Tranquility Wellbeing with Suzanne

11/11/2025

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Hello 👋 thanks for liking, following or engaging with this page for last two years 🩷 If you'd like to continue, please pop over to my Instagram page instead 🫶

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Suzanne 🌸
Less Striving, More Thriving!

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05/10/2025

Discover the power of self-compassion and mindfulness at this nurturing half-day wellbeing retreat at beautiful on Saturday, 18 October

Please DM me for full info and booking.

Suzanne 🙏

30/09/2025

🌸 Self-Compassion Mindfulness Retreat -
🌿 Turn kindness inward

In the rush of daily life, many of us find it easier to offer compassion to others than to ourselves. But self-compassion is not self-indulgence, it's a vital skill for resilience, emotional balance, and true wellbeing.

This retreat at
offers a calm and nurturing space to reconnect with your inner kindness. Experience the wisdom of psychology and mindfulness, seated guided meditations, light lunch, reflective journaling and practical self-compassion tools.

You’ll explore:
🌸 The three foundations of self-compassion (mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness)
🌸 Loving-kindness meditation and compassionate body scan
🌸 Practices like “RAIN” recognise, allow, investigate and nurture
🌸 Journaling and reflection to help you integrate what you’ve learned.

📍 Barberstown Castle, Straffan, Co. Kildare, W23 CX40
🗓️ Saturday, 18 October
⏰09.45am - 2pm
🎁 Investment €80

✨Optional Extra✨
Special B&B rate (depending on availability) perfect opportunity for a girl's get-away weekend!

22/09/2025

Remember: You’re here to grow, not to be flawless. Embrace your imperfection with kindness today and every day.

19/09/2025

The Kindness of Strangers.

I had a little break in the last couple of weeks and got to spend time with family in Ireland 🇮🇪 visiting from 🇺🇸 and attended a beautiful family wedding in Yorkshire, UK 🇬🇧🥰

My flight home was cancelled. So like most people at end of a break away, I'd spent a fortune, I'd plans to meet up again with family before they returned to USA and work commitments, EVERYTHING needed to be rescheduled. This was not ideal... I'll admit I felt stressed 😲

Our flight was rebooked for next evening, an overnight stay at a hotel, with transport to/from was provided but we had to be patient while this was arranged with the airline representative.

By this stage I'd accepted I couldn't control the situation and instead got curious about where we was going on this mystery impromptu trip, and decided to get to know my fellow stranded travel companions better which led to chats and laughter in the midst of frustration and confusion.

We were sent to
In Bradford (which is the UK's City of Culture 2025).
Everyone at the hotel was so friendly and helpful 🙏

Bradford city centre has some fabulous architecture and the most impressive bookstore I've ever seen with lovely staff. A beautiful historic gothic building that was a wool exchange (I thought it was a converted church!). I bought a copy of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (a literary classic on my "to read list" for a very long time).

Sometimes best laid plans go out the window,when this happens try to be patient, be curious and put some trust in the kindness of strangers. You might be pleasantly surprised at where the unexpected takes you!

Big thanks to the customer care team at especially Caroline and her colleagues (I wish I'd gotten everybody's name) and the two taxi drivers from Arrow who reassured us they wouldn't forget to pick us up for return flight 😄

23/08/2025

How much does what Kristin Neff is saying in this video resonate with you? It certainly makes sense to me.

In psychology we sometimes say what we resist persists, Freud discovered what gets repressed doesn't go away. Instead it shows up in other ways, causing us more suffering.

In mindfulness there's an equation: Suffering = Pain x Resistance

Instead of resisting challenges, you can respond wisely by:

✅ Pause, acknowledge when things are difficult

✅ Place a hand on your heart

✅ Take a deep breath

✅ Ask yourself "What do I need right now? How can I be a best friend to myself in this difficult moment?

✅ Listen to your inner wisdom, be guided by self-compassion and proceed with kindness 🩷

13/08/2025

Thanks to Carly at .ie for inviting me as one of her expert speakers to come and talk to her "Nurture Nest" community, an online group for mothers invested in their wellbeing.

When Carly first contacted me, the theme of self-compassion immediately popped into my head as a worthy topic as mothers are often the CEO of everything, juggling childcare, busy careers and the bulk of household responsibilities.

On top of this there's often high expectations of themselves and the expectations of others (everyone has an opinion on how you should parent, am I right?) and not surprisingly sometimes all this pressure can lead to "mum guilt" especially for new mothers.

And let's face it the human instinct to compare ourselves to others and the pressure of social media doesn't help 🤯

Inspired by the findings of I shared how self-compassion is a practical mental health and wellbeing tool, increasing resilience, which can be particularly beneficial in motherhood and also teaches children to be self-compassionate, by way of role-modelling.

As well as a grounding meditation, reflections, practical tools and tips, I guided a lovely compassion-focused Lovingkindness meditation, one I personally find particularly helpful in cultivating compassion for self and others 🙏

25/07/2025

As a small business I have a FB page.....but for a while I've been wondering why? 🤔 Because 'I'm supposed to" although I've never really been a "supposed to" kind of gal. I don't usually just do things because other people are, or because it's "expected" (I mean who decides these rules to live by anyway?).

There's a few dedicated supporters who interact on this page, thank you, thank you, thank you! 💗

Some folks might notice when I post on here, it's usually a cross-post from Insta (when I remember to do it that is, sorry if it's not all the time - my bad!).

I occasionally post to FB local community groups, that's always really, really worthwhile.

BUT usually it feels like screaming into the void if I'm honest 😱There's something very exposing about FB, it just feels VERY public, the wild west of socials (meanwhile TikTok is saying "hold my beer") But whatever way I look at it, I just don't feel this kind of way about Instagram or LinkedIn 🤷‍♀️

However, doing this FB post today has been wildly cathartic!

So, if one day, I suddenly stop posting here you'll know where to find me! 😀

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