Lara Slattery - holistic practitioner

23/03/2026

Right now many people feel as if they are standing between two different worlds. One moment we are connected to Spirit, and then suddenly we are pulled back into the collective of contraction.

But there comes a time when we must stop straddling. Your spirit is eternal. When you devote yourself to your spiritual practices, you reconnect with the part of yourself that holds guidance, strength, and wisdom.

The world your mind focuses on becomes the world you inhabit. If we only focus on fear and the safety of the body, that becomes the dimension we live in. But when we devote ourselves to ceremony, to inner work, we step into another current of life, the current of the River of Life, where creativity and healing continue to unfold.

Right now we are being asked to make a choice. Choose the world your soul lives in.

22/03/2026

Mouthtaping is great for healthy individuals, who can efficiently breathe through their noses. It was a game changer for me regulating my breathing. But!!!! Its not suitable for everyone.

22/03/2026

With kind permission
Never underestimate the power of ease, the bodies ability to heal and what downregulating can do.
This is why I do this work.
Privileged to witness sleep, change and integration.

21/03/2026

I love my work. I get to support others to make changes.

19/03/2026

Join .soundhealer and me Sunday for a journey to breath and sound. Using shamanic introduction, we will welcome equinox and ask what is possible with breath. This technique will help you meet your breath, let it breathe you and support you on a journey into presence and sensation. Science tells us that the power of sound can be transformative that we dont need to push or strive, rather allow. Join us on buk.ie/lara

17/03/2026

Happy St Patricks day. Barre returns Thirs 6.30pm

16/03/2026

In a journey many years ago, I was taken to what I call True Earth. I saw billions of souls who were filled with excitement and passion to be born here. There was such anticipation, such joy about coming to this planet. Earth holds beauty and living intelligence that calls to the soul.

Traditional shamanic cultures understood this. Ceremonies were performed not only for people, but for the land itself so that the relationship between humans, nature, and spirit would remain in balance. Spend time on the land, listen to the wind, watch the movement of water, and feel the sun warming your body. The presence of the Earth is always here, holding us. When we honor the Earth, we begin to remember why our souls were so passionate to be born here in the first place.

Traditional shamanic cultures understood this. Ceremonies were performed not only for people, but for the land itself so that the relationship between humans, nature, and spirit would remain in balance. Spend time on the land, listen to the wind, watch the movement of water, feel the sun warming your body. The presence of the Earth is always here, holding us. When we honor the Earth, we begin to remember why our souls were so passionate to be born here in the first place.

16/03/2026

Existential Depression is not Depression

If you are a Soul Deep Woman (or Man), a Highly Creative and Gifted Woman, an Empath, a Sensitive Soul… a Nurturer… a Visionary… A woman committed to live true to who you and share your gifts with the world, then… in case you feel that you are not living on purpose, you might be experiencing EXISTENTIAL DEPRESSION.

Now, Existential Depression is not Clinical Depression. You are not mentally ill. If fact, you are a person of integrity aspiring to live in accordance to your highest values and principles.

You want to change the world with your truth. You have convictions and you have strong beliefs. You are committed to be of service to the world.

In truth, you are a Soul Deep Human who sees the world as it is. You are honest and sincere with yourself and realize that you are not able to make much of a difference in changing the world we live in. Internal or external challenges get in the way of living out loud and impacting the world in a way that brings meaning to your life.

“Because brighter people are able to envision the possibilities of how things might be, they tend to be idealists. However, they are simultaneously able to see that the world falls short of their ideals.

Unfortunately, these visionaries also recognize that their ability to make changes in the world is very limited. Because they are intense, these gifted individuals… keenly feel the disappointment and frustration that occurs when their ideals are not reached. They notice duplicity, pretense, arbitrariness, insincerities, and absurdities in society and in the behaviors of those around them. They may question or challenge traditions, particularly those that seem meaningless or unfair.”
-Quote from Davidson Institute

To go a step further, many of us in the Transformational Sphere are committed to sharing our message with the world. If for any reason, be it internal or external, we are not able to fulfill the role we chose for ourselves in the Universal Puzzle, then our highly sensitive critical mind will tell us that we are not living up to our commitment.

And this is where Existential Depression or Anxiety flows in. When we are Meaning Seekers and we don’t do the things that bring meaning to our lives, we will feel the thorns of Existential Depression.

But this is not clinical depression. This is not a reason to take medication. This is not a reason to accept a labels imposed by a medical field that refuses to accept the difference between clinical depression and existential depression.

And honestly, considering the major issues we are faced with at a personal and collective level, who wouldn’t feel the pain of an existential crisis?

Just like Maya Angelo said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”.

Yes, living with your untold story inside of you causes existential depression. Not living our truth causes existential depression. But this is not mental illness. Your feelings and emotions are not to be pathologized. These feelings are to be explored, understood, listened to. They feelings require a call-to-action to bring to fruition our Soul's Calling. This is Sacred Calling.

“Are you a trailblazer?
If you see and feel what most others don’t.
If you have high expectation of yourself and others.
If ideas and interpersonal conflicts keep you up at night.
If you are passionate about upholding fairness and justice.
If you are immensely curious and get obsessed with what you love.
If you can’t stand hypocrisy and have to speak the truth, even others don’t like it.

If you are strong-willed, have an independent mind, crave autonomy and freedom.

If you can’t bare arbitrary instructions, routine activities and explanations that make no sense.

If you are bothered by the gap between what could be and what is- both in yourself, others and the wider world.

You might be a trailblazer; and for years you have wondered why despite your capacity for deep joy and connection, you also struggle with an inferiority complex, self-doubt, chronic guilt, bouts of anxiety, and sometimes existential despair.”
~Quote by Imi Lo- Psychology Today

Yes! Here we are. Finally, I have the scientific proof that majority of people are the victim of Existential Depression, not clinical depression, especially if you are creative, sensitive and committed to make the world a better place with your gifts and talents.

Dear Soul Deep Woman, you are not mentally ill. You are not to be medicated. Using the right language for how we feel, we can now create prescriptions for the soul.

First, take a moment in take in this truth. You are not mentally ill. You are whole just as you are.

You are a deep thinker and you hurt inside to see the world hurting.
And you want to be of help. You want to change the world with your own mastery. This is potent Soul Work. This is potent Soul Making.

You went on a Heroine’s Journey and you learned what the world needs to heal the deep wounds of humanity.

And the only way to lift the pain of Existential Depression and Anxiety is to become the person you have decided to be in order to make the world a better with your soul work. The only way to heal Existential Depression is to live true to who you are meant to be.

Stay with this truth today. How you feel is a sign of an evolved soul. A soul committed to truth. Your truth. Not mental illness. But a deep calling from your Soul to live meaningfully through your gifts and talents.

Let’s Make Soul and shed the pain of Existential Depression.
Let's dig deep and be the Change Makers that we are meant to be.
And then Existential Depression will be replaced by an Inner Joy that flows from knowing we Make our Soul as we Heal the Wounds of the World.

Sense of peace and serenity knowing that we are living true to who we are meant to be and our Soul Calling and Purpose in this lifetime.

Because we are all born called. The journey is to remember who we are and discover our Soul Calling... and then, make it manifest in the world. The pain of not living on purpose often becomes the Existential Depression I mentioned in my reflection.

But, please... never allow to be labeled as mentally ill. Because you are not. You are just a seeker remembering who you truly are....................................................................
Reflection by Archaeology for the Woman's Soul
Corina Andronache

16/03/2026

Its neuodiversity acceptance week, my autistic friend told me and I wondered would it really make a difference. When I told people my son was autistic he was immediately isolated in games and told no point in trying to teach you. I believed for years he would always need my support, and these days hes busy living a full life to call me, how ignorant can we be.

As a woman diagnosed with adhd, in her mid 50s, RSD was something I assumed everybody felt, the pain of rejection was so overwhelming that I would sabotage my progress to avoid it, often causing rejection I was so eagerly avoiding(see me earlier post). Discovering it was a rare thing only sensitive souls felt, and that having a tism made me a spice girl (neurodiversity is often known as neurospicy) I began to deepen that sensitivity to use in my work, we dont just feel our own pain deeply we also see others pain before others.
I remember my son helping the weakest child in the class or the child whose mother was late for pick up and I knew he was special, RSD personified but thank god for neurodiverse people and # # # # to labels boxes and non-acceptance.

If you don’t tell someone with ADHD that you explicitly like them, they will assume that you tolerate them.

If you don’t explicitly invite an ADHD person to a social event, they will assume you don’t actually want them there, if you say, ‘come if you want’, they will think that their presence at that social event is a nuisance to you, and they probably think that you hate them as well.

If you ask an ADHD person for a quick chat, they will assume you want a quick chat so you can fire them or break up with them.

People with ADHD experience something called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, it causes intense pain and is triggered by real or perceived rejection, and it happens because ADHD people were criticised 20,000 more times than your average child.

“Why are you being weird, it’s not that loud in here”
“You’re embarrassing yourself”
“Why are you being lazy?”
“Stop biting your nails!”
“Why are you crying?!
“You’ve let me down!”
“You’re really rude”
“Stop being weird!”
“Stop fidgeting”
“Calm down”
“Be normal!”
“Stop it!”

And it means that as as adult, they read positive comments as neutral, in fact they don’t believe positivity, it bounces off them, they read neutral comments like ‘come to the party if you like’, as negative and when they experience actual negative comments, well, let’s just say you don’t want to be around for that. Instant rage, sadness and crippling shame. It’s brutal.

Do you agree?

16/03/2026

Mother Nature is my favourite medicine!
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