When’s the last time you wanted to throw a temper tantrum? Have you wished you could smash plates or bash a pillow to death to work out your feelings?   While Sarah Lavely was going through a divorce she found that smashing her china in the driveway brought her some therapeutic benefit and Voila – a great idea was born.   Her new business is called Sarah’s Smash Shack.

Like all great small biz ideas, it’s simple.  A store-front, a supply of cheap china and glassware,  permanent markers for writing fateful messages on the back of the plates and some creative marketing are all it takes. Oh, and some safety goggles.  She says her clients range from 8 to 65+ and everyone leaves feeling much better.

As soon as I read about this my brain started racing.   Add a room full of big pillows for pounding, and maybe a Screaming room where someone could just let it all out.  Write a great, fun press release and send it to all the papers, tv and radio stations and I think you’d be good pretty much anywhere.

Sarah’s place has two Break Rooms  :)– one smaller one for loners or couples and a larger one for groups.  You can gather your friends for a party.  You can buy things to smash there or bring something that you just need to destroy along with it’s memories.

She was an emergency medicine veterinarian who has turned her compassion toward fellow humans a couple of days a week.  “When I see my clients smile, laugh, and cry, let loose and transform, I know I’ve done something incredible here.”

You can check out the web-site at http://www.smashshack.com - or read the article by Erin Bell  in the February issue of Psychology Today.

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