A Comforting Alternative to Controlling your Anxiety

by Niamh Gallagher | Sep 18, 2020 | Self-Care

When we’re feeling anxious, it can be tempting to try to feel better by controlling things. Holding in our emotions, shutting down, distracting ourselves. It’s what we’ve been taught. In fact, I reckon that if our culture had a mantra, it would probably be: “take...

How Your Early Life is Influencing Your Present

by Niamh Gallagher | Sep 10, 2020 | Attachment Theory, Inner child, Relationships, Self-Care, Self-Knowledge, Wisdom

It never ceases to amaze me how much our very earliest experiences set the tone for the rest of our lives. Whenever I come across a block in my life or work, I know the solution will lie in healing that early stuff! Our experiences in the womb and during the first...

Your Role in Creating a New World

by Niamh Gallagher | Sep 5, 2020 | Change, Channeled Guidance, Emotions, Intuition, Leadership, Rites of Passage, Self-Care, Wisdom

I know it doesn’t feel like it, but this is a year of possibilities. After so many months of upheaval, the energy is tentatively changing now. Can you feel the beginnings of something a little new? Just the seed of it. What we are being asked to do now is to lay claim...

Where Your Critical Inner Voice Comes From

by Niamh Gallagher | Aug 10, 2020 | Emotions, Self-Care, Self-Knowledge, Wisdom

That critical inner voice in your head is not really yours. If you listen carefully, you’ll hear your mother’s fears there…or your father’s strong opinions. You might also hear authority figures like teachers, coaches or priests/nuns. How you were treated and...

You Need Time to Digest Your Experiences

by Niamh Gallagher | Jul 20, 2020 | Emotions, Food & Nourishment, Healing, Self-Care, Wisdom

Digestive health issues are usually a sign that you are really good at taking in information. But not at processing it. (I should know – left to my own devices I would spend my whole time overthinking & overdoing! 😊) We need time to absorb our experiences...

Fairytales…and Creating a New Path

by Niamh Gallagher | Apr 10, 2020 | Change, Emotions, Intuition, Rites of Passage, Self-Care

There’s a reason so many fairy stories involve journeys into a dark forest and losing the path. Getting lost. The stories that sent chills up our spines as children reading them! They’re telling the story of what happens when we lose what’s familiar. When suddenly all...