Independent parents are those who do all or most of the work when it comes to raising children. Molly sits with Aisling to discuss the many facets of being an independent parent; highs, lows and it wouldn't be a Healing Gals episode if we didn't knock a bit of craic out of it too. Enjoy the episode!

Healing Gals Podcast Season 3 is sponsored by Lashdolls Academy of Beauty. Follow them on Instagram @lashdolls_ireland and explore their courses on www.lashdolls.ie

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Healing Gals Podcast Listeners sent in their dilemmas to [email protected] and on social media. So Molly sat down with one of the gals, Aisling Power to discuss the dilemmas and share their thoughts. If you have any dilemmas or topics you'd like to be discussed on the podcast send them in and they may be discussed on the next episode of Healing Gals Podcast!

Healing Gals Podcast Season 3 is sponsored by Lashdolls Academy of Beauty. Follow them on Instagram @lashdolls_ireland and explore their courses on www.lashdolls.ie

Enjoy the episode!

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Molly has Aisling Power on this episode to discuss Dysfunctional Relationship Dynamics. Molly and Aisling use Love is Blind Season 7 to discuss examples of dysfunctional relationship dynamics. You don't have to have watched the series to listen to the episode. Molly and Aisling give enough context in the episode for you to be able to follow along. As usual, Molly extracts the lessons from the series, and both Molly and Aisling discuss similar situations they have been through and what they have learned.

At the end of the episode a clip from Drivetime on RTE Radio 1 is played which discusses the topic of "Can men and women be friends". There is also a discussion about absent fathers and women who enter relationships with them. And finally, ensuring you are your authentic self when starting a relationship to save time and pain. Enjoy the episode!

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Sinead Crowe and Shauna Gibson from Intuitive Eating Hub join Molly for an incredible discussion around how to improve our relationship with food. Topics covered:

• Experience of binge eating
• What is intuitive eating
• Evelyn Tribbly and Elise Resch and their self care eating framework
• Weight loss clinics
• Psychology of forming relationship with food
• Problems with diets
• Orthorexia
• Slimming World
• Scams that convince us our natural bodies are not good enough
• Intuitive Eating Hub
• Resilience and fierce self-compassion
• Shame
• Binge eating
• Food addiction
• Magic Chef Tool
• And so much more.....

Sinéad is an Intuitive Eating Counsellor, Nutritional Therapist and Perinatal Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist, other expertise includes, training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Strategic Intervention and Behavioural Family Therapy. She has also completed a Masters in Mindfulness Based Interventions in UCD.

She experienced binge eating for over 20 years and enforced rigid food rules for her eldest two children. She has since had two more children and has raised them as intuitive eaters.

Shauna Gibson is an Intuitive Eating Counsellor and Psychotherapist who specialises in the treatment of Eating Disorders and disordered eating. A dieter from a young age she became a Slimming Consultant, for several years. Disillousioned by the slimming industry Shauna embarked on training in Eating Psychology.

She moved into private clinical practice in Belfast in 2013 and found that weight management approaches do not work and can actually cause harm. But actually working in a weight neutral way where the focus is on health promoting behaviours is better for long lasting effective change. Intuitive Eating is the main evidence based weight neutral approach and, Shauna is passionate about this self care framework.

Music played was Famine by Sinead O'Connor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZIB6MslCAo

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The conversation with Psychotherapist Aoife Edwards continues.

Topics covered:

• The parentified child
• Unmothered mothers
• Attachment styles
• Being a good enough parent
• Self-parenting
• Being estranged from your parents
• Boundaries: what they are and what they're not.
• Our parents did the best they could
• Parenting in the different generations
• Emotional Abuse
• Creating safety to repair relationships
• Teaching people how to love you

Recommendations:

Instagram Page @sitwithwhit

Tiktok on Unmothered Mothers; Creator EVITA PK

Aoife Edwards is also an artist and uses art as a form of expression. Her pieces are very interesting. They explore themes that come up in therapy. If you're interested, give her art page a follow on Instagram @maala.studio

Enjoy the episode!

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Aoife Edwards is an integrative humanistic psychotherapist who specializes in childhood trauma. 

Topics covered:

• Body image
• The power of women as we get older
• Jealousy
• Loving yourself
• Modeling self-love to children and younger people
• Starting inner child work
• Difficult childhoods lead to abusive relationships
• Repetition compulsion
• Feeling safe in relationships
• If safety is not consistent, it's not safety
• Why women stay in bad relationships
• Deconditioning
• Therapy explained

Aoife Edwards is also an artist and uses art as a form of expression. Her pieces are very interesting. They explore themes that come up in therapy. If you're interested, give her art page a follow on Instagram @maala.studio

This episode will be continued next week...

Enjoy the episode!

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Molly sits down with her friend Sinead Walsh from the Health and Society Podcast to discuss Female friendships. As usual, the topic traveled on to other interesting topics such as Irish Funerals and the concept of Unconditional Love.

Topics covered:

Brooke Shields documentary "Pretty Baby".

Exercising for health versus exercising to be "skinny"

Periods

Misogyny and internalized misogyny

Learning the value of female friendships

Outgrowing friendships

Being the villain in someone else's story

RSD Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria

PMDD

Emotions versus feelings

Generational gifts

Boundaries

Jonah Hill boundaries scandal (google it)

Making up stories when other people treat us badly

Enjoy the episode x

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Inspire HER is a women's Christmas event in The Betsy, Swords on 15th December Molly is a guest speaker and in this episode, she speaks to the organisers of the event as well as the guest speakers. You'll get a chance to hear where these inspiring women came from and how they grew their business' against the odds. Inspire HER is the appropriate name for this reason.

You can follow the gals below:

Karen Grehan @lashdolls_ireland

Chloe and Sarah @femmeclub_irl

Andrea Kirwan @drewayacademyclinic

And of course Molly @healinggals

You can purchase the last few tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/femme-club-irl-x-lash-dolls-ireland-presents-inspire-her-christmas-event-tickets-1050892436567?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*ekkg2k*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTc5Nzk0MzMyLjE3MzA1NjI4NDc.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTczMDU2Mjg0Ni4xLjAuMTczMDU2Mjg0Ni4wLjAuMA..

If you have any questions or dilemmas for Healing Gals listener's episode, send them into [email protected]

Enjoy the episode!

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Big Brother Star Trish comes on to discuss her experience in the Big Brother House and her struggle with PTSD when she came out. Trish discussed openly the mental health crisis she experienced as a result and discussed her healing. Trish explores the usual Healing Gals topics with Molly i.e. the messaging she received which formed her beliefs about herself, how she cares for Little Trish and lessons she learned from her unique life experiences.

We discuss racism and the harmful stereotypes put on black women and how we can be allies. Trish is an incredible woman and Molly was grateful to have this important discussion with Trish.

Enjoy the episode!

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Molly sits down with a friend, Aisling Power, to discuss lessons we wish we knew when we were younger. Their conversation covers a multitude of topics from deconditioning what we learned as children to body image and much more. This is a really great episode!

Molly recommends:

Beyond Men and Masculitnity on Netflix

Normal People with Paul Mescal (she couldn't remember his name)

Molly speaks about inappropriate touch from an employer when she was 16 so be aware this discussion might be difficult for some listeners.

Healing Gals has been nominated for TWO Irish Podcast Awards:

• Best Health and Wellness Podcast and
• Best Self-Improvement Podcast

If you could vote, that would be amazing. Click on this link here: https://irishpodawards.ie/listeners-vote

ALso if you want to go to the Christmas Event that Molly is speaking at in December here is the link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/femme-club-irl-x-lash-dolls-ireland-presents-inspire-her-christmas-event-tickets-1050892436567?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&_gl=1*1y0f4gh*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjA2OTg1MjQzMC4xNzI5MzY1MTMx*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTcyOTM2NTEzMS4xLjAuMTcyOTM2NTEzMS4wLjAuMA..

Enjoy the episode!

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