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Registered Psychotherapist. Over 15 years' experience working with mental health difficulties includ Hi there, welcome to Everyday Wellness!

Thanks for checking out my page :-)

Are you finding it hard to sleep or concentrate, feeling stressed or overwhelmed managing daily responsibilities, putting everyone's needs before your own or struggling in your relationship or business? Perhaps you or a loved one have been diagnosed with depression, anxiety or addiction? No matter who we are, what business we are in or our past experie

nces we all need to be able to make sense of our lives, our experiences, our fears and our hopes and dreams. I can help you make sense of your experiences past and present and help you understand your hopes and fears for the future. In doing so you will become more connected to your relationships, your business, your goals and ultimately yourself. By helping people connect with themselves, each other and the world around them I help people dare to believe they are worthy and a future of their making is possible. I have over ten years' experience working in the field of mental health as a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist* and over forty years' experience living as a Human Being :-) both have been tough, challenging, fun and wonderfully rewarding experiences! My professional expertise includes working with individuals, couples, families and groups from diverse social, cultural, economic, political and religious backgrounds. My expertise enables me to create a space with people where they can begin to voice their true feelings and experiences, learn to deeply listen to one another and learn to sit more easily with uncertainty. Crucially, I help people make sense of how their personal experience is connected to their family experience and the wider, social context. But I am not an expert in being you! So I join my personal and professional expertise with your own unique expertise. Together we move forward with our shared wisdom to come to more deeply understand your feelings and experiences, and to enable you to make intentional choices about your life that lead to intentional action. I am especially interested in the mind-body-spirit connection. I am always learning more about nutrition and fitness as they play such fundamental roles in our mental wellness. I meditate regularly and have completed the Professional Qualification in the Therapeutic Use of Mindfulness with the Irish Mindfulness Institute. Like everyone, I go through periods when I am better able to balance each aspect of my mind-body-spirit wellness and of course there are periods when I struggle to pay enough attention to each part of my wellness. As a recovering perfectionist I understand all too well the swing between doing it all "perfectly" or slumping into inaction and procrastination while all the time trying to maintain a sense of control, the struggle is real! But, the power and possibility to learn, grow and develop is also absolutely real! The relationship between our mind-body-spirit is personal, complex and full of beautiful potential. For this reason I embrace all aspects of the mind-body-spirit connection in my work with clients as appropriate. Whether this is your first time considering psychotherapy or dipping your toe into the world of personal development, or you are a seasoned pro, I will work collaboratively with you to create a warm, non-judgemental and compassionate therapeutic relationship that feels right for you while helping you stay accountable to yourself. I am privileged to work with people from all walks of life, so no matter who you are or what your story is please feel welcome and safe to connect with me. Want to know more or just follow along? Connect with me on:
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or send me a private message here on Facebook. Thanks for taking the time to read! Wherever you're at, give yourself permission to do whatever it takes to get well & to stay well, because every day, YOU are worthy of wellness...

*Registered with the Family Therapy Association of Ireland (FTAI), the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP). Previously registered with the Social Workers Registration Board CORU when I was a practising social worker.

11/10/2021

Hi everyone 👋 I hope you are all keeping well!

I have recently received some queries about whether I am back to work and taking new referrals yet. Thank you to everyone who has contacted me!

Sincere apologies to anyone who messaged me on Facebook and who I have not replied to directly. I am not ignoring you! Some of my messages seem to have disappeared and I can’t for the life of me figure out where they are!

To answer your question, no, I have not yet returned to work from maternity leave. I do hope to return to work at the beginning of 2022. I will keep you posted about my return to work closer to the time.

In the meantime, if you are looking to connect with a therapist you might like to check out the Family Therapy Association of Ireland at www.familytherapyireland.com or the Irish Council for Psychotherapy at www.psychotherapycouncil.ie for more information and therapists.

I appreciate every person who reaches out to me asking about working with me or referring someone to me. I know it can take a lot of courage to make that first contact with a therapist. And I appreciate it can feel frustrating when you make the effort to reach out and the therapist isn’t available to work with you.

If you have contacted me or indeed any other therapist, well done for taking that first step! Stick with it until you find the right therapist for you, it will be worth it!

Once again, thank you to everyone who has contacted me.

Take good care of yourself 🤍

(Pic is from my fridge ☺️)

16/03/2021

Just a Mama Bear & her Baby Cub off out to buy some birthday cake ingredients and smash the patriarchy! 🥳💪

Wishing you all a bright and beautiful day ☀️😎💕

08/03/2021

Happy International Women’s Day everyone! 💪❤️🔥

This year’s theme is “choose to challenge.”

Challenge comes in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes it looks like loud revolution, sometimes it looks like the quiet but no less fierce evolution of doing our own inner work. Both take great courage!

In this video I offer one idea of how we might interpret this theme and I share a very recent example from my personal life where my Mum and I went deep and chose to challenge generational trauma and patterns.

What challenge do you want or know you need to choose to accept in your own life? Being aware of the challenge, and choosing to accept the challenge are the first steps to creating change. What is the next small step you can choose to take on this path?

Change starts within each one of us. When we choose to challenge and change ourselves, we change the world.

Love and gratitude to my Mum for the infinite lessons and blessings she has gifted me. And to all the women who have gone before, who are here now and who are yet to come.

Wishing you all the fierce courage and tender compassion of the female spirit. Happy International Women’s Day! 💪❤️🔥

I hope this video works here on Facebook! If this video resonates with you please like and share it. The more people we reach together, the more we can support each other to challenge old ways that no longer serve us and co-create a happier, healthier world together for everyone!

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMKRpdEHNqT/?igshid=1cvxnybkdqpne

03/03/2021

This evening’s cold shower was dedicated to the momma I meet this afternoon (you know who you are!) who has been in full on supermom mode for the past few months (and we’re not even talking about Covid).

I’ve spoken before about how amazing cold water is for building our resilience. It is a micro-stressor that builds our tolerance to the other stressors we experience in our life. Everything becomes that little bit easier to manage.

For me, my cold water showers are also a practice in humility. However uncomfortable or downright hard getting into a cold shower every day might be, the bottom line is if having a cold shower is in my top five or ten most difficult things I’m doing in a day, then that’s a good day. How blessed am I that getting into cold water is the hard thing in my day.

There’s nothing like a little cold water to give you a whole lot of perspective 🙏

24/02/2021

🌀 TRANSFORMATION 🌀

I have been changing/growing/evolving/shifting internally for quite some time now and I can feel the momentum beginning to build. So this year I chose “transformation” as my word of the year. Maybe this year will be a year when externally visible transformation manifests, maybe it won’t, but the word keeps me focused on where I am going and who I am becoming.

To further ground me in my journey I am working with the affirmation “I am transforming now” (one of many affirmations!). This reminds me transformation is not something that happens somewhere out there or later in the year, transformation is an ongoing process that is occurring right here, right now when I choose to show up and make the choices that support my growth.

Therapist. Coach. Spiritual. Creative. Multi-Passionate. As I’ve already shared I don’t know what exactly this transformation will look like. I know how it will feel and I have some idea what it will look like, but there is a lot of space for me to co-create what I am becoming with Life. What I do know is all these identities will inform who I become. One of my main reasons in wanting/needing to transform is to evolve into a “role” that supports me to embrace all these parts of myself.

So why am I sharing any of these posts about what’s going on with me?

Writing the posts helps me gain a little bit more clarity, kinda like a journal you might say.

Sharing these posts helps me practice being seen when I feel vulnerable. This builds my mental resilience, commits me more deeply to my evolution and allows my nervous system to slowly but surely adapt to a new state. This change in my mental and physical state is quite literally how I am expanding the parameters of my current comfort zone/identity, by letting my mind and body realise it is safe and to expand accordingly.

Finally, maybe by sharing a bit about what’s going on for me it will resonate with someone who sees these posts. It might help someone understand a little more about the journey they may be on or encourage them to be brave and keep stepping in the direction of their dreams.

I hope this makes sense! Does any of it resonate with you? 💜💜💜

22/02/2021

💜 Sacred Celebration 💜

Last week my husband and I celebrated 20 years together. This felt like a big milestone so we wanted to mark the occasion in a special way.

With the seemingly endless lockdown life we are all in it would have been so easy to let our anniversary slide by and say we’ll celebrate it properly when we’re out of lockdown. But it was really important to me that we honour our relationship in the moment.

After much “I don’t know what we’ll do, we’ll think of something”, it came to me that I wanted to create a sacred space for us to sit in together, to honour and celebrate our relationship thus far and to initiate the next season of our relationship and our family.

My gift to Ed was creating this sacred space and ceremony. Ed’s gift to me was showing up fully.

And what a special celebration it was. There was heart to heart, nervous system to nervous system meditation, journaling, mindful eating, essential oils, candles, flowers, hand massage, intention setting and more. It was a beautiful, deeply intimate and loving way to honour our relationship and our commitment to each other.

I was actually nervous about creating this space for us as I felt I would be exposing a part of my inner world that is deeply meaningful to me. And yet as soon as I sat in the circle and invited Ed in I felt I had come home.

Not only did we initiate the next season of our relationship, but in creating this sacred space and celebration I knew I was initiating something in me, something that has been growing in me for a long time, something that other people perhaps got a glimpse of for the first time when I created Maya’s Baby Blessing almost a year ago.

I recognise I am in a period of deep transformation and all I can do is continue to do “the work” and trust the process. I don’t know what new part of me is emerging or what she will look like, but whoever she is she already feels like home 💜💜💜

14/02/2021

Happy Valentine’s Day, happy Sunday, happy wet & windy day in February 💜💕❤️

Feeling all the love after a beautiful workshop by .witch and The Rebirth of Woman.

I’ve been a woman for many years now but with every passing day I’m learning more about the depths of power and wisdom it truly means to be a woman. In some ways I feel this journey is only really beginning for me. Maybe that is part of the journey of embodying the mother energy... Understanding, owning and learning how to wield the power and beauty, wild and fierce, soft and tender that it means to be a woman.

Red wrap or “brat Bhríde” gifted by my Mum to Maya and I this year, an old tradition I’m newly embracing to call in the energy of another incredible, powerful woman, St Brigid!

Sending so much love today and every day from my wild heart to yours ❤️❤️❤️

30/01/2021

I completed the ***de training.

This is a 20 minute training that teaches us:

> what to look for
> how to name it and
> how to take appropriate action.

The training is free and available to everyone no matter what your job or background might be.

It’s 20mins that will equip you to help save a life. You never know when you might be the person who can make the difference in someone’s life. There’s every reason to make the time, get it done and share it.

With appropriate, timely support su***de is preventable.

Trigger warning: training deals with sensitive information. If you are feeling vulnerable you might not want to watch it at this time or you might want to watch it with someone you trust.

Freephone Samaritans at 116 123 day or night for support.

Check out their website at https://www.samaritans.org/?nation=ireland

Thanks ***de for providing this great service!

25/01/2021

There’s a grand stretch in the evenings now 🙌🙌🙌
Just as well cause the afternoons with a toddler can really drag 🤪😂
Mamas and Dadas tell me I’m not alone!!! ☀️☀️☀️

20/01/2021

💜 CONNECTION 💜

“Am I doing anything right?” 🥴

This is a question I have had in my mind at various times since becoming a mother, but particularly since Maya became a toddler and all this crazy Covid life began.

I have really found the disconnection from friends, family and community has made parenting much harder. I am blessed to have support but it is much more limited than it would be in normal times. There are less eyes on Maya, less opportunities for her to experience, less people for her to interact with and less people for me to check in with, to bounce things off and to be reassured by.

And when the tiredness really kicks in... oof... my inner mama critic goes into overdrive! 😳😳😳

Am I doing her sleep right?
Am I feeding her right?
Am I playing with her right?
Do we do enough activities? (Whatever the hell they are!)

In these moments I feel I am dropping all the balls!! And it is so incredibly lousy to feel this way 🤯😭🥴

Then I take a breath and come back to my parenting touchstone - CONNECTION.

* I remind myself that Maya is surrounded by love.
* I remind myself that every child is unique.
* I remind myself there is no easy answer to parenting at anytime, and particularly during these times.
* I remind myself there is no such thing as a “perfect parent” no matter how much social media might try to convince us otherwise.
* I remind myself what is right for one family may not be right for mine.
* I remind myself what is right for Maya and I at one time might not be right for us at another time.

* I remind myself of my core parenting priorities that I chose when I was pregnant - connection, attachment, attunement. Of course I’m not always in perfect attunement with Maya! But when I feel like I’m dropping all the balls this is the one thing I bring my attention back to. Everything else can be figured out, everything else can be learned at a later date. And I take another breath.

I’m sure I’m not the only mama having moments of struggle and doubt during these challenging times.

How are you doing? Have you found anything or any idea that supports you? ❤️❤️❤️

14/01/2021

I’m having my usual day with Maya but every now and then I find myself tearing up, my breath taken away again by what this country has done to women and children for decades.

It’s a miracle this island has not been burnt to the ground by the rage and pain of the women and everyone impacted by the horrific experiences of physical pain, emotional pain, soul wrenching pain and terror that took place.

Every time I look at Maya and really think about it all my stomach flips again.

There needs to be full institutional accountability and a complete separation of church and state. Anything less is wilful disregard to the survivors and a continued disgrace to our nation.

Art by the incredible
This image was drawn spontaneously as she first learned about the Tuam babies. Read more about it on her page.

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