The Anchor Wellness Podcast

Welcome to The Anchor Wellness Podcast! This podcast is all about guiding you towards regulated living, through nervous system regulation, trauma resolution from a Somatic Experiencing lens, and building a healthy lifestyle. In this week's episode, host Niamh Hayes introduces the mechanism behind whether you feel stressed or not, whether you are overwhelmed or not, whether you end up burned out or...

Welcome to The Anchor Wellness Podcast! This podcast is all about guiding you towards regulated living, through nervous system regulation, trauma resolution from a Somatic Experiencing lens, and building a healthy lifestyle. In this week's episode, host Niamh Hayes introduces the final two of six states within your nervous system - the Play state and the Rest/Stillness state. The Play state is a c...

Welcome back to The Anchor Wellness Podcast! This podcast is all about guiding you towards regulated living, through nervous system regulation, trauma resolution from a Somatic Experiencing lens, and building a healthy lifestyle. In this week's episode, host Niamh Hayes introduces the fourth of six states within your nervous system - the Freeze state. This is one of your self-protective states tha...

Welcome back to The Anchor Wellness Podcast! This podcast is all about guiding you towards regulated living, through nervous system regulation, trauma resolution from a Somatic Experiencing lens, and building a healthy lifestyle. In this week's episode, host Niamh Hayes introduces the third of six states within your nervous system - the Dorsal Vagal Complex, also known as the shutdown, collapse or...

Welcome back to The Anchor Wellness Podcast! This podcast is all about guiding you towards regulated living, through nervous system regulation, trauma resolution from a Somatic Experiencing lens, and building a healthy lifestyle. In this week's episode, host Niamh Hayes introduces the second of six states within your nervous system - the Sympathetic Nervous System, also known as Fight or Flight. T...

Welcome back to The Anchor Wellness Podcast! This podcast is all about guiding you towards regulated living, through nervous system regulation, trauma resolution from a Somatic Experiencing lens, and building a healthy lifestyle. In this week's episode, host Niamh Hayes introduces the first of six states within your nervous system - the Ventral Vagal Complex, also known as the Social Engagement Sy...

Welcome back to The Anchor Wellness Podcast! This podcast is all about guiding you towards regulated living, through nervous system regulation, trauma resolution from a Somatic Experiencing lens, and building a healthy lifestyle. In this week's episode, host Niamh Hayes introduces the system inside each of us that is either standing by our side as we walk on the path of the life we desire, or is s...

Welcome back to The Anchor Wellness Podcast! This podcast is all about guiding you towards regulated living, through nervous system regulation, trauma resolution from a Somatic Experiencing lens, and building a healthy lifestyle. In this week's episode, host Niamh Hayes shares a reintroduction to herself, her work and her journey to becoming a Somatic Practitioner. Get in touch, ask questions or e...

In Episode 13 of The Anchor Wellness Podcast, Niamh chats about the inner child - what is it, why is it significant and how does it show up in everyone's life every single day. She uses her own experiences to explain her inner child and how it impacts her life as an adult now. A lot of the information may sound familiar to you! Follow Anchor Wellness for more information or to reach out to Niamh....

In Episode 12 of The Anchor Wellness Podcast, Niamh Hayes chats all about stress! Stress is such a complex topic and is something that gets a bad reputation, but stress is not actually good or bad. In fact, it is a natural biological process of adaptation that helps us survive. It is just a state that we go into to help keep us safe and to help us get through daily life. Niamh breaks down what str...

In Episode 11 of The Anchor Wellness Podcast, Niamh Hayes chats about how negative thinking is affecting your health. She talks about what thoughts are, how many you have, why you have so many negative ones, what your brain does when you have a negative thought, how your stress responses come into play, and how your physical and mental health can start to suffer, all thanks to your negative thinki...

Niamh chats to Astrologer, Eva Crowley. They chat about Eva's journey into astrology, what it all means, the sun, the moon, the planets, the full moon, the new moon, birth charts, the 12 houses, and how we can all get something out of astrology. including getting to know ourselves better! Follow Eva on Instagram: eva_b_astrology

In this week's episode, Niamh chats to Niamh McDonnell who is a life coach. They talk about the work of a life coach, what she offers clients, and they delve into the world of manifesting! Niamh breaks down the topic into simple information and shares ways that we can all implement manifesting in our own lives to help us achieve anything we want. Find Anchor Wellness on Instagram: instagram.com/an...

On this week's episode, Niamh chats to Pamela Morrissey, owner of Sobe Brown hair salon in Cork. This is a brilliantly funny and honest chat where Pamela talks about how she got into the hairdressing industry and built up her business, the opportunities that came her way over the years, how she looks after her own health and wellbeing, as well as how your home is an incredibly important aspect of...

In this week's episode, Niamh chats to Síonna Healy, a coastal rower from Arklow. Síonna finished 4th at the World Rowing Coastal Championships last year. She tells Niamh about the journey to get there, how she got into rowing first day, how her involvement has evolved, and the pressures that come with being involved in a sport at that level while also juggling work, study and exams over the years...

In this week's episode, Niamh chats to Amanda Brack, co-founder of Recalibrated Bodies and Titan Fitness Algarve. Amanda shares her story about how she went from being told that she shouldn't work in the fitness industry, to building an incredibly successful online business, her experience in the bodybuilding world and navigating multiple businesses, travelling the world and raising two kids - wha...

In this week's episode, Niamh chats to Brendan Walsh, owner of Guerilla Fitness in West Cork. They chat about the ever-evolving world of health and fitness, the things people should focus on if they want to be fit and healthy, and so much more!

In this episode, host Niamh Hayes chats to Tracey Collopy. Tracey chats about how she went from being a fitness influencer with a thriving online business, to completing losing herself, to spending a year with herself in Bali so that she could get to know herself on a deeper level, to finding a completely new path in life. Tracey's story is incredibly inspiring & refreshing.

In this week's episode, Niamh chats to Holistic Therapist, Jade Spencer, founder of Creating Peace with Jade Katrice, all about her work & how her own personal struggles led her down her career path. They chat about energy, healing & Chakras, & how we can help heal ourselves by tapping into these things. Please be advised that suicide & miscarriage are mentioned in the podcast so listener discreti...

In Episode 2 of The Anchor Wellness Podcast, host Niamh Hayes chats to Sinéad O'Regan, physiotherapist, health and fitness coach, and founder of sineadoregan.ie. Sinéad chats about her personal and professional journey in health and wellness, the struggles she went through, and gives lots of useful tips on how we can all strive to be healthy.

In the very first episode of The Anchor Wellness Podcast, founder of Anchor Wellness, Niamh Hayes, chats about her personal and professional journey with health and wellness, sharing some moments from her life that brought her to where she is today.