Niall Breslin

Finally holding the record in our hands and paws is quite the feeling. My manager @steviewonderhound has believed in this alb&m from day 1 . She would sit in my studio and act as my A & R girl. She knows a good emotive piano motif. God knows I was hard to manage . And fair play. She didn’t take her 20% commission. She was compensated with @butternutbox and long windy walks on the beach.
But, many others believed in it too. None more than @steviewonderhound Mum, @louizecarroll .

I really can’t wait for you all to hear it.
Thanks for the ❤️ over last few months .


Lands Oct 24th - this day week.
Please pre order on link

https://lnkd.in/eqpazAd7


#piano #composer #pianoplayer #neoclassical #fyp

A special moment at the album launch, where I got to perform with my mentor and friend, Tony Bates . His words need to be listened to.

Please take a few moments and sit with it.

Album available here
https://lnkd.in/eqpazAd7

(9) Be Your Truth

“The Irish are the only race of people who can’t be psychoanalysed” - Not Freud 😂🎹

Out Oct 24th @innimusic

#piano #composer #neoclassical #mentalhealth #mindfulness

When Wellness Becomes Avoidance

There’s something unsettling happening in the wellness world.
What began as a movement for healing and empowerment has, at times, become an apologist or at least an avoidance mechanism for the chaos of our culture.

Most of it is well-intentioned. People are genuinely trying to find peace in a world that feels increasingly unhinged. But we’ve reached a point where the industry sometimes drifts into a kind of collective delusion believing that ice baths, magnesium, and ten minutes of meditation can somehow offset the existential dread of a world on fire.

We are living through two genocides. Watching an American president unravel in real time. Trying to rebuild our nervous systems after a global pandemic that left most of us emotionally concussed. Against that backdrop, it feels disingenuous to suggest that a cold plunge can fix the deeper fractures in our collective psyche.

Psychologist John Welwood warned of this decades ago , he called it spiritual bypassing: using spiritual or wellness practices to avoid rather than face painful realities.

Maybe anxiety, overwhelm, and outrage are not symptoms to be soothed away but healthy human responses to chaos.
Maybe the answer isn’t more “mindset hacks,” but more honest conversations.
More community. More connection. More compassion.

Wellness matters, deeply.
But if it becomes a way of numbing ourselves to the dysfunction and suffering around us, then it’s not wellness anymore. It’s denial dressed in activewear.

#wellness #culture #phd