âWe want to have a momentum in our lives,â he says, âand I love hearing the musicians when they speak of transience in their lives because I think we need to talk about the evanescence of things too. As we found ourselves locked down, we talked about the project of this album. Then I started my own journey within this, because thatâs what collaboration creates: a kind of drive to look in and out, and that became my book: A Whole New Plan for Living.
âIt seemed absolutely natural to me that this whole new exciting venture would become the outcome of that plan,â Lucey continues. âWe talked about what it is to be individual, what it is to be authentic, to be hopeful, to be political, and I found myself allowing the experience of collaboration to take me from consciousness, and the volatility, complexity and uncertainty in so many parts of our lives, to this point where each of us has revealed themselves to each other, in lots of very interesting way
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Self-care is the most important place to start when it comes to wellbeing, according to Professor Jim Lucey.
The clinical professor of psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and consultant psychiatrist at St Patrick’s University Hospital has recently published his book
A Whole New Plan for Living.
The idea for the book came from Professor Lucey s father, who when he was dying in 2010, asked his son to give him a whole new plan for living .
The book offers ten steps on how we can improve our overall health and wellbeing by maintaining balance and wellness in our daily lives.
A Whole New Plan for Living
Former Medical Director launches new book
Prof Jim Lucey, Medical Director, St Patrick’s Mental Health Services
Prof. Jim Lucey, Consultant Psychiatrist and former Medical Director at St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS), has launched a new book titled
A Whole New Plan for Living, to help people develop a personal plan for staying mentally well and becoming resilient in a changing world, writes
Maureen Browne.
A Whole New Plan for Living proposes and explores 10 steps to help people prepare themselves for challenges by building and practising balance and wellbeing in their daily lives.
Professor Jim Lucey and I begin our Zoom call with me asking how he is. "Well," he says with a laugh, "it s a long story really." And we re off, embarked on an interview that is chatty, discursive, anecdotal, full of reminiscences from Lucey s 30-year career in medicine and psychiatry, all held together by discussion of his new book, A Whole New Plan For Living, written in response to the Covid crisis.