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Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD

Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD

By: Eve Menezes Cunningham
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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).Copyright 2026 Eve Menezes Cunningham Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Spirituality
Episodes
  • Bhangra Joy with Aakriti Kaushik

    Bhangra Joy with Aakriti Kaushik
    Apr 28 2026

    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
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    35 mins
  • Cleaning Your Car with ADHD

    Cleaning Your Car with ADHD
    Apr 21 2026

    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/
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    23 mins
  • Working with the Divine Feminine

    Working with the Divine Feminine
    Apr 14 2026
    Have you ever wondered how we’ll ever have peace, freedom, justice, SAFETY and equality when half the population has been systematically erased from what most people in this society consider divine?Since hearing from much younger women that the Divine Feminine – such a healing force in my own trauma recovery and life these last 30+ years – has been co-opted to be used against women as “Divine femininity”, this episode shares some self-care, Self care and collective care ideas for people of ALL genders to experiment with.There are SO many Goddess archetypes, from around the world, that have helped me with my trauma recovery and for the graphics for this episode, I chose (to honour my Indian Irish roots):· Kali who reminds me of Divine Detox. Letting go. Diving deeper into life’s crashing waves instead of arguing with reality. Her tongue sticks out to represent her catching drops of blood and absorbing evil in order to transform and heal.· A photo I took at Uisneach of Eiru (for whom Eire, Ireland, was named).· The Greek Goddess archetypes were the first I came across and I adored Persephone’s transformation from traumatised into Queen of the Night and a guide for others. As I’ve learned more over the decades, her mother, Demeter, who fought for her freedom, represents our need to heal in connection. To coregulate.· and a Cosmic Egg with some hopeful looking sperm.With all that’s going on in the world, it’s always worth remembering that none of us choose or do anything to deserve who we happen to be born to, wear, what gender, etc etc etc.We’re all connected. And by connecting to the Divinity (as well as humanity!) in ourselves and others, we can hopefully find more compassion and give ourselves and others more grace.Le grá (with love),EveIf you’re a trauma survivor and AuDHDer like me, or you simply find self-care more of a “should” than a joy, this podcast is for you.I’m Eve Menezes Cunningham, a trauma therapist, AuDHD and self-care coach, senior accredited supervisor, columnist and author of 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-Care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing.Each Tuesday I share a mix of solo episodes and conversations with other self-care professionals. From other therapists, coaches, yoga teachers and authors to neuroscientists and medical professionals, many of them neurodivergent themselves and all honest enough to share the gap between their own ideal and their ACTUAL self-care.Find Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD with Eve Menezes Cunningham every Tuesday on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Substack, and wherever you get your podcasts.Learn to love and care for all your parts, from the soles of your feet to your soul.And for bonus content, polyvagal-informed journal prompts and more, sign up for my free newsletter, Míle Buíochas Mondays, plus 100s of free body mind practices, at solestosoul.ieLINKShttps://www.livescience.com/health/fertility-pregnancy-birth/the-choice-of-sperm-is-entirely-up-to-the-egg-so-why-does-the-myth-of-racing-sperm-persistFree Downloads https://solestosoul.ie/free-downloadsPolyvagal Purrs https://solestosoul.ie/felineMeggan Watterson https://www.instagram.com/megganwatterson/Jean Shinoda Bolenhttps://www.jeanbolen.com/Sally Kemptonhttps://www.sallykempton.com/Moon Mnáhttps://moonmna.ie/Laura Dowlinghttps://lauradowlingofficial.com/Dr Karen Wardhttps://drkarenwardtherapist.ie/Clodgah O’Connorhttp://clodaghoconnor.com/Chapters0:00 Systemic oppression and the red thread0:42 Podcast introduction and rebrand1:44 Introducing the Divine Feminine2:56 How Divine Femininity has been hijacked4:53 Reclaiming balance and receptive energy5:42 Personal journey with the Divine Feminine7:33 Erasure of women in spiritual history8:25 The red thread and reconnecting inward9:42 Polyvagal theory and empowerment10:06 Feel. Love. Heal. framework overview10:36 Feel: exploring your relationship with the Divine Feminine13:00 Love: healing, acceptance and reclaiming power15:20 Heal: connection, circles and co-regulation16:33 Closing reflection and inner connectionFULL TRANSCRIPTTo recognise that it is systemic oppression, I got a little thread, a little red thread tattoo a few weeks ago after I had gum surgery and found out I couldn’t swim for an extra week or so, so it’s just my little reminder about that thread that connects us back thousands and thousands of years and that divine love is within all of us, all our genders, like whatever gender we are and that women, we just need to go inwardHi, you’re listening to Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD. Learn to love and care for all your parts, including your trauma and AuDHD, from the soles of your feet to your soul. So this was previously the Feel Better Every Day Podcast.I hope you’re enjoying exploring the rebranded site solestosoul.ie, accessing all the free resources at www.solestosoul.ie/free-downloads - finding out how you might work with me.I’m Eve Menezes-Cunningham, I’m your host, I’m ...
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    18 mins
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