Feel Better Every Day
Feel Better Every Day! Learn from the self and Self* care practices the professionals depend on. Your host, Eve Menezes Cunningham (author of 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing) uses her journalism and therapeutic (trauma therapies, coaching and supervision) background to interview self care professionals including neuroscientists, yoga teachers, coaches, therapists, health writers, doctors and more. They share their ideal and ACTUAL self and Self care routines to remind you that your best will vary and is *always* good enough. *for that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous part of yourself
My highlights and ACTUAL self and Self care lessons from my Season 1 guests
Thank you so much for listening and for joining me on this journey. This final episode of Season 1 is where I am honest about what I've ACTUALLY integrated from my gorgeous guests' episodes.
Scroll down for links to all the episodes on YouTube and audio.
WHO AM I?
I'm your producer and host, Eve Menezes Cunningham, author of 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing (Pen & Sword, 2017), freelance journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the Irish Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I'm also an online trauma therapist (with lived experience), supervisor...
Athena Sayaka talks creativity, Divine Timing, co-regulation and more as she shares her ideal and essential daily self care practises
Do you include other people in your self and Self-care? When do you feel most regulated (ready to thrive and flourish?)?
a) with loved ones?
b) in nature?
c) connecting with your Self?
d) in gratitude at being alive?
Let us know in the comments :)
TODAY'S GUEST
Athena Sayaka is a neuroexpansive practitioner and mystic. She helps neurodiverse creators develop supportive frameworks to honour their whole being as they navigate the world. In her corner of the internet, you are free to be fully you...
Nurse and coach Colleen Kneafsey shares a 3 minute lymphatic drainage massage and other daily self care routines
Did you know that lymphatic drainage massage has so many benefits and you can do it yourself, quite easily, every morning?
Which of Colleen's are your daily ideal and essential self care practises?
a) lymphatic drainage massage?
b) gratitude?
c) reading?
d) prioritising good sleep?
Let us know in the comments :)
TODAY'S GUEST
Colleen Kneafsey from Rise Strong Mind & Body Transformation online coaching is a nurse specialist with 23 years' experience. She specialises in menopause, diabetes, fitness, heart health and weight loss.
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Author, podcast host and coach, Joanne Mallon shares her ideal and actual daily self care routines
The author and 5 Minutes to Change Your Life podcast host, Joanne Mallon, shares her ideal and actual daily self care practices.
Which of Joanne's favourite ideal and actual elements are your favourites?
a) stopping and smelling and talking to the roses
b) rolling out of bed and into a yoga / tai chi practice?
c) gratitude?
d) early nights?
Let us know in the comments :)
TODAY'S GUEST
Joanne Mallon is the author of How to Find Calm and other books, a podcaster and one...
Author and podcast host Jane Travis talks boundaries, beauty, pleasure and relaxation as she shares her ideal and actual daily self care practises
The Grow Your Private Practice author and podcast host, Jane Travis, shares her ideal and actual daily self care practices (and we chat about how much we dislike the term self-care even though it's essential).
Which of Jane's favourite ideal and actual elements are your favourites?
a) being kissed awake by a handsome man (woman / non binary person)?
b) luxuriating in a skincare routine that helps your skin?
c) setting boundaries with yourself (around time) as well as with others?
d) prioritising relaxation, beauty and pleasure?
Let...
Mick Devine, addiction specialist, trainer, supervisor and Tabor Group Clinical Director shares his ideal and actual self care practices
How do you create stillness and make space for yourself and your Self (for that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous part of yourself) care?
Mick Devine shares some of the self care practices that continue to support him.
How about you? How might you find a way to prioritise stillness, space and PEACE in your life?
Let us know in the comments :)
TODAY'S GUEST
Mick Devine is a Counsellor specialising in the area of addiction. He is Clinical Director of a leading addiction treatment agency...
Medical herbalist and natural therapist Fiona Morris shares her ideal and actual daily self and Self care practices
How do you navigate your self and Self (for that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous part of yourself) care when life is incredibly challenging?
The fantabulous Fiona Morris shares some of what's been helping her through enormous transitions, grief and loss.
How about you? How might you find a way to both prioritise what will help you most while also giving yourself more grace around things having to be a bit different at this time?
Let us know in the comments :)
TODAY'S GUEST
Fiona Morris...
COOKING as self care? Psychotherapist and nutritional therapist Jayne Leonard has revolutionised my LIFE
Have you ever considered COOKING to be part of your self care?
I hadn’t but talking to Jayne for this episode has revolutionised my life! No longer seeing cooking as a chore and boring, I’m suddenly loving becoming more whole food vegan v the junk food vegan of the past several years.
Who knew cooking – this BASIC basic self care – could be so satisfying?
How about you? How might you find a way to reframe one of the things you HAVE to do so it becomes more fulfilling and potentially even fun?
...EFT trainer Grainne O'Neill shares her wonderfully 'worthy' AND Netflix and chocolate cake ideal and actual self care
When is it best to go for a long walk and when is it best to opt for a slice of chocolate cake in front of Netflix?
Grainne O'Neill shares her wonderful mix of what she calls 'worthy' self care and Self care (exercise, an embodied meditation to help her plug into the day's energies, EFT Tapping (of course), lifting weights and a 'gratitude countdown' to end each day.
How about you? How might you give yourself more grace when you're at your best AND when you most NEED that grace and compassion?
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'Sex is good for you,' says neuroscientist and beststelling author Dr Sabina Brennan
'We all feel more comfortable in our own skin,' says Dr Sabina Brennan. 'We don't sweat the small stuff.'
I know I feel better with each passing year as I get a better sense of what works for me and what doesn't (including navigating joints that didn't used to ache and eyes that didn't used to need reading glasses) but I've adored Dr Sabina Brennan's approach to aging since I met her the year I moved to Ireland when she was promoting her then new book 100 Days to a Younger Brain.
How about...
