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Mat & reformer Pilates studio in Moyvalley, Co. Kildare W91WK63. Reiki Practitioner & home of The Pause

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12/09/2025

Little Marathon update

Now, just six weeks out from the big day. I have had a longing to do a marathon for many years. I have chased numerous people around Dublin on marathon day cheering them on and always feeling slightly envious. Now it's my turn.

Right now, I am wondering if I have bitten off more than I can chew. I have always said that I struggle with consistency and the thing with marathon training, like most things, is you have to be consistent. I have found this challenge to be really testing me. I tend to doubt my ability and fill my head with negative self-talk. Even as I write this, I am thinking that I am not really doing a marathon properly as it will be a mixture of jogging and walking.

Anyway, as well as my own desire to complete it, I am also trying to raise money for the, quite simply, incredible organisation that is I have gotten to know them and the work they do even more recently and I cannot find words to express the value of it. The accompaniment services offered to survivors of s€xual violence, the 24 hour helpline, to be there with them in the aftermath and hold them as they rebuild, but also the mammoth work that goes into education and research into trying to prevent it happening in the first place. It is life-saving. The fundraising target was set automatically for me, and I reached it, which I am so thrilled about. But, I want to raise more, and so I have set the target a bit higher. Please, please, please, if you can spare anything at all, no donation is too small, consider donating through the link in my bio or here https://eventmaster.ie/fundraising/pages/TR90962918?fbclid=PAT01DUAMxGStleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp8VlEnbPNEUq-8BudypW5d9siuSxpIrDCsGmeeupv-_ZxQ0xDCkMfBZ9DPFg_aem_CApb1_GNeuXRjIP2IrhNNw.

Be part of the fight against s€xual violence, and make the world a little safer.

Grá mór
♥️

13/08/2025

Please share 🙏🏻♥️

New classes 📢

I am really excited to let you know that I will be starting a four week block of mat classes beginning the first week of September.

Mat Pilates is an incredible way to take some time to completely focus on and connect with your body. Consistent practice will
increase strength,
improve flexibility & mobility
Improve coordination & balance.

Pilates is low impact so very kind to your joints. It reduces your risk of injury and improves the effectiveness and efficiency of your muscles, and so is the perfect accompaniment to sport or any other form of exercise.

These classes are suitable for absolute beginners, and there is always a friendly and fun atmosphere.

If you would like to book in, simply send me a message
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10/08/2025

When you're strolling to dinner with a rare public display of affection from him and one of the kids takes a picture to make sure they weren't mistaken 😂

Jokes aside, he might not be one for PDAs or grand gestures, but he is a constant source of love, reassurance, support, and belief in me.

He has the patience of a saint to put up with my continued extremes of emotions, my heartbreak at the state of the world, and my constant desire to fix it.

He is the space that I get to completely collapse within and the scaffolding that helps me rebuild, again and again and again. He is serious craic, my best friend, mo anam cara.

And, he will be seriously mortified by this post 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

07/08/2025

"Do you think you are over it yet?" a friend of mine put this question to me a few days ago. Something about my face must have answered him before my words came out. "I never will be"

Before I lost my Dad, I had no idea that grief would be forever, that I would be in mourning forever. I have lost people before and never had any difficulty accepting that I would never see them again. I felt sadness but understood that now I must sustain myself on the memory of them.

This is a whole different experience. It feels like every morning when I open my eyes I have to steady my heart against that moment when I remember. It feels completely unacceptable to every part of me that I will never see him again, never hear his voice, never touch him. How can that possibly be? Quite simply, I cannot accept that I must live the rest of my life without him. There is nothing that can prepare you for that and nothing that can soothe it.

And yet, I must live. I must live in a world that is completely changed. Festivals and holidays that once served as distraction from challenging times have now become experiences that I cannot share with him. There is a void that will never, ever be filled and I have to figure out how to live alongside it.

Letting tears fall. Listening to the one precious voice note I have from him, ending as he always did with "love you darling," floating on the softness of his voice. Wrapping myself in memories of him and sharing them with others. None of it fills the infinite void but it does offer something that I can't find words for.

Allowing myself to be in this liminal space has taught me not to fear this grief, even in it's enormity. This grief has allowed me to feel his love in a much deeper way, and I didn't think that was possible.

As always, I send love to anyone on this path.
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19/07/2025

They didn't want to march with me today, and I wondered if should I make some other arrangement for them. But in my heart, I knew I wanted them there. I wanted them to be aware of a world beyond them. I spoke to them about why we were marching. I asked them to think about the children we were marching for, to think about what it must be like. I know that they can never fully imagine that, I don't think any of us can. I asked them to think about if our roles were reversed, what it would mean to know that children somewhere far away were marching for us.

And so, with the promise of ice cream afterwards, the privilege of which is not lost one me, we took to the streets of Dublin. We got swallowed up in the embrace of solidarity that is and my children got to be among thousands of other hearts beating collectively for peace, justice, dignity and liberation for all.

As I walked with them, I was so aware of my son's hand gripping tightly to mine, my daughter, never far from my side. I knew there was part of them that felt a little uneasy in the crowds, nervous of becoming separated from me. I thought of the mothers, separated from their children, searching for them under rubble, unable to reassure them, and keep their children safe. I thought of the children who must be scared of losing their parents and running through devastated streets, calling desperately for their safe arms.

How did we get here? How do we make it stop? I am not sure, but one thing I know is we must not give up.

In the words of a beautiful song by and arranged by my Pal for our Sing in Solidarity last week

"Don’t numb to this, don’t numb it out.
Let it all flow in and out.
You’re strong enough to feel it all,
and keep your heart alive.

Stay soft to this, don’t numb it out.
Let yourself breathe in and out.
You’re strong enough to feel it all,
and keep your heart alive."

Thanks to my wonderful brother
for this picture ❤️

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