Órla O'Flaherty Naturopath & Herbalist

Órla O'Flaherty Naturopath & Herbalist Herbal Medicine is one of the oldest forms of treatment dating back to Ancient Greece. It is still used predominantly by 80% of the worlds population.

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Given the right conditions, the body can heal itself."It's the physicians duty to activate & reactivate the body's healing mechanism" Dr. Max Gerson M.D. Naturopathy is a form of complimentary medicine using tools such as Diet/Nutrition, Herbal Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, Homeopathy, Essential oils and simple lifestyle

changes. The key point of Naturopathy and Herbal Medicine is to get to the root cause of illness and bring the body back into balance, not just treating the symptoms. Using detailed case taking skills, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnostics & Ayurvedic Constitutions, we can get a deeper understanding of what exactly is going on in the body. Working together, using plant based medicines, nutrition, lifestyle changes and mindfulness we can bring the body back to a place of balance. A place of health. "It is more important to know what type of person has a disease than to know what type of disease a person has" - Hippocrates.

24/06/2026

KISS-Keep It Simple Sweetie ♥️

As humans we are forever trying to find the next optimisation. The next bio hack. Forever making simple things complicated. Because we think it needs to be. It doesn’t.

Walking is your body, mind and souls best friend.

Here’s what’s actually happening in your body when you move your legs:

Lower stress hormones
Cortisol drops within 20 minutes of a steady walk. Your nervous system shifts from sympathetic (fight/flight) into parasympathetic (rest/digest). Your body stops treating Tuesday like a threat.

Less bloating & empty bowels
Movement stimulates peristalsis, the wave-like contractions that move food through your gut. If you’re bloated, sluggish, or backed up, your gut literally needs you to walk. (I did 2 long walks yesterday 👀👀 didn’t realise I was backed up until this morning 👀👀)

Better sleep 😴
Walking regulates your circadian rhythm (in particular, morning light exposure) lowers evening cortisol, and supports melatonin production-the chemical that tells your body, the day is over.

Steady blood sugars 🩸
Your muscles use glucose during walking without needing insulin to do it. Post-meal walk? You’re actively flattening the spike. Less crash. Less cravings. Less chaos.

A calmer heart and mind 🫀
Heart rate variability improves. Rumination decreases. There’s actual neuroscience behind why your best thinking happens on a walk, your brain enters a relaxed, creative state it rarely accesses otherwise.

The most regulated people I know aren’t doing more. They’re actually doing less and
They’re walking.

📲 Save this. Send it to the person who needs permission to slow down.

“Love yourself first” is only half the story.Your nervous system heals in relationship with another regulated human bein...
23/06/2026

“Love yourself first” is only half the story.

Your nervous system heals in relationship with another regulated human being present. That’s not a nice-to-have. It’s biology.

This is the work we do in 1:1 coaching. All of it, together.

DM me REGULATE 💜

22/06/2026

I’m fine, everything’s fine, I don’t know why it’s coming out all squeaky but I’M FINE 👀👀👀
Grateful I’m not cold anymore 🤷🏻‍♀️🥵🤣🤣 thank you Mr. Sun. Stay hydrated folks 💜🍉🍉🍉☀️🍓🫐

21/06/2026

Myth: regulation = calm, silent, never reactive.
Reality: I’m getting a transfer tattoo from a 7-year-old…This counts too.

Feel your activations so you can feel the fun too. Zen isn’t the goal. Range is.

21/06/2026

Summer Solstice Blessings. Today the sun sits at its highest point of the year. Full reach, full exposure, the least shadow we get all year round. Not because the dark disappears, but because there’s nowhere left for it to hide.

The greatest gift I’ve ever given myself is full transparency with my current therapist.

Not honesty. Transparency. There’s a difference.

You can sit in a therapy room and never tell a single lie and still hide everything that matters. You can answer every question truthfully and still control the depth of the work by controlling what gets asked. That’s not deceit, it’s just a more polished way of staying safe. Self preservation.

Here’s the thing nobody says out loud: you can withhold as much as you want from a therapist. No one’s checking. No one will know. But you’re not protecting yourself by doing that. You’re cheating yourself out of the actual work.

This isn’t a shame thing. It’s an awareness thing. If you notice yourself holding something back, in therapy, or even with yourself, the question isn’t “should I say this.” It’s “why am I not saying this. What am I actually afraid to look at? Why don’t I feel safe to say this?”

This is the first therapist I’ve ever made that promise to (my own choice to do this, I made the verbal promise to myself first and then to her) Because 1. I was ready to stop replaying old patterns and 2. She’s the first person who’s held a space steady enough for me to go into the real dredges, the parts I don’t want anyone to see. But the parts that need witnessing.

“May your soul bloom like wildflowers in the summer sun, reaching fearlessly for the light and growing in beautiful, unexpected ways.”

Grá Mór 💜

19/06/2026

A client came to me with severe anxiety, racing heart, panic, the kind that makes you feel like something’s seriously wrong.

She assumed it was hormonal. After one conversation, I suggested blood work.

Her iron levels were significantly low. Still within “normal range” but right at the cusp of clinical deficiency.

Iron deficiency can mimic anxiety almost perfectly, racing heart, breathlessness, panic that comes from nowhere. Her nervous system wasn’t malfunctioning. It was starving.

This is myth #1: “it’s all hormones.”

Sometimes it’s iron. Sometimes it’s blood sugar. Sometimes it’s B Vitamins. Sometimes it’s Thyroid. Sometimes it’s a nervous system that’s been activated so long, it’s depleted the body that’s meant to regulate it.

This is why I never separate the physical from the mental and emotional. Bloodwork. Nutrition. Herbs. Nervous system work. Emotional attunement. All of it, together.

If you’ve been managing symptoms without ever finding the root, that’s exactly what we work through in 1:1 coaching.

DM me REGULATE to book a discovery call 💜

Your nervous system doesn’t need another breathing exercise. It needs a complete approach.Food. Herbs. Supplements. Emot...
18/06/2026

Your nervous system doesn’t need another breathing exercise. It needs a complete approach.

Food. Herbs. Supplements. Emotional attunement. Healthy expression.

This is how you actually regulate. Swipe to see the full picture. 💜

17/06/2026

This is the difference between absorbing an emotion and observing it.

Absorbing: you feel triggered, and within seconds you’re inside the emotion. Reactive, flooded, no distance between you and the feeling. That’s your amygdala running the show, not your prefrontal cortex.

Observing: you feel the same trigger, but you create a half-second of space. Long enough to notice what’s happening in your body before it decides what happens next.

This isn’t about not feeling things. It’s about not disappearing into them every time.

Next time it hits: feet on the floor. Name what you’re feeling out loud, even just in your head. “This is anger. It’s in my chest.” That tiny act of naming is what pulls you out of the amygdala and back into a place where you actually get to choose.

All emotions are valid, even the uncomfortable ones. It’s allowing yourself the safe space to feel it, and then respond accordingly, not react.

16/06/2026

The way you call someone out is information about you, not about them.

Both responses start the same way: something crossed a line and an old wound got activated. That part isn’t optional. The wound doesn’t ask permission. It needs to be seen.

What happens next is the discernment. If the wound is running the show, you discharge, “why were you such an a**hole?”, and it feels like honesty but it’s actually just relief-seeking. The intensity is the size of the wound, not the size of what they did.

If you have enough detachment from the wound to still feel it without being run by it, you communicate, “was that the best way to go about it?” and the boundary crossed gets named instead of the wound getting fed.

Same activation. Same crossed boundary. The only difference is whether you’re regulated enough to use the information instead of being used by it.

Next time you’re about to call someone out, the real question isn’t “are they wrong.” It’s “is this discharge, or is this a boundary being set.” Your wording will already have answered it before you finish the sentence.

What happens when you stop carrying everything that isn’t yours? From a day at Mad Yolk Farm to three months of 1:1 work...
14/06/2026

What happens when you stop carrying everything that isn’t yours? From a day at Mad Yolk Farm to three months of 1:1 work, this is what’s possible when you commit to yourself.

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