Women's Empowerment Podcast

Our relationships are what challenge us most in our lives and allow us real growth whether these relationships are with our parents, our siblings, our lovers or our children. It is said that we hurt the ones we love the most. And the reason we do this is because of the invisible “space” we know is there for us to be ourselves, to be vulnerable and to just be with those closest to us.

When it comes to looking out for others especially those closest to us caring comes naturally for most of us. So why doesn’t that follow on to how we care for ourselves? Are we hardwired with the missing link to that part of the brain? When I coach women one of the areas I cover are her values and time and time again I see how those value systems are totally cross wired. We are often plugged into...

For the most part vulnerability can get us breaking into a sweat and saying “Me, no I don’t do vulnerability”! Maybe that is because the first definition you get when you look it up says that “it is a fear of being attacked either physically or emotionally”. And of course, none of us want that as it taps into our basic fear around our survival. Feeling safe is a non-negotiable need. The kind of vu...

Becoming self-aware is a huge topic and there are many ways you can work on it. One I find extremely beneficial is to become emotionally aware. When you are emotionally aware you have a tool that allows you to figure out where you are holding onto limiting beliefs around something. You will be able to take lessons from life situations as they arise.

I speak with Bibi Baskin one of lreland’s most loved TV broadcasters. Bibi has gone from broadcasting to being a hotelier in India and is now back in Ireland working in the wellness space. She gives inspirational talks to people and inspires them to make the changes they long to make. She is also an author and is penning her second book at the moment which will be a weaving of Indian cookery recip...

The purpose of grounding our energy is to become present and connect to the very earth we stand on. We allow the earth to support us and rejuvenate us just like the feeling we get when we take a walk in nature.

I have spent many years on the journey of finding my voice both in my personal life and in my business. Along that journey there were many mindset issues to deal with and limiting beliefs to be transcended. A common way for me to deal with issues around my personal power in the past had been to get overwhelmed at a certain point and give up because of this overwhelm. This is quite a common dilemma...

Who said dreams can’t come true? Each day when despair starts to take hold, reach into the light, find that spec of light and allow it keep you steady, allow it pull you up from the darkness of pain. It’s your light, it’s your despair, it’s your fear, it’s your choice. Grab your light and hold onto its promise of hope. Allow it be the light that guides you into a better place for you, because no m...

To start with let’s look at both of these words anxiety and stress and dissect them a little and see what they mean. Anxiety is the fear of something that hasn’t yet happened. Stress can be triggered by number of reasons, one of these is of course fear again of what could happen to us should we do something. So what is fear. It is an instinctual emotion that alerts us to something that maybe dange...

Interview with Lisa Regan on Galway Bay FM.

I interviewed Jocelyn Cunningham for The Emotional and Mental Health Summit. She spoke to us about panic attacks and how they affected her life. Jocelyn explains "As it happens there are two types of panic attacks, expected and unexpected panic attacks. The unexpected is unfortunately what I suffered but I am still able to keep on top of it and that was 16 years ago. Unexpected ones can happen eve...

I recently interviewed Mary Finn who is the Founder of Connect4Work an organisation who work with organisations to instill a culture of connection and integration for employees returning to the workplace. For details on The Emotional and Mental Health Summit visit my websitehttps://celticsoulessence.com/the-emotional-and-mental-health-summit-2019/

When two people with two different stories/energies are together there can be a clash sometimes if the two people are very different. If each are not standing in their own personal power, someone with people pleasing tendencies may become the dependent one, bending and trying to change themselves in order to fit in. I will take you through a story of how to weave your story, your way whilst standi...

Our psychological reality changes as we go from being a child, into adolescence and beyond and our mind begins to fill with untruths about ourselves, or should I say truths that are not in alignment with our core beliefs and values. We may hide our passions and our dreams believing them to be silly or pie in the sky, perhaps because someone knocked them or laughed at them. We bury them and may cho...

Yes it's true there is pure magic to be found in the present moment because that is where all the magic happens. We cannot change the past and we can only change the future by the actions we take in the present moment. The other way we use the word present is when we exchange a gift ..another potentially magic moment when we have the ability to make someone’s day by giving them a gift of something...

In a recent article I wrote I spoke about the story of Scrooge in a Christmas Carol which is a classic movie. This is a classical example of how an archetypal story can play out. Scrooge had a horrendously sad upbringing and I can only imagine put up a wall of defence around himself as a defence mechanism. However this wall was built so strong and so big that although it may have kept out what he...

What could make a successful career woman not be able to find her voice within her own family? One would imagine if she had a strong enough voice at work and was confident using it she could also have a strong enough voice at home. This is not always the case though. The study of epigenetics, which is a fairly new in the science world brings us some interesting facts that prove that our environmen...

We hear a lot about the mother wound which we as adults can carry around with us. We are told that we can hold this wound if we perceive we didn’t get what we needed from the feminine, i.e. the soft nurturing feminine touch. I use the word perceive because with the best will in the world as a mother our children can perceive something so differently from the reality of the mother. The mother’s sto...

Our worthiness is closely woven with our ability to receive. We can go through life not realising we have self-worth issues as they can be buried so deep and for so long that we don’t realise they are sabotaging us. Our self worth is also closely woven with our money issues and whether or not we feel worthy enough to receive money. Thankfully the good news is that when we get to the root of our se...

I would like to start this podcast with a question - Do you struggle with defining what the word feminine is? Do you get it confused with being a feminist perhaps because that is seems that’s what society does, bundles the words together. Perhaps you have a very clear understanding of what being feminine means to you and embrace your femininity in whatever way it means to you. . Perhaps you call y...

Each of us have our own stories that keep us where we are and if we feel that life is going well for us with these stories and we are happy with them then there is probably nothing coming up right now for us to look at. However if we feel stuck in a rut, if we have lost our mojo or if fear and anxiety holds us back, chances are some part of our story is not real. Perhaps the real us lies behind a...

An empowered woman looks just like you and me because, she is you and me. Each of us can step in to our own personal power because we were each born with the ability to do so, we may just have forgotten our way. An empowered woman stands in her own power and in so doing neither powers over anyone nor does she allow anyone to take her power from her. She has developed good boundaries for herself an...

Having good emotional health or intelligence as it is often called, is our ability to deal appropriately with situations in life while allowing ourselves to feel each emotion that comes up in any given situation.  No emotion is negative, in fact what emotions are, are pieces of energy which have a message for us.  When we realise this, we can use this to our benefit. Antonio Damasio defines emotio...

There is a deep embedded wound of silence in our psyche and in our culture. A wound of silence and powerlessness. These two words powerlessness and silence seem to go hand in hand in relation to victims of hideous crimes and the buried stories and secrets which are locked away tightly in closets. It is the polar opposite of what an empowered culture looks like. How can we help ourselves become emp...

The wound of not belonging is one of the biggest wounds carried by people and our feeling of self worth can be rattled to the core when this wound is triggered. For people who correlate their social post numbers and likes with their own personal popularity this truly is a sign of their self-worth being linked to a belief that “I am popular because I have a lot of followers on social media”. To the...