Flexible Working Life

I think it was about two years ago, I was visiting a close friend who had moved to France and she was telling me about an idea for a book she had.
At the time, she’d moved to France to take a break from working so hard.
She was a very successful physiotherapist, treating millionaire clients with a long waiting list, working all hours, and with a young family (she has three children) it was getting to be too demanding.
She bravely recognized this and made the decision that it was time for a change, before she changed as a result of her stressful lifestyle.

It was whilst we were sitting in her new apartment, looking over the French countryside that she told me that many of her previous clients were still in contact with her for treatment.

‘How?’ I hear you ask as the English Channel was separating them.

She was treating them by giving advice over the telephone and it was working.
That was the idea for her book, all the stuff that she had in her head she was going to write it down so that people with bad backs, sore knees, headaches and all the other stuff that 99% of the population suffer from could treat themselves.

The result is her book, DIY Physiotherapy just launched and available at Amazon and I can not recommend it enough. Seriously.
If you are a regular reader of this blog (God love you) you’ll know that I stress quite a lot about being ill and not being able to work. Like most people I don’t like pain. And like most freelancers I suffer from the symptoms of long periods being sat hunched in front of a PC.

I get aches and pains and as I’m writing this, my lovely husband is suffering from a stiff neck. He is also a freelancer and is working despite walking around like he’s still got the hanger in his jacket.
But, we have the book.
We have the wise, wise words from my lovely friend and tonight I will be treating my husband and not getting stressed about my next head-ache/back-ache/arm-ache/fill-the-blank-ache, because we have this little gem of a book.

If you suffer from stuff like this, but are one of those freelancers who thinks, ‘It’ll work itself out, I’ll just work through the pain,’ then this book is for you.
At the moment it’s available for the ridiculously low price of £5.99 due to some kind funding that my friend got, but I don’t for a minute think it will stay at this price as word gets around.

I’m hoping to have an interview with her soon, so if you’ve any questions let me know.