Eileen Doody Therapies

06/05/2026

01/05/2026

Blessings to you this Bealtaine

Happy Beltaine! Today we celebrate Union and the fertility of life. With longer days and increasing light, we are more in touch with our lifeforce energy and the desire to create. Our ancestors celebrated this time with fertility rites to ensure the fertility of the land. People stayed up outdoors all night, jumped fires and visited sacred wells. Ribbons would be tied to the branches of trees growing close to these holy wells as gifts to the faery folk who were easier to meet at this time. It was a time to celebrate s*xuality and fertility however the Church changed all this ensuring a great repression of feminine s*xuality. Beltaine celebrates a reverence for all life, union, the sacredness of love and s*x linking human to Spirit.

Now, the veils are thin so contact with other realms may be easier. A time of expansion, it is important to remain grounded, connected to the earth but it is also an opportunity for deciding where you would like to focus your energy in the coming months. Also a great time to send healing wherever it is needed. Some other ideas to celebrate this potent time:

🌞 Visit sacred or holy wells and sense in to the energy of the area.
🌞 Sit and meditate alongside a hawthorn tree.
🌞 If you have access to a wild space, tune in to its energy.
🌞 Create a shrine in your garden or home using fresh wild flowers or herbs. Make sure to ask permission of the plant before picking anything. You could also place a little container of water, salt, a little candle or milk or honey to symbolize the elements and abundance.
🌞 Meditate on or dance the elements. i.e. water, earth, air, fire.

"May the fragrance
Of a breathing meadow
Refresh your heart
And remind you you are
A child of the earth.

And when you partake
Of food and drink,
May your taste quicken
To the gift and sweetness
That flows from the earth.

May your inner eye
See through the surfaces
And glean the real presence
Of everything that meets you."

- "For the senses" by John O'Donoghue

Image: goddessandgreenman.co.uk

30/04/2026

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28/04/2026

An easy technique with massive benefits. I love seeing how this changes things for clients. Access the technique in the first comment underneath original post.

GCI Heart Coherence Technique
Increase and sustain your personal heart coherence to open your heart and amplify compassion and love, radiating to the planet or specific areas of need by imagining it flowing like a river, radiating like light, or moving with your breath.

* In the first comment is a link to access the GCI Heart Coherence Technique.

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26/04/2026

"Every trauma therapist has known this for decades" is one apt comment posted under this post. It is important to remember that Science confirms things that have been Knowledge through empirical observation and experience for decades, if not centuries.

Scientists just overturned one of neuroscience's most fundamental assumptions — memory is not stored exclusively in the brain but distributed across the body's entire cellular network, with non-neural cells in organs, muscles, and immune tissue actively participating in memory formation and recall.

Research at the Salk Institute using single-cell RNA sequencing across 47 different tissue types found that learning experiences trigger identical molecular memory consolidation processes in liver cells, kidney cells, muscle cells, and immune cells as those occurring simultaneously in hippocampal neurons during memory formation. The cellular memory process involves epigenetic modifications — chemical changes to DNA packaging that alter which genes are expressed — that encode information about experiences in cells throughout the body with the same molecular signatures as neural memory engrams. Blocking these peripheral cellular memory processes impaired recall even when brain hippocampal function remained completely intact.

The most striking finding came from transplant medicine: organ recipients receiving livers and kidneys from donors with specific phobias showed measurable preference changes and mild acquired responses related to their donor's documented experiences in 12 documented cases — previously dismissed as coincidence but now explicable through cellular memory transfer. Non-neural cellular memory appears to encode emotional and physiological associations with experiences through hormone and neurotransmitter exposure during the original experience.

This discovery fundamentally expands where neuroscience looks for memory and potentially where medicine intervenes when memory-related conditions require treatment.
Source: Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Nature Cell Biology, 2025

23/04/2026

CranioSacral fluid and Light..

21/04/2026

Sometimes you hear stories that inspire completely. Nothing else to say. This is one of those.

The teller is a student who just completed CST2. At the start I ask for any successes since CST1. She said:

The story I’ll share is about a lovely lady, age 89, who came to see me.

I’d initially helped her son, and he asked if I would look after his mom. She was from South Africa and had been involved in a horrific car crash in the late 1980s. She went headfirst into the windshield back in the days before seatbelts were required.

Ever since then, she had head pains, headaches, and sharp pains behind her eyes. Every night when she went to bed, she got dizzy spells that took up to 10 minutes to settle. This had been going on since the late 80s - a very long time.

When she came to see me, I’d been practicing my CST1 techniques. I wasn't entirely sure what I could do for her, but the sphenoid seemed like an important place to start. I modified my approach to work on her while she was seated, because I didn't want her to lie down in my office and suffer a bout of dizziness; that was very unpleasant for her.

I worked on the frontal bones, the parietals, and the sphenoid, which did some amazingly weird and wonderful things. It was fairly unusual for me to feel the sphenoid moving in so many different ways.

I worked on her for half an hour that day and saw her again two weeks later. Since that first session, she hasn't had a single recurrence of that head pain or the headaches behind her eyes.

She's also able to go to bed and lie down with no dizziness at all!

It's pretty phenomenal.

Since CST2, I understand the mis-alignment patterns better; I was facilitating release just by holding the intention of very gently working with the sphenoid the way it wanted to go.

I've seen her in the clinic again and I continue to work on her seated.

It was a beautiful learning experience showing the power of what we can do for someone with head trauma. 35+ years of issues gone in one session. I know it’s not always like that but it sure is incredible when it happens.

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Thanks to Melinda Warren for this lovely story. I can’t help wishing she’s found CST sooner - but at least she found it!

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Our Next CST1s are 13-16 May nr Launceston and 9-12 June in London in case you’re inspired!

19/04/2026

Interesting study...CranioSacral Therapy helped clients with complex trauma and PTSD, where psychotherapy wasn't helping with their physical pain. It also helped with emotional release.

CranioSacral Therapy: Supporting Trauma Recovery

📖 Learn more:
https://www.iahe.com/storage/docs/articles/Combining-psychotherapy-with-craniosacral-therapy-for-severe-traumatized-patients-1.pdf
or visit the Upledger.com Searchable Article Database

This study explores how CranioSacral Therapy (CST), combined with psychotherapy, can support patients with severe trauma and PTSD—helping reduce physical symptoms and enhance emotional healing.