Kim Murray
The Founder of Happy Heads
Authentic soul Kim brings a wealth of personal and professional experience into all that she does. Suffering burnout during her marketing career and reflecting upon the tragic loss of her father to suicide aged 7, inspired her to retrain and launch Happy Heads to share her wisdom and help people of all ages nurture their mental health. Teaching people how to cultivate happiness daily is her absolute passion and it’s Happy Heads mission to make sure that no person ever feels alone in their struggle to improve their wellbeing.
Having worked in Marketing & Events for over 11 years I was accustomed to a high pressure job. In early 2016, a hugely stressful work situation left me suffering from anxiety and depression. Two things I'd never experienced before and the sharp decline was both out of character and completely debilitating.
Looking for solutions to get me back on track, I began to meditate and took a life changing week long course called the Hoffman Process. It was during this time that I realised the true power of meditation and visualisations, which helped me lose all my anxiety, depression and properly grieve for my dad who very sadly took his own life when I was just 7 years old.
It was a profound experience and I decided that I needed to change career and help people avoid or escape similar stress related situations, which led me to launch Happy Heads.
Experiencing the trauma of losing a parent at such a young age and having no tools or techniques to help me - meant it was very hard to process the emotions that I had at the time. Daily meditation and visualisations helped me to process these emotions, having an incredible effect on my mental and physical well-being - curing the digestive problems I'd suffered my whole life for example.
This is why I’m teaching meditation to kids, as well as adults. Because I have felt it's power in helping to reduce anxiety, increase focus, reduce stress, improve self esteem, process emotions, alleviate depression and generally improve my all round well-being.
I’m a Connected Kids Tutor, completing the course by the incredibly intuitive Lorraine Murray, author of 'Calm Kids' and 'Connected Kids’, which teaches simple, practical and effective tools to help both children, parents and the family unit.
I'm also a qualified Emotional Freedom Technique (Tapping) practitioner trained by the amazing Ashley Meyer of The Energy Therapy Centre. Tapping is a powerful tool that helps you to to overcome negative core beliefs - bringing your nervous system back into balance, releasing negative tension from both body and mind - the perfect partner to meditation.
To broaden my skill set and because I always work with the mind I am now qualified in Indian Head Massage - a beautiful technique that helps to bring calm to brain and body.
As a practitioner it’s very important for me to nurture my own wellbeing so I was lucky enough to complete The Bridge retreat, which helped create a whole new level of self love within myself, deepen my practice and increase my understanding of how the mind works.