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20/11/2025
Delighted to receive my Certificate from Green Tara College following my Maternity and Post Natal course in Advanced techniques.
I have been qualified and practicing reflexology for 24 years. As a member of the Irish Reflexologists Institute we have to complete annual CPD's (Continual Professional Development). In my early years I specialised in Fertility and pregnancy, so I have completed many, many courses in this field and worked with hundreds of women.
Regardless, I am always amazed that there is still more to learn, understand and try different techniques. I am really curious to see the results from the new INDUCTION TECHNIQUES I've been taught. This will be my Reseach Focus for 2026!
Reflexology during pregnancy can aid and assist many pregnancy related symptoms at a time when pharmaceuticals cannot be used.
Back pain
Swellling in feet abd ankles
Improved sleep
Reduces stress and anxiety
Heartburn
Constipation
Aches and pains
Symphisis p***s
Sciatica
Prepares the body for labour
Supports a more harmonious pregnancy
Post natally it can help with LATCH and milk letdown
Promotes better milk supply, especially in the early days
All in all an incredible treatment at a very special time in life.
19/11/2025
Lights out! That's it for today. Everyone delighted to get in to my lovely warm clinic today and especially into that warm n toasty treatment couch!
What a cold, wintery day with lots of hailstones! Not that any of today's clients even registered the heavy showers as they were panned out 😂
A great day.
18/11/2025
No matter what oils or creams I try out, I always end up returning to bees wax balms. They have the perfect balance of slip and grip to give the best reflexology treatment.
There's no point in trying to reinvent the wheel 👣😃👣
12/11/2025
Touch therapies can be powerfully transformative for your overall health and mental emotional wellbeing.
10/11/2025
As you all probably know, my two favourute hobbies are kayaking with Moy Canoe Cluband singing with Moy Singers , and as happens, both will be celebrating their 40th Anniversary next year, having been established in 1986, activites fantastic at lowering stress and raising your serotonin leveks, the happy hormone!
It's hard to believe but in less than three weeks we will be on stage at 8pm for our CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT Christmas Concert at the Great National Hotel Ballina Friday 28th November to be precise.
We've been singing about snow, rudolf and Santa since September 1st 🎁☃️🎅 so we're almost there. We have lots of new songs introduced by Shona Seck, a past member and now our Musical Director from Spotlight Vocal Studio and of course all the much loved traditional songs too.
I have tickets available to sell €20 as do all choir members so grab a ticket for you and your family and start your Christmas celebrations off with us!
HOHOHO
09/11/2025
There's so much happening to women's bodies during and . The more stress and anxiety you feel the stronger the symptoms are so it's important that you work in lots of stress-busting techniques, such as walks in nature, deep breathing, yoga, meditation, sea swimming, kayaking, paddling, singing, dancing and definitely some regular reflexology sessions....
No one thing will resolve all your issues however taking an active role in advocating for yourself, for your own health will make this time, which is long and prolonged more manageable.
Look after you!
05/11/2025
Reflexology isn’t just relaxing. Studies show it can lead to real, measurable changes in the body.
A review published in National Center for Biotechnology Information looked at what happens physiologically and biochemically when people receive reflexology. Here’s what they found 👇
✅ 1. Stress hormone levels can change
Several studies showed reductions in cortisol (the body’s main stress hormone) and salivary amylase after reflexology. Lower stress = better balance for many systems in the body.
❤️ 2. Heart rate and blood pressure may respond
People often experience a calming effect — including lower heart rate and blood pressure during or after a session. This reflects activation of the parasympathetic (“rest and digest”) system.
😊 3. Improved relaxation and emotional wellbeing
Participants consistently reported feeling calmer, more centered, and less anxious after reflexology. This isn’t just subjective — some studies observed measurable shifts in physiological markers of stress.
⚠️ Important note:
These changes don’t mean reflexology treats or cures disease. But they do show that what happens during a session is more than surface-level pampering. It can support the body’s natural stress regulation pathways.
A relaxed body has more capacity to heal, regulate, and restore balance. Reflexology supports the body’s natural balance by encouraging deep relaxation and reducing stress. Small shifts inside can make a big difference in how you feel on the outside.
Source: McCullough, J. E., Liddle, S. D., Sinclair, M., Close, C., & Hughes, C. M. (2014). The Physiological and Biochemical Outcomes Associated with a Reflexology Intervention. National Center for Biotechnology Information
04/11/2025
As with all professions, reflexologists have to complete annual CPD's (Continuing Professional Development) so for the next 2 weeks I am on an Advanced Maternity Reflexology course, both theory and practical application.
I have been in practice for 24 years and I am always in learning mode, there is always more to learn, always more to know!
Reflexology during pregnancy has huge benefits to mother and baby not just in keeping mum relaxed, reducing stress and providing a space of safety and comfort but also keeping baby content and assisting in a smoother and shorter delivery.
Thanks to and for facilitating and running.
02/11/2025
A new little Baba to bring joy to this family..... Delighted for them and to have played a very small part in their wonderful story!
So lovely ❤️
30/10/2025
Home Visit today.....
One of my very dear clients had a knee replacement recently and has been unable to attend for her regular reflexology session.
Knowing it would make her feel a lot better and speed up the healing process her thoughtful daughter enquired if I would travel to her and do a home based treatment 😁
It was such a pleasure to see her and to give her a treatment in her own home.
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My personal story of why I became a therapist.....
Hello, my name is Jackie Mehigan. I am a qualified Reflexologist, Acupuncturist, including cupping and moxibustion, Massage Therapist and Reiki practitioner. I also qualified in Indian Head Massage, Hopi Ear Candling. I spent 6 weeks post Graduate training at the Shanghai 6th Teaching Hospital and Jiao Tong University of TCM, China in 2004. I was very fortunate to spend a week in the company of Dr Randine Lewis, Author of The Infertility Cure: The Ancient Chinese Wellness Programme for Getting Pregnant and Having Babies. Her ethos and approach to preparing the body to conceive and working towards being your best fertile self was enlightening back in 2006. Other notable influencers and training received was by Jane Lyttleton, Author of Treatment of Infertility with Chinese Medicine. She is now Director of the Paddington Medical Centre in Sydney, Australia and a number of eminent Dr’s of Chinese Medicine that I attended training with both here in Ireland and in the UK and whist in Shanghai.
I am a wife and mother to two beautiful young children. We, as a family moved to Ballina a couple of years ago. As is the case with most therapists, there is a story that lead them down the path of natural healing and I am no different. So like all good stories, we need to go back to the beginning......
Back in the late 90’s I was living and working in Dublin in what was a stressful job and various ailments let me to a GP visit. I got very little satisfaction and left feeling embarrassed that perhaps I was over complicating and overthinking my symptoms. I got on with life and work, however, the symptoms continued, got worse and more were to follow. Eventually, I made my way back to the GP surgery again. This time I was greeted by a different Doctor who listened, really listened and it was such an unburdening I felt instantly better that I wasn’t loosing my mind. She told me she had an idea what was causing my symptoms and would need to follow up with tests. So some weeks later following CAT scans, MRI’s and blood tests I got my diagnosis. I had a one and a half centimetre tumour on my pituitary gland. This little fella was pushing down on my optic nerve causing all my “stress” headaches. Humdingers that would have me out of action for days and as for my menstrual cycle and what it did to my emotions............ well don’t go there. So I was referred to an Endocrinologist and over the following months various drugs and quantities where tried and tested to reduced the size and pressure of my internal lodger, Macro prolactinoma, to give him his official title.
It was at one of these many appointments that I was told in quite the most casual of manners that my “chances” of conceiving were minimal if at all. Now, as a 30 year old single gal, this casual remark hit me like a juggernaut. I did not know what to do with this information, who to discuss it with or how could I work it out. I was single and where does that conversation fit in when you meet someone.
So at this time I hit the the proverbial crossroads of life and knew I needed to make some major life decisions. It was undoubtedly the continuous stress of work and Dublin City life that were the culprits in this story. So in 2000, I left my job, left Dublin and started on my my new path of immersing myself in all things holistic. A huge jump. Terrifying actually but I just knew I was doing what I was meant to do. I trained as a Massage Therapist first and then whilst working full time as a massage therapist I trained in Reflexology and then continued with training and qualifying in acupuncture. Some 5 years in I found myself drawn more and more to helping couples who were struggling to conceive and I sought out the greatest teachers I could find and to bring that knowledge back to Limerick (where I lived at the time), and over the next 5 years I primarily worked in the area of REPRODUCTION, INFERTILITY AND PRE-CONCEPTION CARE. Working along side couples who were at all levels of the journey: from those who wanted to make sure they had the healthiest eggs and s***m possible before trying to conceive, through to the couple who had already spent many years and a myriad of surgical procedure behind them, who were now looking for a more holistic approach as science had not given them their dream of becoming parents.
In all this time I religiously went for my own reflexology treatments and of course I would use acupuncture on myself and followed all the advice I was giving all the women who came to me for treatments.
Still single, and ever the optimist. Time was unfortunately not on my side. However, at the age of 39 I met my now husband and I had to reveal my “secret”. A very hard conversation with no guarantee of the outcome or his reaction and response. However, I had found myself one of those rare gems and we got married. It was 2009. I was 41. I had a Pituitary Prolactinoma and by this time, it had long been joined by an under active thyroid just to well and truly put the nail in the conception coffin.
Molly was born naturally and healthy in August 2010. I was 42.
And Sean was born December 2011 and I was 43.
During both pregnancies I continued as often as possible (weekly) to have my reflexology sessions. My week centred around my appointments. I would be only out the door and the clock would start its countdown until my next treatment. Could I be a reflexology ju**ie if there is such a thing. I’d be a strong contender!! Such is my love, fascination and understanding of the process and the sheer relaxation gained from a session.
So for 12 long years I had lived the life of a woman who believed she would never become a mother. Only those of you reading this and are fighting the good fight towards motherhood can truly understand that its a lonely road and there are no guarantees to be had.
But, my message is: believe in yourself. Be so gentle and kind to yourself. Only give your body the best of wishes and intentions. Don’t separate your mind from your body and feel it is betraying you. There is so much you can do and so much you can be in control of. I can show you.
So, fast forward. Here we are in Ballina. I have started up my practice again. As well as the 17 years experience I have under my belt, I have been working hard and studying and attending lots of CPD’s (Continual Professional Development). One of which stood out was 3 amazing days at LARCC Cancer Care Sanctuary in Multyfarnham. (If you scroll down my news feed you can see where they appeared on RTE in January and you will see the wonderful women we trained with. LARCC is an amazing centre which cares for those with a cancer diagnosis, and their families. They can go to the Centre and enjoy some relaxing reflexology, amongst other therapies. Reflexology can help ease nausea, assist with constipation, anxiety and sleep difficulties. Most of all, it offers a gentle and caring touch to help relax frayed and weary minds and bodies. I learned so very much and hope those skills and knowledge may assist those in need of it here in Ballina.
I have many more courses coming up to continue to seek out the best methods, practice and approach and offer that service through my hands to those in need of treatments.
So, if you are still with me, the title of a song from one of my favourite movies.............
