My guest today is Irene Lowry, a humanistic counsellor from Rush in Co. Dublin who established Nurture Health Ireland - a nationwide counselling and training support service to support women and their partners struggling with mental health issues around conception, pregnancy and childbirth health related issues. Nurture Health currently has 28 trained humanistic counsellors all over Ireland and provide wellness programmes for women returning to work after maternity leave as well as a closed women's forum. Nurture health are now offering an online course 'Understanding Postnatal Depression' for health professionals accredited to IACP. Irene set up this wonderful organisation to support others as She realised the support that is needed so desperately in Ireland. An amazing lady who has come through her own struggles, she works tirelessly to raise awareness and has negotiated with VHI & Irish Life Insurance to introduce insurance cover for women and their partners who receive counselling from Nurture Health. In 2015 Irene won the prestigious Social Entrepreneurs Ireland 'For Impact' award and is also an expert health advisor with everymum.ie who she has written many articles to help support women. For more information go to www.nurturehealth.ie or contact them direct if you need urgent support 085 861 9585Please reach out if you need support - You are not alone. Instagram Twitter This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sharonfitzmaurice.substack.com

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