05/09/2026
✨ WE’RE A FINALIST ✨
Six years ago, I could never have imagined I would be writing this post.
In the middle of a pandemic I took a huge risk and completely changed direction in my career.
I set up my spare bedroom as a little treatment room and started with one treatment. Reflexology.
No big plan and no idea where it would lead. From there, I kept learning, growing and moving forward.
I quickly outgrew the spare room and moved into a cabin in my garden. Then came my first commercial premises with a few treatment rooms and I gave the space a name that meant so much to me.
ASHA meaning HOPE 💛
After going through a very difficult period in my own life, I had found hope again. I wanted to create a space that could help other people find that hope too.
Hope that things can change.
Hope that healing is possible.
Just one year later, we had outgrown that first Asha space too.
2½ years ago, we moved into the centre we now call home. 8 rooms filled with different therapists, practitioners, classes, workshops and services.
But what means even more to me than the physical space is the community we have grown around it. 💛
A community of people coming together to heal, learn, connect, support one another and simply have somewhere they feel they belong.
Then just 10 months ago I took another leap and changed the structure of Asha to a not-for-profit Social Enterprise.
It was my way of taking the original meaning behind Asha even further. Giving back to our community and working towards making wellbeing accessible to everyone, regardless of their financial circumstances.
These last 10 months have involved a lot of learning, growth, change and stepping outside my comfort zone, but I am loving every minute of it 🙏
So to find out that Asha Wellness is a FINALIST for Best Newcomer at the Northern Ireland Social Enterprise Awards feels incredibly special 🥹✨
I could never have imagined this six years ago.
Thank you to every person who has walked through our doors supported us or simply believed in what I was trying to create.
✨This is only the beginning ✨