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Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD

Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD

By: Eve Menezes Cunningham
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 Fáilte! Welcome! This used to be Feel Better Every Day but my PDA (Persistant Drive for Autonomy) has kicked in and I'm like, Stop telling me how to feel! I'm Eve Menezes Cunningham, author of 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing, columnist, trauma therapist (and survivor), AuDHDer, senior accredited supervisor, and Self care coach (integrating psychosynthesis, NLP, yoga, meditation, EFT and more) at Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD - selfcarecoaching.net Through solo and interview episodes, I share trauma-informed and neuro-affirming (especially for ADHD and AuDHD) self-care and Self care (for that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant and miraculous part of yourself) ideas, practices and rituals. Reconnect with your Self. Learn self-care practices and rituals to help you regulate, create a life you don't need to retreat from, and help build a world in which everyone feels safe, welcome, and loved. Ready to thrive? The Feel. Love. Heal. framework This framework evolved from decades of pain, exploration and recovery. I’m happy it’s helping making things easier for other trauma survivors, ADHDers and AuDHDers: • Feel: Take better care of yourself with active self-care to regulate your nervous system, work with your energy, and connect with your Self. • Love: Create a life you don’t need to retreat from with Self care to help you accept yourself completely with love, compassion, and kindness. Remember, you're already whole. Peace is within you. • Heal: Help build a world in which everyone feels safe, welcome, loved and able to thrive. Collective care to turn what hurts your heart into action, coregulate and heal with others. New episodes every Tuesday morning (Ireland time). Subscribe for notifications. For previews, bonuses, polyvagal-informed journal prompts and more, sign up for my Míle Buíochas Mondays newsletter at https://feelbettereveryday.kit.com/f7f730d651 Is Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD helping you? Please share and leave a ★★★★★ rating and review. Your support helps me reach more trauma survivors and people with ADHD or AuDHD. Learning to care for, love and accept yourself is a radical act. Your healing creates ripples and helps others remember peace and ease is everyone’s birthright too. Míle buíochas (a thousand thank yous).Copyright 2026 Eve Menezes Cunningham Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Spirituality
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  • Navigating Dental Treatment with Sensory Differences

    Navigating Dental Treatment with Sensory Differences
    Mar 17 2026

    This week, for the Spring Equinox and World Oral Health Day, I’m sharing some self-care ideas for supporting yourself through dental treatment with sensory differences.

    I’d been feeling quite proud of myself for handling the gum surgery and all it brought up (flashbacks etc) but then, boom, dental claim rejected.

    So this whole episode about advocating for yourself, with sensory differences and other AuDHD traits and symptoms, while helpful, didn’t help me with the finances of it all as I’d thought I had been advocating for myself and don’t know enough about dentist language to be able to discern in the same way that the insurance people do. I’d never had to deal with it before. So while I’m improving with the self-compassion but am feeling pretty frustrated that am €500 short and need to pay out loads more in two weeks!

    And that’s life!

    Progress not perfection!

    Healing being far from linear!

    And, with my ongoing aim to not argue with reality and ask how any problem is actually trying to help me, I guess I needed the gum surgery and couldn’t have made it happen had I known it wouldn’t have been covered.

    What I really notice is that even with my lack of dental and periodontal jargon knowhow, my attitude towards myself is kinder. For most of my 50 years, I’d have been, “I should have somehow KNOWN” whereas now I’m like, you know what? I’m not a dentist. I have no idea what any of the labels mean and that’s on them for being misleading and not at least having a glossary with lay terms.

    How about YOU?

    As you watched or listened and scanned all your parts (including your teeth!) from the soles of your feet to your soul, what needs YOUR attention?

    Are you fobbing yourself off in any way?

    Look after yourself and let me know what helps you do the far less pampery and indulgent but very important types of self-care in terms of looking after your teeth, your finances and this one and only body you have for your entire life…

    Le grá (with love),

    Eve

    CHAPTERS

    0:00 Finding support and community around sensory differences

    0:43 Podcast introduction and Eve’s background

    5:09 World Oral Health Day and anxiety about dental care

    6:03 Neurodivergence, shame and struggles with dental hygiene

    8:49 Advocating for sensory needs during dental treatment

    11:42 Healing after surgery and the impact of long-term infection

    15:04 Using the Feel. Love. Heal. framework for medical anxiety

    17:52 Self-compassion and asking for support during treatment

    23:10 Collective care and involving others in your healing

    25:06 Encouragement to seek treatment and share experiences

    27:18 Reflection and closing thoughts

    LINKS

    World Oral Health Day -

    https://www.worldoralhealthday.org/

    Book bonus videos - https://solestosoul.ie/book/yoga-videos/

    Metta meditation - https://solestosoul.ie/2019/10/02/self-care-metta-meditation-for-when-the-news-is-especially-challenging/

    #worldoralhealthday

    #audhd

    #trauma

    #dentist

    #solestosoulcarefortraumaandaudhd

    #evemenezescunningham
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    28 mins
  • Josephine Hughes on God's Love for Us ALL

    Josephine Hughes on God's Love for Us ALL
    Mar 10 2026

    It was such a delight to talk to Therapy Growth Group and Good Enough Counsellors founder and fellow ADHDer Josephine Hughes again for Episode 101. Josephine hosts two podcasts (there’s a link to an episode I was on with her in the links below), Good Enough Counsellors and Gloriously Unready.

    Previously, the Feel Better Every Day Podcast, you’re listening to what’s now the Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD with Eve Menezes Cunningham podcast. Learn to love and care for all your parts, including your AuDHD and trauma, from the soles of your feet to your soul.

    This week, Josephine shared her love of chocolate with my Míle Buíochas Mondays subscribers and in this full episode of the podcast, Josephine talks about the journey she took with her church community in terms of becoming more inclusive and loving.

    “You can be fully inclusive and therefore be in line theologically with the Bible, or you can say, no, no, no, that’s not what the Bible says at all. And really between the two positions, people try and fudge it, but it’s either one or the other. So our church, very fortunately, decides to go for full inclusivity. And it was a journey we all went on together, but we did lose a lot of people.”

    She also shares her love of music and ever-increasing self-compassion.

    Again, as you listen, notice what you’re most aware of in your physical, energetic, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies as you scan all your parts, from the soles of your feet to your soul.

    Let me know in the comments or by emailing me at eve@solestosoul.ie

    le grá (with love),

    Eve

    HASHTAGS

    #josephinehughes

    #evemenezescunningham

    #goodenoughcounsellors

    #faith

    CHAPTERS

    0:00 Self-criticism and the idea of being good enough

    0:19 Podcast introduction and Eve’s background

    4:30 Re-introducing Josephine Hughes

    6:03 The Good Enough Counsellors community and imposter syndrome

    12:09 Ideal vs good-enough self-care

    15:06 The importance of being heard and understood

    16:20 Music, faith and feeling loved and accepted

    21:02 Community care and finding an inclusive church

    24:28 Advice to a younger self about self-worth

    28:27 Where to find Josephine and her work

    29:45 Reflections and mini energy and body scan

    LINKS

    https://solestosoul.ie/book for free resources including book bonus videos for 365 Ways to Feel Better

    Episode 23: Josephine Hughes

    Eve guesting on Josephine’s Good Enough Counsellors Podcast

    Connect with Josephine

    Good Enough Counsellors:

    https://josephinehughes.com/

    Gloriously Unready Podcast: https://gloriouslyunready.com/podcast/

    Facebook Good Enough Counselling Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/goodenoughcounsellors

    Imposter Syndrome

    https://paulineroseclance.com/impostor_phenomenon.html

    Read my interview with Marianne Williamson from Rapport, Spring 2009 https://issuu.com/rapportmag/docs/rapport_spring_09/24
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    31 mins
  • Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas on ADHD Body and Mind

    Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas on ADHD Body and Mind
    Mar 3 2026
    Happy 100th Episode to Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD with Eve Menezes Cunningham (formerly Feel Better Every Day)! Am sorting all the links to ensure my biggest rebrand since 2010 and some aren’t there yet so while I’m hoping you can watch or listen wherever you get your podcasts, please let me know if you have any issues (as well as any feedback, comments or questions!).Am so delighted to have the fantabulous Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas back with me to talk about how his self-care, Self care and collective care have evolved (since episode 24!) and his new book, ADHD Body and Mind: A Compassionate Guide to Rewilding Your Nervous System with Neuroscience, Nutrition, and Gut-Brain Health.Described as “a book that speaks to both your biology and your belonging. It’s a unique, neurodiversity-affirmative resource that reframes ADHD as a natural neurotype, a different way of living and making sense of the world, rather than a disorder. It expands neuroscience beyond the brain and into the whole body. Showing how gut, microbes, breath, heart, hormones and immune system are always in conversation. ADHD Body and Mind reimagines nutrition and gut-brain health through a non-diet lens, offering flexible, compassionate tools that nourish body and mind without rules, shame or restriction and extends gentle invitations, not prescriptions, to honour your ADHD as a whole body-mind experience, rather than reducing it to symptoms to be managed. In a nutshell, ADHD Body and Mind is a companion, offering space to breathe, reflect, and return to yourself, again and again. It will help you reconnect with your body’s natural rhythms, release some of the weight of shame and perfectionism, and discover a way of living with ADHD that feels not just manageable, but meaningful.”I am so looking forward to reading it! I’ve pre-ordered my copy (it’s out on 21st April!) and you can too, wherever you buy your books.In the meantime, I hope you’ll enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed talking to him again.le grá (with love),EveLINKSDr Miguel Toribios-Mateas:Listen to our previous conversation, episode 24 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast wherever you get your podcasts or at https://evemc.substack.com/p/the-feel-better-every-day-podcast-b80?utm_source=publication-searchInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmiguelmateasWebsite:https://drmiguelmateas.com/My new sitehttps://solestosoul.ieCHAPTERS(Maybe slightly off as re-recorded intro to go with the rebrand from Feel Better Every Day to Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD)0:00 - Being present and meeting others with kindness0:47 - Celebrating episode 1000:54 - Introducing Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas2:09 - A compassionate guide to ADHD body and mind6:14 - Listening to your needs without forcing others12:11 - Mindfulness, love and connection through animals20:50 - Community, belonging and protecting your energy27:24 - Learning self-acceptance over time31:04 - Where to connect and final reflections32:02 - Podcast closing and listener invitationFULL TRANSCRIPTPresent means that if there is somebody else in the room and they have other needs, you appreciate that their needs are different, and how can you be kind towards them so when you expect them to understand that you need to stand up and fix the curtain, whatever that might be for you. The situation of the curtain is going to be different to different people, and how can you do it in a way that you’re kind to them so when you expect them to be kind to you and not tell you god you’re such a weirdo and feel oh I feel attacked because I’ve just been told that I’m like I’m a weirdo, but you know do things in a way that you find the middle ground and present.Previously the Feel Better Every Day Podcast, this is now Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD with Eve Menezes Cunningham. Learn to love and care for all your parts (including your trauma and AuDHD) from the soles of your feet to your soul.Welcome to episode 100 of the formerly Feel Better Every Day now Soles to Soul Care for Trauma and AuDHD Podcast. I’m delighted to welcome back one of my early guests from episode 24, Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas.I still remember how nervous I was sending him that initial message asking if he’d like to be a guest when I was beginning. And he was the first person I heard the term AuDHD from, and he’s been such an inspiration and kind guide on this journey for me personally, just an absolute delight, so I’m so happy to have him back where he’ll be talking about how his own self-care has evolved but most excitingly his new book.I hope you love the episode as much as I adore this person who has done so much to help me and others accept and work with our differently wired brains. Let me know what you’re going to do differently as a result of listening.So thank you so much for coming back Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas.Thank you for having me.You’re so welcome.I wanted you here to help me celebrate my 100th ...
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    37 mins
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