How to spot a deeply healed Irish person?
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What are the common misconceptions about Irishness and healing?
You know, in the world of personal development and wellness influencing and all of this, it seems like everyone's an expert on depression. Everyone's an expert on anxiety. But there's not so many experts on joy. And as I was thinking about this podcast, I realized that I'm putting a lot of focus on on the wounding of Irish people. But I haven't really done an episode so far on what an unwounded Irish person would look like. What would a healed Irish person look like? So, ladies and gentlemen, ca-lími, bu-ca-lí, friends, good, loyal listeners. Welcome to Healing from Irishness. And in this episode, We're going to talk about the end game. We're going to talk about how it might be to actually be completely healed from your Irishness.
hello everybody um i know but i have a good excuse it was my birthday last month and i somehow just dropped into deep relaxation mode and forgot that i had a podcast um not a not a not a bad skill to have to be able to just drop a
everything and relax for a period. But I'm on a mission. My mission is to work on this heating from Irish stick. So I'm back to recording the podcast. What I want to talk about today is something that I think can be instructive, something that doesn't get spoken of enough. We all know what it is to be sick as Irish people. We all know what it is to be conditioned as Irish people. We know what it's like to kind of carry the weight of Irishness. But what might it be like to be a deeply healed person? And so that's what I want to talk about today. What might a deeply healed person look like? And I think one of the first things to sort of recognize about deep healing is there's just a certain amount of confidence in being yourself.
There are no longer spaces where you have to censor yourself. I know, for example, a lot of us, we get to be ourselves in minimal areas, not all areas. We get to sort of be ourselves with some of the closest people in our lives, maybe some of our deep friends, maybe our partners, but not in all areas of our life. I think a mark of deep, deep healing is that you never put the mask on again. You can tell the truth in all the rooms. You can be yourself in all the rooms. And there's something, I think for so many Irish people, because we've got such a, God, we do such a heavy a heavy line on this fitting in thing and people pleasing and not betraying the tribe. We have so much of that programmed into us that it's so difficult for us to truly be ourselves.
What does a deeply healed Irish person look like?
I know myself that I often run workshops and retreats and things, and people come along and they'll say, oh my God, I've said more to you, a group of strangers, than I've said to the people I've known my whole life. So this is the difficulty. So many of us as Irish people, we live these secret lives. Your mark of deep healing is when you're open everywhere. I think the next thing, and this sounds so silly, but it's true, but you can receive a compliment. That's it. You can receive a compliment and it doesn't feel uncomfortable. You don't deflect. You don't go into this place of awkwardness. Do you know what I mean? Like the awkwardness of when Irish people are expressing compliments to each other and how I jump into this dance of, oh, it was easy to do.
Sure, you could do it. It doesn't matter. This, being able to receive a compliment, being able to receive positivity, and own it, and say, ah, yes, you're right, that's beautiful, and not get hampered with these internal thoughts of, oh my God, I've been so arrogant, or I'm being so full of myself. That's another sign of deep healing. Something else, and it's kind of the flip side of receiving a compliment, is you can actually feel joy in someone as well. There's a Buddhist term for this. It's called mudita. And it's when you feel joy from others' joy. And it's kind of amazing because there is such, and there are so many outlets and spaces and opportunities for joy. If we can just de-center joy, if we can uncouple joy from competition, quite often, you know, as Irish people in particular, we have this kind of begrudgery flex thing that we do.
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