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ABOUT US
StressLessGirls
was founded by Melanie Osborn,
wellness and empowerment educator, life coach, bodyworker, yoga instructor,
and author. Ms. Osborn has been working educating girls and their
families since 1990.
Knowing high stress her whole life due to many illnesses and a mother with
severe mental illness, it became Melanie's mission to create a better life
for herself and then helping others to do the same. After high school,
she volunteered at the Girls Club working to empower girls, and worked as an
HIV/AIDS educator in the urban and rural schools in Iowa for the American
Red Cross. She joined the Army National Guard for almost six years
doing administrative work and
becoming a medic. She attended the University of Iowa, studying child
and criminal psychology and sociology, then became an EMT and paramedic.
Melanie became pregnant with her daughter, Alexis, in 1995 and becoming a
single mother with no family support, she decided to attend massage therapy
school while running a daycare out of her home. Her daughter's
reactions to immunizations and sicknesses, coupled with her high giftedness
and sensitivities, brought Melanie to explore alternative methods to get her
better. She became a licensed massage therapist and started a wellness
clinic and a company doing chair massage and wellness education in
companies. Being sick most of her own life, she began
implementing these philosophies and methods in both of their lives-
reversing most all of their conditions and getting them back on the road to
health. She began speaking in businesses in 2000 and this grew into
sharing her stories and ideas. She began working with children with
sicknesses and special needs in her clinic and became an infant massage
instructor and began lecturing to daycare providers.
In 2002, she went back to doing daycare while homeschooling her daughter
when Alexis began suffering from the same stress-related sicknesses that
Melanie suffered throughout her life. This time, she implemented the
wellness strategies that she had learned into her daycare, life was much
different for her daycare children. Eventually this became a book
which was published the beginning of 2007.
Ms. Osborn is now the
owner
of the holistic wellness clinic Balance Matters,
DaycareStressLess a company
that supports and educates daycare providers to reduce stress in their lives
and businesses, and StressLessGirls a wellness and
stress reduction resource for girls of all ages. Her dream is to have
resources for all girls and women to take care of themselves as they nurture
and take care of our world.
She is presently developing a nation wide directory and resource for
alternative and self healing, as well as StressLessProducts, a web site for
natural environmentally-friendly stress reduction, wellness tools, and gift
baskets. She is beginning her new book series "StressLessGirls," four
books for girls ranging from six to college age.
ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR STRESSLESS KITS
Balance Matters developed and taught four popular on-site
stress reduction programs to girl scout troops in Omaha titled:
Massage Away the Stress, Soak Away the Stress,
Yoga Away the Stress, and Relax Away the Stress.
Over time, these programs have become so popular, that our instructors
couldn't reach all the troops
that were interested in the seminars. Ms. Osborn had the idea to bring
these programs to all girls in
need by duplicating her seminars on DVD and providing all needed materials
in an all-inclusive kit.
Not only could the information reach troops in Omaha, but troops across the nation
and overseas to our military bases.
The first two kits were released the beginning of March 2006 with rave
reviews, the second kits were released in November 2006.
Troops love having all the benefits of a field trip and a speaker without
all the planning and traveling that is needed. Bringing kits directly
to your troop gets this valuable information to your troop in an easy, fun,
and understandable way.
The subject matter is new for many of the girls and the useful information
has been helpful in
assisting girls to reach new heights in their wellness and happiness!!
Please feel free to contact us with any questions that you may have at:
info@stresslessgirls.com
The mission of StressLessGirls is to educate and empower girls of all ages
to be the healthiest they can be and to live to their highest potential!!