally acclaimed books: Threshold, This Is the Ritual, Here Are the Young Men, which has been adapted for film, and his recently published Cameo. He has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Irish Times, to name a few. He was one of the first guests on the Earthly Delights Podcast back in 2020, yes, 6 years ago, and I was very grateful to s...

Joshua Schrei is a podcaster, mythteller, teacher, and a lifelong student of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world — in particular the Indian subcontinent. Throughout a lifetime of teaching, study, meditation and yogic practice, wilderness immersion, art, music, and public speaking, Josh has sought to navigate the living, animate space of the imagination and advocate for a world that priori...

Susannah Crockford is a lecturer in anthropology, specialising in environmental and medical anthropology and the anthropology of religion. Her first book, Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, explored New Age Spirituality of the Mecca of all things New Agey in the States. I came across her work as I was trying to get a stronger grounding of the harmful overlap between neoliber...

Our guest this time is Dr. Sula Windgassen. Having experienced recurring UTIs and chronic pain in her early twenties, she felt a strong urge to learn more about human health and, in particular, women’s health, which is significantly under-researched. Since she made this conscious decision, she has become a health psychologist, cognitive behavioural therapist, EMDR therapist, and mindfulness teache...

Welcome back friends! You might remember Ciara Sherlock from an episode that I recorded with her in back in 2022. In that episode, we discussed the significance of psychedelic integration along with the growing popularity of women’s circles. In this episode, we cover other aspects of Ciara’s work; namely Bodywork and Doula work. In the current climate, where more and more people are accepting of t...

Welcome back to the Earthly Delights Podcast! Our guest this time around is writer, coach and podcaster, Erick Godsey. I have been following his work since 2020 and found him to be an inspiring, insightful voice in a wellbeing and spirituality media landscape that often promotes dangerous, wild content. His weekly newsletter is regular thought-provoker for me and I would highly recommend subscribi...

Lucy O’ Hagan is a very inspirational person. She has been on a fascinating journey, a journey that we couldn’t do justice to in one hour. However, we did cover a lot. I primarily asked Lucy onto the podcast to talk about her work with WildAwake – a fantastic organisation designed to help people connect to themselves, their communities and the non-human life on earth in a deeper way. Wildawake thr...

This week's guest is Evelyn Van Winden, a Therapist with expertise in attachment, behavioural and parenting-related challenges surrounding child development. We talk to Evelyn about the importance of those foundational relationships during childhood and how they affect us as we grow into adulthood. We also talk about the challenges of parenting and getting the balance between supporting and caring...

This podcast is a conversation with Declan Hammond, the co-founder and former director of the Irish School of Homeopathy. Declan’s array of skills are vast but with this podcast, we focus in on homoeopathy. Most people, at least in Ireland, disregard homeopathy as woo-woo or pseudoscience but my hope with this podcast is that the listener becomes more open to this approach to healing. In this full...

James Cussen is a philosopher, video creator and the first Limerick man we’ve had on the podcast. He runs a very successful and useful YouTube channel titled “The Living Philosophy” through which he unpacks long-standing philosophical arguments with modern-day application. A good friend put me on to his stuff and I’ve been dipping in ever since. In this conversation, we cover what philosophy has d...

Part 3 of our mini-series about direction and purpose in life! Writing an introduction for our guest this week is an impossible task, but I’ll try. Martín Prechtel is an artist, writer, musician, storyteller, teacher, healer and leading thinker..he’s also one of the funniest guests we’ve ever had on The Earthly Delights. He has lived an incredibly full life and has some profound lessons to share w...

Part 2 of our mini-series about direction and purpose in life! Brother Richard Hendrick is a priest-friar of the Irish Capuchin Franciscan Province, now based in Dublin. He was director of Youth Ministry for the Irish Capuchins for over ten years and has worked at both secondary and third level as a retreat giver and chaplain. He is deeply knowledgeable about ritual and initiation within several w...

Part 1 of our mini-series about direction and purpose in life! Welcome out -- Barry Dillon is the Programme Manager at Venture Out Wilderness Project, a registered charity and social enterprise based in the West of Ireland. Barry spent many years teaching adventure sports in places such as Honduras, Mexico, Asia and South America and returned to Ireland 10 years ago to spread the expertise and wis...

Manchán Magan is a writer, traveller, documentary maker, Gaeilgeoir and polyglot. He is a very necessary presence in Irish culture right now as interest in the Irish language and Pre-Christian Ireland grows and grows. I was introduced to his work by my girlfriend late last year and was pulled by his incredible passion for the Irish language and myth. He describes in powerful detail how the languag...

Melissa Kramer is the founder of LIVE UTI FREE. An organization established to help support people struggling with long-term Urinary Tract Infections. They also advocate for the need for more research in this somewhat neglected area of women’s health. Why arrange this podcast? Well, I think our majority male audience could brush up on their knowledge on UTIs as it has and will impact a large perce...

It’s easy to forget that we once had the skills, resources and sense of community to feel confident in addressing these kinds of challenges – perhaps easier to believe that we have lost them forever. Common Knowledge is a non-profit organisation, based in Co. Clare committed to helping people familiarise themselves with such skills while empowering the community to play a more hands-on role in the...

Moe Aloha is a facilitator, DJ, writer and a man who’s devoting a lot of his time to improving relationships; people’s relationships with themselves, their loved ones and their relationship with the universe around them. The initial intention of this podcast was to discuss grief, and we did. Still, this podcast also turned out to be a healthy conversation between men who experience the world quite...

In a world of everything, everywhere, all the time it can be very challenging to have time to pin down what’s really important to us and keep the focus on these aspects of ourselves and our lives, in the midst of omnipresent content and distraction. Ronit Herzfeld is a woman who cares deeply about helping people reach an intimate connection with themselves, their deepest selves. She is a social wo...

Dr Jacqui Dillon is an activist, trainer, writer, and speaker specialising in hearing voices, dissociation, trauma, abuse, and recovery. She is the Chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England and a key figure in the international Hearing Voices Movement. Her survival of childhood abuse and subsequent experiences of using psychiatric services inform her work. She is an outspoken advocate and cam...

Robbie Tomkins is a remarkable person who has overcome all manner of hurdles. We spoke to him about his struggles with binge eating and his honesty, transparency and clarity regarding the subject made this podcast one to remember. If you believe you suffer from binge eating or just have an unhealthy relationship with food then this one is for you! Sign up to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.c...

Dr Piera Briganti is a trilingual therapist and a trained EMDR therapist. Life led Dr Piera to face different adversities, but also to develop an interest in the influence of events on the mind and personality. She chose to graduate in clinical psychology and become a psychotherapist because she wanted to teach people how to stop suffering and learn to overcome difficult moments. Thanks to EMDR, D...

Ciara Sherlock is a hard woman to put in a box, but she can be definitely described as someone who is deeply invested in helping people improve their relationships with themselves and the world around them. You might find her holding space for a woman becoming a mother, supporting a person through an altered state of consciousness or working with someone with pain or trauma manifesting physically....