by Dr Phil Brennan | Jan 5, 2019 | Phils Blog
This time of year, we hear a lot about resolutions. Diets, treadmills, nutrition… it’s frenzied. The gyms are shaking to excess with the new recruits each January brings. We become fixated. If you’re not on the ‘bang’, somehow you feel left behind. I use the gym,...
by Dr Phil Brennan | Dec 19, 2018 | Phils Blog
“My father played the melodeon Outside at our gate; There were stars in the morning east And they danced to his music” (‘A Christmas Childhood’, Patrick Kavanagh) Christmas carols have the power to trigger memories buried in the archives of our past. The simplest of...
by Dr Phil Brennan | Nov 15, 2018 | Phils Blog
“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us to blossom into who we were meant to be.” (Elizabeth...
by Dr Phil Brennan | Oct 16, 2018 | Phils Blog
“What will matter is not what you bought but what you built, not what you got but what you gave… What will matter is not success but significance. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged...
by Dr Phil Brennan | Sep 28, 2018 | Phils Blog
3rd September 2018 Dear Pope Francis, I am writing to you as someone who is struggling to make sense of it all. Over the past decade, I’ve stepped back a little from the Church and find myself very much on the outside looking in. I’m equally aware of the widening gap...
by Dr Phil Brennan | Aug 27, 2018 | Phils Blog
“Circumstances do not make the person, they reveal the person. We’re not responsible for the cards we are dealt but we are responsible for how we play them. It’s not how you start. It’s how you finish.” (Cathy McCarthy) The journey of life takes many twists and turns....
