Lorraine O'Donnell
Family Constellations Facilitator, Health Practitioner, Master Breathwork teacher, and Registered Nurse with over 20 years of international clinical experience — bringing together systemic family work, conscious breath, and a deep understanding of the unseen forces that shape our health and lives.
Family Constellations Facilitator · BSc · R.N. · C.N.S. · E.N. · Dip Pos Health · Master Breathwork Teacher
Two decades at the bedside taught me where the gaps lie.
After two decades working as a nurse across several countries — including years in cardiac intervention as a clinical nurse specialist, and now in gut intervention — I have witnessed firsthand where the gaps lie in our current healthcare system.
The root cause of illness and imbalance does not begin with you alone. It is often systemic. You may have heard the phrase, "it runs in the family." But what if it could stop with you?
Modern healthcare is largely crisis-driven — intervening only once something has gone wrong. While lifesaving and essential, this model often overlooks the emotional, relational, and inherited dimensions of health. The heart–gut connection alone reveals how deeply fused our physical, emotional, and energetic systems truly are.
Walking the labyrinth
I see the heart as a labyrinth. It holds everything we experience — our thoughts and emotions, our physical and spiritual being, our joys and sorrows, losses and gains, successes and failures. This is the shape my work takes with every client:
The path inward
We carry our burdens with us as we walk in — naming the patterns, the inheritance, the weight that isn't fully our own.
The centre
At the centre, something shifts. The pattern is seen, acknowledged, and given its place within a wider lens.
The path outward
We begin again — walking out lighter, healthier, more grounded, and better resourced to meet life's challenges.
Standing on this lineage
Bert Hellinger
Family Constellations was founded by Bert Hellinger (1925–2019), a German psychotherapist and author of 110 books who spent years working closely within family systems before naming what he saw: entanglement — the way an unspoken loyalty, grief, or fate can travel silently from one generation to the next, carried by someone who never chose to carry it.
Roisín Fallon
I trained in Family Constellations under Roisín Fallon in Ireland, through the North West training coordinated by Maria Liddy. The training is grounded in the methodology of Barbara Morgan and Bert Hellinger — the ground I now stand on with every client.
Níall Ó Murchú
My breathwork training runs back to Níall Ó Murchú, founder of The Blissful Breath Academy in Ireland and author of The Blissful Breath. His teaching gave me a living, embodied understanding of the breath — not as technique alone, but as a direct line back to the nervous system and to ourselves.
Sarah Peyton
My training continues with Sarah Peyton, a neuroscientist and Family Constellations facilitator based in the USA, whose work weaves relational neuroscience into constellation practice — deepening how I understand the nervous system's role in the patterns we carry.
For me, breath and Family Constellations have never been separate paths — they've been one combined journey. I bring my own soul experience into this work, particularly around interruptions and patterns that make it hard to regulate, to settle, and to live fully in the world. I don't ask you to leave those parts of yourself outside the door. I ask you to bring them in, so we can work with what's actually there.
The realisation that people around us lead lives that are just as complicated, and as meaningful, as ours. We're all in this together.
This is the belief underneath every session — that your pattern is not a flaw in you alone, but a thread in something much larger, and something that can, at last, be laid down.
The breath comes first.
The breath is our first connection to life outside the womb. It is the earliest signal of where we are in our bodies and how we relate to the world. Through conscious breathwork and Family Constellations, we begin to identify systemic family patterns and acknowledge them within a wider lens — patterns that can profoundly impact our health, wellbeing, and capacity to live fully.
Through my work, I invite you to heal heart, body, and soul by releasing inherited patterns and returning to your natural balance.
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