Meet Marian Ní Chonghaile
Buail le Marian

Wellbeing Specialist | Breathwork Facilitator | Life & Executive Coach | Gaeilge & English
 

Fáilte. I'm Marian, founder of Thrive with Marian.
 

My work is about creating space for people to slow down, breathe, reconnect with themselves and find their own way forward.

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I bring together coaching, breathwork, movement and embodied practices, shaped by more than 20 years of working with adults in education and wellbeing.

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I’m interested in what happens when we stop pushing through for a moment and give ourselves the space to notice what we really need.

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Based in Galway, I work with individuals, groups and organisations across Ireland, both in person and online.

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My Approach

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I believe meaningful change happens when we pay attention to both the mind and the body.

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My work brings together coaching, trauma informed Conscious Connected Breathwork, movement, mindfulness and simple embodied practices. Each has its place, but the way we bring them together matters.

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I’m not interested in giving you another list of things you should be doing to feel better.

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Instead, I create space to slow down, notice what is happening in your body and explore what you might need. Sometimes that means conversation and reflection. Sometimes it means breath, movement or simply being still.

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There is no one size fits all approach. Every session is shaped around you, where you are and what feels right for you.

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My Journey

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For more than 20 years, I worked in adult education, supporting people as they learned, developed new skills and built confidence. I loved that work, and it taught me a great deal about people, about learning and about the different ways we each find our own way forward.

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Alongside my professional life, my own experiences have shaped the way I understand wellbeing and change. They taught me that sometimes we can know what we need to do, yet still find it difficult to make that change.

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Breathwork became a turning point for me. Not because it removed life's challenges, but because it changed how I met them. It brought me back into my body and gave me a different way of being with whatever was happening.

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That experience led me to train professionally in coaching and breathwork, and to bring these practices together in the work I do today.

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What I love most is creating the kind of space where people can slow down, feel safe enough to explore what is really going on, and begin to reconnect with themselves.

For me, that is where meaningful change begins.

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Qualifications & Experience

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My work is grounded in professional training, more than 20 years of working with adults, and years of my own experience with breath, movement and wellbeing.

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• Certified Life & Executive Coach

• Certified Journey The Breath Facilitator · Trauma informed Conscious Connected Breathwork

• Master’s Degree in Digital Media

• 20+ years’ experience in adult education, facilitation, learning and wellbeing

• Experience working with individuals, groups and organisations

• Sessions available in English or Gaeilge

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I continue to learn, practise and develop my work so that the space I create for others is grounded, practical and attuned to the person in front of me.

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Who I Work With

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I work with people who have reached a point where something needs to change, but they may not yet know exactly what that change looks like.

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Some are busy professionals who have spent a long time keeping everything going.
Some are leaders carrying a lot of responsibility and looking for space to step back and think.

Some are navigating a change in work, relationships or direction.

Others simply know they have lost touch with themselves somewhere along the way.

You might be looking for support with stress, wanting to make a decision, finding your way through a transition, or simply wanting to feel more like yourself again.

You don't need to arrive with all the answers.

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We start where you are, with space to slow down, breathe, talk, reflect and notice what you need.

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My role is not to tell you what you should do. It is to create the space for you to explore it for yourself.

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A Space to Pause, Breathe & Reconnect

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Life can move quickly. Work, responsibilities, relationships and everyday demands can leave little time to stop and notice how we are actually doing.

My work is about creating that space.

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A space where you can slow down, breathe, move, talk, reflect and simply be for a while.

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You don't have to arrive knowing exactly what you need. Sometimes, giving yourself the space to pause is where the next step begins.

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Seirbhís trí Ghaeilge ar fáil

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A Little More About Me

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I'm rooted in Galway and Connemara, and Gaeilge has always been part of my life. I also have a deep love of movement, music, the sea and the outdoors. T

hese things are not separate from my work. They are part of how I understand connection, presence and wellbeing

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