Stretch Marks

5 days after giving birth at home - fashion stylist Justine King joins me to share her gorgeous natural home birth story. 

Making this empowered choice to birth at home wasn’t by accident - but an instinct that grew following her first lockdown baby - and his restricted birth. 

Instead this was within her control, within her safe 4 walls and within her capacity as she stretched her inner belief and goddess to meet her baby.

Hosted by Sinead O'Moore

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This episode is kindly supported by Carriwell - available from Cleverclogs.ie

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For 5 years I’ve trusted Paul O’Regan founder of AcuDublin with my headspace, back pain, pregnancy preparation and postpartum recovery.

Acupuncture and Anatomy in Motion with Paul is now firmly in my self care toolkit - and he has finally agreed to join me on the podcast to talk about my symptoms and how he treats so many women as stretched as me coming through his clinic.

Mothers, trying to be all things to all people in this modern world with little regard for what our bodies actually go through in pregnancy, postpartum or just monthly, my symptoms, my story is so not unique - and that seeing so many women in this same boat has led him to create Aim to Recover a brand new multi disciplinary health hub in Drumcondra that focuses on every aspect of pregnancy and postpartum recovery. Plus he’s a dad of 3 young kids - he gets it. 

And you can follow Paul @acudublin on instagram or discover all the pregnancy and postpartum treatments at this new clinic

Aim to Recover

Hosted by Sinead O'Moore

Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.

This episode is kindly supported by Carriwell - available from Cleverclogs.ie

Produced by The Brand Story

Recorded in Prymal Productions.

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One year ago, when her 1st born was 3 weeks old, Laura Mangan was diagnosed with a a brain tumour.

From Limerick, now living in the UK with partner and Wrexham FC player Anthony Forde - club owner Ryan Reynolds stepped in and found answers.

While Laura's story has been featured throughout media with and without her knowledge - this is Laura's story.

A first time mother living away from home with a newborn standing in the hospital with an expressed bottle at home being told this news.

And here for the first time she tells it in her own words. 

March is Brain Tumour Awareness Month and one year on almost to the day from her diagnosis, Laura is here and ready to use her voice to create more awareness. 

Follow more of Laura’s recovery, advocacy, wedding and gorgeous life on @livingwithljm

Share this far and wide - talk to you again next week. 

Hosted by Sinead O'Moore

Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.

This episode is kindly supported by Carriwell - available from Cleverclogs.ie

Thank you to Alan Breslin on Sound

Produced by The Brand Story

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This Friday, March 8th Ireland is being asked to vote on two referenda.

There are two articles for us to vote on.

1) The Family Article and 2)The Care Article

I have written a full piece on the meaning of both on my substack - you can access that here.

In this episode I speak with Sonya Lennon, founder of Work Equal and along with the Women's Council has been part of the process to get us to this point. Through her work with work equal she was called as witnesses to the joint Oireachtas committee on gender equality.

She is a YES YES campaigner - however this episode explores the questions and concerns shared by my followers who participated in the polls.

**I am open to learning. My opinions are not everyone's. My understanding is open to correction. I believe in the importance of debate and conversation. I am not a broadcaster with a responsibility to be neutral. I am a person trying to figure this out.

Hosted by Sinead O'Moore

Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.

This episode is kindly supported by Carriwell - available from Cleverclogs.ie

Thank you to Alan Breslin on Sound

Produced by The Brand Story

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Maria Forde’s journey through motherhood has been a sequence of stretches that have tested her and offered her some of the greatest loves of her life. 

We are talking about:

• severe hyperemesis
• A very rare condition leading to emergency airways surgery.
• An emergency section.
• A newborn in nicu with a collapsed lung- an injury occured during birth 
• Meningitis. 
• Her uterus at risk of rupture. 
• Miscarriage

And this all in the last 5 years while also showing up, living life, working, mothering, coping with whatever life throws next - all the while deeply grateful with a resounding, “I'd do it all again for the children I am so fortunate to have” 

Women are incredible! This story of immense stretch is proof alone of that.

Hosted by Sinead O'Moore

Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.

This episode is kindly supported by Carriwell - available from Cleverclogs.ie

Thank you to Alan Breslin on Sound

Produced by The Brand Story

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is a blend of the physical and the spiritual.

The blend of the feminine body and the feminine rising.

A story of endometriosis, ivf, fertility and faith.

Not in the religious sense but in spiritual sense.

My guest Sinead De Hora, is a an Angel Healer, a rahanni teacher, an author and a facilitator of spiritual ceremonies.

She is also a woman who battled endometriosis and ivf to conceive the baby she is now carrying.

This conversation takes us to new places on this pod, places some of us might not fully understand - but thats also whats so powerful about listening to human experiences. 

And surrendering to all the things in this life we do not know. 

Hosted by Sinead O'Moore

Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.

This episode is kindly supported by Carriwell - available from Cleverclogs.ie

Thank you to Alan Breslin on Sound

Produced by The Brand Story

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Charlene Flanagan co-founder of Ella and Jo is here for this gorgeous conversation about finding your light again. 

With Irish twins Charlene shares how necessary it was for her to find a way back to herself. 

She shares her toolkit for self regulation as she stretches beyond herself to create this business and life she loves. 

The darker moments - how we can all feel judged and how we can hold ourselves back, unsure of our real value.

This episode has one giant hug of a message - FIND YOUR LIGHT AGAIN and shine bright. We need you. 

Hosted by Sinead O'Moore

Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.

This episode is kindly supported by Carriwell - available from Cleverclogs.ie

Thank you to Alan Breslin on Sound

Produced by The Brand Story

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Claire Walsh is a successful author & ted talker, the first person to represent Ireland at the Freediving World Championships in 2019 and she is in the messy middle of subfertility.

Fertility is a very personal + private journey.

But that can leave us at risk of only hearing some commercial promises and the good news. 

Where is the messy middle?? 

We talk about illusions being shattered, her relationship with hope, the indignity of the physical process and the power games between you and an industry who hold the keys to life. 

This is a moving conversation with a woman who doesn’t know how the story ends and who is being stretched between what could be and what this is. 

Hosted by Sinead O'Moore

Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.

This episode is kindly supported by Carriwell - available from Cleverclogs.ie

Thank you to Alan Breslin on Sound

Produced by The Brand Story

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This weeks guest Carla Piera Fitzgerald has lost 183 lbs, half her body weight.

But don’t assume this is a weight loss episode - because our conversation goes deeper than that.

This is about shedding the mental weight of negative self talk, trauma and the mental health cycle that kept Carla trapped in self sabotage and food addiction for most of her life. 

We talk about how everything changed when she stopped hating her body and started to love her soul.

We talk about fertility and the choice she made to become a mother.

The personal stretches she has gone through as her body halved in size.

And her real goal - to empower as many people as possible to see beyond the scales and to begin to love themselves back to health. 

Carla’s conversation is personal, at times painful but incredibly inspiring. 

For more support visit halfofcarla.com

Hosted by Sinead O'Moore

Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.

This episode is kindly supported by Carriwell - available from Cleverclogs.ie

Stretch Marks is owned and produced by the brand story - sound editing by Alan Breslin.

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Has motherhood made you feel smaller?

Friendships stretched, identities stretched, career choice and opportunity stretched.

It can be a real time of personal invisibility. 

Which is why I needed Visibility & Business coach Kate O’Dwyer to join me for this conversation.

Kate is an advocate of authentic self expression & connection.

Through her work, she supports her clients to feel regulated, resourced and rebellious in their personal and business visibility. 

She is an authentic support telling you that it’s hard, but to try your best anyway because the world needs you to be you, in all your glorious flawed and beautiful ways right now.

Hosted by Sinead O'Moore

Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.

Stretch Marks is owned and produced by the brand story - sound editing by Alan Breslin.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.