Lad’s Week: Opening Up To Your Friends – By Mike

The Shona Project was built for girls, by girls, and we love having a safe space to share our experiences. This week, we decided to shake things up a bit and bring some boys into the mix, to hear from them about their lives. Our fourth guy this week is Mike. Mike is a software

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Lad’s Week: Dealing With Stress – By Jack

The Shona Project was built for girls, by girls, and we love having a safe space to share our experiences. This week, we decided to shake things up a bit and bring some boys into the mix, to hear from them about their lives. Our third guy of the week is Jack. Jack is a

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Lad’s Week: Art and Me – By Daniel

The Shona Project was built for girls, by girls, and we love having a safe space to share our experiences. This week, we decided to shake things up a bit and bring some boys into the mix, to hear from them about their lives. Our second lad is Daniel, who is a true old soul

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Stigmatized – by Abigail McDonnell

As many of you may know, Abigail has been a Shona Ambassador since the very start. We’ve seen her grow as a person and also succeed in many ways she never thought was possible. She had a very rough couple of years with her mental health but has overcome a lot and made us so

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Shona Heroes – Saoirse Ronan

Here at The Shona Project, we have a list as long as your arm of all the amazing women around the world that we consider our heroes. We’ve decided to dedicate the next few Friday’s to some of these women. We’ll tell you all about them but most importantly, we’ll tell you why we love

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Ask Steph: What’s All This Journaling Business About?

  Steph has always praised all the advantages of journaling so we decided to ask her what all this journaling business is about?  In counselling school one of the first things our lecturer said to us was, “you’ll need to buy a journal and get writing”.  I was like, well if that’s the homework, I’ve

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Angelina Jolie Has Some Advice For Anyone Experiencing Abuse

We all know Angelina Jolie has always had a passion for raising awareness regarding social issues, especially through her work with the United Nations Human Rights Campaign. She’s currently promoting the UN’s 16 Days of Activism campaign “to prevent and end violence against women and girls,” and during an interview, she gave some advice for anyone who

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Check Out SAME-CAMBODIA

Niamh is really passionate about the work she does with SAME- CAMBODIA. In today’s post, she tells us all about the work they do, and why it’s so important..  This is Niamh, our 28-year-old manager who moved to Cambodia in 2016. Although the people there really struggled to say her name and most of the

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How To Support Someone With Anxiety

Emotions are running high across our little country right now. People are scared, worried, stressed, angry, and lonely. There’s chatter everywhere about what’s right and wrong, what should and shouldn’t be happening. Some of that chatter might be on the news, it might be in your school or college, it might be in your home,

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An Athlete and A Princess? We Love It!

Do you remember, when you were a kid, trying to decide if you were going to grow up to be a baller or a princess? Did you struggle to choose between a life of tutus and tiaras, or tucking your hair under your baseball cap, arriving home for dinner every day covered in mud? Why

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Shameless – A Transition Year Project

We have some brilliantly inspiring young girls on this Island of ours and recently, a group of TY girls from the Sacred Heart School in Tullamore reached out to us. As a part of their Transition Year course, they have to work on a programme where they are challenged to take on a social issue

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The One Word We Need To Cut From Our Vocab…

What’s your least favourite word? We’ve been talking about this and came up with the following… Moist…. Orifice…. Methinks….. Fab….. Smeg…… The C-word, (you know yourself). But if we had to choose one word to eradicate from the vocabulary of every teenage girl it would be this… We girls put ourselves under huge pressure to

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Shona Meets: Fionnuala Moran

This week, we got to meet the lovely Fionnuala Moran. Fionnuala is an entertainment reporter at EVOKE.ie and also an RTE Pulse Radio DJ. Not only that, she is a sustainable fashion queen who has just started a Masters in Climate Change: Policy, Media & Society. When she’s not spilling the tea on all the

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10 Things Us Girls Need To Stop Shaming Each Other For

Us girls are divils for judging each other. Instead of embracing our differences, we constantly compete to be the prettiest, the smartest, the most popular, the most athletic, the skinniest. When we look in the mirror, we always look at our faults, and therefore, looking for faults in others makes us feel better about ourselves. This

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Sixth Year And Me – By Libby

Before I clamber up onto my very high horse and tell you all how you should be living your life, let me first give you my brief educational history. As a Harry Potter fan, I literally thought that I was Hermione Granger going into first year, so I studied like hell all that year. But

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Anxiety, CBT and Me: A Lads Point of View

This is an article very close to us here at The Shona Project. Anxiety is a real issue, even now more than ever. The brave chap, that is going to share his story with us, just happens to be our founder’s son. Have a read, we promise you won’t regret it. Your mind is an

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Things We Can and Can’t Control

Wanting to have the ability to predict and control the future is something we all try to hold on to. Sometimes, we just want to be able to control every single thing so we know what to expect. We also like to exist in the comfort zone. It’s so warm and cozy in there! But

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