The business quickly took off and before long flowers “had taken over my kitchen” so she set her heart on opening her own shop.<\/p>\n
She said she was in a “much better place” and loved being her own boss.<\/p>\n
Despite a setback when she said the premises was broken into on 25 March and everything from her tools to her paint and paintbrushes were stolen, she is determined to carry on.<\/p>\n
“It was devastating,” she said. “I’d saved up for months to buy the stuff.”<\/p>\n
However, she said the response from the community had been “amazing” with some people donating tools to replace the ones taken.<\/p>\n
“It shows good people outweighs the bad.”<\/p>\n
She is aiming to hold well-being workshops in small numbers, such as make your own hat boxes, once she is settled in at her shop on Waterloo Road.<\/p>\n
Dyson said she hoped the sessions could help others who have health anxiety.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t find any support when I got health anxiety that is why I started my TikTok account to raise awareness of it,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I felt like I was losing my mind. <\/p>\n
“I had no one to talk to about it but then I got so many messages from people saying my account made them feel less alone,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The business quickly took off and before long flowers “had taken over my kitchen” so she set her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-364590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}