After rushing to make a Zoom call, I fractured my foot. But even sitting in A&E, my first instinct was to apologise for missing the meeting.

What followed was more than a physical recovery. It exposed a familiar pattern of putting other people's needs before my own and the surprising discomfort of asking for help.

In this episode, I explore the emotional side of injury, the fear of being an inconvenience, the unexpected power of receiving support, and the breathing and fascia practices I've been exploring during recovery.

Sometimes the hardest thing isn't doing more. It's allowing someone else to help.

In this episode:

• How a spectacularly unfortunate accident exposed the sneaky side of people-pleasing

• Why asking for help can be so much harder than giving it

• What a fractured foot, fascia and a little enforced stillness revealed that I hadn't bargained for

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Ever have one of those days when you genuinely don’t know what to do?

You can think harder, try to figure it out, look for the right answer - and somehow end up even more tangled

That’s me today

It’s publish-my-podcast day, I’m tired, I’ve nothing ready to go and my usual instinct to push through stress is nowhere to be found

Instead, I notice the dancing shadows of the birch tree

I make a matcha

I take off my runners and walk into the garden

And I let nature do the heavy lifting

In this episode of The Nerve of You, I’m exploring what happens when we stop demanding that we know what comes next — and give ourselves permission to simply be where we are

• How beauty can call us back to ourselves when we’ve become lost in our heads
• What happens when we step off the hamster wheel of urgency and its demand that we know what comes next
• A simple three-minute practice to recalibrate and reconnect by letting nature do some of the heavy lifting

So, what has you in its grip today?

And what might happen if, for three minutes, you stopped trying to figure it all out?

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Are family traditions something you groan at or feel secretly proud to be carrying on?

Since when was turning into your parents a good thing?

And when was the last time the far-too-often boring-ass adult in you was filled with the wonder of a child?

Come round to my gaff for honey-harvesting season.

Neighbours, friends, old memories and a few unexpected lessons gather round the noisy spinner.

From a revered Cork bee charmer who taught me the word surfeit, to my Dad's decades of beekeeping, the ancient Irish tradition of telling the bees and the astonishing intelligence of these tiny creatures.

Somewhere between uncapping the comb, spinning the honey and getting very sticky, I find myself thinking about what we inherit, what we pass on and what we might be ready to begin ourselves.

In this episode:

• What bees can teach us about community and working as one

• What we inherit from our ancestors - and what we choose to carry forward

• Why curiosity might be enough reason to follow an idea

  Grab a cuppa and let's go to the hive!

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Ever notice how quickly “I’m exhausted” can become “I’m not coping”?

Or how a sore shoulder becomes "there's something’s wrong with me". And feeling "I'm behind" becomes "I’m failing at life"?

What if noticing didn’t have to come with a verdict?

In this episode of The Nerve of You, I’m at the sea, tired and carrying a lot, when I find myself completely absorbed in the tiny details around me: the light on water, reflections, ripples, shadows.

And how something changes.

Noticing brings me back into the world - and back into myself.

This isn’t another thing you need to add to your nervous system toolkit. It’s a five-minute invitation to stop trying to fix yourself and become available to what’s already there.

• How beauty and attention can interrupt the noise when life feels heavy
• What changes when we notice what’s happening without deciding there’s something wrong with us
• A simple five-minute practice to try this week

So, what might you notice if you stopped trying to fix anything for few minutes?

Grab a cuppa, press play — and come sit by the sea with me.

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When the sea calls you somewhere you didn't know you needed to go.

My beautiful Dad died last week.

A few hours later, I went swimming in the sea.

In this episode of The Nerve of You, I’m sharing the interconnectedness of it all in those early days of grief, why I found myself drawn to the sea and the unexpected ways my Dad still felt very close.

• The first hard thing I did after losing my Dad
• Where solace was found
• Something I love about the Irish language

Grab a cuppa and hit play!

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When a last-minute trip takes an unexpected detour.

Ever booked a ticket searching for a magic fix or a big life revelation, only to find the real answer waiting somewhere else entirely?

In this episode of The Nerve of You, a last-minute red-eye flight to London turns into an unexpected encounter with an icon, a pair of stilettos, and an accidental masterclass in what happens when we stop trying so hard.

In the episode:

• The unexpected detour that stole the show
• Marilyn, Ferragamos and the woman behind the icon
• What happens when you stop looking for what's wrong and start noticing what makes you come alive

Grab a cuppa and hit play!

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Ever had a pain, tightness or niggle that just won’t behave?

You fix one thing and something else starts complaining. You stretch it, rest it, rub something on it, get it checked and still it keeps coming back.

For 26 years, I vacillated between thinking my problem was my hamstring. Then my butt. Then sciatica. Then piriformis. And I kept trying to fix whichever bit was shouting the loudest.

Then I discovered fascia.

In this episode of The Nerve of You, I’m sharing how a night out during the World Cup in 1994 - where a few too many Guinnesses might have been had (yes, I'm that vintage!) - eventually led me to a completely different way of understanding my body, and why the place that hurts isn't always the whole story.

In the episode:

• Why the body can’t always be understood one painful bit at a time
• How my 26-year-old pain in the butt became a lesson in connection
• What changed when I stopped trying to fix my body and started getting curious about it

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What Greece reminded me about real life - and what happens when reality completely tears up your script.

We’ve all written a picture-perfect script for how a trip, a milestone, or a chapter of life is supposed to go - only for real life to rewrite the entire plot.

Ever planned a dream holiday - only for your teenager to be, well, a teenager in full flight? Leaving you standing on a balcony, wondering how somewhere so idyllic could feel so utterly miserable?

In this episode of The Nerve of You, I’m sharing an unfiltered story from a girls trip to Greece and the realisation in a rooftop café that changed how I show up for my own life.

In the episode:

• The picture-perfect holiday versus the real-life fallout
• The sheer exhaustion of trying to manage the unmanageable
• Finding the nerve to let the story rewrite itself

Grab a cuppa and hit play!

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