Melinda Leigh shares her experience at Protea Place event

A Toowoomba mother and businesswoman wants to inspire other women to see the love they deserve following separation and divorce at Protea Place’s women’s event.

THE LOVE YOU DESERVE: Melinda Leigh is a mother of three, a business owner, life coach and women’s wellness advocate who will be sharing her story with Toowoomba women at the next Protea Place Women's Wellness Day event. Pictures: Kate McCormack

Toowoomba businesswoman, mother and passionate life coach Melinda Leigh will be one of the guest speakers at Protea Place’s upcoming women’s wellness day.

The Rest, reflect and renew event at Reflections, Lake Cooby aims to reward women for all that they do through a whole day filled with women’s wellness sessions, demonstrations and workshops.

After overcoming a number of personal challenges and difficult relationships throughout her life, Ms Leigh is now a mother to three girls and the owner of successful wellness business, Spirit Remedy.

She is also a certified yoga and meditation teacher, hypnotherapist, and reiki specialist and said she was honoured to be sharing her life experiences with other women who are at turning points in their life at the upcoming Protea Place event.

“After I left a particularly unhealthy relationship when I was just 19 years-old I struggled with my identity, knowing who I was and wanted to be and who I needed to be in order to be loved for a long time and I’m still learning and growing now, all these years later,” she said.

Melinda Leigh said she’s been on a journey of discovering her self worth since overcoming the challenges of previous relationships in her younger years.

Since meeting her new partner six months ago, Ms Leigh said she’s realised she had to find her own self-worth in order to find a loving partnership again.

“When you’re living a life where you constantly believe you’re only worthy of receiving the love you’re receiving – that is all you will receive,” she said.

“I had to ask myself ‘who do I gauge my worthiness of love from?’ A Majority of the time we learn this from our parents by seeing how they communicate with each other and work in a relationship together – that’s what we see with our own eyes as truth.”

Ms Leigh will be one of the guest speakers at the Protea Place Women’s Wellness Day this year, alongside Laanie Metcalfe and Sheila Cook as well as nine wellness specialists in a range of backgrounds including candle making, tai chi, yoga, essential oils and drumming.

“I really enjoy helping women to see how valuable they are in other ways that aren’t financial or maternal, they are capable of serving much bigger purposes in life,” Ms Leigh said.

“Women need to allow themselves the opportunity to honour themselves, not enough of us take the time to stop and reflect on how much we actually give of ourselves all the time so the Women’s Wellness day is a great opportunity for women to give a little something special back to themselves.”

Melinda Leigh is sharing her story with Toowoomba women at the next Protea Place Women's Wellness Day event.

This year’s Protea Place Women's Wellness Day event is taking place on Sunday, June 6 from 8.30am-4.30pm at Reflections Lake Cooby in Geham.

Tickets can be purchased here.