Am feeling a bit morto – two mistakes with this episode:

The 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

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Bhangra Joy with Aakriti Kaushik: Episode 108 of the Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD Podcast

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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.

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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

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

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

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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/