TheraPaws Wellbeing Services CIC

05/09/2026

✨ So blessed to have the support and knowledge of the amazing Steve for TheraPaws Clients.

05/09/2026

✨ Absolutely blown away with today’s response to our open day!! Thank you to each and every single person who came, who chatted, who brought their amazing doggos, their children….those who laughed with us, danced with us, ate and drank with us and even cried with us on occasions. I am extremely blessed and grateful to every person who has ever visited our safe space and I hope it makes you feel as safe and happy as it makes me!

41 visitors and 5 beautiful doggos who all made themselves at home. I only managed a handful of photos and didn’t even get chance to photograph the outside area with gazebo, games and seating area it was such a busy day! But what I did manage of course, contained mostly furry friends 🐶🐶🐾🐾🐾

THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for all of your kind words, donations, love and support today and know how wonderful a day I’ve had seeing so many people sharing our dream. Stay pawsative, find happiness

04/09/2026

✨ Our beautiful grief coaching room. A safe, warm and welcoming space, completely private from the rest of our wellbeing hub.

We want you to feel comfortable, relaxed and above all else never judged. This room is a place to offload in complete confidence, to share things you may not have felt able to share before or to just feel heard.

We have our letters to heaven box where you can post your own private letters. Maybe you had something you wanted to say but didn’t get the chance. Maybe you just want to write down your thoughts and feelings.

You can also light a candle as a way to remember and honour loved ones, be it human or pet loss. Both are profound, both are painful and both affect lives.

Stay strong | Stay pawsative | Stay safe

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04/09/2026

✨A little spruce up to our beautiful wellbeing hub today. We cannot wait to welcome you all tomorrow to our friendly and safe space, that we have created from scratch.

Rewind to January 2026 and after many years of studying, professional experience and lived experience of trauma and profound loss, I had a vision. Never did I image 8 months later we would have secured several funding grants, refurbished a blank canvas into a beautiful safe space whilst also developing not 1 but 2 wellbeing gardens! We are so grateful and proud of our community wellbeing hub and developing nature wellbeing programmes and the difference they have all made to date.

Words from service users have included:

‘I could stay here all day’
‘Wow, I could live here’
‘What a beautiful, peaceful place’
‘I feel so comfortable here’
‘This space makes me feel so relaxed’

Also:
‘I love your toilet roll’ 🚽 🤣
‘ I love your ‘light me when the dog farts’ candle’

More common reactions when walking up the stairs and entering the hub are:

‘Wow’
‘I was not expecting that!’
‘How on earth did you do all this?!’

Every single compliment and comment has always struck a chord in my heart. You see, I needed a safe space. I needed a space to find myself again after profound loss caused a huge mental health breakdown. Days upon weeks of not wanting to leave the house…. 2025 was a blur to me. A dark time. A sad time. A lonely time. BUT 20 months on I have started to understand that after great loss come better days. It’s not about ‘getting over it’. It’s not about ‘I’m ok’. It’s about accepting my old life, the old me has gone, but the new me is emerging. My new life holds hope, love and those I’ve lost don’t go away, they walk beside me every day.

To anyone feeling like they are lost, feeling like they cannot cope, or feel alone, I SEE YOU. Better days can come, you just have to keep moving forward. Not jumping through hoops, but 1 day at a time. That’s how I got through the last 20 months…. 1 day at a time, the good with the bad, the tears with the laughs, the happiness with the pain.

04/09/2026

✨HOW TO FIND US - Upon entering Bedwas House Industrial Estate from Peters Pies traffic lights 🚦

04/09/2026

✨Some more great additions to our ever growing wellbeing library 📚

04/09/2026

✨ Absolutely in love with these amazing pictures for our toilet areas! How perfect are they and so fitting to our wellbeing hub! Thanks you Paul Splintered Finger, these are perfect 💚🐾

03/09/2026

✨my 2 favourite things to do: spend time with dogs and be out in nature.

Trying to navigate a chronic illness with work, studying and being a mum can be consuming on times. But taking ‘time out’ and getting out in nature, supported by my pack is priceless.

Whilst I’m now back home wrapped in a heated blanket feeling like I’ve been stamped on by a horse, my mental health is doing just fine after some animal assisted nature time.

Also a shout out to Paul and Barney of Splintered Finger for a lovely chat and watching Barney hump his bed for 29 mins 🤣🤣🤣and coming away with yet more amazing purchases for our wellbeing hub, which we will show in due course.

Very lucky and blessed to have so much support and to be able to do what I can under the circumstances.

03/09/2026

03/09/2026

✨Don’t forget our open day is this Saturday between 11-4. Pop along any time.

There will be teas/coffee, cold drinks, a selection of cakes. Come and try out full body massage chair, experience our grief support room, sit in our relaxing safe environment.

There will also be giant connect 4, Guess who and Kerplunk for the kids, popcorn and drinks.

Come and experience our safe space to fully explore what we have to offer, our projects ongoing, projects due to launch and meet the team!

Wally the Wellbeing dog will be there to great you too 💚🐾