Grounded MCR

Specialty coffee, tea, hot chocolate sales from an electric trike. Employing people with anxiety. Brews fighting the blues! The world of work is hard and we’re all fighting to find our place in it. It’s been quite a decade for us. Incurable cancer, depression, debt, birth defects, the adoption process, PTSD, long term sick leave, anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, bereavement, overeating, overthinking and over it all - it’s time to do something more meaningful, to help ourselves and our peers. We’ve created Grounded MCR because we want to experience the freedom to bring our whole, anxiety-ridden selves to work, without having to apologise for who we are. We know we have a lot to offer, and this social enterprise gives us the opportunity to build confidence in ourselves and others, to go two steps forward and three back, to be slow or manic, to shout or to whisper. The chance to be completely real at work - something that doesn't usually go hand in hand with being extremely anxious. We are adamant that aside from ourselves, we can help other anxious people back into work. We will offer jobs to those who don’t deny their anxiety - we want to embrace the reality of the warts-and-all version of you. We want to help you achieve your potential, however anxious you are. We are well qualified to help, because we have both lived through the reality of being square pegs in round holes. We have both masked extreme anxiety at work, we have both suffered breakdowns at work; we are both still a work in progress. The difference is, we now embrace this, by letting anxiety in. We use a host of techniques to channel it, meaning we are able to do our jobs well. Now it’s time to use our experiences, to help others make sense of their own anxiety.