Clodagh Wellness

20/07/2024

We were made for Justice ✊🏽🙏🏽🫶🏽💚

28/05/2024

Since October I have neglected this page due to the ongoing Geno$ide in P@lestine. I have been very active on my personal pages about the horrific events, trying to raise awareness & encouraging people to educate themselves on the situation. We as humans have a social & moral responsibility to help people in cases of injustice. Being human is the ability to love & show compassion what has happened to humanity when people can’t hold this for these truly special people? What the P@lestinian people have endured over 200 days plus 76 years is unimaginable suffering. My personal insta a/c has now been censored by the powers at be as they try & silence the voices. I will try to advocate as much as possible here too but incorporate wellness into it. As it’s never been more important to look after our mental & physical strength. ‘None of us are free, until all of us are free.’ MLK 💚🙏🏽✊🏽

11/05/2024

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

-Hunter S. Thompson

17/04/2024

10 THINGS I LEARNED IN MY YEAR WITHOUT ALCOHOL

1. Alcohol does not ease your anxiety, it delays it. And when it catches up with you, it has grown in size and weight.

2. Alcohol is not a truth serum; instead it switches off the much-needed filter we all use to run our fleeting thoughts through, before choosing kindness and compassion over the ugly (we all have these harsh thoughts, it’s what you chose to keep (and speak), that makes you you).

3. You are not more fun under the influence, you are just less aware of your surroundings and therefore unable to feel embarrassed. But it is registered somewhere in your consciousness, and waits for you the next day, with teeth this time.

4. Alcohol stops you listening, really listening, to those around you.

5. Alcohol stops you listening, really listening, to yourself.

6. Without alcohol or other influences, you are alone with your feelings. That shouldn’t be as uncomfortable as it is. The harder that seems, the more you need, NEED, to get through it.

7. If mood swings are an issue, alcohol is the main culprit here. The cycle of intoxicated (even slightly) to sober and the gradients in-between, leave the door of your mind open, for much chaos to enter uninvited.

8. Alcohol, and the not having of it, can change the way other people view you and your ‘company’. It is a great way to see who wants you around for real and who just enjoys your camaraderie - in boozy situ.

9. You are still fun. You can still have fun. You can still stay up late, and dance, and laugh at all the antics of your friends. In fact, the buzz of knowing you will be fresh the next day, is almost as heady as the drink once was.

10. Being alcohol free will change your life, it will bring in so much space, so much freedom and so much light. And what it takes away, will pale in comparison. You will be present, really present, wherever you go. And if that is unbearable, perhaps you should not be forcing yourself to go… life is too short, and far too precious.

Donna x

06/01/2024

03/01/2024

For many, January is a hard, cold month…

When everyone is setting new goals, laying down righteous ground rules and striving to become a better version of themselves, some of us are fighting to find ourselves each day...

You see, December is a month of giving, and some of us, come January, are completely and utterly spent.

A month of remembering everyone, and remembering absolutely everything.

A month of including everyone and of reaching out to each and every person we have ever known.

A month of reaching breaking point every day trying to have fun, to be the ultimate hostess, to be the perfect guest.

A month of stretching ourselves financially, emotionally and of letting our boundaries be breached by many... in the spirit of the season.

And then January hits and bam... before we can even begin the arduous task of clearing away the festivities, we are expected to jump on the ‘new year, new you’ bandwagon and transform ourselves entirely.

For some of us this is just too much.

January is the darkest and most depressing month of the year and for many sensitive souls, the barrage of ‘advice’ on how we ‘should’ be living, is just too much.

So perhaps this is a safe place to say that maybe it’s okay to take a week or two to recover and to just be kind to ourselves before demanding better.

And for those of us who really do fall low in the darkest month of the year. For those of us who have given too much and to whom the future looks bleak - perhaps this is the right place to say - you are absolutely fine the way you are. Just stay.

Take some time to breathe.

Take some time to not think about anything much at all except breathing in and breathing out.

Take some time to build back up, not tear your yourself down.

For many, this month is a mountain that looks unclimbable.

Be kind, my friends. Always.

Donna Ashworth

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30/12/2023

30/12/2023

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art ― write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

~ Neil Gaiman

[Art: June Stratton Studio]

25/12/2023

01/12/2023

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