Solo parent growing my small happiness business!

Aim

Raising money to gain the qualification I need to help people find their authentic happiness through coaching.

Over the last 5 years, I have gone from struggling with c-PTSD, depression and anxiety, to being authentically happy (and no I haven’t won the lottery!)

During that time my work as an illustrator has changed and now I create products designed to help people find their happy. For example, I have been creating body positivity art prints, including custom portraits to help women love their bodies. I have created cyclical living kits to help people live in sync with their natural rhythm. And I’ve created winter well-being boxes, that harnessed your senses, to help people find calm and joy over the darker months.

Now I want to use what I’ve learnt from my own mental health journey, and start happiness coaching. I have found the ICF accredited coaching course I want to do, which includes assessments so I can be absolutely sure that the coaching I offer is effective. This will enable me to offer 1:1 coaching, group coaching, online courses, workshops and increase my offering of illustrated mental well-being products. 

I’m a single parent on a low income, raising and home educating my two wonderful boys. And over the last 12 months I have been unable attend markets with my illustrations due to covid-19. This means that I’m unable to fund the course myself, however the value of gaining this qualification would be huge for myself, my children and clients.

This project successfully funded on 19th May 2021