A retreat made me evaluate how much has changed in the last six years

When everything fell apart, I fell too but I fell on my wits, I fell on an inner strength I never knew I had, writes Louise O’Neill

This weekend I went on a yoga retreat to Dzogchen Beara, the Tibetan Buddhist meditation centre on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork. It’s one of my favourite places in the world, managing to be utterly wild while devouring you in its silence at the same time. I go on a retreat there at least once a year, usually around this time.

January is a month of intentions and resolutions and I go to Dzogchen Beara for help in sticking to my own.