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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.

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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10/10/2025

Have used this point more than once this week...our hearts are calling 💕

The Pericardium meridian is a beautiful channel to work with. As the Heart's guardian, it respectfully decides who may pass and who may not.

Those guards are wise, but they call us to converse to allow the heart to open when it feels too closed...

So much in the point...so it's 10 slides long...sorry not sorry 🫠🥰

08/10/2025

Hello new followers, lovely to have you here...thought I'd reintroduce myself...IG style 😉
..cos one thing we do here...we keep it real 😘

I'm an acupuncturist and somatic therapist, and I'm a rather passionate advocate for maxing our lifeforce potential...Official bio on my website 🧐

It's lovely to meet you, and I'm glad you're here...

Fiona
Xx

06/10/2025

Acupuncture and emotions...there's more than meets the eye...

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The Gables, Fishers, Co Wicklow
Newtownmountkennedy
A63HW54

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https://www.acupuncturewithfiona.com/

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