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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The Covid-19 pandemic has closed down so many of the everyday activities that sustain us, forcing us to spend more time at home and to reconsider what is most important in our lives. Many of us yearn to go back to cinemas, galleries, theatres and gigs, and to travel to other places for inspiration and renewal.
But many of us also don’t yearn to go back – or not to go back to exactly the way things were. The pandemic gives societies an opportunity to push the reset button and to introduce social, economic, legal and political changes that will enhance our lives into the future.
Professor Jim Lucey on how we can foster hope through tough times
Updated / Thursday, 25 Feb 2021
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is encouraging you to Take 5 For Your Mental Health every day.
A year into this pandemic, many of us are feeling flat, fatigued, and fed-up. There s light at the end of the tunnel, but the tunnel is long.
On today s episode, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at TCD, Consultant Psychiatrist at St. Patrick s University Hospital and author Professor Jim Lucey explains why we all need hope and how we can foster it.
To listen to the full episode of You OK? with Professor Lucey, click here.
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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.