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THE HIPPIE HOBBY PROMOTES SELF-CARE THROUGH CRAFTING

Too often, we compromise our needs business I own – and having a hard time can be a bath with candles, a book, it. I sold one business, cut my role out of for the demands that life seems to being the entrepreneur with a limited crafting, drinking wine and listening to another one and really tried to get more bring. One of the most pivotal and social life at the time. I missed getting music…or spending it with a friend on involved in The Hippie Hobby. Mainly essential concepts that we at The Hippie together with friends and wanted to their back patio. It’s basically MAKING because crafting and spending time with Hobby believe in is the importance of find something new. I put a post out on time for you. friends makes me happy. I also realized self-care. Facebook to see if anyone wanted to I needed to be extra forgiving of myself come learn how to make soap, saying I How did the practice of self-care come and very patient. Below, we’ll discuss the nature of self- would provide the materials and go from into your life? care and its place within The Hippie there. I love wine, so we had a girls wine This is a two-part answer. When I started I love how you look at growth and foHobby with Co-Owner Heidi Koffman. night with four friends and learned how the thought of Hippie Hobby, it was cus on small wins. Overall, why do you Read along and learn how to love the to make soap. My friend Jen suggested because I was sick of owning businesses advocate for self-care? most important person of all: Yourself. we learn to make lip balm and have little LOL. I owned 3 at the time. I needed I advocate for self-care because I know kits, so we did another girls night the a hobby. I wanted be more than my what it’s like to not take care of you. I To start, could you please discuss your following month and more people came. companies, which is when I started to know how depressed and anxious I felt involvement with The Hippie Hobby? When others couldn’t make our craft learn how to craft. when I took care of everyone else but me. I’m a co-owner of the Hippie Hobby. My night, they asked us to mail them a kit… I gained weight, my skin looked like crap, friend Jen is the other owner. My specific and so we began mailing “craft kits” About a year after we launched our girl’s my attitude sucked and life just seemed role in the business is testing and trying to our friends. We started offering the nights, my best friend Mary Fa’anunu overwhelming. different crafts and working with my subscription option and have continued to was murdered in an act of domestic partner to figure out the best craft for the grow ever since. violence. I fell into a huge depression and What an incredible story, and what upcoming months. I also work with local was more overwhelmed with business makes it all the more magical is how bar and restaurant managers who are open Wow, what an awesome start! In ad- than anything else. everything connects back with The to hosting craft nights. Jen and I work dition to essential oils, HH promotes Hippie Hobby. So many of these experiwell together on dividing up how the self-care as part of its mission. What Thank you so much for sharing, I can’t ences show themselves in the message. process works. exactly is self-care? imagine the pain of such a horrific Thank you! We invite you to take a We truly believe you just need a time tragedy. How do you continue to get little time out for you, join us at a local How did The Hippie Hobby start? out. Whether that’s from work, life, kids, through this? craft night and bring a friend! Visit We started this just over two years ago, being a mom or wife or being a stressed I thought about everything in my life, thehippiehobby.com/craftnights for more when I was burned out from another out entrepreneur. Life is hard. Self-care and if it didn’t bring me joy, I got rid of information

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