I set up the Wellness Exchange Network to make holistic support more accessible for people who work in the charity, voluntary and care sectors by connecting them with holistic therapy students and offering a peer support group.
I often found that when I worked in helping roles, whether writing up case studies, putting together funding applications, or delivering services, I would put so much energy into helping others that I was too exhausted to remember to look after myself. It felt less important, somehow; less urgent.
But it is so important. When we don’t make time to take it easy, it gets on top of us and we burn out. We end up being too stressed to function properly, and then more stressed because we’re not doing as good a job as we want to. It’s a vicious cycle which took me years to understand and break.
When I started training to be a holistic therapist, I discovered that I would need to find lots and lots of bodies to practise on. At the same time, I knew that there were hundreds of knackered people who work incredibly hard to stop the most vulnerable slipping through the cracks. And that’s when
the Wellness Exchange Network was born. Its purpose is simple: to connect anyone whose job is to care about others with holistic therapy students ready to deliver treatments – it just makes sense, doesn’t it?
Click here to get a treatment or click here to give a treatment. I'm also gauging interest for a peer support group. Find out more here.
Take care, Anna x