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Welcome to Diverse Wellbeing, the podcast where parents of children with additional needs find support, connection and real conversations on embracing self-care. Each episode explores practical insights, expert advice and authentic stories to help you manage stress & nurture your wellbeing in day-to-day life. Join us as we discuss the unique journey of diverse families.
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![[Mind Matters] Travelling Lighter Into the New Year](https://s3.castbox.fm/c4/42/4f/b4c183596b119a0ee6b73e427aaf38c911_scaled_v1_400.jpg "[Mind Matters] Travelling Lighter Into the New Year")
This week’s episode is about laying down what no longer fits and choosing a kinder, steadier way forward into the year ahead.If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie.Until next time, take care.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
In this reflective episode, I return to the foundation of so much of what we’ve talked about this year: finding serenity so we can move through life with more clarity and ease.If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie.Until next time, take care.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
A short, practical guide to using your attention to lift your perspective, patience, connection, and energy through simple daily moments.If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie.Until next time, take care.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
![[Wellbeing] Pockets of Restoration](https://s3.castbox.fm/c0/b0/9d/bc9cd230be4420e4bc3cdffe90e0625ab3_scaled_v1_400.jpg "[Wellbeing] Pockets of Restoration")
In this episode, we explore how to restore your four finite resources: time, energy, money, and attention. Learn how to create small pockets of restoration throughout your day and week that genuinely replenish you.If you'd like to stay connected or explore more resources, visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
You have a finite amount of time, energy, money, and attention. And at some point, you reach the edge of what you have to give.Understanding this is about relief and clarity. And it's about giving yourself permission to stop trying to do the impossible.So today, we're going to explore what it means to have finite resources and why it matters for your wellbeing.If you'd like to stay connected or explore more resources, visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
Today, I’d like to help you create your own sleep preparation ritual — something personal and flexible that fits around your evenings, your family life, and your reality.If you’d like to explore more wellbeing practices for parents, you’ll find free resources and past episodes at diversewellbeing.ie.And if this episode helped you, sharing it with another parent who might need rest can help us all slow down together.Until next time, take care.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
![[Wellbeing] Winter Wellness: 5 Ways to Stay Well Through the Darker Months](https://s3.castbox.fm/a3/d4/ad/d358841da40426cfa579a4c1192e33ff0a_scaled_v1_400.jpg "[Wellbeing] Winter Wellness: 5 Ways to Stay Well Through the Darker Months")
In this episode I’m sharing five simple ways to think about winter wellness that can help you move through this season with more awareness and more care for yourself.If you’d like to stay connected, visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. All our free resources are available there too.This is Diverse Wellbeing—empowering parents & embracing wellness.
![[Mind Matters] The Science Behind Play & Connection](https://s3.castbox.fm/db/3d/f3/4215b5effa46d1ce3393f557d98fa7a373_scaled_v1_400.jpg "[Mind Matters] The Science Behind Play & Connection")
Today we’re exploring something that often gets left behind once we become adults — play.Playfulness helps us regulate emotions, build resilience, and create positive memories even in challenging seasons.If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.Until next time, take care.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
You give safety, belonging, love, and growth — not through grand gestures, but through small, ordinary moments of care.Today, I’ll guide you through a practice to help you gently reflect on where those moments already exist, and how you might invite a few more in.If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. All our free resources are available to download there too.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
Today, we’re exploring an idea called the nine minutes of connection — a small daily habit that can make a big difference to your wellbeing as a parent.If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.Until next time, take care.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
Today’s episode is an invitation to pause for a few moments — to recognise just how much you already do, and how deeply you already care.If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month here in Ireland, and as a breast cancer survivor myself, I wanted to take a moment to pause with you and return to the thread that runs through this whole podcast: the importance of self-care.If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
In our last episode on the seasons of parenting, we talked about how our role as parents is constantly changing as our children grow. One of the strategies I mentioned was practicing flexibility — and today, we’re going to spend a little time with that idea.If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.I hope this practice gives you a little more ease and permission to experiment, one small step at a time.Until next week, take care.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
As we move into autumn, I’ve been thinking about change as a theme. This led me to create a short series of episodes exploring how change affects us as parents.We began with our last two podcasts on transitions, and today we’re continuing that theme with something I’m calling the seasons of parenting.If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.Until next week, take care.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
In last week’s episode, we explored the hidden impact of transitions — not just for our children, but for us as parents too. We looked at some simple ways to care for ourselves in those in-between moments.Today, I’d like to take that one step further with this guided meditation.If you’re new to the podcast you can join our mailing list by visiting our website at diversewellbeing.ie to receive updates.This is Diverse Wellbeing - empowering parents & embracing wellness.
Today I want to talk about something that often goes unnoticed but has a huge impact on our energy levels as parents — transitions.Download my FREE Self-Care To-Do List by visiting the link below.https://www.diversewellbeing.ie/resources/self-care-to-do-listIf you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.Thanks for listening.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
Today I want to talk about an idea that can help change how we feel in the present: using the future as a tool and creating something called future self-connection.The future doesn’t need to feel heavy. It can be the very thing that lightens today.If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.The future can be your ally — pulling you gently toward strength, hope, and a little more lightness in your day.Until next time, take care.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
![[Wellbeing] Strengths in Balance](https://s3.castbox.fm/0c/76/e7/bc19fea3cdb5b9fc8879c31a8728a67d7a_scaled_v1_400.jpg "[Wellbeing] Strengths in Balance")
Those qualities that people admire in you — your empathy, your responsibility, your resilience - they’re what help you cope but those same strengths, if they go into overdrive, can start to impact your wellbeing in ways that leave you anxious, drained, or even burned out.By finding balance, you can make sure those strengths keep serving you rather than depleting you.If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.Thanks for listening.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
![[Practice] Sleep Routines: Your Evening Reset](https://s3.castbox.fm/22/52/11/da83868e3fce1eab191cd3e71a4841db42_scaled_v1_400.jpg "[Practice] Sleep Routines: Your Evening Reset")
Today we’re talking about your sleep routine — and how a few simple practices before bed can make all the difference to how you feel tomorrow.Download my FREE Self-Care To-Do List by visiting the link below.https://www.diversewellbeing.ie/resources/self-care-to-do-listIf you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.Thanks for listening.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
Today’s episode is part of our Mind Matters series.We’re talking about attachment — what it really means, why it’s not always what we expect, and how you can build it gently, even on days when everything feels like a bit too much.Download my FREE Self-Care To-Do List by visiting the link below.https://www.diversewellbeing.ie/resources/self-care-to-do-listIf you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list.Thanks for listening.This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.
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