24 years experience under my belt. I offer support to pregnant, peri and post menopausal women, balancing hormones, calming frayed nerves.
The comment I hear most is "You've got amazing healing hands". 👣❤️WhatsApp 083 336 0433 to book yourself in.
14/01/2026
Reflexology during pregnancy can support physical comfort, emotional wellbeing, stress reduction, and labor preparedness, benefiting both the pregnant person and the unborn child.
Tag a friend or share the post about these amazing benefits.
Benefits for the Pregnant Person
1. Stress and Anxiety Reduction
Promotes deep relaxation by calming the nervous system
May lower cortisol (stress hormone) levels
Helps with emotional balance and sleep quality
2. Relief from Common Pregnancy Discomforts
Reflexology is commonly reported to help reduce:
Back, hip, and pelvic pain
Swelling in feet and ankles (edema)
Headaches and sinus pressure
Digestive issues (constipation, heartburn, nausea)
3. Improved Circulation and Lymphatic Flow
Encourages healthy blood flow to the legs and feet
May reduce water retention
Supports oxygen and nutrient delivery throughout the body
4. Hormonal and Nervous System Balance
May support regulation of pregnancy-related hormonal shifts
Encourages parasympathetic (“rest and digest”) response
Benefits for the Unborn Child
1. Indirect Stress Reduction
When the pregnant person is relaxed, the fetus is exposed to lower stress hormones
A calmer intrauterine environment supports healthy development
2. Improved Oxygen and Nutrient Delivery
Enhanced circulation may contribute to better placental blood flow
3. Strengthened Parent–Baby Bond
Reflexology sessions often deepen mindfulness and awareness of the baby
Encourages emotional connection and presence
Benefits for Labor and Delivery
1. Preparation of the Body for Birth
Regular relaxation may help reduce tension in the pelvis and surrounding muscles
Supports overall physical readiness for labor
2. Pain Management Support
Reflexology may stimulate endorphin release
Can be used as a natural coping technique during early labor
3. Reduced Labor Anxiety
Familiar relaxation techniques learned during pregnancy may carry into labor
Calm breathing and body awarene
12/01/2026
The hands, our incredible hands and more specifically, my own incredible hands have been the tools I have used for 25 years, powerful healing tools.
In Reflexology, specific points in the feet mirror the entire body, allowing gentle pressure to help release tension, rebalance energy, and support overall wellbeing.
By working these reflex points, the hands can encourage relaxation, improve circulation, and activate the body’s natural ability to restore harmony—anytime, anywhere.
The body is miraculous.
Full credit to for their incredible videos of the human body. Fascinating and highly educational.
09/01/2026
HOT WATER BOTTLE SAFETY AND PRECAUTIONS
With another cold snap upon us, there's nothing quite like a cozy hot water bottle! Its great comfort and relief for muscle aches and period type cramps and spasms.
Do check the date and age of the bottle as they have a limited safe life span. You should dispose of them after 2 years.
An episode of This Morning with Cat Deeley and Dermot O'Leary showed just how devastating a burn can be from a burst hot water bottle.
So take steps to enjoy the comfort without any risk.
Jackie
07/01/2026
I'll be in touch with you all shortly now that I have my diary. Thank you Tara ❤️ Lots of you have your set day and time so I'll pop those in. If new to my page or you've been thinking about making an appointment drop me a WhatsApp to 083 336 0433.
I deliberately did not get my diary last year as I wanted to stay present and not skip past the holidays thinking and planning what was coming in the New Year. Thats not always the case, however, it was how I was feeling so I went with it 😃.
Today is the first "proper " school day so things will begin to settle down. Weekly rehearsals for my choir
start back tonight too. Its a big one for us as we will be celebrating our 40th Anniversary . Our Spring Concert is Saturday 13th June so Save The Date as I know many of you enjoy our concerts 😍 and my daughter will have just about completed her Junior Cert so maybe I'll start with those big events in the diary first!
Finally, I want to wish you all health, peace and happiness in the days, weeks and months ahead. If I can help you along the way then please do get in touch.
Jackie
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05/01/2026
I don't know why I do it to myself! It starts off innocently enough, a bit of sweeping and mopping, maybe moving the treatment couch to clean underneath, emptying a shelf to dust and then I get possessed and go on a mad cleaning and moving everything around rampage.
And then hours later....... this! and all whilst making a Sunday roast and picking up and dropping kids off at friends.
Do I regret starting? Yes. Will I be delighted when it's all done and feels like a whole new energetically charged healing Sanctuary? Yes!
So today Monday 5th January I have to take down the Christmas decorations AND put the treatment room back together.
I didn't think this through 🤣😃😄🤪
26/12/2025
What a wonderful St. Stephen's Day evening with the PJ Duffy Quartet at The Cot and Cobble, Ballina.
A pure delight to enjoy here in Ballina
24/12/2025
Thank you to every one of you that came through these doors this year. Whether that was for your own Reflexology session or to purchase the gift of health and relaxation for a friend or loved one, thank you so, so much.
The last voucher has just been collected so that is definitely it I'm afraid as my Christmas celebrations are starting right now 😄
Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas from my house to your hearth and home.
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22/12/2025
Such a lovely Christmas atmosphere in Ballina today. The place is buzzing with shoppers getting the last minute gifts.
has a full trad session outside for everyone to see and enjoy. Well done to all the wonderful musicians 😆
18/12/2025
Thursday...... My year is almost over. This beautiful treatment room has seen so many feet, telling so many stories of lives lived and their ups n downs.
Lots of babies that I knew in utero will be spending their first Christmas as much loved new family members.
So many women coming to terms with the symptoms of peri menopause and using the medium of Reflexology to help support them.
Others came for some comfort and solace to help work their way through bereavement and loss and difficulty with sleep.
Lots of ladies recognise that regular reflexology sessions, myself included, work as a preventative means of keeping ailments at bay, allowing the business of Life, to keep going.
Whatever your reason for choosing reflexology, thank you for choosing me and Ballina Reflexology Centre to help you.
I look forward to seeing you next year.
Jackie
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14/12/2025
Elfie says it's the last few days to purchase a Reflexology treatment for a loved one or friend.
WhatsApp or text 083 336 0433 to get in touch.
13/12/2025
I have the most wonderful clients. Thank you so much for your thoughtful gifts 🎁 💕 💗
I will be finishing up on Friday 19th December. There are 2 appointments left if anyone wants to give themselves a little pre Christmas relaxer session.
Whats App me on 083 336 0433
11/12/2025
Congratulations on your beautiful little bundle of joy 🩷💙
Husbands and dad's book your incredible wife/partner in for some well needed, earned and deserved reflexology. Give them and their amazing body an opportunity to rest and recuperate with a deeply relaxing session. Alone.
After months of pregnancy and possibly with other little ones to look after too the hard work begins.
Sleepless nights can take their toll so mums need to be minded. So much of being a mother is the unseen caregiving and lack of sleep is no joke, for anyone.
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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.............
