Solicitor, Lucy Lafferty-Brown, has created a mindfulness-led conveyancing service to transform buyers’ experience of moving to a new house.
Bournemouth-based Lafferty-Brown has launched Zen Move, aiming to eradicate unnecessary stress from the legal process of buying a house, as well as providing free tools and exercises to help clients shift their headspace and approach their move as a positive step.
The unique two-fold approach comprises a commitment to provide clients with a smooth clutter-free conveyancing service, combined with a free seven-week programme offering simple and effective tools such as mindfulness training, meditation, moving plans, and other tips to help them manage and re-frame their experience of moving stress.
Lafferty-Brown, who is a partner at Chester & Co Solicitors, decided to launch Zen Move after seeing clients’ mental health suffer during a house move, due to high levels of stress.
She says:
“I have helped thousands of people move home and I know the strain it puts them under. Sadly, high stress and anxiety seem to have become accepted parts of the process – indeed accepted parts of life– but I don’t think that needs to be the case.
“For me, as both a solicitor and someone who practices meditation and mindfulness daily, I think the intersection of conveyancing and meditation makes complete sense because I know that meditation can change your relationship to stress. And while it might seem quite different or even uncertain to choose a conveyancer who talks about these things, it is clear to me that the old way is broken.”
“I believe it is possible to stop stress ruining people’s moves or souring their first experiences of their new home. In fact, the effects of a stressful, badly managed move could go on for years.
“I want to restore the heart and soul of this process; to help my clients access meditation and mindfulness practices, as well as a host of practical tools and tips, to enable them to manage any stress and anxiety and reframe their experience of moving house as the joyous and exciting start to a new chapter in their lives that it ought to be.”
Comments (11)
Spot on Alan Murray
But if estate agencies didn’t get clients to use them ( keep it in house) in return for a grubby referral fee we wouldn’t have to put up with the clowns
I can think of plenty of ways to improve the house buying and selling process, but I had never thought of anything like this.
Something similar maybe for those of us conveyancers who come across the factory outfits who cause all the problems all too frequently?
If it helps just one person with stress it’s worth it – I’m sure we’ve all lost sales / chains because someone has pulled out due to stress or worry
“I have helped thousands of people move home and I know the strain it puts them under. Sadly, high stress and anxiety seem to have become accepted parts of the process”
Irony is of course.. the solicitors are the cause of the stress !!
There is no doubt that more people are struggling right now, for a number of reasons. I’m in my early sixties (old school with my emotions etc I suppose) and, so far, have been able to shrug off the new pressures and challenges that we all face. If others need help, then they need help, not derogatory war related stiff upper lip stuff.
No one needs help to get over stress just moving house – it is not life or death.
Ridiculous. What they need is a darn good thrashing like we received each morning at school after the cold showers and some attention from the gym teacher. Gave us all backbone and a stiff upper lip. None of this snowflake nonsense in my day. Wibble!
Frankly yes.
If people think moving house is a cause for depression and stress they are weak. It is not life or death. Frankly what is wrong with a teacher giving a kid a slap if he deserved it.
They get stressed over nothing because they are molly coddled throughout life and wrapped up in cotton wool. Then when something does not go as they want it to as is the case in many property transactions they have a meltdown rather than being able to accept that sometimes life is not 100% as they want it to be. They are weak.
A 7 week course in how to avoid stress while moving house! Ha ha ha.
Jesus wept.
Ridiculous. Snowflake nonsense.
My great grandfather was being chased by German fighters whole he was flying a Lancaster bomber over Germany when he was 18.
That is stress. That is pressure.
What will these snowflakes do when they have areal problem to deal with.
okay, boomer.
A positive approach to home moving. Everyone accepts that moving home is emotionally charged and little is very done about. Good luck to Zen Move!