Complimentary Therapy for parents/carers

Self-compassion through our complimentary Therapies with Dr Linda Feeny and Clinical Director Sinead Doherty, such as massage, reflexology, aromatherapy, or Reiki, can help our muscles learn that it is safe to release.

This compassionate body and energy work helps us touch into the areas where pain and discomfort usually reside. It helps us honour and notice what comes up. It helps us pay careful attention to the sensations, the emotions, and the thoughts each action produces. We can also notice what happens inside of us and connect it back to what you’ve been through.

Compassion can also help us notice what happens when we allow our emotions to exist without resistance. Compassion supports our system in learning that it is safe to be present, safe to be in our bodies, and safe to sit with unsettling thoughts. ⁣Compassion can also support us through the harder moments of life. Not as an eraser of hard things, but as a tool to help acknowledge how hard things impact us.

Compassion is not the antidote to hardship. It is the balm we apply to help us endure hard things.