Dearbhail McDonald
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1,266 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Dearbhail McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a great great place to go to if you did want to uh survive the apocalypse.
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But was that real?
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Like was that quest to go and take your family away, to isolate yourselves, to become self sufficient and to kind of steal yourself away from the world?
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Like was it real or advanced or something that was residing in your head?
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And it's it's interesting because, you know, um anxiety has been a a a long term, possibly a life um long friend of yours and it collided with that terrible depression.
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Can I ask you about your husband, Pete?
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You know, what did he think of all of this as he's watching this um unfurl for you?
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Because menopause is a challenging time not just for the women going through it, but potentially also for the men in their lives.
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He was.
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Was he on board in principle with moving to Wales with you?
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Catal Moran, it's really interesting, particularly when you look at the UK, which which is actually quite good research in this.
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But there's a really strong correlation between menopause and increased divorce rates, you know, um, because the vast majority of divorces are initiated by women aged forty to sixty, were either peri meno or post and and even though it mightn't be a direct correlation, it's it's a very, very challenging time, isn't it, when when when women are going through that and and
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They're trying to manage those symptoms.
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You need to do things.
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And so many uh people will be resonating um with that.
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Um anxiety, I just mentioned earlier, you know, um whether it was social or personal, but it has been a constant thread, I suppose, throughout your work.
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Do you think um it's a reliable narrator in our lives?
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Can we trust what anxiety tells us about ourselves?
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So Catalyn, you you sort of stumbled wh whilst you were documenting your anxiety, you sort of inadvertently stumbled on a on an action plan.
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Did you sort of put together a rough list of what you were going to do as part of letting go of uh of all of that stress and anxiety?
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