Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD

Eve Menezes Cunningham

Fáilte! Welcome! This used to be Feel Better Every Day but my PDA (Persistant Drive for Autonomy) has kicked in and I'm like, Stop telling me how to feel! I'm Eve Menezes Cunningham, author of 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing, columnist, trauma therapist (and survivor), AuDHDer, senior accredited supervisor, and Self care coach (integrating psychosynthesis, NLP, yoga, meditation, EFT and more) at Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD - www.solestosoul.ie Through solo and interview episodes, I share trauma-informed and neuro-affirming (especially for ADHD and AuDHD) self-care and Self care (for that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous part of yourself) ideas, practices and rituals. Reconnect with your Self. Learn self-care practices and rituals to help you regulate, create a life you don't need to retreat from, and help build a world in which everyone feels safe, welcome, and loved. Ready to thrive? The Feel. Love. Heal. framework This framework evolved from decades of pain, exploration and recovery. I’m happy it’s helping making things easier for other trauma survivors, ADHDers and AuDHDers: • Feel: Take better care of yourself with active self-care to regulate your nervous system, work with your energy, and connect with your Self. • Love: Create a life you don’t need to retreat from with Self care to help you accept yourself completely with love, compassion, and kindness. Remember, you're already whole. Peace is within you. • Heal: Help build a world in which everyone feels safe, welcome, loved and able to thrive. Collective care to turn what hurts your heart into action, coregulate and heal with others. New episodes every Tuesday morning (Ireland time). Subscribe for notifications. For previews, bonuses, polyvagal-informed journal prompts and more, sign up for my Míle Buíochas Mondays newsletter at https://feelbettereveryday.kit.com/f7f730d651 Is Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD helping you? Please share and leave a ★★★★★ rating and review. Your support helps me reach more trauma survivors and people with ADHD or AuDHD. Learning to care for, love and accept yourself is a radical act. Your healing creates ripples and helps others remember peace and ease is everyone’s birthright too. Míle buíochas (a thousand thank yous).

  1. Sacred Ireland with Dr Karen Ward

    6d ago

    Sacred Ireland with Dr Karen Ward

    It was SUCH a delight to speak to the fantabulous Dr Karen Ward again for this episode. She’s moved from Dublin to Cork and reminds us that we have everything we need within us. Yes, she’s now immersed in magical, Sacred Ireland (I love that oracle deck she created as well as her Brigid deck) but even in the midst of a city, you can connect with nature and the Divine. I hope you enjoy listening (or watching) as much as I enjoyed catching up with her! le grá (with love), Ev3 CHAPTERS (00:00) Sacred places, liminal spaces and belonging (02:46) Karen’s journey into holistic and shamanic work (08:17) FEEL. LOVE. HEAL. and creating a nourishing life (10:13) Nature, place and the healing power of the sea (15:32) Community, work and what truly regulates us (20:51) Finding grounding and connection wherever you are (24:34) Community care, Moon Mná and being held (27:57) Advice for a younger self and trusting life (30:46) Growth, healing and always learning LINKS Moon Mná https://moonmna.ie/ Slí An Chroí https://www.slianchroi.ie/ Dr Karen Ward https://drkarenwardtherapist.ie/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drkarenwardtherapist/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drkarenward If you enjoyed this, check out: Episode 20: Dr Karen Ward on energy work and Sacred Ireland Episode 43: Honouring Brigid and the Divine within you Episode 96: Sensory Soothers for Trauma and AuDHD this Brigid Book your free telephone consultation and access 100s of body-mind practices at https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloads

    36 min
  2. Healing Sexual Trauma with Erika Shershun

    Jun 2

    Healing Sexual Trauma with Erika Shershun

    In Healing Sexual Trauma with Erika Shershun: Episode 113 of the Soles to Soul Care with Eve Menezes Cunningham podcast, I’m delighted to introduce the somatic psychotherapist who specialises in helping trauma survivors reclaim the life they were meant to live. When you think about what YOU’ve survived, how does it feel to imagine, however outlandish it may feel, that you CAN heal? When you read or hear those words about the life you were meant to live, how does it feel to reconnect with potentially forgotten dreams and goals? le grá (with love), Ev3 Erika’s the author of the Healing Sexual Trauma Guided Journal: Writing and Somatic Practices to Help You Process, Heal, and Feel Safe, the Healing Sexual Trauma Workbook: Somatic Skills to Help You Feel Safe in Your Body, Create Boundaries & Live with Resilience, and the PESI Sexual Trauma Clinical Training. The workbook is available in Spanish (Tengo Un Trauma Corporal?), Polish, Russian, and Romanian, and the journal is available in Turkish. Her approach is trauma informed, rooted in somatic principles, drawing on neuroscience and integrative modalities such as EMDR, Brainspotting, energy psychology, mindfulness, self-compassion and parts work. Erika values diversity, offers individual online therapy sessions in California, and provides coaching to clients outside of the state. You can contact her at HealingSexualTrauma.com, ErikaShershunTherapy.com, or follow her @erikashershun. Sexual Trauma Clinical Training: Interventions to Cultivate Safety, Release Shame and Guilt, and Nurture Boundaries is available at PESI.com HealingSexualTrauma.com ErikaShershunTherapy.com @erikashershun https://www.instagram.com/erikashershun/ LINKS Erika Shershun https://erikashershuntherapy.com/ https://feltsenseresonance.com Donna Eden’s five-minute energy tune-up Bradley Nelson emotion code https://discoverhealing.com/gb/the-emotion-code Louise Swartswalter Mind Gems: www.brainsoulsuccess.com If you enjoyed this, check out: Episode 48: Cattitude: Purr! Hiss! Freeze! Episode 64: Trauma not ‘post’ traumatic stress but ongoing? Episode 55: EFT Tap Along for Stress Awareness Month Book your free telephone consultation and access 100s of body-mind practices at https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloads CHAPTERS (00:00) Healing, growth and advice for a younger self (02:22) Erika’s books and journey into trauma work (07:55) Discovering somatic healing after years of therapy (13:02) Post-traumatic growth and self-care (16:36) Grounding practices and toe tapping (26:06) Self-compassion, spirituality and healing tools (35:22) Self-agency, choice and nervous system healing (39:02) Co-regulation, connection and cats (42:04) Hope, healing and final reflections

    47 min
  3. CommuniTEA and Qi Gong with Claudia Cahalane: Episode 112 of Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD with Eve Menezes Cunningham

    May 26

    CommuniTEA and Qi Gong with Claudia Cahalane: Episode 112 of Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD with Eve Menezes Cunningham

    I met Claudia Cahalane nearly 20 years ago on an online forum for freelance journalists. I had started my coaching and complementary therapy practice at the same time as going freelance as a journalist with no contacts and, pre social media, it was a brilliant forum to get (and give) encouragement and support. Since then, I’ve added loads more therapies, counselling and supervision and Claudia has retrained as a Qi Gong instructor. It was such a joy to reconnect and catch up and I hope you find our conversation helpful. You can watch or listen wherever you get your podcasts and access full transcript, show notes, links and more at https://solestosoul.ie/2026/05/26/communitea-and-qi-gong-with-claudia-cahalane-episode-112-of-soles-to-soul-care-for-trauma-and-audhd-with-eve-menezes-cunningham/ When you think about your own communiTEAs (geddit?), where do you want to put in more energy and time? Who’s most important to you? What’s most important to you? le grá (with love), Ev3 #traumarecovery #qigong #claudiacahalane #teaceremony #solestosoulcarefortraumaandaudhd LINKS Claudia’s website: https://vitalityqigong.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vitalityqigong/ If you enjoyed this, check out: Episode 83: Community as Self Care (with Elizabeth Potts) Episode 87: Movement as Medicine with Gwen Williams Episode 59: Meditation (with trauma and ADHD) isn’t impossible Book your free telephone consultation and access 100s of body-mind practices at https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloads CHAPTERS (0:00) Introduction (1:57) Welcoming Claudia Cahalane (2:48) Silent retreats and early experiences (7:24) Discovering Qi Gong and the power of silence (10:29) Burnout and becoming a Qi Gong teacher (14:37) The Feel. Love. Heal. framework (16:18) Ideal self-care and daily practices (21:26) Essential self-care for low energy (22:59) Self-love, meditation and tea rituals (25:44) Tea ceremony and cultural roots (30:00) Community, loss and life transitions (35:19) Rethinking friendships and belonging (40:06) Nature as community and connection (42:44) Creating and holding community (44:35) Advice to a younger self (46:05) Where to find Claudia and closing reflection

    49 min
  4. Survival for Sensitive Souls with Zeenat Ahmed-Peto

    May 19

    Survival for Sensitive Souls with Zeenat Ahmed-Peto

    FIND OUT MORE ABOUT EV3RYTHING - email eve@solestosoul.ie It’s an utter delight to share my interview with the fantabulous Zeenat Ahmed-Peto for this week’s episode. The cognitive hypnotherapist and author (Too Kind: A Survival Guide for Sensitive Souls) shares her journey to extreme self-care. I met Zeenat through Suzy Walker (see links for her interview and gorgeous Heartleap community) and hope you are as inspired by her story about learning to receive care and love as I’ve been. le grá (with love), Ev3 CHAPTERS (0:00) Burnout and learning to care for yourself (2:23) Introduction and welcome to episode 111 (2:34) Meet Zeenat Ahmed-Peto (3:40) Zeenat’s work and background in hypnotherapy (5:18) Too Kind: A Survival Guide for Sensitive Souls (6:13) Personal healing journey and chronic illness (9:21) Feel: Ideal and essential self-care (11:32) Sleep, stretching and walking as essentials (14:07) Love: Learning to rest and receive care (18:20) Heal: Community, connection and belonging (21:17) Message to a Younger You (23:18) Closing reflection and body scan LINKS Website: https://zeenatahmedpeto.com/ Substack: The Authentic Connection I'm Zeenat, a cognitive hypnotherapist & teacher. I love running communities to empower as many people as I can. Expect increased self-love, connection and joy through personal development & community. 🌟 By Zeenat Ahmed-Peto Heart Leap: Heart Leap Building a simple, happy, creative life that makes your heart leap. Join our Heart Leap writing community By Suzy Walker Book your free telephone consultation and access 100s of body-mind practices at https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloads RELATED EPISODES If you enjoyed this, check out: Suzy Walker on meditation and more: Episode 14 of The Feel Better Every Day Podcast https://solestosoul.ie/podcast-feed/former-psychologies-editor-suzy-walker-talks-big-leaps-heart-leaps-meditation-and-more-as-she-shares-her-ideal-and-actual-self-and-self-care-practices/ Gill Fennings on taking things slow: Episode 15 of The Feel Better Every Day Podcast Sarupa Shah on the art of doing nothing: Episode 6 of The Feel Better Every Day Podcast Too Sensitive? Too Much? Says Who? Episode 78 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast HASHTAGS #zeenatahmedpeto #sensitivesouls #sensorydifferences #audhd #solestosoulcarefortraumaandaudhd

    25 min
  5. Allan Frater on Waking Dreams and Imagination

    May 12

    Allan Frater on Waking Dreams and Imagination

    It was so lovely to revisit my London Bridge psychosynthesis training roots and talk to the delightful Allan Frater for Episode 110 of Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD with Eve Menezes Cunningham. He shares some of the ways in which he honours his imagination and integrates self-care, Self care and community care into his whole life. LINKS Buy Allan’s latest book here https://amzn.to/4d5XSmk (affiliate link) Website: https://wildimagination.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Allan-Frater/100073610989149/ The Psychosynthesis Trust: https://psychosynthesistrust.org.uk/ Related episodes If you enjoyed this, check out: Shake, Cry and Let Go with Emily Rosenkranz: Episode 104 of Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD Community as Self Care (with Elizabeth Potts): Episode 83 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast Own Your Privilege, Change the World: Episode 80 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast Book your free telephone consultation and access 100s of body-mind practices at https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloads CHAPTERS (0:00) You are important, valuable and worthy (1:53) Introduction and welcome to episode 110 (2:02) Meet Allan Frater and their shared training history (3:46) Allan’s new book and imagination in therapy (5:48) Waking Dreams and being imaginative (7:30) Feel: principles of self-care and embodiment (10:54) Attention and protecting focus in modern life (13:11) Love: connection through relationships (17:00) Heal: community, differences and polarisation (22:13) Responding to world events and collective context (25:18) Message to a younger self (28:48) Closing reflection and body scan HASHTAGS #allanfrater #imagination #psychosynthesis

    30 min
  6. Fall In Love With Life this Bealtaine

    Apr 29

    Fall In Love With Life this Bealtaine

    Am feeling a bit morto – two mistakes with this episode: · Bealtaine is pronounced be-al-ten-ah (not be-al-tayne as I was saying) and· I GOT MY WEEKS MUDDLED UPThe Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD normally goes out Tuesday morning 7am Irish time but because I just realised (AuDHD brain), next week’s ep – this one – is OUT NOW so you can actually make USE of it in 2026!!! Self-compassion, giving myself grace, a thousand DOH!s etc… Still, I hope you enjoy it as we welcome the start of summer. As I write this, I have washing drying outside, have cycled into town and back and am feeling the seasonal shift which I’m looking forward to honouring more in the coming days – and with the Full Moon this Friday too. Let me know how you get on with these simple ideas for celebrating and see you in nearly two weeks now! le grá (with love), Eve LINKS Book your free telephone consultation and access 100s of body-mind practices at https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloads Bhangra Joy with Aakriti Kaushik: Episode 108 of the Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD Podcast Related episodes If you enjoyed this, check out: Love your inner Smelly Cat this Bealtaine and beyond Episode 56 of The Feel Better Every Day Podcast More Joy, Less Angst: Trauma-Informed Yoga for AuDHD Episode 93 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast Shake, Cry and Let Go with Emily Rosenkranz: Episode 104 of Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD Own Your Privilege, Change the World: Episode 80 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast CHAPTERS 0:00 Bealtaine and choosing love in challenging times 1:05 Podcast intro and self-care for trauma and AuDHD 2:39 Feel: Let it all out 3:49 From pain to joy: Using joy as your GPS 5:26 Why joy matters for stress and resilience 6:41 Love: Connecting with your highest Self 7:47 Heal: Community, co-regulation and connection 8:57 Practising mudita and celebrating others 10:09 Bealtaine tradition: Flowers, blessings and neighbours 12:17 Choosing joy as an act of care and resistance 13:08 Closing reflections: Feel. Love. Heal. HASHTAGS #bealtaine #mayday #mudita FULL TRANSCRIPT Happy Bealtaine, happy May Day. That’s going to be this Friday with the Full Moon, and I thought I’d do a special episode to celebrate the Celtic festival of love, lust and fertility. And I really want to focus on ways in which you can help yourself fall in love with yourself, fall in love with your life, fall more in love with your loved ones and fall in love with the world. We’re living through very challenging times, and if we tell ourselves that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, then it’s really depressing and it disempowers us and we forget about all the amazing people in the world, under insanely horrific conditions, who are still attempting to do the right thing and caring for others and creating good works and being forces for love and joy and peace. Read the full transcript at https://solestosoul.ie/blog

    16 min
  7. Bhangra Joy with Aakriti Kaushik

    Apr 28

    Bhangra Joy with Aakriti Kaushik

    At time of writing, am aching in the best possible way from the first of Aakriti’s regular Bhangra dance classes at Grit Fitness and Dance – if you’re local enough to Westport, check them out. I’m planning to be there as many Wednesday evenings as possible because SO MUCH JOY! And, to my astonishment, while feeling like a monster during one of the moves last night, I did improve. I’d loved the taster workshop in February (before this interview was recorded) but had no confidence in my ability to actually manage the (simple!) steps but… I have some hope now (and even if I don’t, it’s a great workout and So Much FUN). Dance is so good for trauma and AuDHD. And the bilateral movement in some of the steps, while feeling tangled up in my brain, is, I know, contributing to healthy neuroplasticity as well as fitness. And did I mention the joy? The fact that I’m learning an Indian dance style in my new home country (over 7 years since I immigrated here now!), Ireland and being Indian Irish definitely contributes to the joy but Bhangra is a joyful Punjabi dance form from the north of India, associated with feasts and celebrations of harvest. The expansive, heart opening upper body movement as well as the gorgeously grounding lower body movements … am still beaming writing this. I hope you love listening to my interview with Aakriti as much as I loved talking to her. She is such a great teacher, modifying it for those of us who were struggling as well as a superstar there at the front who was managing the more advanced steps with seeming ease. So Much Fun. Do you dance? What style? What advice do you have for beginners? Let me know in the comments or by email. le grá (with love), Eve CHAPTERS (0:00) How dance connects us to emotion and something deeper (0:25) Introducing Aakriti and the joy of Bhangra (1:50) Movement as pleasure rather than something we have to do (4:04) Meeting Aakriti and finding connection through community (5:12) From engineering to meditation and Bhangra (9:31) Why dance evokes emotion and joy (11:46) Self-care practices shaped through challenge (16:06) Letting go of perfection and adapting your routine (18:39) The one essential practice: meditation (23:16) Interconnection, purpose and supporting others (27:01) Starting small with meditation and building consistency (32:35) You are already worthy just as you are (34:10) Closing reflection and invitation to care for yourself LINKS Aakriti Kaushik: https://www.instagram.com/bhangra_westport/ https://solestosoul.ie/book

    35 min
  8. Cleaning Your Car with ADHD

    Apr 21

    Cleaning Your Car with ADHD

    Episode 107 is a really unusual episode of the Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD because my guests for this one are Peadar and Danny, a couple of very young entrepreneurs from Atlantic Valets. Not technically self-care professionals and yet, when I met them recently, something they said made me realise they’d be delightful guests and they were. I love their energy, enthusiasm and desire to help their customers. If you’re in or near Achill, check out Atlantic Valets and wherever you’re based, I hope this episode reminds you that you deserve clean, organised and welcoming environments. It can especially challenging to create and maintain them with ADHD but supports do exists. What helps you keep your car clean (enough)? le grá (with love), Eve LINKS Atlantic Valets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/61587721393866 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atlanticvaletsanddetailing Jayne Leonard on cooking as self care: Episode 28 of The Feel Better Every Day Podcast The book https://solestosoul.ie/book Book your free telephone consultation and access 100s of body-mind practices https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloads CHAPTERS (0:00) The gap between wanting to care for ourselves and finding it hard (0:30) Atlantic Valets’ Danny and Peadar and their approach to car valeting (4:21) Making car cleaning feel more doable for ADHDers, one step at a time (6:26) Finding a simple system to support focus and reduce overwhelm (8:13) The power of small details and taking pride in what we do (9:57) Everyday self-care and coming back to the present moment (15:41) Connecting with love through dogs, family and close relationships (17:34) Feeling held by community and giving back (20:08) Gentle advice to a younger version of ourselves (21:28) A moment to reflect and offer yourself care FULL TRANSCRIPT Many people listening, they will have AuDHD or ADHD and there’s the gulf between basic self-care in terms of what we would like to be doing for ourselves and what is more of a challenge. So I will ask you a little bit about that, like how might listeners make it easier for themselves to clean their own cars? Welcome to episode 107 of the Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD podcast. I thought they were so adorable when I met them at a local networking event. I wanted them to come on and help all my ADHDers to clean your car, know that you deserve a delicious car to drive around in. They are Danny and Peadar from Atlantic Valets and they are so new to business and they’re doing so much amazing work so quickly. I’ve been going for like over nearly 22 years now and they are so on message and just so joyful and delightful. I hope that they’ll inspire you to keep your environments clean, to outsource it where that’s an act of self-care for yourself. They’re based in Achill but wherever you are you might have similar and I really hope you enjoy this very unusual episode. Read the full transcript and access free downloads and more at https://solestosoul.ie/2026/04/21/cleaning-your-care-with-adhd-episode-107-of-the-soles-to-soul-care-for-trauma-and-audhd-with-eve-menezes-cunningham-podcast/

    23 min

About

Fáilte! Welcome! This used to be Feel Better Every Day but my PDA (Persistant Drive for Autonomy) has kicked in and I'm like, Stop telling me how to feel! I'm Eve Menezes Cunningham, author of 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing, columnist, trauma therapist (and survivor), AuDHDer, senior accredited supervisor, and Self care coach (integrating psychosynthesis, NLP, yoga, meditation, EFT and more) at Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD - www.solestosoul.ie Through solo and interview episodes, I share trauma-informed and neuro-affirming (especially for ADHD and AuDHD) self-care and Self care (for that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous part of yourself) ideas, practices and rituals. Reconnect with your Self. Learn self-care practices and rituals to help you regulate, create a life you don't need to retreat from, and help build a world in which everyone feels safe, welcome, and loved. Ready to thrive? The Feel. Love. Heal. framework This framework evolved from decades of pain, exploration and recovery. I’m happy it’s helping making things easier for other trauma survivors, ADHDers and AuDHDers: • Feel: Take better care of yourself with active self-care to regulate your nervous system, work with your energy, and connect with your Self. • Love: Create a life you don’t need to retreat from with Self care to help you accept yourself completely with love, compassion, and kindness. Remember, you're already whole. Peace is within you. • Heal: Help build a world in which everyone feels safe, welcome, loved and able to thrive. Collective care to turn what hurts your heart into action, coregulate and heal with others. New episodes every Tuesday morning (Ireland time). Subscribe for notifications. For previews, bonuses, polyvagal-informed journal prompts and more, sign up for my Míle Buíochas Mondays newsletter at https://feelbettereveryday.kit.com/f7f730d651 Is Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD helping you? Please share and leave a ★★★★★ rating and review. Your support helps me reach more trauma survivors and people with ADHD or AuDHD. Learning to care for, love and accept yourself is a radical act. Your healing creates ripples and helps others remember peace and ease is everyone’s birthright too. Míle buíochas (a thousand thank yous).