artist | creative | guide
I’m Martha Ryan; an Artist, Holistic Photographer, Creative Guide and Human Design Coach.
From Dublin, Ireland but serving internationally, I work at the intersection of creativity, wellbeing and transformation. I support heart-centered people to express themselves authentically, create from the heart, and lead lives with purpose, fulfillment and beauty.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been diving deep into life's waters of artistic expression. Since childhood, I've been writing stories, developing acts and creating with my hands. While others followed traditional paths in adulthood, I've built my own - always adapting, learning and growing as I go.
My expertise as an entrepreneur for 14 years gifts me with a birds-eye view that can identify the missing parts in a creative puzzle. I draw from experience as a makeup artist, photographer, designer, marketing manager, creative content specialist, product manager, writer, editor and event facilitator. Along the way, I've qualified in modalities of women's leadership, yoga and meditation, cacao, human design and menstrual cycle awareness. When I'm not creating professionally, I'm creating personally as a spoken word poet, painter, DJ, music producer and dancer.
With feet planted on the ground but a heart tilted towards the sky, I believe we all have an unlimited well of potential, once we learn to connect to our innate essence. Drawing from personal experience, I understand the light at the end of the tunnel exists inside. I'm here to help you find yours.
My work blends wellbeing and transformation. Below, you'll find the ways we can co-create together.
how I help
You're getting the idea now; this is my world. My work blends creativity, wellbeing and practical guidance to support you bringing your vision to life.
Everything I do is integrative; honouring the entire person; mind, body and soul. I’ve deepened my relationship with creativity not simply by expanding my skillset, but by attuning to the mystery of life’s cycles. Contrary to what we’ve been conditioned to believe, we are not machines built to create year-round. We move through seasons of rest, retreat, and renewal; each one enriching and propelling our creative expression in its own rightful way.
Whether we’re growing your business, unblocking your creativity or building momentum in your projects, my services are designed to help you move forward.
Expand in community through Momentum Create Club, dive deep into your artistic process with The Artist’s Way with Cacao or express your essence through a personalized photoshoot experience. Deepen your self-understanding with Integrated Human Design Coaching and creative mentoring to connect with your natural rhythm, release blockages and discover what’s truly possible for you.
Every service is infused with holistic awareness - creating a grounded, heart-centered foundation for your personal and professional growth.
my approach
My multidimensional background allows me to meet clients, collaborators, and community members wherever they are on their journey. I offer a blend of practical, actionable tools to support growth while helping to unravel the blocks that may be standing in the way.
Photoshoots, creative mentoring, and human design sessions include meditation and cacao to regulate your nervous system for our work together. My entrepreneurial work is complemented by my holistic perspective, and in turn, my creative experience brings practical guidance to the wellness world. Both realms, working in harmony, create a balanced and integrated approach.
My approach has been shaped by the mentors that have taught me personally and professionally. For women's leadership, I refer to my work with Tara Mohr; author and pioneer of Playing Big modality; for women who want to stand up, speak out and lead. My cacao teachers, Keith Wilson and Paula Gibson, paved the way through heartlands of Guatemala with extensive training and experience.
For human design, I work closely with Erin Claire Jones to manage Human Design Genius; a learning platform that takes you from enthusiast to expert. For menstrual support, I draw upon my years working closely with Aisling O' Kelly and studying with Kitty Maguire & Red School. For my creative path, I learn from Amie McNee - international creative mentor, author and podcaster - that we each have the ability to create the art of our dreams. My work is also informed by the impassionate teachings of Martha Beck, Kasia Urbank and many others along the way.
My Self-Love Journey
It is my passion to encourage and inspire the self-love and growth of each person that I work with. I believe we each come equipped with unlimited potential waiting to be unlocked. Returning to our true nature - so that we may step into the person we came here to be - takes time, energy, dedication, perseverance, self-care, love and belief.
Here are a few words of my own personal journey...
My own healing journey began at the final straw. Many years neglecting my own mental and physical health, surfing on the waves of avoidance and ignorance, lead me to an illness that I couldn't so simply recover from without getting to the root of my perpetual suffering.
During my teenage and early adult years, I disregarded myself by eating harmful processed foods, drinking alcohol and smoking to excess but most detrimentally; avoiding emotional issues I had buried inside.
Illness, in my formative years, became normalised as I took daily medication for digestive issues, migraines, hormonal imbalances and mental health problems before abruptly understanding - the hard way - that all of these separate symptoms were interlinked.
Tests, biopsies and hospitalisations failed to reveal the cause of my crisis decline in 2017, provoking a break-down of my mind and body which left me hospitalised, bedridden and void of vitality. Following the loss of my bodyweight, hair and menstrual cycle was the unfortunate loss of hope for life itself.
Ironically, it was in this hopelessness that I myself could finally be found.
I didn't break down, I broke through.
I spontaneously awakened to the truth that my body, mind and soul were not mechanical systems working independently of another but interconnected, synergetic, holistic and wise.
Without my mask, I lay in my painful truth I had spent a lifetime avoiding.
So with nowhere else to turn, I went inside.
Suddenly, I knew (without knowing how I knew) that only I had the power to heal myself. If a lifetime of suppression lead to such a severity of illness, then a new chapter of expression could lead to a future of wellness. I realized that I was not a victim of circumstance, but the conscious creator of my reality. It was time to take total responsibility for my health, my well-being, my relationships, my life, my future.
I began to listen to my body's cues, aches and signals as intelligent messages from a place beyond my intellect. I began to compassionately acknowledge the depth - which I perceived as darkness - I had been holding for a lifetime. I began to nurture my sensitivity and recognize it as a tremendous, previously overlooked, strength.
By allowing myself to experience every flowing emotion, I learned that even the heaviest feelings are transient in nature; awakening me to our cyclical nature as human beings. By surrendering to inner pain, I unleashed the dawning power of peace. The years of suppression, repression and depression were simply the consequence of rejecting my nature as a human being; with my own inner seasonal shifts that rhythmically ebb and flow, too.
Layer by layer, I allowed myself to softly unravel within my own arms.
No longer afraid of truly knowing myself, I experienced the relief only known through grief, the birth only known through death; I learned what it meant to be truly alive.
Through adopting a holistic perspective, processing inner wounds and shifting to a natural lifestyle that nourished - not punished - myself, I laid the groundwork for an attitude of self love, forgiveness and compassion to flourish.
Over time and with a lot of hard work, my body, mind and spirit began to heal.
Little did I know that healing was only the beginning. Beyond the limitations I had placed upon myself existed an incredibly expansive person with tremendous strength, resilience, wisdom and passion for the world.
The road hasn't been easy. It has been earth shatteringly exhausting, at times infuriatingly isolating, but always breathtakingly beautiful and rewarding beyond measure.
Today I understand that we are each holistic beings; part of a whole integrative system, interconnected with one another and the natural world. Through embracing each aspect of ourselves - the light and the dark - we can each find the fundamental inner strength to heal, grow and expand into who we really came here to be.
My first-hand experience of personal transformation enables me to connect with others who wish to awaken to their own power and potential.
Loving ourselves, each-other and the world becomes a 'thank you' to our ancestors for passing down this gift of life. placing us in this sacred, mysterious existence.
I believe we each have the ability to transmute our suffering into serenity, pain into peace and experience into evolution. I am grateful, now, for everything that has happened in my life as each triumph, trauma and tragedy was, although unbeknown at the time,
a gateway
to myself.