Episode 3:
Ade Stack is a mother of four boys, whose third son, Hugh, lived just 247 days. Remarkably, in the depths of their own anxiety and grief, she and her partner, Marty Curley, decided to reach out to other families with sick children, using their savings and pensions to create Hugh’s House, a home-from-home for parents and siblings of children needing intensive care in Dublin’s hospitals. By coincidence, she spoke to Paul D’Alton on the sixth anniversary of Hugh’s death.
Series Overview:
Clinical psychologist, Dr Paul D’Alton, interviews four very different survivors of trauma about how they found or developed the resources – physical, emotional, social and spiritual – to enable them, not only to survive, but flourish, after seemingly catastrophic experiences.
At some stage, all of us experience trauma: bereavement, injury, separation, betrayal, illness, addiction, misfortune or crime. Some people never recover from these experiences; others discover or develop the resilience to re-build their lives. Dr Paul D’Alton has made that resilience the focus of his professional career. In his work as a clinical psychologist at St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, he helps cancer sufferers to come to terms with their illness, in order to live as full and fulfilling lives as possible.