West Cork Menopause and Women’s Health Clinic It is with great pride that I report my completion of the final hurdle of The British Menopause Society (BMS) qualification process: I am now officially a BMS Menopause Specialist. I run The West Cork Menopause and Women’s Health Clinic, located in Bantry […]
Stress has a genuine physiological impact on your physical and mental health while a certain level of stress can be motivating, energising, and help you perform at your best. Excessive levels of stress can exhaust the body, affect your digestion, disrupt sleep, impair your thinking, cause the body to feel […]
Boundary. If you look this word up in a dictionary or explore its origins in language you will find it refers to setting limits. Quite often a boundary is referred to when talking about land, an important thing to have in place to avoid conflict and confusion: Usually represented physically […]
And just like that summer is over. It feels like it happened overnight, but really, it’s been fading for a few weeks now. The Celtic calendar got it right. Lughnasa on the first day of August is when the season changes. It always seems to me too early to call […]
“You can’t make it perfect. Life has a habit of popping up to remind you of impermanence. Be graceful in letting go, in releasing that perfect dream. Let yourself come gently down to reality, to how it really is and to the constant change that happens whatever we do…” The phrase […]
Meán Fómhair, the Irish for September, translates as the middle of autumn and is a time when Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) begins to affect many people. SAD is a kind of depression that occurs primarily during the autumn and winter months, when sunshine hours are reduced. While the specific origin […]