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14/05/2025
A room with a view or a treatment with a view 😄
What another glorious day! I took the opportunity of throwing the doors open in between today's appointments to let the sounds of the birds singing and chatter come into the treatment room.
Every thing is just so beautiful under blue skies and sun shine.
30/04/2025
How time moves on! I did my initial Reiki training in 2001, Level 2 in 2002 and Level 3 Reiki Master training in 2003. Twenty-two years ago.
Times were very different then and it was most definitely a treatment viewed with skepticism and suspicion. Fortunately that is not the case nowadays. Reiki most definitely took me on a journey and opened up a whole new world to me.
Everyone has their Reiki journey story!
I incorporate Reiki healing into all my Reflexology treatments which I know my clients respond to so well.
22 years, where does the time go!
healingenergy
13/04/2025
Well four months of weekly rehearsals, learning music and lyrics and having great fun all culminated in a wonderful night at the Great National Hotel Ballina last night . Singing really is good for the soul.
Moy Singers Spring Concert 2025 condensed into 7 minutes....
28/03/2025
Remember the clocks go forward this Sunday, which is Mothering Sunday!
Look after your mum this weekend and why not treat her to a wonderfully relaxing reflexology session. She'll love you forever 😁
26/03/2025
Mothers Day is Sunday 30th March. Vouchers available for all the wonderful mums and hard working wives 💝
26/02/2025
All ready for today's appointments....
Can you see yourself lying here, cozy, comfortable and receiving one of the most relaxing treatments there is!
24/01/2025
26/06/2024
My mum is visiting for a few days and I took her to the beautiful Brusna River in the Downhill Road.
Ballina Community Clean Up you have all created the most serene, peaceful and contemplative space to take time out and enjoy natural beauty.
It's an absolute jewel. Thank you to each one of you most sincerely.
My mum just sat and enjoyed being there for the longest time. ❤️
Cllr. Mark Duffy
23/05/2024
With exams looming just around the corner, there can be freyed nerves amongst anxious students.
Why not consider booking a Reflexology treatment for your hard working son or daughter. Reflexology is deeply relaxing and therapeutic to help keep minds calm and bodies relaxed.
22/05/2024
Ahh feet...... a love hate relationship for some. We really cannot move forward in life without them.
Look after your feet. Love your feet 😁❤️😁
13/05/2024
There are any number of reasons why you may experience constipation, poor diet, lack of fibre, medications, sedentary lifestyle, not drinking enough water and emotional, mental or physical stress.
Reflexology is known to both help reduce stress levels, adrenaline production, high cortisol levels and help ease digestive symptoms such as constipation.
Why not try this form of natural healing to help with this highly uncomfortable problem.
Credit .osteopathy with video
12/05/2024
Sunday evening cleanse and clean. Working in a beautiful space makes me feel happy and I'm always delighted when people remark about it when they come in for the first time 😁
All ready now for my clients and their treatments this week.
Do you make time for yourself and your physical health and emotional wellbeing? There is nothing quite like a Reflexology treatment to ease your mind and body..
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My personal story of why I became a therapist.....
Hello, my name is Jackie Mehigan. I am a qualified Reflexologist, Acupuncturist, including cupping and moxibustion, Massage Therapist and Reiki practitioner. I also qualified in Indian Head Massage, Hopi Ear Candling. I spent 6 weeks post Graduate training at the Shanghai 6th Teaching Hospital and Jiao Tong University of TCM, China in 2004. I was very fortunate to spend a week in the company of Dr Randine Lewis, Author of The Infertility Cure: The Ancient Chinese Wellness Programme for Getting Pregnant and Having Babies. Her ethos and approach to preparing the body to conceive and working towards being your best fertile self was enlightening back in 2006. Other notable influencers and training received was by Jane Lyttleton, Author of Treatment of Infertility with Chinese Medicine. She is now Director of the Paddington Medical Centre in Sydney, Australia and a number of eminent Dr’s of Chinese Medicine that I attended training with both here in Ireland and in the UK and whist in Shanghai.
I am a wife and mother to two beautiful young children. We, as a family moved to Ballina a couple of years ago. As is the case with most therapists, there is a story that lead them down the path of natural healing and I am no different. So like all good stories, we need to go back to the beginning......
Back in the late 90’s I was living and working in Dublin in what was a stressful job and various ailments let me to a GP visit. I got very little satisfaction and left feeling embarrassed that perhaps I was over complicating and overthinking my symptoms. I got on with life and work, however, the symptoms continued, got worse and more were to follow. Eventually, I made my way back to the GP surgery again. This time I was greeted by a different Doctor who listened, really listened and it was such an unburdening I felt instantly better that I wasn’t loosing my mind. She told me she had an idea what was causing my symptoms and would need to follow up with tests. So some weeks later following CAT scans, MRI’s and blood tests I got my diagnosis. I had a one and a half centimetre tumour on my pituitary gland. This little fella was pushing down on my optic nerve causing all my “stress” headaches. Humdingers that would have me out of action for days and as for my menstrual cycle and what it did to my emotions............ well don’t go there. So I was referred to an Endocrinologist and over the following months various drugs and quantities where tried and tested to reduced the size and pressure of my internal lodger, Macro prolactinoma, to give him his official title.
It was at one of these many appointments that I was told in quite the most casual of manners that my “chances” of conceiving were minimal if at all. Now, as a 30 year old single gal, this casual remark hit me like a juggernaut. I did not know what to do with this information, who to discuss it with or how could I work it out. I was single and where does that conversation fit in when you meet someone.
So at this time I hit the the proverbial crossroads of life and knew I needed to make some major life decisions. It was undoubtedly the continuous stress of work and Dublin City life that were the culprits in this story. So in 2000, I left my job, left Dublin and started on my my new path of immersing myself in all things holistic. A huge jump. Terrifying actually but I just knew I was doing what I was meant to do. I trained as a Massage Therapist first and then whilst working full time as a massage therapist I trained in Reflexology and then continued with training and qualifying in acupuncture. Some 5 years in I found myself drawn more and more to helping couples who were struggling to conceive and I sought out the greatest teachers I could find and to bring that knowledge back to Limerick (where I lived at the time), and over the next 5 years I primarily worked in the area of REPRODUCTION, INFERTILITY AND PRE-CONCEPTION CARE. Working along side couples who were at all levels of the journey: from those who wanted to make sure they had the healthiest eggs and s***m possible before trying to conceive, through to the couple who had already spent many years and a myriad of surgical procedure behind them, who were now looking for a more holistic approach as science had not given them their dream of becoming parents.
In all this time I religiously went for my own reflexology treatments and of course I would use acupuncture on myself and followed all the advice I was giving all the women who came to me for treatments.
Still single, and ever the optimist. Time was unfortunately not on my side. However, at the age of 39 I met my now husband and I had to reveal my “secret”. A very hard conversation with no guarantee of the outcome or his reaction and response. However, I had found myself one of those rare gems and we got married. It was 2009. I was 41. I had a Pituitary Prolactinoma and by this time, it had long been joined by an under active thyroid just to well and truly put the nail in the conception coffin.
Molly was born naturally and healthy in August 2010. I was 42.
And Sean was born December 2011 and I was 43.
During both pregnancies I continued as often as possible (weekly) to have my reflexology sessions. My week centred around my appointments. I would be only out the door and the clock would start its countdown until my next treatment. Could I be a reflexology ju**ie if there is such a thing. I’d be a strong contender!! Such is my love, fascination and understanding of the process and the sheer relaxation gained from a session.
So for 12 long years I had lived the life of a woman who believed she would never become a mother. Only those of you reading this and are fighting the good fight towards motherhood can truly understand that its a lonely road and there are no guarantees to be had.
But, my message is: believe in yourself. Be so gentle and kind to yourself. Only give your body the best of wishes and intentions. Don’t separate your mind from your body and feel it is betraying you. There is so much you can do and so much you can be in control of. I can show you.
So, fast forward. Here we are in Ballina. I have started up my practice again. As well as the 17 years experience I have under my belt, I have been working hard and studying and attending lots of CPD’s (Continual Professional Development). One of which stood out was 3 amazing days at LARCC Cancer Care Sanctuary in Multyfarnham. (If you scroll down my news feed you can see where they appeared on RTE in January and you will see the wonderful women we trained with. LARCC is an amazing centre which cares for those with a cancer diagnosis, and their families. They can go to the Centre and enjoy some relaxing reflexology, amongst other therapies. Reflexology can help ease nausea, assist with constipation, anxiety and sleep difficulties. Most of all, it offers a gentle and caring touch to help relax frayed and weary minds and bodies. I learned so very much and hope those skills and knowledge may assist those in need of it here in Ballina.
I have many more courses coming up to continue to seek out the best methods, practice and approach and offer that service through my hands to those in need of treatments.
So, if you are still with me, the title of a song from one of my favourite movies.............
