About Tamara

I’m Tamara (pronounced like camera… but with a T 🙈), I'm a holistic therapist based just outside Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow.

 

I’m married, mum to two teenage boys and two fur babies, senior Timmy and puppy Charlie, obsessed with the colour purple, partial to a good book and usually in the middle of crocheting another blanket for the cabin.

 

Before any of this, I spent over 20 years working as an accountant in the corporate world. Life was busy, stressful and constantly hectic. I was always onto the next thing, always thinking ahead and always pushing through tiredness because that’s just what you do isn’t it?

 

Even when you have toddlers hanging off your legs, a house that needs cleaning, washing piling up, lunches to make, people depending on you and about five million things running through your head at once.  From the outside, I probably looked like I was coping grand.

 

But behind the scenes, I struggled badly with my mental health for years and eventually reached a point where I physically and emotionally just couldn’t keep living the way I was living.

 

I first explored Reiki, massage, yoga, breathwork and holistic therapies for myself.  I never imagined it would eventually become a whole new way of life, or lead to me working with clients across Carlow, Kilkenny and the wider South East. The more learning and research I did, the more I realised almost every woman I knew was absolutely exhausted, and rest is something I’ve become hugely passionate about.

 

So I had a choice. I could either grieve the career I had built my whole identity around, or rebuild my life around something I genuinely loved and felt passionate about.

 

So that’s what I did.

 

Now most of my days are spent in a cosy little cabin near Bagenalstown,  Co. Carlow filled with warm oils, twinkling lights, heated blankets and women finally getting a proper chance to stop for an hour.

 

And honestly? I wouldn’t change it for the world.  I'm incredibly grateful that this is now my life.

 

Sometimes rebuilding your life starts with something as simple as finally admitting you’re exhausted.

 

Tamara x