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The Gables, Fishers, Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow Fiona O'Farrell BA(Hons), ND, LicAc, PgDip, MAFPA

Transformational Acupuncture & Somatic Therapy - Women's Health, Fertility, Pregnancy, Menopause, Emotional Wellbeing, AcuFacial & BackRelax

20+years experience in feminine-led coaching.

05/01/2026

Acupuncture & Pregnancy...perfect match 🥰

27/12/2025

Thanks to for teaching me the name for this portal...idir dhá Nollaig... the time between two Christamases. A pause to reflect and adjust our footing...

Everything in our lives is a ritual, conscious or unconsciously.

We are co-creators of our reality...gnarly and nice. The world is a mirror reflection of our inner realm. As within so without.

As I sit down to reflect on my year, and see what comes through for the new year, I like to work with archetypes to help me navigate the path.

This year, I've chosen Sekhmet... Goddess of Redemptive Fire ❤️‍🔥...what an archetype to call in!! As we enter the Year of the Fire Horse in Feb 2026...a '1' year...fresh beginnings, the Phoenix rising from rubble we pulled down in our '9' year of endings and purging, Year of the Snake 2025.

I'll sit in meditation and write out what I want to co-create for the next cycle, and as always, asking that it's for the highest good of all...because that's good Witching!! 😉

Some journal prompts for this powerful time:
💫 What lessons did I face in 2025, and what learnings will I carry through to 2026?
💫 What did I face, in the external, that has its source in the internal? And how can I meet that part and give it healthy resolution?
💫 How do I want to FEEL in 2026, and what will help me get there?
💫 What three actions can I take NOW to help me find this feeling in my life?

Happy New Cycle 💫💫💫

May we remember we are co-pilots and not passengers....

🐍

23/12/2025

A huge big thank you for being here ❤️🎄❤️

I've really enjoyed the work we've done in clinic this year, it's felt very collaborative, authentic and powerful.

You guys drive the work, and I'm grateful that we show up together to bring it through.

I follow the undercurrent, and 2026 feels big and potent, but I think the groundwork has been done, so we're ready to burst through the soil! 🌱

But until then, we all deserve to put the feet up, enjoy the pause and eat some unnecessary cheese! 🧀🥂 yay!!!

Much love ❤️
Fiona x

#2026

12/12/2025

Lots of bugs...tis the season...my house included 🫠

Remember, your immune system is very wise and clever...it knows what to do. Really, our main job is to support it as best we can.

TCM tips for Immunity:

🔥 stay warm - warm coats, keeps feet and lower back warm to protect your precious Kidney Jing, cover your WindGates (back of the neck)!

🔥 eat warm and nourishing foods that are easy to digest with warming herbs and spices (porridge, soups, stews, herbal teas)

🔥 if you do get unwell, encourage a gentle sweat. This helps 'expel the pathogen'. My magic soup helps! (See link in bio)

🔥 keep lungs moist to help coughs - honey is the OG lung moistening tonic

🔥 immune supporting supps like whole food C (not ascorbic acid!), Magnesium, Zinc, Elderberry, Astragalus, Reishi...

🔥 do 'Winter' like nature does - rest, sleep, eat, move gently, tend to your inner world, the slumber that helps us have the fuel for a good Spring 🌱

08/12/2025

Nothing keeps a practitioner humbler than thinking we have a good idea of the diagnosis only to see the real truth in the tongue.

We see so much here...the colour, the coating, the shape, the cracks, the red dots...the truth behind the veil.

It's one of the many ways we diagnose in TCM...by listening, looking, feeling...paying attention to the tiny non-verbals signals your body is communicating.

The tongue, the pulse, the sound of your voice, the depth of your breath, the temperature of your limbs, the colour of your face, the texture of your skin, the strength of your nails, the look in your eyes...

It's So. Damn. Cool.

What's your tongue really saying?

(Artwork by me...hands off 😜)

21/11/2025

Beautiful Yin ☯️

The inner, moist, cooling energy of nurturing and creation. Where roots can dig in deep for support, nourishment and restoration...

I love Yin. It's the feminine side of the wheel.

When Yin is weak, the Yang fires flare, burning up resources, moving too fast and too hard....until the soil is drained of her richness, dry, parched, empty...

When we push her too hard, eventually she runs dry...she can give no more.

And that impacts us deeply, especially when it comes to fertility and menopause.

So let's not do that, right? Let's support her so balance returns.

Burn out is real. And Yin is the remedy...

20/11/2025

It's the question I get asked so much when it comes to IVF and acupuncture...

Acupuncture and IVF are close pals...IVF clinics recommend it as part of a cycle, and your health insurance covers it. It's a great combination. No brainer...

When it comes to timing, bottom line - the more time we have to influence the outcome, the better.

There's a speed the body works at...it has already selected the egg it will release in 3 months, things like womb lining, boosting yin and blood (egg quality, womb lining), warming the yang (luteal support, strength) and supporting the flow of liver energy (ovulation, circulation)...these are complex and long term projects your body focuses on. The magic is in the preparation, and acupuncture works with your body as a strong support.

However, the research for stand-alone acupuncture done at the time of ET is also impressive, so there are also huge benefits to adding it into a cycle that has already begun.

Either way, acupuncture and IVF are BFFs...

16/11/2025

Internal Family Systems (IFS)...the best modality for emotional healing...with the worst name (sorry Dr Schwartz ...true tho...😉)

(Full article on website BTW..)

IFS is a way of accessing and talking to the parts of our inner world that need us.

It's by far the most powerful talk-based route to emotional transformation and nervous system recalibration that I have found.

Where body-based approaches, movement and restorative nervous system patterning help the BODY complete and update trauma programming, IFS is the cognitive bridge that helps the MIND reframe these patterns. Our brains like words, logic and dialogue - IFS is that.

In IFS we meet a traumatised part and guide it through to meet its needs and complete the healing cycle it's been stuck in.

I use an IFS-based approach in practice when we are addressing nervous system regulation and emotional healing. Having trained in a number of IFS modalities, with Fran Booth and Frank Anderson, it really landed with my system when I trained with Queen of nervous system regulation Deb Dana and IFS expert Alexia Rothman. I now combine somatic and traditional IFS to help give words to the parts of the nervous system seeking change, completing the session with empowering acupuncture points, helping your system settle into the new programming that was accessed.
It is gentle but powerful work.

It is a core part of my AcuCoaching offering, but I still use it in shorter format in my Traditional Acupuncture sessions when emotional parts come forward to talk. It's deeply respectful and gentle, and helps us access difficult emotions without getting retraumatised...

'There is a part of me feeling [emotion]...what does that part need?'

If there’s one thing IFS wants you to remember, it’s this:

Every part of you is welcome. Every part belongs. And every part is willing to change if it helps us feel better.

And, above all, the powerful, unbreakable Self is always there, at your core.

***FULL ARTICLE ON THE WEBSITE or SEE LINK IN BIO***

For more information, check out:

www.acupuncturewithfiona.com

14/11/2025

Both articles up on the website now...damn I'm productive when I get up at 3am 🫠

I'm sitting on the Snake one a while longer ... I think that's quite enough for one day 😉😂🐍

05/11/2025

The amount of Moxa I'm using in clinic at the moment is next level...warming those inner fires! 🔥

With my clients, we're fairly well split down the middle...those with insufficient YIN (too warm) and those with insufficient YANG (too cold)...

🐍Yin is our cooling, dark, inner 'feminine', the void of creation, the Winter, the nurturing of the seed in the underworld.
🔥Yang is our warm, action oriented, passionate, outward moving 'masculine' energy, the Summer, the harvest of the crop.

Don't be deceived by the magical language...these energies should be respectfully managed...poetic terms for what translate into pretty punchy clinical symptoms....

🌟 Your body is talking...

So this post is for the chilly 🥶 ladies...you fire 🔥 ladies, stay tuned...I'm brewing a stew for you too!

Ps: I lean towards this pattern. I know it well.

I should mention it's beautiful too...leaning more into Yin dominance is very feminine, creative and potent...but if we are falling into it because our Yang energy is depleted...that's not really strong Yin, it is a weak system that needs some support from the fire 🔥

Socks on, tea brewing, hugs, blanket and a good book...🔥❤️🔥

03/11/2025

Hey hey! Homework this week is (RE)FINDING PLEASURE!

Sounds easy? Try it! See how much credit you can tolerate in your nervous system bank account...

Once you're in the black, well, there's pretty much nothing you can't do...nervous sytem is relisilent, peace and pleasure are easily accessed, life gets better, you're in the flow, stress is tolerated well, crises are managed well...etc etc

But if you're in the red...well...you can't do no nothin...

Start at the foundations.

🌟⭐️💫Link in bio to my Place of Peace Meditation...

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29/10/2025

Intention is everything.

Each acupuncture point is a gateway.

How we direct its energy is important.

Look what they can do...

🌷🌷🌷

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