Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD

Feeling suicidal? Worried about someone you love? This episode, inspired by an interview I did for BACP , explores how to navigate life's darkest moments with compassion and practical support. It covers: • A recent NHS survey finding that 1 in 4 people have felt suicidal (and why it's likely more) • How working with your body can help lift you out of despair • What to say (and not say) when someon...

I started this podcast to show the gulf between self-care professionals' ideal and actual self-care. When life hits you with unexpected challenges, how do you maintain your wellbeing? In this episode of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast, trauma-informed therapist Eve Menezes Cunningham shares practical strategies for creating an emergency self-care plan using emojis - perfect for those with ADHD a...

Does even the thought of money trigger an instant stress response? In this episode, bestselling author and certified trauma of money coach Keris Fox she shares how to transform your relationship with money by rewriting your money story. She explains why so many women believe they're "bad with money" and offers practical steps to befriend your finances. In this conversation, you'll learn: • Why kno...

You're never too old to play. And your brain will thank you. In this episode, I share why play isn't just for children and how reconnecting with your playful side can be transformative for ADHD brains and trauma survivors. From my dolphin encounter to pretending to be dolphins on the harbour with a friend, I explore how silliness and joy can heal. This episode includes: ✨ Why our brains learn so...

Are you dealing with trauma? PTSD? Complex PTSD? ADHD? Feeling overwhelmed by what’s going on in the world? In this PTSD awareness episode, trauma therapist Eve Menezes Cunningham shares some of her personal journey from PTSD diagnosis to healing, and uses the Feel better. Be better. Do better method to support you in navigating personal and collective trauma. ‘Instead of being consumed by hate, h...

Do you wish you could help heal the world but find yourself overwhelmed? Learn to Feel Better, Be Better and DO Better. Subscribe for trauma-informed and ADHD-friendly self-care ideas every Tuesday. Are you navigating trauma and ADHD? This episode is for you. As we approach the Summer Solstice, it's a powerful time to reflect on what you're giving your energy to and how you allow yourself to shine...

Trauma and/or ADHD? Stop worrying you're 'too much' and be more you It's easy to feel overwhelmed when navigating ADHD and trauma recovery. You might constantly receive messages to tone it down or conform. But what if your unique sensitivities and intensity aren't something to suppress, but an expression of your Self? This is where psychosynthesis and its concept of The Ways offers an empowering p...

This week’s guest, the Booby Physio (aka former Ireland rugby player Siobhan O’Donovan) shares some life changing advice (well, it has been for me!) on all kinds of ways in which we can better support our whole selves. You can find her at posturefittingphysio.com and on social media at posture.fitting Watch here or listen wherever you get your podcasts Let me know how you’re going to start better...

For World Digestive Health Day, am delighted to be welcoming Jayne Leonard back to discuss a super simple way (even I’m enjoying experimenting with it) to improve our gut health, ADHD symptoms and mental health. And Sole to Soul Circle members can join us tomorrow for a deeper dive into getting our inner (and actual) toddlers on board. le grá (with love), Evei Watch here Full transcript … and foun...

I’ve been meditating daily (at least once a day) since March 2013. Sporadically since 2001. And teaching different types of meditation since 2003. And I still find it really challenging. But I can’t imagine life without it. I hope that by sharing some of the joys and challenges of different types of meditation and ADHD and trauma, my own history (with a deeper, more personal dive for the Sole to S...

How are YOU feeling this European Mental Health Awareness Week? What one thing might help you feel even a little bit better? There are lots of self-care ideas in this week's podcast. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch here le grá, Evei Full transcript Everything I do, I’m a mental health professional, I attend to my own mental health on a daily basis… Hi, you're listening to The Feel B...

‘OK, well I'm not going to have children so what do I do with my life? What does life look like? How do I prove myself? How do I validate my existence?’ I so adored talking to Margaret O’Connor and hope you enjoy Episode 57 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast where she explores her journey with self-care and becoming an advocate for the child-free. And for this week’s deeper dive for the Sole to...

Bealtaine is a festival of fertility, love and lust and this year, we're braving the parts of ourselves we find hardest to love... Full transcript Thinking again about who you love but this time bringing it more to yourself and thinking about all the different parts of yourself and the parts of yourself you find it easier to love and harder to love. What parts do you appreciate about yourself and...

Would you like to add to your self-care toolkit by managing life's stresses with more compassion for yourself and others? This new episode is for you. Full transcript We can internalise shame about not handling the situation with more grace, and even when it is extreme pressure. Stress can be a good thing. Think about a coal turning into a diamond, or think about a toddler, no one is yelling at th...

It was such a joy to interview my own herbal medicine magician for this episode. I cannot overstate how much Colleen has helped me over the years and hope this episode helps you… Full transcript Food is there to be enjoyed. We're very blessed to have an abundance of food around us and you know what? Like yeah, a bit more gratitude that we're lucky that we can have whatever we want whenever we want...

Including 4 new letters that may become as familiar to you as ADHD as Drs Hallowell and Ratey’s potentially less stigmatising VAST model (Variable Attention Stimulus Trait) becomes better known… Which of these 25 terms resonate most for you? Which ADHD (or VAST) terms had you hoped to see included? Comment or reply to let me know for a future episode. le grá (with love), Evei FULL TRANSCRIPT I rem...

This April Fools Day, we’re exploring ways in which our ADHD brains keep us fooling ourselves And how awareness and compassion really help… How about you? Le grá (with love), Evei FULL TRANSCRIPT For me, if I don't have something to read, I feel quite anxious. I don't want to be anywhere where I could be reading and I'm not reading, but also I don't know what mood I'm going to be in at that time,...

There’s something magical about simply slowing down enough to notice all the beauty around us. This week, I’ve changed my schedule to actually make time to do all the things I ‘should’ be doing and ‘need’ to do in the garden and field. We’ve made a proper start on the deadhedge I’ve been planning since before even moving to Ireland and I cannot believe how happy it’s made me. I’ve been taking my b...

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone – neurodivergent and neurotypical – celebrated our brains and unique ways of seeing and being in the world? If the world were set up to better support ALL of us? If no one was shamed simply for being the way they were? ‘For us late diagnosed ADHDers, there is that mourning and that grief and that loss and that rage around how different entire lives could have b...

FULL TRANSCRIPT Soothe your ruminating mind, again, especially with ADHD or trauma histories, getting away from all the catastrophic thinking, the stressful thoughts that are kind of putting you in Stress Response rather than Rest/Digest mode, allowing yourself to have something really easy and accessible to redirect your brain from those ruminating, catastrophising thoughts into something. Hi, I'...

This week, we’re making Polyvagal Theory even simpler with the help of Rainbow MagnifiCat and your own beloved animals. I developed Cattitude (aka Cat Coaching and Feline Better Every Day) after adopting Rainbow MagnifiCat from the rescue cat shelter in 2013 and realising how attending to her nervous system, practising what I had learned about Polyvagal Theory and other trauma-informed therapies w...

Inspired by Jessica McCabe's How to ADHD (and building on 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing ) this week, we're exploring a super simple way to increase the odds of you treating yourself WAY better in those spare moments, minutes and hours... WATCH HERE FULL TRANSCRIPT What I'm talking about here with the dopamine, they've not been measured in terms of how much they in...

‘It's the abundance of diversity. It's not about tolerating. It's about welcoming…’ Much as I adored Moana, I think I loved Moana 2 even more. And with the current threats to #DEI (Diversity Equality and Inclusivity) in America, it feels like an especially good time to remind everyone that immigration (yes, I’m biased as a daughter and granddaughter of immigrants and now immigrant myself) is A GOO...

With special guest Jayne Leonard WATCH HERE Does the idea of loving your whole self (including your ADHD brain and/or traumatised parts) feel impossible? You’re not alone. In this episode, I welcome my vegan and ADHD friend Jayne Leonard of Vive Counselling back. Our conversation includes shock that we’ve both found it easier to accept ourselves since a psychiatrist gave us permission! Even though...

‘If you have tried counselling or you've tried therapy and it has made you feel worse, know that you're not alone. That, unfortunately, is quite common, but fortunately there are many, many styles and many, many different people who can help you’ This special extended episode of The Feel Better Every Day Podcast was recorded to support you with any mental health issues you might be struggling with...