Stretch Marks

Season Finale Holly Cairns - leader of the Social Democrats joins me to talk about her stretch as a women new to politics and what has motivated her to want positive change. I have admired Holly's ability to stand in the Dáil and speak on issues with empathy, humanity and an authenticity we don't always see.We talk about Gaza, how her view of politics and the world has changed - her experience of sexism, agism and intimidation - her rise through politics and why we need more women using their voices, their votes and their value for the world we all hope to see. Thank you Holly for giving me your time less than 48 hours after Leo resigned.So that's it. Another season of stretch marks is over.We talked about our bodies, our fertility, self worth, mental health, hyperemesis, nicu, the referendum, brain tumours, nervous system regulation and leadership. Big topics. Deep topics. But I hope conversations that have supported anyone in the depths of their own unique stretch. So for now - thank you for every listen, share and review. And to my sponsor of this Season Carriwell available at CleverClogs. 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

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 Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to hear from you.This episode is kindly supported by Carriwell - available from Cleverclogs.ie

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 RecoverHosted 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 StoryRecorded in Prymal Productions.

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 @livingwithljmShare 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 SoundProduced by The Brand Story

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 ArticleI 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 SoundProduced by The Brand Story

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 hyperemesisA 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. MiscarriageAnd 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 SoundProduced by The Brand Story

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 SoundProduced by The Brand Story

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