I’m Done! Now What?

After how popular our first Ask Trisha episode (episode 293) was, Trisha is back. In this Ask Trisha, we answer the questions you sent in — the ones about feeling drained after therapy, navigating family dynamics, supporting others without taking everything on, and making sense of the emotions that show up after loss. It’s an honest, practical conversation about protecting your energy, setting emotional boundaries, and learning how to care deeply without burning yourself out. As always, Trisha brings clarity, warmth, and common sense to topics that can feel heavy, helping you understand what’s normal and how to look after yourself through it all. About Trisha Trisha is a Psychotherapist and Manager of Mind & Body Works Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre, based in Galway, with centres in Galway and Dublin. Their team of over 50 Psychotherapists and Psychologists work with adults, couples, adolescents, and children, offering therapies including CBT, EMDR, and Art Therapy. They also run a low-cost counselling service. To contact the Galway centre: 091 725750 [email protected] Click play and let’s dive in.

Every Christmas, well-meaning advice gets thrown around like confetti. Swap wine for gin. Skip meals so you can enjoy later. But this advice isn’t helping. In fact, it’s the reason so many women stay stuck in the same December–January cycle year after year. In this episode, I talk about the advice I will never give over Christmas — and why quick fixes, swaps, and control-based thinking don’t work long term. We’ll look at how diet culture sneaks in during the festive season, why all-or-nothing thinking ramps up, and what actually helps you stay steady, grounded, and well. This isn’t about being perfect over Christmas. It’s about breaking patterns, staying connected to yourself, and moving through the season without losing your footing. If you’ve ever thought, “I’ll just get back on track in January,” this episode is for you. Click play and let’s dive in.

In this episode I’m chatting about how I only changed when the pain of my own habits got too big to ignore. I was tired of feeling sluggish, bloated, unfit, anxious, trapped in excuses, trapped in cycles I kept promising myself I’d break. And instead of pretending everything was fine, I finally used that pain as fuel. That pain wasn’t a weakness — it became my turning point. Today, I’m breaking down how I turned the pain of my old habits into power… and how you can use your own pain as the push that gets you out of the patterns you’re stuck in. If you’re fed up with your own bullshit, if you’ve hit a point where you can’t keep living the same day on repeat, this episode is for you. Click play and let’s dive in.

How do you get out of old patterns and cycles that you’re stuck in? How do you talk to your adult children? And how do you stop self-sabotaging on a Thursday when you’ve been healthy all week? These are the questions I put to psychotherapist Trisha McHale on my latest podcast episode. Trisha has a real gift for getting straight to the root of things and explaining it in a way that actually makes sense — it’s why she’s been on the podcast so many times. Contact Trisha: www.mindandbodyworks.com Phone: 091 725750 Email: [email protected] Click play and let’s dive in.

Are you done eating crap and drinking too much over Christmas? This will be my 4th Christmas having a healthy one — enjoying myself in ways that aren’t food or alcohol related. I’m blessed. I feel like I’ve broken free from a toxic part of our society that gets pushed on us the second Halloween is over. The idea that we need to spend, eat, and drink to have a good time — and if we don’t, there’s something wrong with us or we don’t know how to have fun. Nobody feels good after overeating and over-consuming, so why do we keep doing it? If you’re sick of how you feel at the end of every December, this episode is for you. Click play and let’s dive in.