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If it hadn’t been for the immediate pain relief from the endometriosis, I’d have run a gazillion miles in the opposite direction from yoga, breathwork and meditation. Back in 2001, I didn’t understand about the impact my trauma history had on my capacity to feel safe around other humans, let alone my differently wired brain and extra sensitive nervous system.

I’d adore elements (was getting up for 6.30am classes in London at one point) but be full of angst – which I blamed myself for – around many other seemingly inevitable parts of every class (e.g. other people’s feet waaaay too close to my face when I struggled with even my own feet being so close).

In this episode, I share some of my yoga glimmers as well as triggers and ideas – using the Feel. Love. Heal. framework – to help you give yourself the chance to experience calm and ease as you build strength, resilience, flexibility, focus, stamina, balance and reconnect with the peace and joy that are your birthright.

JOURNAL PROMPTS

As you watch or listen to this episode, ask yourself:

What do I hate about yoga, meditation and breathwork?

Might there be ways around it?

To get the benefits without wanting to run a gazillion miles in the opposite direction?

What do I LOVE about them? In the moment? For minutes, hours and even days afterwards?

What will you do differently (with your self-talk and communicating your needs and wants to others) as a result of watching or listening to this episode?

Let me know in the comments or by email – eve@selfcarecoaching.net

And if you’re feeling sad reading this because you can’t think of anything that supportive, let it be a cue to encourage you to be open to more of it in 2026 and beyond.

LINKS

Moving into 2026 with Roxy Romaniuk: https://youtu.be/3fZVHL_4wzk

Community as Self Care (with Elizabeth Potts): https://youtu.be/ukjngIR6U_w

Book bonus videos: https://selfcarecoaching.net/book/

Míle Buíochas Mondays: https://feelbettereveryday.kit.com/f7f730d651

Trauma-informed and neuro-affirming yoga, breathwork and meditation: https://selfcarecoaching.net/services/yoga-and-meditation/

Endometriosis:

https://selfcarecoaching.net/?s=endometriosis

CHAPTERS

0:00–4:12 Introduction and recognising the benefits of yoga, breathwork, and meditation

4:12–8:43 Trauma-informed and neuro-affirming approaches and adapting practice to your needs

8:43–11:34 Sensory considerations, self-advocacy and embracing self-love

11:34–15:34 Community, co-regulation and giving yourself permission to experiment

15:34–20:16 Resources, support and moving further into 2026

FULL TRANSCRIPT

Do you like the idea of yoga, breathwork, meditation, but think that with your trauma history, hypervigilance, AuDHD (that’s autism and ADHD) brain, you simply can’t?

This episode will share some of the things that I use with clients and students, as well as the things that have helped yoga, breathwork and meditation really become a way which I come home to myself, rather than a way in which it often felt quite torturous.

Welcome to Episode 93 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast. I’m your host and producer, Eve Menezes Cunningham. I’m an author,...

Happy New Year! And welcome to Season 3 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast!

As we move into 2026, am delighted to share my (Eve Menezes Cunningham, author, podcast host, columnist, trauma-informed and neuro-affirming therapist, Self care coach and senior accredited supervisor – https://selfcarecoaching.net has more information) interview with yoga teacher, Roxy Romaniuk.

I adore her yoga classes and really loved our conversation and her honesty about moving through difficult feelings, emotions and situations by paying attention and moving them through her body with movement and journalling.

I know yoga students and groups have often called me serene (and that I so often feel anything but!) AND while I don’t know how Roxy feels on the inside while she’s teaching, I do know that she wouldn’t embody such serenity as a yoga teacher if she wasn’t doing all this inner work.

Nothing’s good or bad. Everything is simply information. But we all need support (compassion for ourselves as we face challenges, the courage to ask for help and support and community around us to offer it when we can’t ask).

JOURNAL PROMPTS

As you watch or listen to our interview, ask yourself: How might you make more space to process, reflect and work with ALL the feelings in 2026? How and where might you access support and that essential feeling of being held we all need in order to co-regulate and thrive? Maybe there’s a yoga class local to you where you feel able to exhale deeply and let go? Maybe a great friend or loved one you don’t have to mask around? A therapist or coach? Some other kind of relationship?

Let me know in the comments or by email – eve@selfcarecoaching.net

And if you’re feeling sad reading this because you can’t think of anything that supportive, let it be a cue to encourage you to be open to more of it in 2026 and beyond.

THE SOLE TO SOUL CIRCLE IS EVOLVING

Whereas before, the deeper dive exclusive content would go out on Wednesdays, this will now be an additional bonus for my Míle Buíochas Mondays newsletter subscribers (as well as the regular polyvagal-informed journal prompts and some of the things I’m most grateful for and delighted to share with you). If you’re not already a subscriber, you can sign up for free at https://feelbettereveryday.kit.com/f7f730d651

And I’ll share more about the evolving Sole to Soul Circle soon.

Happy New Year!

Le grá (with love),

Eve

LINKS

@yogawithroxy

theyogaroot.org – check out their upcoming open weekend with free classes

CHAPTERS

(0:03) Difficulty expressing “negative” emotions

(2:07) Introducing guest Roxolana Romaniuk

(3:47) Ideal vs actual self-care through my Feel. Love. Heal. framework

(6:00) Small daily rituals and intuitive movement

(8:13) Expressing anger and difficult emotions safely

(12:21) Community, belonging, and collective care

FULL TRANSCRIPT

Do you struggle to express yourself when you’re feeling really sad or angry or hurt or any of the so-called negative emotions?

Today’s guest is an absolute delight and while she’s one of my favourite yoga teachers, I especially love what she shares about her own self-care in terms of giving space, making space for messy movement and expression.

I hope you love listening to her as much as I enjoyed talking to her and I’d also love to hear from you in terms of maybe the emotion you struggle most to process and what you’re going to do differently, what you’re going to try as a result of today’s episode.

Welcome to episode 92 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast and I look forward to hearing from you.

I’m your host and producer Eve Menezes Cunningham. I’m an author, columnist, trauma therapist, self-care coach and senior accredited supervisor specialising in ADHD and

Happy New Year!

Do you love New Year’s Eve? Do you hate New Year’s Eve? Do you feel indifferent to New Year’s Eve?

However you feel, I hope you have a wonderful New Year! Watch or listen to episode 91 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts for some of the self-care rituals and practices that I do every year or most years.

I hope they’ll help you work with your own ADHD brain, AuDHD brain, and also to continue to heal from any trauma. Use this time of year, where there is so much external pressure in terms of how you might be thinking you should be celebrating or what you should be doing to go for it with all that appeals and ignore all the rest!

[Link to selfcarecoaching.net/blog for show notes, full transcript and more]

le grá (with love),

Eve

LINKS

Sign up for Míle Buíochas Mondays (Polyvagal-informed and more every Monday) here

Westport Lunar Circles

Your vibe for 2025: Episode 38 of The Feel Better Every Day Podcast

Choose your transpersonal quality for the year ahead

Happy New Year and bring what was good about the break into your year ahead

Make the most of the seasonal energies

CHAPTERS

0:00 – Mixed feelings about New Year’s Eve?

2:28 – Checking in with what actually appeals

4:53 – New Year intentions and PDA-friendly resolutions

6:01 – Lessons, blessings and reflecting on the year

8:18 – Choosing a guiding word or theme for the year ahead

10:26 – Clearing space and symbolic release rituals

12:02 – Self-acceptance instead of self-improvement

13:39 – Community, connection and designing New Year’s Day

16:12 – Creative visioning and sensory mood-setting

FULL TRANSCRIPT

Do you love New Year’s Eve? Do you hate New Year’s Eve? Do you feel indifferent to New Year’s Eve?

However you feel, I hope you have a wonderful New Year and in this episode, episode 91 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast, I’m going to be sharing some of the self-care rituals and practices that I do every year or most years in order to help you work with your own ADHD brain, AuDHD brain, and also to continue to heal from any trauma and just to really use this time of year where there is so much external pressure in terms of how you might be thinking you should be celebrating or what you should be doing and they’re very tentative invitations in terms of if anything appeals, go for it and ignore all the rest.

I’m your host and producer, Eve Menezes Cunningham. I’m an author, columnist, trauma therapist, self-care coach and senior accredited supervisor specialising in ADHD and ADHD friendly trauma-informed, neuro-affirming, transpersonal and somatic approaches.

I help people heal through self-care practices that honour your body and your brain and your nervous system as well as your Self, that highest, wisest, truest,...