26/12/2025
What a wonderful St. Stephen's Day evening with the PJ Duffy Quartet at The Cot and Cobble, Ballina.
A pure delight to enjoy here in Ballina
24 years experience under my belt. I offer support to pregnant, peri and post menopausal women, balancing hormones, calming frayed nerves.
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Ballina
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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.
