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A Journey Inward
Deepening The Senses Workshop Series
A Journey Inward is a series of workshops that explores the Self Abandonment Wound and how to support yourself to heal the wound of unworthiness and embrace life— mind, body and spirit.
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Deepening the Senses
In Deepening the Senses, we deepen our connection to the inner world and soul self. So often in our lives, due to difficult early childhood experiences, past limiting belief patterns, and intergenerational trauma, we can experience a disconnection from our authentic, embodied soul selves…
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Psychotherapy
In my 1:1 work as a psychotherapist, I work in a process-orientated way, creating a space to explore how our past belief patterns and experiences can interrupt us in the here-and-now moments of our lives…
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Inner Depth Work
I aim to provide a compassionate space where difficult and sometimes painful experiences and emotions can be heard, felt and healed. A space for you to feel welcomed and understood. A space to explore and deepen curiosity and wonder at your inner world and embark on a journey of self-understanding and deeper connection, that can lead to personal growth and empowerment.
“We are all badly in need of the symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul – the daily need of the soul.”
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Eileen Ní Shuilleabháin (Sullivan)
BSocSc, MSW, MA Psychotherapy, Dip Supervision, Dip Jungian Studies, Certified Coach (WCI)
I am a Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Depth Psychology Coach with over 20 years of experience. I am dual-located in the US and Ireland (In Northern Nevada and on the West Coast of Ireland, in Galway).
I grew up in Connemara, a wild and rugged landscape on the Atlantic coast of Ireland. Oscar Wilde famously said of the region, “Connemara is a savage beauty”. I grew up in a small, rural Gaeilge (Irish) speaking community where Gaeilge is still spoken today in people's homes. This area was a major centre for the work of the Irish Folklore Commission, recording endangered folklore, mythology, sean-nós (old-style) songs, and oral literature. I have been greatly influenced by the wild physical landscape and immersed in those ancient songs, stories, customs, myths, legends, and music since childhood.
I desire to share with you a sense of that culture and spirit and, as a Psychotherapist, to support how that connection can nourish and guide you on your personal development journey.
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New Workshop Series!
A Journey Inward
A Journey Inward is a series of workshops that explores the Self Abandonment Wound and how to support yourself to heal the wound of unworthiness and embrace life— mind, body and spirit.
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"What you create in your offering is so sacred, I was so blessed to have the opportunity to participate."
Participant of Deepening the Senses Online Gathering
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“Gosh I feel very lucky and blessed. What a beautiful gathering. Soul nourishment. Thank you for your gentle holding of space and weaving wonderful Samhain magic. Thank you for the wonderful work that you do. All the magic of your in-person retreats was there. It was a special side step out of normal time into a soul healing space time. Go raibh míle maith agat."
Participant of Deepening the Senses Online Gathering
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"I spent the morning as I had wished for. To engage in company who are like minded and a facilitator who knows. You certainly delivered……well done. A rewarding and fulfilling experience that touches deeply with plenty of food for thought and action!"
Participant of Deepening the Senses Online Gathering
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"Thank you for such an enriching morning last Saturday. The benefits have stayed with me since. I loved the internal spark I felt upon listening to the stories you shared and sitting with the magical images of the Cailleach. I felt connected to an aliveness inside of me and found the morning with Eileen and the group complimented how more at home I feel during the autumn and early winter time. I experienced a lovely connection with Eileen’s way of holding the group, so warm, inclusive, open, respective, insightful, and informative. I have done very little group participation on zoom these past months, more from choice , as I have perceived it to be more of a stressor than a support to me. My experience of this morning felt supportive and nurturing. Thank you Eileen."
Participant of Deepening the Senses Online Gathering
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"It was a great morning. Great to gather together with other ladies to share our feelings, experiences, visions and of course to connect. I visualise the Cailleach zooming! It’s great to meet a facilitator who understands and knows. Many attributes for a truly fulfilling gathering …knowing the subject matter, topics, structure and delivery of them. I hope to attend the remaining yearly gathering to complete a yearly cycle of sorts."
Participant of Deepening the Senses Online Gathering
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"Thank you so much Eileen for a magical experience. I loved witnessing the sharing from the other women. There was so much wisdom in the circle. The slideshow with the images resonated beautifully. I found the pace perfect. I absolutely loved Eileen’s facilitation. I would describe her approach as warm, humorous, deeply compassionate, interested and knowledgeable. Thank you so much for such an enriching experience. I look forward to experiencing your magic again!"
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"I really enjoyed meeting other people, and listening to their wisdom and experience. This was not something I had anticipated in advance but it really made me aware how starved I have been for human connection since COVID lockdown."
Participant of Deepening the Senses Online Gathering
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"Thank you Eileen for a heart soaring experience. It is still with me and I know I will carry it forward. Thank you for creating such a safe space for us all to calmly open our hearts and souls in the shared experience. It was truly wonderful. I loved the imagery and the presentation of images with your score of evocative music and thought provoking poetry and word. I think that was a really important part of the morning . The imagery was astounding. Eileen you are a special facilitator and so much more. Your gift of calm and really ‘seeing’ each of us individually even though we were at home was so powerful. You are magic! You carved a really warm and inviting space, albeit all of us behind our screens. I almost forgot that we were in that format. It transmitted and translated so seamlessly. You are the essence of presence and calm."
Participant of Deepening the Senses Online Gathering
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"Thank you so much for a very nourishing morning. I felt very present and able to use the space well. I experience something very powerful in the way you work with mythology, archetypes and Jungian psychology."
Participant of Deepening the Senses Online Gathering
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"Thank you so much for another morning of nourishment. I get so much from your retreats. You were born to do this work and you facilitate such a safe and kind space. I am very grateful to and for you. I loved every second of the morning."
Participant of Deepening the Senses Online Gathering
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"Thank you so much Eileen for a heart warming homing experience. Truly a gift."
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Reflections
This coming autumn and winter can be a beautiful opportunity for us to allow a different pace in our daily lives...
We are on the threshold of a new season. The natural world around us is still full and ripe, yet we feel a change is coming. The trees are getting ready to lose their leaves again, and vegetation will begin to change colour and die away...
Our ancient Gaelic ancestors gathered at night around the hearth to share songs, music, poetry and stories. This provided escape from a harsh existence...
The native language of any country is a vessel for translating the soul of that country and its people. If a country lost its native language, it would lose an entirely unique way of thinking and feeling about the world…
Lúnasa marks the mid-point between the Summer Solstice and the Equinox and was celebrated in remembrance of the God Lugh…
Courage is facing our fears, going into them, and being able to face what frightens us…
His name means ''Son of the Sea,'' he is considered the God of the sea and one of the Túatha De Danann…
Going through difficult times in our lives really brings home the importance and value of kindness…
The Grey wolf was an integral part of the Irish countryside and culture until 1786, when the last wild wolf in Ireland was said to have been killed…
The moon has a face we can see and an unseen side in the shadows. This is a wonderful symbol for our own psyche…
Solstice, blessings to you all! This is a beautiful time of the year when we can celebrate the sun…
Before the famine, Ireland saw one of the worst storms ever recorded in Ireland. It was a storm that led to…
At this time of year, the Sun has its greatest moment of light, the longest day of the year, and lasts for a few days where the hours of daylight remain almost the same— as though the Sun has stopped in the sky at that place of most light…
Teallach is the Irish word for hearth. The hearth was always of central importance in Celtic society…
This proverb invites us to view change and transformation as a metaphorical dark night- an initiation...
This sean fhocal, or proverb, speaks to how all things have their own timing. It is a wise reminder not to wait for a crisis to happen to make the changes necessary in our lives…
The haystacks stood in the field for a month or so, and then it was time to bring them home from the fields to the shed or haggard- the traditional storage area for the crops…
Probably the most well-known Sean Fhocail, which is most often referenced, is “Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine”…
Water is life-giving. We meet it from the very beginning, in the womb. We emerge into the world when the waters break…
Bealtaine marks the beginning of summer in the ancient Celtic calendar. It is a Cross Quarter Day, halfway between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice. In ancient times, bonfires were lit to mark a time of change and transition, celebrating the season's turning…
Antoine O Raifteiri (Anthony Raftery) was an 18th-century blind Irish poet and fiddle player who came from the ancient bardic tradition. He lived and walked the roads of Mayo and, later, predominantly, South Galway, playing music and reciting poetry in the time before the famine…
We all have both Masculine and Feminine energy, irrespective of gender. How we embrace our Feminine and Masculine aspects within us is key to our individuation journey to become our authentic selves, towards a sense of wholeness…
In the self-abandonment wound, we avoid conflict at all costs, so anger is then squashed down in the body and suppressed. The anger, however, comes out unexpectedly and can be directed in outbursts towards others and self-shaming, self-criticism, turned inwardly…
As we emerge from the dark incubation of the wintering season, the world outside the window begins to come back to life. The buds are slowly coming onto the trees, the earth softens, and new life forms. Our souls are growing, too…
Ireland is world-renowned for its writers, poets, storytellers, artists and musicians. It is unclear when literacy first came to Ireland. The earliest Irish writings are inscriptions, mostly simple memorials, on stone in the Ogham alphabet, the earliest of which date to the 4th century…
I have been asked this question frequently, given that the upcoming workshop has this in the title. Authentic Power is related to “be-ing” – the embodiment of your strength, presence, essential essence, and how you come to express that in the world…
Gráinne Ní Mháille (Grace O’Malley in English), or as she is known in Irish folklore, Granuaile, was born in Ireland around 1530. She was the daughter of Dubhdara O Máille, who commanded the biggest fleet of ships in Ireland at the time. They were from Clare Island, a stunning island in Clew Bay in Co. Mayo. When her father died…
Brigid, the ancient triple Goddess, is celebrated on Lá Bríde – “Brigid’s Day” at Imbolc. She stands on the threshold of spring, invoking the archetypal energies of…
As each year passes, I am more in awe at the wisdom of nature and the changing seasons. Our ancestors, who lived so close to the earth, were intimately tied to the seasons and the cycle of the harvest…
Gratitude is such a beautiful emotion when we connect to it. When we make space for it in our lives, it has such an interesting impact on us, and those around us…