Andrea Smith
Deputy Editor at Woman's Way Magazine
Animal-lover & freelance journalist. Instagram: andreamarysmith. All views my own.
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2 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Andrea Smith
Bruna Frota (38) came to Ireland from Brazil in 2018 after becoming a lay missionary. Later this year, she will profess her permanent vows of poverty, obedience and chastityI grew up in the north side of Brazil and was born into a very Catholic family. I did not have a good experience with the Catholic Church in my early years, and as a teenager, I went out with friends and went to parties.
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3 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Andrea Smith
Leading hypnotherapist Aaron Surtees has helped clients like Ant McPartlin and Cherry Healey overcome addiction, phobias and negative thoughts – now the father of four wants to teach more people utilise his techniquesI developed an interest in hypnotherapy at an early age, as I liked it when we started doing 10 minutes of meditation at school when I was 11. Then I progressed to studying psychology and sociology at university.
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1 month ago |
independent.ie | Andrea Smith
March 25 is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day. As mum to 10-year old Julie Collins who has CP, Nicola Welford has had to be her daughter’s chief advocate – but, she says, disability services are increasingly hard to accessMy daughter Julie is our second child and when I was pregnant, my husband Fergus and I went in for our 11-week scan. The obstetrician would normally be very chatty, but he stopped talking and kept scanning, and then he paused and said he had spotted fluid at the back of her neck.
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1 month ago |
independent.ie | Andrea Smith
Author Dorothy Herson tells Andrea Smith about choosing to leave her job working with a prestigious London firm behind after she ended up in a psychiatric facilityWhen Dorothy Herson was accepted as a trainee corporate lawyer at one of London’s most prestigious law firms, the thrilled 20-year-old could never have imagined that the experience would land her in a psychiatric hospital.
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1 month ago |
independent.ie | Andrea Smith
She has performed for the Pope, but her proudest achievement is her five-year-old Ógie In 2018, to the surprise of her loved ones – and even herself – soprano Sharon Lyons put her Dublin apartment up for sale, and left behind her busy, successful life to move to Kerry with her husband Michael, for whom a work opportunity had opened up. “Everyone thought we were mad,” Lyons says with a laugh. “Most people still think we are – but I don’t.
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