The Birth & Beyond Osteo

The Birth & Beyond Osteo Women's Health &
Pelvic Floor Osteo

26/05/2026

Sometimes during treatment we have to go with the flow.

I've treated mums while feeding babies, cuddling babies, entertaining toddlers and negotiating snack requests. 😅

I have toys, books and plenty of patience, and we simply adjust as needed.

Looking after yourself shouldn't have to wait until life is quiet... because let's be honest, that day rarely comes.

If you've been meaning to book for months but life, kids and everything else keep getting in the way, I get it.

PS. This is a memory of when young Eamon wanted a treatment but baby Eden wanted in of the action too 🤣

🩷 Pregnancy, postpartum, pelvic health and whole-body osteopathy


19/05/2026

Sometimes we don’t realise how much our environment is affecting us until something shifts.

I’ve been without a dryer for a week now, and while I knew how much I relied on it (the never-ending clinic towels and my son’s socks… honestly how does one child wear 4 pairs at once? 😂), I didn’t realise how much stress I was quietly carrying until the new one arrived yesterday.

And I physically felt a weight lift off my body.

Not because a dryer is life-changing…
but because functioning systems matter.

The little things in our environment.
The constant friction.
The unfinished jobs.
The mental tabs left open in the background.

Sometimes we adapt to carrying so much that we stop noticing the weight of it altogether.

PS: for those following along at home, the old dryer officially retired after 11 years of loyal service — it was the motor 😅

So now I’m curious…
What in your environment is quietly weighing you down at the moment? 🤍

Jaw pain, clenching, headaches, tight face muscles, clicking or grinding?Sometimes the jaw is the place stress and tensi...
14/05/2026

Jaw pain, clenching, headaches, tight face muscles, clicking or grinding?

Sometimes the jaw is the place stress and tension quietly accumulate.

TMJ dysfunction can contribute to:
• headaches
• neck pain
• facial tension
• teeth grinding/clenching
• ear symptoms
• poor sleep
• feelings of tightness or pressure through the face and jaw

Treatment may include a combination of:
• osteopathic treatment
• soft tissue work
• dry needling
• breathing and relaxation strategies
• neck/jaw mobility work
• nervous system regulation support

The jaw rarely works in isolation — it’s closely connected to the neck, shoulders, breathing patterns and nervous system.

These images show dry needling to the muscles around the jaw used to help reduce tension and improve muscle function ✨

If your jaw constantly feels “on”, your body might be asking for support.

Turns out I approach a broken dryer the same way I approach a patient 😂My dryer started making a horrific scraping noise...
12/05/2026

Turns out I approach a broken dryer the same way I approach a patient 😂

My dryer started making a horrific scraping noise this morning, and instead of replacing it, I spent 3 hours diagnosing it like an osteopath 🤪

Listening to the pattern.
Testing what made it worse.
Seeing what changed the symptoms.
Reassessing after every adjustment.
Trying to understand what was compensating and what the actual cause was underneath it all.

Somewhere along the way I realised…
this is actually exactly how I practice.

Not just chasing symptoms, but trying to understand:
✨ what changed
✨ what’s under strain
✨ what’s compensating
✨ and what’s really driving the issue

Also… Happy Mother’s Day to the mums doing emotional labour, mental load, practical problem solving… and apparently emergency appliance repair too 😂☕️🤍

Sometimes your body just needs a little extra care ✨This mum and daughter came in for treatments today, and after mum’s ...
07/05/2026

Sometimes your body just needs a little extra care ✨

This mum and daughter came in for treatments today, and after mum’s session she relaxed with not one, but TWO heated wheat bags and her legs elevated 😉

Your nervous system deserves care too, just as much as your muscles 🤍

05/05/2026

Some days it feels like everything is on you.

The house.
The kids.
The mental load no one sees.

And somewhere in all of that…
you start to disappear a little.

This is what I see in my treatment room every day.
Women who are carrying a lot — physically, mentally, emotionally.

You don’t need to push through it.
You don’t need to “get on top of everything” first.

Sometimes you just need a space
to put some of it down.

That’s what I offer 🤍





International Women’s Day.Today i watched something powerful.A female artist (Nico Paulo) singing on stage while her par...
08/03/2026

International Women’s Day.

Today i watched something powerful.

A female artist (Nico Paulo) singing on stage while her partner played guitar beside her and her baby peacefully breastfeeding in her arms.

No apology.
No hiding.
Just a woman being an artist and a mother at the same time.

It struck me how often women are expected to separate parts of themselves — career or motherhood, strength or softness, ambition or care.

But the truth is: our bodies are capable of holding all of it.

Creating life.
Nurturing life.
Leading, building, healing, performing.

I see this every day — women doing extraordinary things in bodies that are often asked to do too much, with too little support.

So today feels like a reminder:

Women don’t need permission to take up space.
Our bodies are powerful.
And the world is better when we’re allowed to show up exactly as we are.

Happy International Women’s Day. 💛

❤️

The kind of message I love hearing most from those who trust me with their bodies and their stories 🤍
07/02/2026

The kind of message I love hearing most from those who trust me with their bodies and their stories 🤍

I’ve been quiet on socials the last couple of weeks —not from busyness…from listening.And I realised this plant feels li...
25/01/2026

I’ve been quiet on socials the last couple of weeks —
not from busyness…
from listening.

And I realised this plant feels like unread emails energy 😅

Not grounding.
Not soothing.
Not regulating.
Just quietly demanding attention in the background.

And it made me realise —
not everything that’s “alive” in our space is nurturing our nervous system.

Some things look beautiful but feel like maintenance.
Some things look productive but feel like pressure.
Some things create low-grade stress instead of calm.
Some things feel like admin instead of care.

Our nervous systems don’t just respond to people and schedules — they respond to our environment.

Your home.
Your space.
Your visuals.
Your “stuff”.
Your surroundings.

Some things feel like calm.
Some feel like care.
Some feel like rest.
Some feel like regulation.

And some feel like unread emails.

If something in your space feels like pressure instead of peace — it’s allowed to go.

Nervous system first.
Always 🌿


















Bye bye Christmas tree.Today I ran a chainsaw.Not because handy with a saw. Not because I had to prove anything.But beca...
10/01/2026

Bye bye Christmas tree.

Today I ran a chainsaw.
Not because handy with a saw.
Not because I had to prove anything.
But because the job needed doing — and I trusted myself to learn.

Confidence doesn’t always arrive first.
Sometimes it comes after you take the step.

There’s something quietly powerful about doing the things you once thought you needed someone else for.
Not in a hardened way.
In a grounded, self-trusting way.

One tree broken down into manageable pieces.
One more reminder that I can meet life as it is. 🌲

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