How my journey began
As a mother of two daughters, now aged 27 and 25, I found parenting to be very challenging at times and I always felt that I had something more to give to my girls but couldn’t quite find it. I loved being a parent but some of my behaviours bothered me and I felt guilty at times. I felt too that I wasn’t myself and that I was passing down learned behaviours but didn’t know how to change that. In my search for that something more I studied a course on Interpersonal Communications in University College Cork This course changed how I related to myself, my daughters and others and was the springboard for the follow on two-year Higher Diploma Course in Relationship Mentoring, again at University College Cork. What I discovered during my studies is that I had no understanding at all of my emotions and how to feel them and express them. Neither was I aware of my inner critic and how harsh it could be. The only feeling that I knew I had almost all the time was anxiety and I referred to this as my sea inside.
As I undertook the journey inside, I very gently took off the masks I wore and revealed my true self. In these years, I learned about my relationship with myself and that has changed my life. The resulting positive impact on my relationships in my life fuels my passion to support others in bringing about these changes for themselves. I love working with individuals and organisations who wish to understand how they relate with themselves and within their organisation and who want to flourish.
In my role as a self-employed solicitor, running my own practice for the 23 years, I also found the relationships in my professional life to be quite challenging at times. I discovered that my knowledge and skills as a relationship mentor greatly enhanced my stressful professional life and my relationships with my staff, clients and colleagues. I really enjoy working with other professionals helping them to bring about positive changes in how they relate to their employees, clients and colleagues. I have a deep personal interest in this work.
I have completed a Higher Diploma in Mindfulness Wellbeing in University College Cork and my vision is to teach mindfulness to families and bring it into organisations so that they can reap the rewards of living and working mindfully.