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🤦🏼‍♀️Oh this year!!! I actively chose

🤦🏼‍♀️Oh this year!!! I actively chose to take a huge step back from my business and all my work to focus on my family. I’m so glad I did but I found it harder than I ever imagined to be working so little for the first time in my life.

⭐️Confidence, self belief, drive, direction- they can simply evaporate and you don’t know who you are or what to do.

👼🏼Then people like Sam, my business fairly godmother give you a call and say “can you do this” - I said yes ,but truly I didn’t know if I had lost my confidence so much that I wouldn’t be able to.

👍🏻#socialmediafest in #wexford was a huge success thanks to @tweetinggoddess @countywexfordskillnet & I did a good job and just loved doing what I do best #presenting #MC & #panelinterview

#mcforhire if you are looking for professional to energetically compère your event then give me a call! #backinthezone

😉If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Door is

😉If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Door is #chrismafied

my super talented friend @heatherbetsy who runs @flowerpop.ie has the most amazing Christmas wreathes available and can be posted all round the country. This isn’t an ad as in I wasn’t asked nor pain to do it. I just feckin LOVE IT !!’n I paid for mine through the wreathe subscription I get every year mostly, to make the neighbours well jel of my fancy door 😂

❤️ This fancy lady is called ‘Beyoncé ’ but their is also a Mariah, Shania and lots of the options. Order yours now so you can have such an equally good looking door for chrimbo x

Still absolutely buzzing from Bonzo and my trip to

Still absolutely buzzing from Bonzo and my trip to the NCH to see the amazing Zoë Conway alongside her musical partner and husband John and with up by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra & a host of guests including the incredible Louise Mulcahy. It was the premiere of the most beautiful film “From Forrest to Fiddle” by Zoe’s brother Patrick with a score by Zoe . Hairs on the back of the neck beautiful/ if you get a chance to see or hear do it. Dad and I were just blown away and I am beyond proud of Zoe and the joy of seeing a real life musical genius is a thrill. Irish and contemporary music are in the safest of hands. Magic abounded. Mná na hÉireann abú.
Thank you Zoe , John, Louise sbd everyone for a night I will treasure for ever. X

#wimhofmethod fundamentals with the amazing @chill

#wimhofmethod fundamentals with the amazing @chill.with.mary

❤️Lads I cannot describe what an amazing day and experience this was. I’ve wanted to do it for ages having seen @pamjdpilatesandbirth and @thesunshine_doula - I was influenced!!!

😍I have taken a total step back work wise and from here to focus on my family. But really want to start doing things for myself and to improve my mind and body.

😎Mary is an incredible human and creates an environment where you learn these awesome breathing techniques (which have been scientifically studied and help the person practicing them in lots of ways)

🥲I was nervous as I was sceptical whether it would ‘work’ and jumping into a bath that’s 1degree is so far out of my comfort zone I was afraid I wouldn’t be able .

😍I need not have worried- I and the awesome crew that I was with all did so much work, healing and cold immersion. I cannot recommend this more- DO IT !!

😇Mary is able to create this safe , magic environment where everyone, while in a group, has their own experience and journey and it felt such a privilege to see so much healing and power in a space. I literally felt like I was fizzing with energy and strength.

✊🏾Thank you to Mary, the other lovely people on the course particularly @loraineresabeth and my midwife pal @sarah.lodola.leahy - both of whom knocked it our of the park.

🫶🏽if you , a family member. A pal are looking for a life changing , incredibly well priced few hours. Where you will learn to lower stress, let go of lots of stuff and improve mind and body. What are you waiting for???

#wimhoff #wimhofmethod #wimhoffbreathingmethod #chillwithmary

Happy birthday to my amazing husband Garret Flynn

Happy birthday to my amazing husband Garret Flynn and to another amazing guy in my life my dad Bonzo - it is a wonderful thing that your family gets on well enough that they can holiday rugby World Cup together, mostly without you 😜 My two October dudes. Love you both xxx

#Nationalsurrogacyconference 😄I was delighted

#Nationalsurrogacyconference

😄I was delighted to be invited to talk on Sunday at the #surrogacy conference about my role as a birth and baby educator supporting families through Surrocagy & adoption.

♥️Thank you to one of my besties @ranaevonmeding for coming in the car with me and easing my nerves. It’s been a while since I spoke publicly!!

😎The conference was organised by my wonderful friends @irishgaydads & @irishfamiliesthroughsurrogacy

🗣️There were great talks and information sharing on the realities, challenges of surrogacy by both straight & #lbgtqiaplus families.

👥Modern families are made in all sorted of amazing ways and every parent and child deserves the same: information, education, rights and inclusion.

🥰I am privileged in my work to be a small part in helping families get ready for their babies and feel connected to their process, even if their baby is growing in a different country. We all love our kids the same and want the best .

🫶🏽Thankyou ti the brilliant organisers , speakers and attendees for such a super day of info sharing and support.

🫤The legal process is a mess and makes it so that lots of kids & parents are still not equal under the law. The work of @equalityforchildren goes on!!
And I will continue to proudly support and fight till all our kids and parents have the same inclusive and equal legal status.

#inclusion #surrogatefamily #gaydads #surrogatekids #irishsurrogacy #surrogatemums #intendedparentsuport #equalitymatters

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Just a warning to anyone heading to the airport -

Just a warning to anyone heading to the airport - computer system at check in is down. Queues are insane and chaotic so give yourself plenty of time. 😬

Happy #internationaldayofthemidwife ♥️As som

Happy #internationaldayofthemidwife

♥️As someone who no longer works frontline - I know that I have a job that has none of the incredible stress that so many of my colleagues face every day, every shift.

😎Saying “thank you midwives” and saying the #midwife that looked after your family was ‘amazing’ is lovely - but being over stretched, under paid, under resourced, understaffed is the reality for #midwives in Ireland today.

🥺I miss frontline care so much but I left so I could have balance in my life and to try and get pregnant. I hope to go back someday and look forward to perhaps experience the changes that have been long promised.

🤩I am so lucky to love, to know , to appreciate some of the best women * humans in my life that I have met through #midwifelife -Midwives are literal heroes.

✌🏻I will always continue to advocate and fight for a profession I am so proud to be a member of.

🫶🏽I’ve tagged a few who I adore and helped me through some rough professional times.

#midwivesrock PS so many more people to tag 🏷️

19 years- a lifetime but also seems still very clo

19 years- a lifetime but also seems still very close.

Today the sun shone and I thought of lovely memories of awesome Liz; people still remember her and that is her legacy.

Grief is the painful price we pay for love and it is always there. However, it doesn’t hurt as much. It’s different now nearly 2 decades later;the good times are so much easier to remember than the sad and bad bits.

For anyone that has more recently lost a loved one I’d like to offer hope. I promise it won’t always feel just so awful. When mum died I thought I would stop and that the world should stop to acknowledge the incalculable loss. It didn’t- abd that hurt even more.

I didn’t think I’d ever be able to function let alone be happy. There have been some terribly hard times but I have a life that is full of love and fun and connection and that is how I honour my mum’s memory. By trying to live the happiest and best life I can, having as much empathy and sharing kindness wherever possible. Grief never goes but it changes and time makes it feel less sharp. The love you shared is forever, even if the person isn’t.

Felix said to me tonight that ‘when tears fall hope grows ‘- it was in one of this books in school. sending love to all to all those who grieve♥️♥️♥️

#familyreunion - JUST DO IT!! ♥️I had an idea

#familyreunion - JUST DO IT!!

♥️I had an idea a few months ago about how awesome my family -multiple cousins- are. My dad, his sister and 2 brothers are all still great pals but , everyone is busy so we don’t get to hang out enough & unless at a time of loss, not all together. So no time like the present - reunion!

💎I bounced the idea of a few leading cousins (on my birthday for max emotional power) & received a wave of commitment, excitement &a plan.

🍀With my Dad & my super sister @embyre taking on the genealogy &my awesome co- conspirator cousin Susie Byrne sorting logistics - it all fell into place.

🕯️We gathered in our home of #aughrim with fun, love & delicious food to hang out , laugh and acknowledge how lucky we are to not just like, but absolutely love each other. It only worked because everyone wanted to be there. #awesome

👎🏻My own wee pet Felix had chicken pox so unfortunately Gar & him couldn’t join all the cousins but it was so Special. I so grateful and will spent another month recovering from the level of craic.

🥰 hopefully it might inspire a few others to do the same - go on!!

🙏🏻huge thanks to all but especially my cousin Paul Phelan and all the Paddy’s staff for hosting & putting up with enormous amounts of tomfoolery 😉🙈

😇my Aughrim family are the ‘scaffold of my soul’. They are the best. We Create magic by simply getting together. To watch all our little people immediately just adore each other and have fun- that’s family ♥️

#family #wicklow #aughrim #byrne #phelan #mcmanus

Delighted to be speaking again at the #allirelandM

Delighted to be speaking again at the #allirelandMMF2023 @midwiferyforum sponsored by @activeironworld

This is open to all #midwives and #studentmidwives and #birthworkers and us always a super day.

🗣️I’ll be talking about #Nutrition and #Iron in the #postnatal period and I’ll also be around to chat at the #activeiron stand so please come say 👋🏻 Hello

#maternityfestival #midwiferycare #studyday #speaker #presentation #allirelandmaternityandmidwiferyfestival2023

#midwiferytraining I met one of the loves of my l

#midwiferytraining

I met one of the loves of my life @bonnieswalsh & we remain besties and I returned from her Hen party in Athlone today in an absolute hoopla-hoop;after one of the best nights celebrating a diamond of a human.

👯‍♀️#ourstory begins with Training to be a #midwife. Absolutely the best thing I ever chose to do.However it was a challenging, long &at times,soul destroying. It is incredibly rewarding but as a mature student , in my late 20’s, I gave up becoming a barrister to move back home with my dad, in Dundalk, after having realising law wasn’t for me; I was the ultimate fish out of water. I know people did not understand my decision & some thought I was insane.

❤️The only reason I made it is because I met the most wonderful people. Other than the privilege of working in the birthing~work space ,with & for women, pregnant people and families-the greatest gift is you work with some of the best people that exist.

🌟Siobhan and I were unlikely besties-I am the best part of a decade older;siobhy was 17 and wasn’t sure she wanted to be a midwife or go to college in Dundalk. But we clicked and have been adoring each other ever since.

😍we made each other better midwives. She didn’t believe sometimes,but I knew she would be a spectacular and incredible midwife & I couldn’t be more proud to know & feel hope because despite its massive issues-the irish maternity service is filled with people like her. #hopesurvives

🇦🇺🦘 Our friendship thrived even though she midwife in Australia for 8 plus years. But shes back !

😎This human has taken all actively learned birth knowledge & is now a Midwife Manager in a very busy Irish unit; she’s in for the long haul and I’ve no doubt will improve the service, strive for excellence and mind both staff and clients in the way that they should. #bettermaternitycare is being fought for in every single shift by people on the ground who are underpaid, understaffed , under resourced & dealing with unimaginable challenges every minute of every shift. Bonnie is also teaching students:I am in awe , but not in any way surprised.

🥳Last night we laughed, danced -thank you Bonnie.

#midwifefriends #madwives

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