Ok this one is either incredibly relevant to where you are at now - or trust me, it will be sooner than you realise. Suzanne Kane is a 98Fm presenter, a very busy mam of 3 kids and a great friend of mine. For Suzanne her postpartum at 40 just blurred right in with perimenopause and now she’s here to say the things that we do not hear enough about and won’t have a clue about when it’s our turn. And it will be every women’s turn. We need to know more about the mental, emotional and physical sympto...
Aug 13, 2024•57 min•Season 7Ep. 9
Emma Flynn created thismamadoodles while expressing her own personal maternal mental, physical, emotional stretches and her craft, her illustrations, soulful words connected with thousands of woman online. But after a break, a chance to go inwards and reassess, realign, she joins me to share how her life has changed and her mental health never ever better. We talk about moving her family to the wilds of west cork, how giving herself what she needs has been a radical act of self love and she insp...
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 7Ep. 8
6 months ago free diver, author and TedX speaker Claire Walsh joined me while she was in the messy middle of IVF treatment with so much yet unknown. link to previous episode "The IVF Stretch" Claire returns to share the heartbreaking but all too real acceptance that it was time to stop IVF and to step forward into a future without conceiving a child. The end of anything brings grief, but there is little ever said about the grief of coming to terms with a fertility journey that did not gift you a...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 7Ep. 7
This is an historic week for women in sport as 66 Irish female athletes compete in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Joining me to talk about the build up, the pride and the excitement is RTE Sports Broadcaster, and presenter of RTE’s Olympics coverage, Evanne NiCuillinn to talk about how far women have come, the ones to watch, how this summer is an incredible opportunity to make those iconic sporting memories with our children, and our reaction to the this year’s olympics being the first to have a ch...
Jul 23, 2024•36 min•Season 7Ep. 6
Half way through this season! Joined by Julie Ledwidge as we talk secondary infertility, waiting for no2, healing the trauma of almost losing her life after your 1st was born, and the power of deeply letting go. After Julie had her son Max, she developed sepsis. Julie has done amazing work to edicate and spread awareness of sepsis on her instagram page and on other podcasts - and so I wanted to explore her road to finding the confidence to go again, the distress of realising this pregnancy wasn’...
Jul 16, 2024•49 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Burnout // Unable to Rest // Racing Thoughts // Stretched to F!*k ??? I’m here with Sinead Mooney to learn simple tangible realistic ways of incorporating moments of replenishment into our day. Because the stress and the stretch is going to keep on coming - this episode should help you meet it with a little more in the tank. Sinead is a Wellbeing Specialist - Certified Meditation Trainer- Certified Life Coach and owns her own Yoga Studio @moonsyogaloft but more importantly - she’s a mother of 2 ...
Jul 11, 2024•54 min•Season 7Ep. 4
This episode with Caoimhe McG is delicate. Navigating the end of a relationship as a parent is an often unspoken impossible life stretch - yet so many are going through it. Caoímhe is a mum of 4 and with her account The Big Hill House has shared parts of her home with her followers - but nothing is certain and the life we plan can change. Here she finds her voice and her courage to speak about how hard the last year has been. Her decision to move back to Ireland, step away from her career and he...
Jul 02, 2024•49 min•Season 7Ep. 3
This weeks guest is a comedian, a poet, a storyteller - Aoife Dunne english_and_aoife Her observations and comedy of the Irish Mother are wildly accurate and so too are her expressions of grief, depression and finding her real identity that lay hidden under trauma for too long. It’s deep, intelligent, beautiful and it's Aoife - so it's funny. And I think it’s really important to hear. She talks about losing her mother, the shame of her dad's affair and growing up in Galway as she says - "poor". ...
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 7Ep. 2
NEW SEASON of Stretch Marks with Sinead O'Moore Kicking off another 10 weeks with my first guest Genevieve Turley Genevieve is a make up artist in the rational, normal, you're doing great as you are babe sense of the word. She combines her wit with her natural beauty, her comfort with who she is and how she looks with informative, kind and hilarious content. She is doing us ALL a favour - and if you're not following her yet I encourage you to do so immediately. She is a mum of 2 in her 30's and ...
Jun 18, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Season 7 of Stretch Marks with Sinead O'Moore returns on Wednesday 19th June 2024 Joined by inspirational guests, experts and friends, this podcast will help us to flow with whatever life is throwing at us and leave us feeling more empowered, excited and confident about the version of ourselves we are growing in to. Together let's celebrate our personal growth while acknowledging the physical, mental & emotional Stretch Marks we've earned. #AD - This season is supported by Dove Advanced Care...
Jun 17, 2024•2 min
Season Finale Holly Cairns - leader of the Social Democrats joins me to talk about her stretch as a women new to politics and what has motivated her to want positive change. I have admired Holly's ability to stand in the Dáil and speak on issues with empathy, humanity and an authenticity we don't always see. We talk about Gaza, how her view of politics and the world has changed - her experience of sexism, agism and intimidation - her rise through politics and why we need more women using their v...
Apr 02, 2024•52 min•Season 6Ep. 10
5 days after giving birth at home - fashion stylist Justine King joins me to share her gorgeous natural home birth story. Making this empowered choice to birth at home wasn’t by accident - but an instinct that grew following her first lockdown baby - and his restricted birth. Instead this was within her control, within her safe 4 walls and within her capacity as she stretched her inner belief and goddess to meet her baby. Hosted by Sinead O'Moore Get in touch at @stretchmarkspodcast I'd love to ...
Mar 27, 2024•52 min•Season 6Ep. 9
For 5 years I’ve trusted Paul O’Regan founder of AcuDublin with my headspace, back pain, pregnancy preparation and postpartum recovery. Acupuncture and Anatomy in Motion with Paul is now firmly in my self care toolkit - and he has finally agreed to join me on the podcast to talk about my symptoms and how he treats so many women as stretched as me coming through his clinic. Mothers, trying to be all things to all people in this modern world with little regard for what our bodies actually go throu...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 6Ep. 8
One year ago, when her 1st born was 3 weeks old, Laura Mangan was diagnosed with a a brain tumour. From Limerick, now living in the UK with partner and Wrexham FC player Anthony Forde - club owner Ryan Reynolds stepped in and found answers. While Laura's story has been featured throughout media with and without her knowledge - this is Laura's story. A first time mother living away from home with a newborn standing in the hospital with an expressed bottle at home being told this news. And here fo...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 6Ep. 7
This Friday, March 8th Ireland is being asked to vote on two referenda. There are two articles for us to vote on. 1) The Family Article and 2)The Care Article I have written a full piece on the meaning of both on my substack - you can access that here. In this episode I speak with Sonya Lennon, founder of Work Equal and along with the Women's Council has been part of the process to get us to this point. Through her work with work equal she was called as witnesses to the joint Oireachtas committe...
Mar 04, 2024•42 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Maria Forde’s journey through motherhood has been a sequence of stretches that have tested her and offered her some of the greatest loves of her life. We are talking about: severe hyperemesis A very rare condition leading to emergency airways surgery. An emergency section. A newborn in nicu with a collapsed lung- an injury occured during birth Meningitis. Her uterus at risk of rupture. Miscarriage And this all in the last 5 years while also showing up, living life, working, mothering, coping wit...
Feb 28, 2024•57 min•Season 6Ep. 5
This episode is a blend of the physical and the spiritual. The blend of the feminine body and the feminine rising. A story of endometriosis, ivf, fertility and faith. Not in the religious sense but in spiritual sense. My guest Sinead De Hora , is a an Angel Healer, a rahanni teacher, an author and a facilitator of spiritual ceremonies. She is also a woman who battled endometriosis and ivf to conceive the baby she is now carrying. This conversation takes us to new places on this pod, places some ...
Feb 21, 2024•56 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Charlene Flanagan co-founder of Ella and Jo is here for this gorgeous conversation about finding your light again. With Irish twins Charlene shares how necessary it was for her to find a way back to herself. She shares her toolkit for self regulation as she stretches beyond herself to create this business and life she loves. The darker moments - how we can all feel judged and how we can hold ourselves back, unsure of our real value. This episode has one giant hug of a message - FIND YOUR LIGHT A...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 3
Claire Walsh is a successful author & ted talker, the first person to represent Ireland at the Freediving World Championships in 2019 and she is in the messy middle of subfertility. Fertility is a very personal + private journey. But that can leave us at risk of only hearing some commercial promises and the good news. Where is the messy middle?? We talk about illusions being shattered, her relationship with hope, the indignity of the physical process and the power games between you and an in...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 2
This weeks guest Carla Piera Fitzgerald has lost 183 lbs, half her body weight. But don’t assume this is a weight loss episode - because our conversation goes deeper than that. This is about shedding the mental weight of negative self talk, trauma and the mental health cycle that kept Carla trapped in self sabotage and food addiction for most of her life. We talk about how everything changed when she stopped hating her body and started to love her soul. We talk about fertility and the choice she...
Jan 31, 2024•54 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Has motherhood made you feel smaller? Friendships stretched, identities stretched, career choice and opportunity stretched. It can be a real time of personal invisibility. Which is why I needed Visibility & Business coach Kate O’Dwyer to join me for this conversation. Kate is an advocate of authentic self expression & connection. Through her work, she supports her clients to feel regulated, resourced and rebellious in their personal and business visibility. She is an authentic support te...
Dec 07, 2023•59 min•Season 5Ep. 4
In season 3 I had one of the most listened to conversations with new mum Sinead De Butleir. She was 7 weeks postpartum. We talked about the 4th trimester, matrescense, childbirth, feeding decisions, feeding guilt, emotions, identities and the absolute life changing experience of new motherhood. It prompted to many other women to talk about their experiences online, with friends and even strangers that bumped into Sinead. From 7 weeks to 7 months, Sinead is back to talk about how some of those ea...
Nov 29, 2023•51 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Life keeps coming and we gotta stretch to meet it. This weeks guest Giovanna Fletcher is no stranger to an honest conversation about life, motherhood, real experiences and seeking our happiest selves. And without the gloss - she accepts that it is a total stretch. An author, podcaster, actress & advocate Giovanna Fletcher changed the game for millions of parents in creating " Happy Mum Happy Baby " a community that gave us permission to say "I love them and it’s hard." We talk about her own ...
Nov 08, 2023•55 min•Season 5Ep. 2
I'm so ready for the season 5 stretch! Kicking off with the beautiful, kind and soulful Sile Seoige as she shares her daughters experience of RSV , the signs, symptoms and actions we all need to know heading into winter 2023. RSV is a common and contagious virus that affects 90% of children before they are two years old. All infants are at risk of RSV. While most infections cause mild, cold-like symptoms, and clear up on their own within a few weeks, some cases can be more serious. for more info...
Nov 01, 2023•55 min•Season 5Ep. 1
It takes a village - well in 2023 the village is childcare. And the village is burning down! Leo, Micheal, Eamonn - send help and send it FAST!! Here I talk to Elaine Dunne the chairperson of the Federation of Early Childhood Providers to talk about the planned strikes & to understand what's really going on. STRIKE DATES: September 26th, 27th and 28th The solution needs to be brave - not just expensive - and it needs leadership that accepts the reality of the current situation and joins to d...
Sep 15, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 10
With 10 months of my 30's left I'm hitting the "Almost 40 stretch" But I'm not alone - my amazing friend and beauty editor Simone Gannon (Simone Scribes) is right along side me. We go deep into the lessons learned, the sh!t that no longer serves us, peri-menopause and it's relentless pace towards us and Simone shares what we need to know about keeping our skin healthy as we age gracefully. It's a rant, it's liberating, it's excited, there's a touch of grief about fertility - it's all here if you...
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Time to meet Dr. Johanna Clancy and Dr. Marese McDonnell both qualified clinical psychologists and founders of Cradle Psychology - a dedicated clinic, focused on parental wellbeing, uniquely developed and delivered by clinical psychologists. Dr. Johanna is pregnant with her first baby and navigating the beginning of matresence while Dr. Marese has just had her second and now knows the true limitations mothers have to properly switching off. If you are experiencing any of the issues raised in the...
Sep 05, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Where to even begin... this conversation covers so many stretches with lessons shared throughout. Denise Kenny Byrne is co-founder of The Head Plan , a life + wellness coach and a mother to 4 month old baby girl. Denise's business is about writing it down + making it happen - but in motherhood we need to build a mindset ready for the unexpected. We talk about IVF, pregnancy anxiety, an emergency C-Section, the mental load of breastfeeding, hormonal crashes and the 4 month sleep regression - plus...
Aug 29, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Waiting for baby to arrive is a stretch. Watching your body for signs that's it time, nesting, prepping, waiting, hoping, loving. Jess Redden is waiting to welcome her first baby into the world with husband Rob Kearney . We talk about her pregnancy, the moment she found out, cravings, aversions, hopes and dreams. Plus we hear all about her brand new book - The Food Pharmacy out for preorder now. If this conversation supports you at all please support us back and hit subscribe, rate or review. Ev...
Aug 22, 2023•48 min•Season 4Ep. 6
As the first generation of parents who are openly talking about their own mental health we need to advocate for our childrens too. The Mental Health Commission published their final report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and let me tell you if you’re not concerned - you should because they announced they "Cannot currently provide an assurance to all parents or guardians in all parts of Ireland that your children have access to a safe effective, and evidence-based mental health ser...
Aug 15, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 5
