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A life turned upside down proves a catalyst for change.
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t the age of just 19, Tara Williams was diagnosed with a chronic illness. Her experience changed her perception and in 2019, she launched Conscious Spaces, a science-led wellbeing brand helping people transform their homes and workplaces into healthboosting sanctuaries. We talk to Tara about life in Cornwall, the long road to recovery and how to find tranquillity in a hyper digital world. Nearing the top of Falmouth’s Old High Street, across a cobbled courtyard, sits a glass-fronted o ce filled with greenery. Light pours in, and a fresh sea breeze blows off the Fal Estuary below, while salvaged pendant lights hang from wooden beams and Jimi Hendrix gazes out from the wall. This serene spot is the Cornish HQ of Conscious Spaces, a wellbeing brand dedicated to creating optimal living environments. From cleaner air to purer water, infrared light therapy and protection from electromagnetic radiation, Conscious Spaces offers products and services to create health-enhancing havens.
With bright eyes, a radiant glow and bubbly energy, Conscious Spaces co-founder Tara Williams (Tara’s husband, Darren, is the second half of the founding duo) is the perfect ambassador for the benefits of clean living. And yet, not so long ago, Tara was bed-bound by chronic illness – a formative experience that changed her life forever and sparked the idea for Conscious Spaces. “For a decade, I spent about 90% of my time in bed,” explains Tara. “I was very, very ill, and in excruciating pain 24/7. The fatigue was something else I could barely lift my head off the pillow.” After years of turmoil, Tara was eventually diagnosed with severe endometriosis, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ME and Post Viral Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). “Back then, there was very little understanding or treatment available for endometriosis,” says Tara. “I was told that a hysterectomy was probably my best option. I was only 20. I felt completely hopeless. “Then one day, it was the first time I’d left the house that week, just for half an hour. It sounds hilarious now, but it was a big deal back then.
INSET Conscious Spaces founder, Tara Williams
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