Simply Holistic Living - Feeding the mind, body and soul – Details, episodes & analysis

In episode 3 Life Coach Máirtín Óg McDonagh and Julie Clarke chat about overcoming life challenges and growing through them to come out the other side.   

Máirtín Óg brings a wealth of life experience and professional qualifications to the table. An entrepreneur, responsible for building two successful businesses in the past, employing a skilled workforce and managing teams. A casualty of the downturn in 2010, losing everything he had worked so hard to achieve. This difficult time in Máirtín’s life gave him a huge understanding and empathy of how frail our mental health can be. How we need to draw on inner strength and how with determination and the right mindset you can rebuild your life, with an emphasis on the quality of your life rather than the material acquisitions.

This experience led to a passion for helping others and resulted in him studying and acquiring an accredited Life Coaching Qualification in 2019.

In 2020 Máirtín set up Mind Over Mountains, an initiative that combines coaching, mentoring and the great outdoors. Encouraging positive and productive teamwork through a healthy mind health body ethos to his clients.

For more about Mairtin see his website  www.mindovermountains.ie

Julie Clarke had a successful career in training and education when in 2006 she had a car accident that changed her life forever.  Shortly after completing the Connemara half Marathon Julie was involved in a car crash – this left her with an injury to her brain causing muscle movement disorder.   It was a long road to recovery leading her down a road of great personal growth. The turning point for Julie was when she faced the fear of what was happening to her body and at that moment decided she was going to survive this.   Julie kept a vision of running the London Marathon in her heart and bought herself a pair of marathon runners to wear every day during the years of her recovery.   In 2012 Julies dream came through when she ran the London Marathon with her friends and husband.    

Following her recovery Julie set up her own artisan candle business called Julie Clarke Candles – at the heart of this business lies Julie’s passion for health and well-being.   The podcast Simply Holistic Living has grown out of Julie’s journey of recovery and passion to help others.  

The website for Julie Clarke Candles is www.julieclarkecandles.com

Tracie is a passionate lifelong horsewoman and yoga practitioner originally from the United States but settled in the west of Ireland for 17 years.  She believes that it is every horse rider's responsibility to show up mentally and physically for their horse, and yoga is a great way to help us do that.   Tracie offers yoga classes, horse training services, and courses and clinics combining horsemanship and yoga for people of all ages.  

Tracie Burroughs

Horseback Yoga Ireland

Kylebrack West

Loughrea, Co Galway

+353 (0)87 76 75 922

Email - horsebackyogaireland@gmail.com

https://www.instagram.com/traciehorsebackyoga/

A trailer for series 2 of the podcast Simply Holistic Living - Feeding the mind, body and soul.

The series will be released on April 4th 2024 and will feature topics such as connecting with sources of food; how can we enjoy good mental health; changing the conversation around mental health; caring for our bodies; connecting with nature and there will be a guided meditation episode.

Presented by Julie Clarke

This podcast series is sponsored by Julie Clarke Candles and Mervue Natural Skincare – check out our websites www.julieclarkecandles.com  and www.mervuenaturalskincare.com 

Mairtin Og is a mindset coach based out of Kinvara in County Galway.  Mairtin uses his experiencing of overcoming loss and rebuilding his life to work with clients who are struggling or stuck in their own lives.   He set up Mind over Mountains in 2020 – it is an initiative combining coaching, mentoring and the great outdoors.  

Mairtin chats about mindset, overcoming struggles and coming out the other side with tools for creating a healthy mind & body. 

https://mindovermountains.ie/

Siobhan Moylan is a well-established yoga teacher over many years.  Her yoga studio is called SETU and is based in Kilcornan, Chainbridge. County Galway.  

Siobhan talks to us about her Yoga journey and work and the difference Yoga can make in our everyday lives.  

We finish the podcast with some tips from Siobhan on what listeners can do today to start practising some Yoga.  

https://flowyoga.ie/

Kelly is a Yoga Ayurvedic Living Educator and senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals.   Kelly works from  her Yoga Ayurveda Living Centre based in Setu Studio Space, Bungalow 7, Clarin bridge.  

Kelly says “Ayurveda and Yoga balance what you need vs what you want. This is your medicine, you can call it stress relief, stress management, work life balance.  It is relaxation and mental health for wellbeing. Yoga and Ayurveda are a simple path to wellness.”

In this podcast Kelly talks about Yoga Ayurvedic Living and what it means and how it can help us calm our minds. 

Kelly gives some practical tips to listeners on what they can do today to calm the mind.  

https://yogaayurvedaliving.com/

Yvonne Daly is the Skincare Developer and Educator at Mervue Natural Skincare in Galway City.    Mervue Skincare is a certified organic skincare brand launched in 2021.

Yvonne chats about the basic principles for healthy skin and some good simple daily self-care habits to create - promoting healthy skin. 

https://www.mervuenaturalskincare.com/

Clare Grady is a qualified Nutritional Therapist (NT) and advocate for healthy eating and lifestyle medicine.  She is owner of ANU Wellness a Galway based holistic Nutritional Therapy practice in Oranmore, County Galway.  

She discusses that food is energy for our bodies and get us to think about what we eat and how we eat.

She suggests some simple changes we can make today in our food.

https://galwayphysio.com/services/nutritional-therapist/

Fiona is a Success Coach – she believes we all have the “power to do and be whatever we choose, once we decide, commit, believe, and take action!“

Through her business Inspire, Action, Success Fiona works with female business owners and individuals to help them transform their lives.  

Fiona is based in County Clare.

She chats about the power of having a vision for your life and she gives us some tips on how to go about it. 

https://inspireactionsuccess.com/