Kevin O'Byrne
Ditching Toxic Positivity for The Boys In The Better Land
If you're a rockstar, pornstar, superstar, doesn't matter what you are. Get yourself a good THERAPIST, get outta here Track: 'You Said' -...
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Lyric & Therapy Blog
A #CuriousNotCritical place where I'll share my personal & professional opinions*, some helpful psychology concepts all in the context of some words and music that I find moving and meaningul!
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Kevin O'Byrne
- Feb 20
- 3 min
The vinyl analysis (or life lessons from 70's rock)
Music nowadays is absolute rubbish, it’s just churned out rubbish by millenials and Gen Z’s who don’t have any craft or anything to...
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Kevin O'Byrne
- Feb 14
- 2 min
Be Self-compassioniate AF (or else!!)
photo credit: Tom Ham Many of my clients paritcularly my go-getter/type A clients of all gender identities and backgrounds balk at the...
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Kevin O'Byrne
- Jan 2
- 4 min
Existential Pizza, calling B.S on Billionaires and New Years resolutions (for mortals)
Happy New Year! So it's a new year officially, and with it comes the idea of making resolutions, which can often induce nausea, stress,...
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Kevin O'Byrne
- Dec 21, 2023
- 5 min
On the fourth day of Christmas my therapist gave to me.....a guide to processing
N.B. If you're planning on visiting a Freud this Christmas, pull his beard to make sure it's the real one What is grief? Grief is a...
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Kevin O'Byrne
- Dec 18, 2023
- 4 min
Christmas Survival Guide #3: 'tis the Season to be Jolly (or highly cognizant of my drinking...
Alcohol For better or worse Christmas is often overshadowed with alcohol and it can be a source of suffering, misunderstanding,...
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Kevin O'Byrne
- Dec 18, 2023
- 2 min
Christmas Survival Guide #2: Boundaries
Look upon my field where I grow my f*@!s and see it is barren! ......but there are boundaries drawn around it! Ok, you don’t have to be a...
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Kevin O'Byrne
- Dec 9, 2023
- 3 min
Christmas Survival Guide #1: A Jedi's guide to being an adult (Transactional Analysis)
“Die Hard is is most certainly held in the collective unconscious as a Christmas film and those who deny it are bound to work through and...
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Kevin O'Byrne
- Dec 3, 2023
- 2 min
Exposing 'Big candle' and the shapeshifting self-care conspiracy
I am here to send out a message to proponents of big-candle and those face mask schills that I won’t be silent on exposing their...
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