Power Living Announces Partnership with Youthline

Mental Health Awareness Week: Wellington's Power Living Announces Partnership with Youthline

In the lead up to Mental Health Awareness Week, Wellington’s Power Living Yoga Studio has announced their newest endeavour to change lives by supporting Wellington's Youthline. This charity was established to help young people of New Zealand by giving them a place for support and to help them thrive and now with the community's help, Power Living wants to keep this organization going.

Justine Hamill spent 4 years studying psychotherapy before she translated this to her teacher training. Both she and Jase are passionate about this topic and available for interviews. Power Living is making it their mission to keep the conversation around mental health going for the Wellington community and its residents.

“If our youth are our future, it's important to arm them with the love and support they need, as they try to make sense of the world,” shared Power Living’s co-owner Jase Te Patu. “Like the practice of yoga, Youthline offers the tools and support for our youth to withstand the toughest of times. Strong and resilient minds are what's needed for the leaders of our future and we're proud to support what Youthline does."

With recent funding cuts Youthline could be forced to reduce or terminate their most vital services, which New Zealand, and Wellington’s, vulnerable youth need. In 2015 alone, the Youthline Wellington Helpline counsellors answered 920 calls, and responded to over 6,00 text messages from young people with youth workers reaching out to almost 1,400 young people with community and school visits.

“I was a troubled teen,” said Justine Hamill, the other half of Power Living, “with a dad in and out of prison. Feeling misunderstood and unsupported I often felt I had nowhere to turn. Now, as a mother myself, I’m more passionate than ever and aware of the need to support our youth. They are faced with many more challenges than my generation with the rise in social media, distractions, drugs, and fast-paced living. My hope is that in supporting Youthline we are supporting every young person whose life could be changed in an instant from being heard and empathised with.”

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