23/02/2023
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Meet our local business owners!
Once a week we want to share with you our local businesses story!
Week 1: Alex & Lola from EP Massage!
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I'm Alex, and that's Lola.
Once upon a time I was a lab technician, then a technologist, then a quality controller, then an engineer, then a different kind of lab technician, then a procurement administrator.
Basically I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that do do well in life you had to collect a long list of obscure boring job titles that look clever on a cv, right?
Well like your average lazy millennial I didn't even make it to 30 before completely burning out, turning into the shape of my office chair to appease the tech gods. I bailed, and became a gym instructor because that looked really cool and I could lift weights and live in trakkies all day and get protein shake sponsorships, or something.
And while that was a fun life, I was never exactly Joe Wicks, my era of shoulder length hair notwithstanding, I wasn't really into shouting at my clients about omelettes and dancing around at 6am with the boxing pads. So I wondered what it was I was really seeking in this health and fitness life.
I wanted to help people get rid of those aches and pains that never seem to go away, the ones where people just suck it up and accept a life of mild, or sometimes extreme, misery.
The upper back pains I had all those years ago, where it seemed like sitting at a desk all day had no right to be as exhausting as it was, yet somehow I was cream crackered? It must just be me, I must be really pathetic to not want to get up and so stuff after work right? Even getting on the floor to play with the dog gave a sense of dread because who knows when we're getting back up again!
And yet I hear a similar story from so many people, this seemingly unbreakable connection between aches and pains from working so hard, and then having no sense of joy at the end of it to get up and do anything.
THAT is what I wanted to fix.
You may or may not love your day job, but no salary deserves to take away your mojo, your family time, your sleep, or your mental health.
