Amber | Clevedon
“I’m quite susceptible to stress. I’m probably kind of a high stress person.
I guess maybe one of the most recent things is my partner and I are trying to save money to move overseas at the end of the year. I’ve just had, I’ve worked with clients, and I’ve just had a number of clients go away on holiday, so we’ve had a bit of money stress, and that might be, that’s kind of been something that’s stressed me out the most, I guess recently.
I guess one thing I do, is I talk about it, and then mostly what I do is I try and make a plan. So, usually things I’m stressed about are actually things that are under my control, so I can do something about it, which is good. It’s just kind of getting past just being stressed, try and actually figure out what I can do about it, and make a plan. Otherwise I call my mum, and I’ll talk to my mum about it.
I’ve just got a part-time job to supplement my other job. So that helps. So that was kind of my solution to it, doing something about it.
Home at the moment is out towards the Hunua’s, kind of Clevedon area. I grew up in Kerikeri. My dad’s a farm manager, so we’ve moved around a little bit, from mostly in the regions. So yeah I guess I mostly grew up in Kerikeri.
What do I value? That’s like a very vague question. People. I really love spending time with the people that I love, and I guess helping people. I work as a personal trainer, so I help people through that, and then yeah making connections with people, I guess is my favourite, one of the things I value the most.“
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