An interview with Sammie McFarland Gill Donnell chats to award-winner Sammie, who runs a women’s wellness centre, The Breathing Space, in Dorchester, Dorset
All photos © Lara Jane Thorpe
Gill: Sammie, tell me about you and your business. Sammie: I run The Breathing Space, which is a women’s wellness centre, based in Brewery Square in Dorchester, specialising in women’s classes. We offer movement and self-care classes to women in all life phases, including the teenage years, during pregnancy, post-natal, perimenopause, menopause and beyond, right the way through to our late senior classes. As long as we can breathe, we can make change.
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Gill: At the 2019 Successful Women Awards you won the overall Successful Women award. How did that make a difference to you? Sammie: Receiving that award gave me the courage to take the plunge and take a lease for a studio. I received Women’s Wellness Coach of the Year earlier in the year too; together they made a big difference. It gave me more self-belief and the confidence that my work counts. I felt that if professionals in my industry, and in business, believed in me as much as I believed in my own work, it was probably the right time to get my own space and support more clients.
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