You Have Not Been Calm.
You Have Been Silent.

Ciara Ginty

There was a time in my life when I genuinely didn’t think I’d ever feel happy again.

I was anxious from as far back as I can remember. Then, between the ages of 17 and 25, I went through a period of depression that, at points, I genuinely didn’t think I’d come out the other side of.

I can remember feeling like there was this invisible weight sitting on me all the time. Everything felt hard. Even getting out of bed some days took everything I had. There was a point where I’d forgotten what happiness even felt like, and I thought that was just going to be my life.

I tried counselling. I tried journaling. I tried different therapies. Some things helped, but nothing really got to the root of what I was carrying.

What I didn’t realise at the time was that I wasn’t just carrying my own emotions.

I’ve always been a deeply sensitive person. I was the friend everyone came to. The person strangers would somehow end up telling their life story to while waiting at a bus stop. I took on everyone else’s emotions without even knowing I was doing it, and somewhere along the way I completely lost myself.

The biggest thing I had to learn wasn’t how to be happier.

It was how to actually feel.

I’d become so disconnected from my emotions that numb felt normal. Learning how to safely feel anger, grief, fear, heartbreak, rage and everything in between was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, but it also became one of the most important.

The biggest turning point for me came through Conscious Connected Breathwork.

It was the first time I’d experienced something that helped me release what my body had been holding onto for years. That one experience changed the direction of my life. It eventually led me into the work I do today, alongside Spinal Energetics, Reiki, and sound healing.

Healing hasn’t been perfect. I’ve still had really difficult chapters. I’ve still experienced loss, heartbreak and moments that have tested me.

The difference now is that I don’t run from those emotions anymore. I know how to move through them.

Looking back now, I honestly think the thing I spent years seeing as my biggest weakness in - being so sensitive - is the reason I can do this work. It allows me to sit with people in some of the hardest moments of their lives without trying to fix them or rush them. Just to be there with them.

After living in Canada for several years, I came home to Ireland because I wanted to create the kind of spaces I wish I’d had when I was struggling. Spaces where people could stop holding everything together for a while. Spaces where they didn’t have to keep explaining themselves or replaying every painful story. Spaces where their body could finally let go of what it had been carrying.

Since then, I’ve had the privilege of working with well over 1,000 people through one-to-one sessions, retreats, corporate wellbeing programmes and group experiences.

And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this:

Every single person is carrying something.

Sometimes they just need someone to help them feel safe enough to put it down.

That’s why UNBOUND means so much to me.

This isn’t about becoming someone new.

It’s about giving yourself permission to release what’s been weighing you down, to feel what you’ve been avoiding, and to remember who you are underneath all of it.

Because I know what it’s like to believe things will never get better.

And I also know how incredible life can feel when they finally do.