Mind Your Self - Four Swans

Living with Loss

In this deeply honest and compassionate episode, psychotherapist and breathwork practitioner Krystle Phelan shares her lived experience of grief, parental loss, estrangement, and navigating motherhood without family support.  Drawing from both personal experience and her work with clients, Krystle explores the hidden layers of grief including living loss, fractured family relationships, and the long shadow of COVID bereavement. Together, we discuss how grief evolves over time, the loneliness many people quietly carry, and the unexpected clarity, resilience, and growth that can emerge through loss. This conversation offers validation, hope, and a reminder that grief and joy can coexist, and that healing doesn’t mean forgetting.

Modern Masculinity

In this powerful and reflective conversation, we meet with Darren Reilly, founder of Brotherhood, to explore modern masculinity, emotional intelligence, purpose, and the growing need for deeper connection among men.  Darren shares his personal journey through healing, leadership, psychotherapy training, and transformational work, offering insight into what healthy masculinity truly looks like in today’s world.  Together, we discuss brotherhood, nervous system regulation, accountability, identity, and why so many young men are searching for meaning beyond surface-level success.  This episode is an honest conversation about growth, community, and becoming the man you are meant to be.

Change is Possible

We welcome former heroin addict turned neuroscientist Dr. Brian Pennie and his sister Anne Pennie, a trainee psychotherapist, for a deeply honest conversation about addiction, recovery, resilience, and the impact of addiction on families.   Together, they reflect on their shared journey, the challenges they faced as siblings, and the lessons they've learned about healing, hope, and personal growth.    Drawing on both lived experience and professional insight, they explore why recovery is possible and how even the darkest chapters can lead to transformation.   A powerful episode for anyone affected by addiction whether personally or through someone they love.

The Great Escape

In this episode, we sit down with outdoor business owner and digital creator Max Cody to explore the healing power of the outdoors, the rise of adventure culture in Ireland, and why more young people are stepping away from traditional nightlife.    Max shares his personal journey from long nights working in Dublin’s bar scene to building a life centred around sea swimming, hiking, connection, and wellbeing.    Together, we discuss adventures, finding meaning in everyday life, and how nature can support both mental and emotional health

Back to Basics

What happens when the version of you that’s been holding it all together starts to fall apart?   In this powerful conversation, Myles McKenna shares his journey through burnout, hidden work addiction, and the quiet pressure many men carry to stay strong at all costs.    Together, we explore how emotional suppression shapes our lives, why vulnerability still feels out of reach for so many, and what it really means to come back to yourself.   From breathwork and body awareness to the subtle ways trauma lives within us, this episode is a reminder that healing doesn’t have to be complicated. It starts with small, honest shifts.   If you have ever felt overwhelmed, disconnected, or like you’re running on empty, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are