Massaging a new career

by Michelle McDonagh © 2009 irishtimes.com
THE DESIRE to spend more quality time with her husband and two young children was the spur for Patricia Murphy to leave behind the tough, long hours of the retail world and retrain in an area that has given her much more control over her life.
“Retail is very hard work and the hours are long, particularly when you are working full-time. I found myself sitting in traffic a lot. I had to get up at the crack of dawn to drop my first child to creche and often did not pick her up until after 6pm when it was time for supper and the bedtime routine.”
Like many working mothers, the Cork mum-of-two – “who had fallen into retail after failing to get into art college” – dreamed of finding a career that would allow her to enjoy a better work/life balance. She felt she had no control over her life and, consequently, the life of her family.
It was after having a number of reflexology sessions herself that Murphy initially began to develop an interest in the area of holistic therapy, but she believes karma played a role in what happened next.
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