Gail offers a chance to retreat into holistic bliss
"Find a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life", goes the well-known saying.
And it's certainly rings true for Gail Cooper who stepped away from a successful career in the house building industry to follow a new path.
After more than 25 years working in a very stressful and target-driven environment, she knew it was time to make a change.
Embracing her love of holistic therapies, she decided to qualify as a coach, yoga and meditation teacher, crystal healer and journal therapist.
Three years ago, she set up her crystal shop, Meridian Life in Newport Indoor Market and has also recently opened her own wellness studio, The Wellbeing Pod at her home in Ellerton, near Newport.
“Although I loved my job, I found I was being called along a different path in life, that path being to help others on a one-to-one basis through my love of all things holistic,” says Gail, who held a number of sales and marketing management roles in the house building industry.
“I was practicing yoga and meditation on a daily basis myself, along with using crystals to help with my health and I found that the combination was doing wonders for my wellbeing,” she explains.
After experiencing the benefits first-hand, Gail decided to take the leap by changing career – and says she hasn’t looked back since.
“It really changed my life and I took the step from having a corporate career to running my own business as a holistic therapist. It was definitely the right decision,” she explains.
