Normal – Mental Wellbeing

About Us

The “normal – mental well-being” project was born from our passion to help young people improve their mental well-being. As a group of young people from rural Ireland, who have all had our own troubles with mental health, we felt it our duty to do something to make a difference.

Not only do we believe that mental well-being is a future challenge that requires intervention, we truly believe that it is a crippling epidemic that requires immediate response, particularly in young people as we have seen our peers, friends and family bottle their inner demons and struggle with their mental well-being, all the while feeling they’re the odd ones out. This is far from the truth, in reality every single person is fighting a battle that the whole world knows nothing about, meaning everyone’s mental struggles are in fact “normal” and being different isn’t a bad thing, it’s “normal”, however young people are blinded to see it that way, which we feel we can change.

Our Mission

“battling with your mental health need not be a hush hush affair. We want to take stigma by the throat and show ireland’s youth – there is a life beyond mental illness.”

“We’re not doctors, we’re not psychologists, and we make that clear, were just two young men who’ve been through the ringer, speaking from the heart. We take the audience through anecdotes, Relatable experiences and we share with the audience the tools and tactics that have helped us along the way. Honesty, transparency, no buttering it up, no corporate nonsense version of the story, we tell it how it is”

“We hope that our honesty encourages young people to open up to their friends/family/loved ones when the chips are down and realise what they’re feeling is “normal””

Conor Nolan & Tiernan Harris – Normal Mental Well-Being

The Normal – Mental Well-Being Project

This project aims to see us take our current progress and multiply our reach to spread our message across every pocket of the nation.

We are proudly co-funded by the European Commission under the European Solidarity Corps, and will use this great opportunity to allow us to continue to reach further youth groups all over Ireland.

Our Services

We offer authentic, gripping and engaging in-person or online talks that forge genuine connections with and captivate our audiences.

In-Person & Online Talks

45mins – 1 hour

We openly and honestly share our personal experiences of overcoming mental struggles, demonstrating to young people that their feelings are “normal” and offer tips and tricks to overcoming their struggles

Where face-to-face talks are not possible, we facilitate online talks.

Partnerships

Local Services

We partner with local mental wellbeing services to ensure that young people who attend our talks have a place to go to avail of assistance post-talk

Blogs & Content

Tips, Tricks & Advice

We post content across our website and social channels with tips, tricks and advice on embracing your mental health

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Blogs

Facing the Demon

Anorexia has been a rollercoaster of emotional torture, but it has forced the growth of my self-awareness to such a point where I am grateful for it. When I was first diagnosed, anorexia was nothing but a feeling; a concoction of depression, anxiety, fear, anger and chaos. It was the feeling of overwhelm when I…
Older, Wiser & Happier

I have often been told that I am old before my time. My teenage years of working behind counters and bars gifted me with the abaility to make small talk with just about anyone, ironically leaving me feeling more equipped to talk to someone in their 70s than to someone of my own age. When…
Beauty in Iteration

In a recent talk I gave in a school in Leitrim, I joked about how 18 year old me had truly screwed up in his choice of third level study. Theoretical physics proved not to be the fruitful endeavour I thought it would be, falling somewhere in the intersection between financial maths, engineering and computer…

About Us

Our Mission

“battling with your mental health need not be a hush hush affair. We want to take stigma by the throat and show ireland’s youth – there is a life beyond mental illness.”

“We hope that our honesty encourages young people to open up to their friends/family/loved ones when the chips are down and realise what they’re feeling is “normal””

The Normal – Mental Well-Being Project

Our Services

In-Person & Online Talks

Partnerships

Blogs & Content

Blogs

Facing the Demon

Older, Wiser & Happier

Beauty in Iteration

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