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Taman Spa is a unique wellness destination offering a private spa experience where relaxation, peace

02/11/2026

3 hours of time out just for you….
No kids, no questions, nowhere else you need to be.

Leave feeling calmer, more relaxed and like a weight has been lifted x

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22/10/2026

She walks in head down, grunts hello, not much to say. 90mins later she bounces out the door, stops for a hug and giggles down the path.

You know that feeling when you know something’s wrong but you just can’t put your finger on it? Something feels off but you don’t know what? And all you get if you ask is a shrug, fine, nothing….

And as time goes on, things seem to get worse; she gets quieter, more withdrawn, spends more time in her room, and the more you notice the more she insists she’s fine, nothing’s wrong. Yet you know something isn’t quite right.

What do you do? Where do you go? No one seems to have an answer. They say it’s her being a teenager, it’s mood swings, it’s normal but you’re her mother and you know it’s not. She just seems to have dimmed. It’s not medical so you can’t exactly go to a doctor. It’s not really psychological either. The teachers say nothing is going on. But you’re her mother, you know her best and you know it feels like you’re slowly losing her.

You bring her to me to see if a session will help. You can’t remember when you last time you heard her giggle. Not only does she giggle down the path, she chats and laughs at home, tells her older sister she should come too, it’s not like therapy at all, it’s just really cool!

Always remember as mothers, you know your child best and while there might not be something actually wrong, you certainly know when something’s not quite right. X

18/10/2026

Forever the biggest kid in the park!
Do you remember how to play? It’s pure JOY! Try it!!!

11/10/2026

1 month ago I was giving up. I’d had enough… enough of waiting for approval that what I do actually matters; enough fear of being judged by people who don’t even know me and will never be the people I work with; enough of the marketing bullsh*t on IG. I can’t do fake - I never have and never will. The people who know me know this to be true and yet still I wanted something more - I wanted permission. Permission to not be afraid to tell you the impact my work, permission to make a difference, permission to succeed.

In a world that celebrates success by the amount of likes and followers and free things and photos of the perfect life and house and job and kids, I felt a failure. I felt I didn’t measure up. And when I felt this I began to realise something else - the people who come to see me are afraid to talk about the work I do because they feel like failures too. They feel they’ve failed as mothers and wives, in relationships and in careers. In a world where we are all supposed to pretend that we’re not actually wingin’ it, that all is perfect, how can we measure up to feeling like we’re actually doing ok ….. and that ok is actually good enough? We can’t.

So a month ago I gave up. I gave up on this dream of trying to help other women make peace with where they’re at. I gave up on thinking that being authentic in a world of fake would cut it. I gave up on me.

Then someone asked me to see their mother in law. A 79 year old woman, full of grief and anger and downtrodden with depression from loss and misfortune and hardship and life.

I saw her…and something happened.
I remembered.
I remembered that some people have nowhere else to go and no one to listen to them when what grieves them happened so very long ago. I remembered what it feels like to help another person to see the gifts in the middle of their misfortune. And I was reminded of the pleasure I get from doing what I do when this lady said she never felt better that night. Finally, I remembered, I haven’t come this far to give up.

But I need your help. For those of you who know my work, I’m asking you to share it so that together we can stop all this pretence. Wingin’ it is ok.

12/08/2026

A summer of love …. and chauffeuring, and golf (lots of golf) and all things sea.

10/06/2026

When you treat the real root cause, symptoms disappear.

A young woman came to see after breaking up with her boyfriend. She was terrified she would not be able to move because he was so controlling. She was crippled with worry and feelings of anxiety, so much so she struggled to sleep, eat and function day to day.

What emerged was a story about repeated relationship patterns. Each piece of the story revealed feelings of grief, a lack of boundaries, low self-worth and feelings of carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. She couldn’t shake the feeling that somehow this just didn’t all add up; it felt so heavy to carry and at 19 it just didn’t seem right.

Many women I work with arrive believing they have an anxiety problem. They have learned to believe this is who they are. They have adopted the label that society has given them - that they’re anxious. And they have learned to forget that they haven’t always been this way.

When we work together, they begin to remember life before anxiety took over. A life before stress and burnout and overwhelm and exhaustion. They remember a time when life felt easier, freer, happier.

So what happened?

Stress, anxiety, overwhelm, exhaustion… these are symptoms. In the same way that a bucket with a hole in it can’t hold water - you fix the hole in the bucket (root cause) instead of trying to add more water (symptom). So you see, symptoms are like messengers, they point towards the problem - something that needs to be seen, acknowledged and healed. It’s not the anxiety that is the problem, you need to uncover the cause of the anxiety in the first place.

When we stop focusing solely on the symptoms, we open ourselves up to understanding what is actually going on at a deeper level. This is when everything changes. Not just for you, but perhaps for your whole family.

What if the thing causing you the most pain right now is actually trying to teach you something?

DM me if this story resonates with you at a deeper level.

Bláithín x

02/06/2026

2 simple breathing exercises for managing stress, panic, anxiety and overwhelm.

1) imagine blowing up balloon and elongate out-breath
2) box breathing remembering to put hand on lower abdomen

Finally, remember exams do not define you. Results will not define you. What you do after the exams does not define you. How you treat yourself, how you treat others and simply being kind will always say far more about you and the person you are than any result, degree or job title ever will. There is never only one path; at 46 I’m still finding mine! There is never only one way. I like to believe there is always A way. And there is always another way too.

B x

25/05/2026

Summer time means more evening appointments!

DM to book your peaceful evening and guarantee yourself a great night’s sleep

25/04/2026

Life lately has been soooooo busy!!!

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