Mel HollidayMel Holliday began her career in medicine in the 1980s. She changed her pathway to run a successful business with her husband, Martin, for over 30 years. Becoming an NLP Practitioner (Neuro-Linguist Programming) in the mid-1990s, Mel began developingprograms for schools to help manage stress and support mental wellbeing. She created characters to portray different emotions for each lesson, using Bruce to introduce techniques for children to learn and manage everyday stresses. Bruce and his friends became a popular part of the program, each having a story that relates to an emotion. Mel realised a book based on the characters could reach a bigger audience to help parents, health workers and teachers teach a simple breathing technique to support young people manage their stress. Read More Read Less