I think we’d met about 2 hours before this picture was taken.  It was a clear and beautiful November day. The most exhilarating day of my life.  The high was mind blowing.  The midwives were amazing.  Especially sweet Rachel who was with us for our first day.  She really helped encourage me to get the right position for breastfeeding.  I definitely didn’t feel like I remotely had the knack but she was super positive for me.

Nothing can prepare you for that intense love and bonding that happens that first day.

I stayed in a few days.  Unfortunately I’d lost a lot of blood and I needed a transfusion to get me strong again.  Best decision I made doing that and such a supportive team of doctors and midwives. I had an incredible birthing partner who, without her, I can’t imagine the ease, comfort and flow happening as beautifully and supported as it did with the whole birthing journey.

I moved home and began my new life with my new beautiful daughter in my home in Gorey.

Nothing else prepared me for the intense vulnerability I was now faced with in my new role.  Feeling quite inadequately equipped in the mother and care taking role, I just had to jump right in and follow my instincts. It took me a very long time to actually accept what had just happened to me.  The Mother transformation was the biggest and most opening process I have ever been through.

The time has come to close the doors to Earth Beauty after over 10 years of being open for wellness and natural beauty so that I can devote all my energy to being a new mama.

I’m so thankful to Janice, my mother, for having such a gorgeous and centrally located space to practice in for all these years and so thankful to all of you wonderful people who came to see me at one time or another.  Everyone loved the tranquil feeling in this space despite being in such a busy part of town.  Some of you I journeyed with deep and for long times, others, it was short but equally as deep, and others flew in and out like butterflies in the breeze. Everyone has shown me and taught me something valuable to integrate and take away to this next part of my life.

The beautiful studio that I use is awaiting fresh energy to take over and the rent is very reasonable!  Days available are: Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. If you are interested and would like to see the space, please call Janice on 07797826957 or 601925.

In just a few weeks time I will have had my beautiful baby!

As a new dawn arises for me, I want to let you all know that I will be massively winding down bodywork sessions from today.  I will be able to see a few people from home in Gorey if it suits you to visit me out east..

Please get in touch on 07797832400 or maria@earth-beauty.com to book your appointments before I stop working for at least a few months.

Hope to see all your lovely faces before my baby emerges!

It seems that we are getting wiser.  Although its unlikely if you go into a doctors surgery complaining of chronic digestive issues, energy lapses, headaches and skin issues, that they will advise you seek out a specialist who tests food intolerances, current statistics say that over 45% of our population have become intolerant to one or more foods in their diets! To this day doctors still do not offer tests for ‘intolerances’ which is a different reaction to the classic acute, sometimes life threatening ‘allergy’ reaction.

Poor gut health, low immunity, stress, environmental toxins and certain allopathic medicines have been taking their toll on our ability to properly digest and assimilate food for years now.

I use the Food Detective Test – the test I believe to be the most accurate on the market in diagnosing food intolerances.  Just a 10minute appointment for a pin prick of blood is needed and in 45 mins I can call you with results that include 46 foods tested.

Its the first step I recommend in bringing the pendulum back to balance for our health and wellbeing!  With me at Earth Beauty you have the choice to upgrade this service to include a 3 month plan plus a set of life coaching sessions to really transform your life and achieve your goals.

The cost of the Food Detective Food Intolerance Test is £70.

If you are suffering from one or more of the below, choose to take a food intolerance test today and I’d be happy to help you with your pathway back to feeling good again.

Chronic fatigue

Strong food cravings

Irritable bowel (including bloating, diarrhoea or constipation)

Depression

Hyperactivity and bedwetting in children

Rhinitis Eczema/psoriasis,

Itches and rashes

Asthma

Ongoing Sinus problems or ear infections

Chronic mouth ulcers

Headaches or migraines

Joint aches and pains

See more for Food Intolerance Testing: HERE

See more for the 3 month Transformation Programme: HERE

This feels by far like my greatest rite of passage yet.  The journey to motherhood! Pregnancy! An exhilarating, intensely vulnerable roller-coaster gestation period where I have found strength and incredible support from my soul sisters around me.  The world will never be the same and sometimes I am just overwhelmed by this blessing of life.  I must be ready! But some days I am kicking and screaming as I wrestle with my inner pixie who just doesn’t want to grow up and claim her full power and responsibility as a woman.  38 years of only taking care of myself, and a few furry friends along the way have created and affirmed a selfishness of my life and all my own childhood nuances and fears leaping out of the cupboard to taunt me and tell me of the shadows of childhood/motherhood.  Supportive, warm beings whispering in my ears of what a wonderful mother I will be only slightly lessens the fear of the harm that could come from projecting my crap onto this divine little being.  I feeling the heightened sensitivity to all noises, smells, our patriarchal focused world … and again I dive into the deep dark reflective well that I know so dear, craving for a matriarchal, flourishing community of life around me.  How can I bring this little being authentically into a world that I know is madness? There is nothing like this before that has shown me that now is the time to carve out the dreams that have been lingering in my heart, now is the time to plant the seeds to really create a future living integrally and in tune with nature and the ancient wise ways! Such a blessing to receive this gift!! I already feel the mama energy in me and wow … its quite incredible!