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‘The Way Out Is In’ Thich Nhat Hanh Here I am again quoting this incredible teacher again. His work is so profound, so simple and so easy. It’s all about the practice he says, we know that alright, but as we are human, we don’t always keep doing it! However, when we find that practices work, we get encouraged to keep using them. That’s how I started to practice little techniques. Do we need proof that they work? Of course we do, that’s what being human is all about. Trying a practice and then realising yes it does work. A marvellous discovery. I don’t think it is that we don’t believe the therapist/practitioner that something so simple as breathing really works until we start to try it and make use of it and find that everything starts to change. This teacher talks a lot about coming home to ourselves. He’s talking here about the connection with ourselves. We cannot connect with others until we connect with ourselves. Is it that because of the age of technology we have lost the art of connection? Firstly, and most importantly we have lost the connection with ourselves, but also with others. What do we do with the feelings that make us uncomfortable or guilty? Pretend they don’t exist, well that worked for me for a while, but not for long. Feelings of isolation, loneliness, and sadness can be felt in a crowded room of people. His suggestion is to acknowledge the emotion, smile to it, tell the emotion that you know it is there and you will take care of it. Wow what a way to address an uncomfortable emotion within yourself. I tell you from experience, that a real cracker! The breathing techniques that he recommends are really simple. I use them all the time, to regulate myself and keep myself grounded and on the earth. They are really powerful and very effective. I had been listening to that information for years and never really put it into practice. Until I started to notice pains across the middle of my body and couldn’t understand why, until a practitioner explained to me that I needed to learn how to breathe properly!! That was twenty years ago! Holding the body in a tense posture, trying to bite your lip, saying nothing when you want to scream, recognise any of this? Well, this is how illness sets in. Holding the breath causes tension in the body. The body goes on then to take on a tense posture, muscles get congested, the breathing is distorted, and less oxygen comes in. We know that 90% of all illness has its origin in stress, so it is in our power to resolve it within ourselves. Walking around the kitchen, with each step, telling yourself that you are coming home to yourself, checking in with yourself. Breathing mindfully. Using your feet to remind you of connection, with yourself, with your breath, with home. I will write that book someday ‘It’s All in The Breath’ because it is! Breathe and feel free, breathe, and feel calm, breathe and come home, home to yourself. #thichnhathanh #teacher #breathwork #meditation #breathingexercises #connection #calm #freedom #grounding #stress #anxiety #selfcare

💗 This week’s Guest Blogger is Nurture Niche member Breda McDonald. We met each other on the positive recombobbers group last year during lockdown. I really like her poems! Enjoy! #womenempoweringwomen #poetry #irishpoetry #femalepoet #mindfulliving #mindfulness #meditation #bodyscan

I met this week’s Guest Blogger, Caroline Caffrey, in a business group about six years ago. I loved her courage to go live in her groups and we shared a love of angels. Other than lockdown we have visited each other once a year I go to Waterford one year she comes to Dublin another. We are extremely shy, so we just sit there and look at each other!! Ha Ha we never stop talking from the time we meet until the time we wave goodbye to each other! I’m sure you will find her blog post as wonderful as I do! “Will you write a guest blog for me?” Regina said as we walked back towards the train station after our day of catching up, I could hear myself say yes but I knew it wasn’t me that answered her, what will I write about I asked, “about the Angels” she said, and I knew then who the culprits were behind all this. LOL So, I sat down this morning with them and said right now Angels you wanted to do this blog with Regina what do you want talk about. “We want people to ask us to help them more.” “We want people to understand that our whole purpose is to help them in their lives everyday, that’s our job and we love it. You see when you soul was created you chose your Guardian Angel, yes you chose your Guardian Angel, and your Guardian Angel has walked every step with you in every lifetime you have lived, has watch over every breath that you have taken, heard all your thoughts, felt every one of your emotions because you are the most important person in their life. Each day they walk by your side listening to your internal and external conversations, listening to the beating of your heart, and the flow of life through your body. They feel everything you feel and are just waiting for you to ask them to help you. This is the thing we want you all to understand so much, we can help you in any situation and we mean any situation but you have to ask us, that is the rule so to speak, because when you chose to come to Earth to have this amazing experience you were given the gift of free will, choice and the ability to create anything you wanted. Your job so to speak is to remember that this is inside you and use it to find your happiness and share that happiness with your fellow man. Our job is to help you do that and share the journey with you, but we have to wait until you remember we are here and then remember to ask us to help you. You need to ask everyday, because everyday that you get to stay on the Earth is like a fresh new start and so you need to give us permission each day to work with you. But we want you to see us as your very best friend, someone that you call on everyday to tell all your news, share your worries or concerns, run ideas by and in general chat about everything. You see one of the privileges of being your Guardian Angel for every lifetime you live is we get full access to your life blueprint, this let’s us see what has happened in all previous lifetimes and what key points you have to reach in this one as well, you see while you do have free will, you also have to complete certain tasks in each lifetime so that you fulfil your contract with the creator. Things like choosing the right family, certain friends in life, the moment you meet your partner or the other parent of your child/children, the children that you have agreed to bring into the world and your calling or purpose in this lifetime. We have that blueprint in front of us at all times so we can help you and guide you on that path to fulfil your contract and Ascend to the next leave of your awareness of self-discovery. We really love to help you with this. So again, we say if you can think of us as your best friend, the person you open up to and tell all to and also the person you ask for guidance and help, that allows us to step in and support you, which fills us with so much joy. It doesn’t have to be any big ceremony, you can simply ask, can you help me Angels. We know that you like giving us names, it helps you connect with us more easily and we understand that but if you don’t have a name, it’s ok, we are always by your side we know when you are talking to us and we are always listening to you, ready to step in and help. So, we ask you to please call on us every day, and allow us to guide you through this lifetime, and help make it as easy and as enjoyable as possible for you. Yes, there will be challenges and unfortunately, we can’t take them away for you, but we can support you through them, these challenges are there to help you grow and understand life. We are aware that it doesn’t always feel like that from your human experience, but this is where we come in to help you see the lesson, find the good, and turn things around for the better.” Angels you have spoken about our Guardian Angels, which as you said everyone of us have, what about the Archangels and other Angels, do we not call on them or why would we call on them. “Good question, so glad you asked, you can call on any Angel to help you, that is our job to help you through this human experience, don’t ever worry about asking the wrong Angel because we can all help you. The Archangels as you see them are a host of Angels that have become widely recognised by you all, but really they are no less or more powerful than any other Angel, we all chose where and how we want to serve our creator, the Guardian Angels have chosen the job of guarding a soul, while other Angels have chosen to support them and that is what the Archangels and other Angels do they support your Guardian Angel. Again, we know that you have given them names and that really helps you connect and have a stronger faith in them, and we don’t mind that, we don’t mind who you call as long as you call us to help you, there is no competition here in the Angelic Realm. Angels we have spoken before about how connected we are with you all, can you talk about that before you go. “Yes, we are all the same the light, we are all beings of light. Inside each of you and each of us is a light energy, and if you were to examine both you would see that we are all created from the same light, we are not higher beings than you, we are just doing a different job than you. Actually, you all are very brave to step forward for the human experience because to do so is to wipe your memory of who you truly are clean and your light is inside the dense energy of your human body on the extremely heavy dense energy of Earth, and in order for you to find your way home, you have to find your own light within, this can take many lifetimes to happen. But because of us all having the same light inside, you are able to feel us, of see us, or just know that we are around you, and the more you go within to find your light, the easier it is to find us, and then to find your way home. This is why we love working with you all because we are all connected to each other, so helping you fills us with joy.” Thank you, Angels, for this conversation this morning, I know that many people will find this so helpful and will call on you all so much more now. I have worked with the Angels all my life, unconsciously for many years from late teens to mid-thirties, but since my son was born 17 years ago, I have talked to them more and more as the years went on, and I can honestly say, they have changed my life completely. I suffered with depression for a number of years after my son was born and it was at an Angel workshop that Archangel Michael came to me, and filled me with strength and courage, and that day was a defining moment in my life, everything started to change after that. I can only say to you, why try to go through this life on your own when there is someone by your side that knows you better than you know yourself, knows your life purpose/calling in this lifetime and can guide you every step of the way, and loves you more than you can ever imagine, and all you have to do is ask them to help you, that’s it, so simple, everyday just ask them to help you and they will, they always, always do. Call on your Guardian Angel or any Angel today. Until the next time. Caroline

💗 We are so lucky with the endless talent we have in our Nurture Niche Group! I was thrilled to bits to discover some members who had a love for writing poetry just like I do. 💗 I’m a big advocate for women empowering women so I wanted to use my blog this week to showcase one of the amazing pieces of poetry by Caroline Leech and I thank her for being kind enough to allow me to share her work. The subject matter of this piece I’m sure resonates with so many of us. Thank you Caroline. How can you feel lonely when you're never alone or want to run away from the one place that you call home. How can you feel empty when your day is always full with bouts of anger that manifest from things so minuscule. It's real it's raw and it hits you hard one day you're happy, the next you're sad but this is the life you had dreamt about so cop on now, be grateful, and sort yourself out. The kids come first in everything you do, no time for Hubby, no time for you. The days are long yet the days go fast and you wonder how so much time has passed.; without really having time to think or even dream, caught up with the monotony of keeping others fed & clean. And some days feel like the walls are closing in, yet the madness of the outside world pulls you right back in again. Don't get me wrong your heart is full, its consumed with love for these little ones. When they lay sleeping and the day is done you'll know what keeps you going, it's that privilege of being their "Mum".

The first time I heard that statement ‘Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway’, it was in relation to the book by Susan Jeffers. A very popular book back in the early 80’s when the world was turning ‘new-age’. That’s what holistic living was called then. I remember being very triggered by it as it sounded really strong. Language is very important, I am constantly working on mine, not just the bad language I can sometimesuse, but everyday expressive language. How the message is delivered is really important. Like I just said, it can sound like an order, or it could be made to sound like a suggestion just by changing the language. No criticism to the author, but to me and its only me, it sounded like an order. It also sounded like if I couldn’t do it then I had failed in some way. A couple of weeks ago, I chose to ‘heal’ the fear and then do it anyway! I’m going to tell you a little story about an experience I had when I was very young, so we are going back to five decades ago! At that time back in the last century, the health service visited the schools and the doctor got to examine you and the vaccination program was delivered in the same way. However, a visit to the dentist was also suggested and I have to tell you it was the worst thing that ever happened to me. The dentist on duty was a very tall thin lady, well that’s how she seemed to me at the time. She had grey curly hair and wore a white coat. Miss O’Keefe,was her name, her assistant had white hair and piercing blue eyes. Those eyes burned into my soul.Her name was Miss O’Reilly. Both had misery written all over their faces. Nothing welcoming, just get it done and over with and a no-nonsense approach, which in fairness was quite a usual way to be back then. I was brought into the dentist’s room; my mother was not allowed to come in with me. The first thing I saw was this horrible ugly black chair in the middle of the floor, with a green marble tray attached to an arm that she pulled over to display all sorts of drill heads and metal items that suggested to me she might poke my mouth with. The clinical smell and the sound of the equipment I found just terrifying. ‘Get up on that chair’ and I was pushed in the direction of the chair, that was how I was instructed. I very reluctantly got up on the chair, now I’m small so I was a petite little ten-year-old. I climbed up and sat in the chair absolutely quaking in my boots. She then proceeded to examine me. ‘Open your mouth child’ next instruction. I was up the walls. She prodded around as I suspected she would, and I was so fearful that she would cause me pain that I started to protest, by moving around in the chair and fidgeting. ‘Sit easy child’ was the next instruction, with a wicked facial expression. She decided to fill a back tooth and I decided I was getting out of the chair. Well – her knee went onto my chest and in went the puff of lidocaine and then the injection. So, so, painful. I’m hysterically screaming at this point. She continued to work with me screaming and her holding my mouth open with one hand and drilling with the other with her knee still on my chest. The assistant at this stage has my arms pinned to the chair so I can’t move anyway. The work finally finished, and I almost fell off the chair. I cried so hard I thought I would be sick. I couldn’t tell my mother, for fear that I would come across as a coward, so I didn’t say anything. Just cried all the way home and of course, being the very brave woman that my mother was, I was told to stop being such a baby wasn’t I grand? As I grew up, I had many complications with dental treatments, extractions were a nightmare, two dry sockets and two shattered bone incidents. So having regular visits to the dentist was certainly not on my list of priorities. Although I did look after my teeth to the best of my ability, orders from the mammy. So here we are in the 21st century, training methods and understanding of psychological development has changed and things have certainly improved. But with age and wear and tear some of my teeth started to break and I was missing a couple. Hearing my mothers’ words in my ears, the three best things you can possibly have to your credit are - Good posture Good diction Good teeth So, I went on an adventure to have my missing teeth replaced. In my conscious mind I wanted them done. But my subconscious had other ideas. I was so terrified, but I wanted them done, I did some serious work on my mindset, had some QTT with my buddy, hypnotherapy with another and wait for it the best one of all, asked for something to relax me before I went. I don’t do over the counter drugs or Valium but boy I was delighted to be given some. It was waiting for me at the clinic when I got there and happy days, I am so with the work, all done and didn’t need Valium after the first day. Going back to the first statement, I definitely did not want to feel that fear that I first felt when I was a small child ever again. So, I chose to look at the emotions I experienced rather than go back to the incident and dig it all up again. I identified where it initially came from and did a huge release on it, along with lots of other tip’s tools and techniques to help me get through the difficulties, or what I perceived the difficulties might be. I am really happy with myself, that I first asked for help to heal the fear, so I admitted it was bigger than me, that I also dipped into the modern medicine bag for help, that’s what complementary therapy is all about and I fortunately attracted a really kind dental technician/superhero Igor that was also a perfectionist too, to help me to achieve my plan. I put it to you dear people, don’t just jump into that fear, get help to look at it, acknowledge what needs to be healed and then proceed with your plan. Now I can say I have a changed my mindset on visits to the dentist. I am now happy to go and have my check-ups and not be dreading the experience. But it took some work, but it’s all possible. Its only 56 years later and the mindset could be changed. My Super Hero Igor: https://www.instagram.com/igorkosmina/?hl=en #fear #anxiety #stress #selfcare #stressmanagement #dentist #lifeexperience #mindset #perfectionist #therapy #wellness #qtt #knowledge

Meet my wonderful Guest Blogger ~ Olivia is a dynamic, courageous, able woman, nothing disabled about her!! I look forward to her posts each day on ‘What the Angels are saying’ & there ain’t no other woman that can wear a red lippy as well as she can! I was approached by the lovely Regina, as it is Spina Bifida awareness month to do a blog, and I thought the timing was just perfect to get started and share my own experiences of having the conditions Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. Firstly I’ll tell you a little bit about the condition, Spina Bifida basically means spilt spine and surgery is usually required in the first 24 hrs of birth, I have also the secondary condition hydrocephalus which basically means water on the brain, however I didn’t need a shunt to drain the fluid as it had arrested itself at a couple of months old. Aside from all of that I did end up having major brain surgery when I was 14 due to Arnold Chairi Malformation which means that skull bone was pressing on my brain stem causing a build up of pressure on the brain. Spina Bifida is also known as the snowflake condition as no two cases are the same. I’m 46 next week, I live my parents in Naas, Co Kildare and have 3 sisters and 1 brother and 15 nieces and nephews and I work in the family business 3 days a week. I am a naturally positive, independent, adaptable and resourceful person, I went to local national school in a village outside kildare before we moved to Naas. I had a very positive experience in primary school, the students used to fight in the school yard to see who was going to push me around the school yard next. I found 2nd level school to be much tougher academically as I found it hard to learn and retain information and I loved learning particularly if it was something new and of interest to me and I always achieved whatever I set my mind too, I can be very stubborn. I then went on to do secretarial course which I loved and I am working in the family business for the last 25 years on the switchboard among other tasks. I am a very social person, I would go to the opening of an envelope, I love being around other people and enjoy their company. I found covid tough and it taught me a lot, I did some online course and connected with lots of people and groups on Facebook all of a positive content, connection is very important to me. I am delighted to be out and about working, meeting people face to face again and serving the public, sure isn’t that what it’s all about. I am very positive about what the future holds for me. #strongwomen #womenempoweringwomen #mystory #guestblogger #spinabifida #ireland #nostalgia #spinabifidaawarenessmonth #Hydrocephalus

I’m never letting this happen to me again as long as I live, I told myself, as I stood in the aisle of the 50 bus absolutely mortified. I wasn’t sure which feeling was worse, the embarrassment at the whole sorry situation or the fact that no one spoke up and defended me! Way back in the last century (early seventies) when a car went in for a service it was gone for a couple of days, so this particular Monday our car was in the garage having its MOT. Bakers didn’t work over the weekend either so that meant on Monday there was no fresh bread. My mother being the wonderful mother she was, always managed to get some, as her local grocery shop had a delivery of bread from Co. Kildare so that shop had fresh bread every Monday. When I was finished work that particular day, I got the bus to my mother’s house and ran up had a quick chat and took my loaf of bread and went back out to get the bus home. I can still remember what that bread tasted like, really fresh and had the most delicious crust on it. It began to rain, as I waited for the bus, typical you could say, but it arrived soon after. There were three people standing waiting on it and four people got off the bus. I was the third person and when I went to step onto the platform the bus conductor who wasn’t much older than myself at the time, said to me ‘the bus is full’. I thought he was joking, and I dipped under his outstretched arm and got onto the bus. He came over to me and sternly said, ‘I said the bus is full’. I replied but four people got off and only three got on, that’s not fair. ‘I said the bus is full are you going to get off?’ he repeated. No, I said I am not. Right then he said to the bus driver, close the doors and call the guards. Well, I nearly died. Being a law-abiding upstanding citizen, I had never been in trouble with the guards and couldn’t believe this was happening. Everyone just sat there tut tutting, it was rush hour and of course they all wanted to get home and this incident was delaying them. A young lad came down from upstairs and reported back to the other passengers about what was going on. The bus was on the Crumlin Road, just a few hundred yards from the Garda Station. Just then an unmarked Garda car stopped in front of the bus. Out stepped a plain clothes detective and a Guard and they got on the bus. The detective came over to where the conductor and I were standing. What seems to be the trouble here? He asked. The conductor replied. This woman is refusing to get off the bus I told her it’s full. The detective rolled his eyes to heaven and said, ‘Are you going to get off the bus?’ ‘You better believe I am’ I said. So, he accompanied me off the bus. At this stage I am in floods of tears. While we were standing on the footpath the detective said to me, don’t worry about a thing love, I thought it was something serious. What a waste of time and money calling us out for something that trivial. But the conductor is the boss on his bus, and we have to come out if they call. Just wait for the next bus sure it will be up in a minute or two. He’s just a power tripper, he could well have allowed you to stay on the bus, some of them just let the job go to their head. So true to form a couple of minutes later a bus arrived. I sat on the bus in shock, thinking how that whole incident could have been avoided, I really had no intention of causing any trouble. I didn’t realise that the bus conductor calls the shots and if he says get off you have to do so. Just as I turned the key in the door, my husband met me in the hallway. You’ll never believe what has just happened to me I said. But before I could tell him I am in tears as he’s telling me that he should have been home much earlier to start the dinner, except the bus he was on was stopped on the Crumlin Road for what must have been half an hour. A young lad went downstairs to find out what the problem was, and he came back and said some ‘aul wan’ wouldn’t get off the bus!! By now I’m weeping uncontrollably. Well, I said that ‘aul wan’ was me and proceeded to tell him about the saga in between the sobs. He was in fits of laughter listening to the story while he consoled me at the same time! Isn’t it just gas, there we were on the same bus, he was upstairs and I downstairs, and neither of us knew! Well, the next morning going to work, I was afraid of my life in case that same conductor was on the bus and remembered me!! It just goes to show, the importance of being on your best behaviour even if you are a law- abiding upstanding citizen!! #overheardindublin #youhavetolaugh #onyourbestbehaviour

When I was a child, every Saturday evening at 6.00 p.m. I went swimming with my school friends to a pool in the city centre. It’s long torn down now, and apartments built instead. We were in and around 11 years old, when we were told the following Saturday there would be swimming lessons held there, free of charge so we decided we were going to attend. Well way back then in the last century, the way to teach swimming was to throw us into the deep end, without any buoyancy aid! I have to say it was the end of my swimming days for some time to come. The noise of hitting the water, the colour, the sound under water and the concept of not being able to see where I wasgoing properly, absolutely frightened the heart out of me. It was such a pity, as I loved being in the water, but risking that experience again, definitely not! The trauma affected me for decades after. Trauma that also infiltrated into lots of adventures that I just could not take part in. The fear of what might happen next was just not worth taking the risk. Every holiday we went on, I would get into the sea, remembering what my father told us as kids, only enter the sea up as far as your knees and swim parallel to the shore, staying safe at all times. My head never hit the water, neither did my mouth or my nose! Not ever! While I loved the feel of the water, the waves as they came in and went out, the pull of the tide, the feeling as the water allowed me to float, there was no way I was putting my head under it and that was all there was to it. So therefore, I had no stroke technique, so I suppose you could say, I could float but could not really swim. Well, when I started our beloved Swim club, it was very obvious to the other volunteers that I was fearful about putting my head under the water. Each time a toy fell to the bottom I had to ask a volunteer to get it for me. The reply I gave to the many questions was I was going out and I didn’t want to get my hair wet!! That ran out after a short while and the truth came out! I felt so inadequate, I was watching athletes with learning disabilities swimming away up and down the pool not a bother on them. A very experienced coach was volunteering in the club at the time, and he suggested to me to go and take some swimming lessons and try to conquer the fear. Great idea, but even the thought of taking lessons terrified me. What if I was the only adult in the pool learning? How silly would I look? Back to the swim club, Special Olympics ran a summer school every September with workshops on all the different sports, so I booked into the Halliwick programme which was in-water teaching. A fascinating method, designed by a mother of a child with cerebral palsy most unique, as it teaches the breathing first and the stroke technique last. Clever mother! For the first time I was encouraged to enter the water from the bank supported by an instructor, put my head under and surface again. But most importantly, how to manage my breath while I did this. I took part in many entries and exits, head under water activities and to top it off an assistedsomersault!! I came back from that weekend, full of excitement and decided to finally go and learn how to swim properly. Off I went, every Tuesday and Friday mornings and I was swimming with a good technique before long. I watched many ladies in their 70’s and 80’s lane swimming with ease. In the early days of the club, I was wet more days than dry, as I was in the water with the club on Sunday, classes Tuesday and Friday, lane swim Monday and water safety Thursday night!! The trauma caused by that incident when I was quite young, held me back from taking part in many swimming and other activities because I was so afraid. When I finally conquered the fear of my head being under the water, it was such a sense of achievement. There I was 43 years of age, feeling like a little child. Feeling free, able, and accomplished. I am teaching a little guy to swim at the moment, who has a learning difference. He can float unaided, but he’s not happy about the water on his face, near his mouth or nose yet. But guess what? I’ve got lots of time. Patience is really important when supporting anyone to the world of being able to swim. A small slip and he could go right back to the beginning and sit on the bank. But watch this space, there’s a wonderful time on the horizon for him. I can’t wait for the lesson, when he conquers the fear and realises, he really can do this! If you are identifying with anything I have been writing about, some QTT would really help. Don’t allow trauma to stand in your way of living your best life, you deserve the freedom that releasing old trauma brings. Stop thinking about it, whatever it is and take action, it’s the best way to freedom. #swimming #trauma #qtt #quantumthinkingtechnologies #confidence #anxiety #stress #conqueryourfears

Quantum Thinking Technologies is a talk technique, it offers the client an opportunity to release old negative emotions that hold them back from taking part in activities that they would like to do but feel stuck in anxiety, stress overwhelm, or think that they can’t move forward. It was uniquely devised by Moira Geary, based on 15 years of experience, working with one-to-one clients. This technique is so simple, easy, and permanent. It involves using NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Quantum Release, Belief changes, Quantum Alignment, Behavioural codes, and other techniques. It is recommended to have two sessions initially, two hours each with a fortnight apart. There is also an eight-week personal development coaching programme one hour per week, that follows should the client wish to avail of it. My first introduction to QTT was five years ago. I was accompanied on my journey of health and wellbeing by an amazing practitioner who was trained in this technique. At that time, I was suffering with chronic shoulder pain that I had since I was a young teenager, sometimes it was manageable but times when I got busy it was very debilitating. Since taking part in that first release, I no longer have that shoulder pain. I did some belief changes as well, and so intrigued by the result I decided to train in the technique myself. It did not just help me with physical pain, but when I released the emotional baggage that was behind the pain, reset some negative beliefs, everything got very much better for me. Since then, I have accompanied lots of people on their journey too using QTT as a modality to move forward and help them to live their best life. If you are interested and would like to check it out, there are many testimonials on my website from clients who have taken part in QTT. Normally with any complementary therapies I work with, the client returns on a weekly or fortnightly basis. Its usual to wait until the client returns to hear the feedback and observe their appearance to check the results of the treatment. With QTT the result is immediate. I can see the change in the clientstraight away before they leave the treatment room or zoom whatever way we are working. So, this work is easy, simple, immediate and best of all permanent. The work you release doesn’t come back. Isn’t that something? I think it’s a wonderful modality and I’m so privileged to be a QTT Practitioner to accompany you to bring peace, contentment and happiness back into your life, you deserve it. #qtt #emotionalbaggage #empowerment #growthwork #release #stressmanagement #anxiety #quantumthinkingtechnologies

My kitchen/living room area, is a space that I spend a lot of my time in. I took a mad figarey just recently and decided to do a serious Spring clean. There’s a glass cabinet in my kitchen and while I was cleaning it, I came across three glasses that belonged to my parents. The set belonged to a centre piece in the sideboard of a dining room suite that was bought for them for a wedding present. The press in the centre of the sideboard opened out into a cocktail cabinet, with what seemed like millions of glasses, to me as a child that is. Really, I guess, looking at it now, the table was too big for the room as it didn’t fold up and was in the centre of the living space all the time. That was quite customary at that time for the table actually be the centrepiece of the room. Anyhow over the years the glasses got broken of course, five children, the usual accidents happened. Such a pity as they were all shapes, sizes, and colours. From champagne glasses to liquor to everything you could think of. Little cocktail sticks with different coloured round heads on that looked like smarties! A cocktail shaker and other lovely pieces that are usually found in a cocktail cabinet. When I was getting married my mother asked me if I would like to take the last remaining three glasses. So, I have them in my cabinet. My parents were married in September 1953 and so those glasses are just coming up on 68 years old. Wow. Imagine they are still being loved and adored in my glass cabinet all these years later. I’m a bit of a softy when it comes to memories, and sentimental things. Not a hoarder mind, but very respectful of what is treasured. I do hope that I can pass them on to one of my daughters or divide them up and give them to both. Little treasures, they always have memories attached and the stories to accompany them. Its kind of like a photograph album, they stimulate the emotions, especially when the person you are looking at in the photo is no longer living. But those three glasses are old, sentimental and memory provoking. I enjoyed polishing them and seeing them glisten in the sunshine, back in the cabinet for another day. #nostalgia #memories #momentos #family #sentimental #seekjoy #holisticliving #heirlooms #memory #springclean

Did you know that according to medical research as much as 90% of all illness has its origin in stress? That’s really scary isn’t it? Stress and overwhelm can be such debilitating conditions. Trust me! I have been there! BUT (and it’s a BIG BUT) there is good news! There is a way to manage it and I am more than willing to show you how. Over a long lifetime and through many life experiences I have learned to manage my anxiety and overwhelm by using many different tools. I do know what you are experiencing however I now, also know how to work with it. How do I work with it? Well firstly, I like to start with simple things, tools that I definitely know work and are easy to use. For success this is key otherwise we would just get bored and not continue to use them. The mistake that people make is they take on a task that is too big and then give up out of frustration or boredom before it has a chance to even work. Anyone who has worked with me knows that my philosophy on learning new stuff and making changes is to keep things ‘easy and simple’. Throughout my journey as a therapist and as a wife, mother, grandmother, friend and colleague, I have learned to overcome so many negative obstacles using simple easy tools and techniques. We both know life is already complicated enough! Next start small! By starting small you can easily achieve, (there’s that word again ‘easy’). This way you will be encouraged to do more. If you take on a task that is too difficult you will not complete it and you will be absolutely frustrated and more stressed by the time you are even finished! So, if you would like to chat to me further about anything that is troubling you, any overwhelm, stress and anxiety, then just start small and take an easy and simple first step by reaching out to me. I’m here and will guide you on your journey to self-healing. You will discover by using the idea of easy and simple changes you too can live your best life! Why not make things easier for yourself I’m just a simple and quick message away! Your best life is waiting for you to start living it! #stress #stressmanagement #lifecoach #holisticlifecoach #liveyourbestlife #anxiety #overwhelm #selfhealing #support #empower #journey #help #struggle #mentalwellbeing

In September 1999 I opened a swim club for athletes with a learning disability. It was called Viking Swimmers and it was affiliated to Special Olympics. My mother had just died in April, and I was devastated, so I channelled my sadness into the project of setting up the club. My Mam and Dad were big into swimming, as it is a great overall exercise. I would not have called myself a swimmer then, I could move in the water but had no technique. Due to a bad experience I had at a ‘so-called swimming lesson’, I would not put my head under the water. Until……. I witnessed athletes who had a learning disability, swimming under water, not a bother on them, putting me to shame. Then it was time to cop on and learn to swim properly. I headed up to Tallaght to the late Marian Lane. What a wonderful lady. She had such a great love of swimming and a wicked sense of humour. She taught me how to manage my breathing and in no time, I was swimming in the lane swim on Monday, classes on Tuesday and Friday and water safety on Thursday, oh and Sunday morning in the club. I was wet more often than dry back then but loving the sense of achievement that a forty 43-year-old could learn to swim and be competent at it. Did you know that you don’t need to be a swimmer to be a swim teacher? I bet you didn’t! Neither did I! Well Assistant teacher is the first certification, and you don’t need to know how to swim only the theory of swimming, lay out the lesson plans and instruct safely. You do need to be a competent swimmer to gain a full teaching certification. The photo above is the first athlete I taught to swim. We are sitting at the poolside in Sportsco waiting on the medal ceremony. He won the 15 metres assisted swim at the Regional Games, the second leg into World Summer Games being held in Ireland for the first time outside of United States, in June 2003. The ten athletes that qualified for those games, won everything in sight and I cried bucketfuls that weekend. I thought I would burst from the pride I felt, and the sense of reward it was just indescribable, for all the Sunday mornings we got up and went to the training at 9.30-11.30 had paid off. I’m a great believer in you can do anything you set your mind to do, but the athletes I taught at our club showed me that, with their relentless stamina, determination and will to succeed in the face of adversity just blew me away! We were a famous club after that, still are to this day. We were the talking point for years! The waiting list was as long as my arm, athletes’ parents wanting their swimmers to join us. My team was incredible, my brother, my nieces, my friends, 22 coaches in total, all the best ever. Most of them young people who got up out of bed every Sunday and came to the pool, to serve our young athletes, helping them to develop their potential. And develop their potential they did! Every one of them taught how to dive, and the four strokes. The sky was the limit and they told us where the sky was! Exciting times indeed. #specialolympics #swimclub #swimming #tallaght #developyourpotential #swimmingstrokes #vikingswimmers #selfbelief #inspirationalstory