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Natural Health, Beauty & Wellbeing Studio offering a range of holistic therapies and retail. Get in touch with Charlie for more information.

Award winning Health, Beauty and Wellbeing Studio offering a range of holistic therapies including reflexology, massage therapy, reiki, crystal therapy and holistic facials. We have a small retail space selling a range of products with health & wellbeing at their core. These are available to our clients and customers and the shop is open on Fridays to the general public. Founder, and Holistic Therapist Charlie Hughes has a particular interest in women's health and also offers treatments, consultations and packages focussed on the peri / menopause, 3rd age transition. If you would like to book yourself a treatment, please contact Charlie direct on 07525 662888 or email her at info@sophiaschoice.co.uk

03/03/2026

It’s been a while since I posted on socials, but I’m really pleased to share that I’ve taken on a new space in Lyden Way in Beaminster as my new, permanent health & wellbeing space. It’s still a work in progress, but it’s starting to feel like home.

The past 9 months have been tough, but things are feeling more stable, which has allowed me to move forward again. I’ll share more in another post, but it’s good to be back in my own space again.

With love, Charlie 💗

04/11/2025

So, it’s been a while since I last posted, as everything’s been a bit “hit &miss”, over the past few months since I closed my HQ, following my husband’s stroke in June. I’m still trying to figure out how things look moving forward, but in the meantime, if you want to see me in Beaminster for a treatment, I’m currently working from The Strode Room, along Church Street. It’s a lovely quiet space, and the clients who’ve seen me there have loved the calm, zen feel of the place. 🙌

Watch out over the next few weeks, when I aim to share details of my 28 day Mindful Reset which will happen in January. I was due to launch it in July, but had to delay it. If you’re looking to move from stressed & overwhelmed to calm and centred, whilst taking away tools & techniques to help you stay that way moving forward, then you’ll want to stay tuned for future posts sharing more soon. 💗

27/09/2025

Working out of a new space today 🫶🏻
in Crewkerne.
A lovely zen space ready to welcome you on a Saturday with me. Have a great weekend 🙌

08/08/2025

⭐️ITEMS FOR SALE⭐️
A few more items of furniture for sale.

2 x Maine Bookcases. One fixed shelf, the rest are adjustable. 180cm high, 78cm wide, 29cm deep. £20 each.

1 x occasional table. 1 metre wide, 75cm high, 24cm deep. £10.

Must go by Monday morning at the latest. Message me if interested. Thanks, Charlie x

03/08/2025

🏷️ITEMS FOR SALE🏷️
As I’m leaving my premises, I have some bookcases, shelving, a storage unit, 2 chairs, mini table, I’m selling. They need to go this week.

Details, including sizes and price are on each picture. Any questions or if you’re interested in purchasing anything, comment, DM or text me on 07525 662888.

Thanks, Charlie 😊

28/07/2025

🏆THE BRITISH HAIR & BEAUTY AWARDS 2025 🏆

Super proud to announce that I’ve won:

🏅Gold for Eco/Sustainable Salon of the Year 2025
🏅Gold for Excellence in Customer Service SW 2025

A wonderful surprise to receive this news! Makes all the hard work, dedication and time I put into my treatments, consultations and workshops worth it. 💗

10/07/2025

🌸Important Update🌸

I’ve tried to write this post several times over the past few weeks, however I just haven’t known how to word things and at times I’ve just felt too exhausted to try to formulate my words. However, it’s important to update you, as this affects how I work from this point forward.

Just over 5 weeks ago, our world spun on its axis when my husband suffered a brain bleed and a stroke. He had collapsed at work, and we didn’t know where he was. Once the police found him, he was taken to hospital where he has been over the past 5+ weeks. Since then, I have been back and forth to the hospital, and have been fitting in what treatments I can.

Sadly, I’ve had to make the difficult decision to close my treatment studio in Beaminster and rethink how I offer my services moving forward. It’s not been an easy decision to make, given that I love working from there, and have poured so much time and love into making it one of my favourite places to have worked from in recent years.

Those of you who have followed me from the beginning, will know that I had to move premises during the pandemic, and then decided to move back to Beaminster in May 2022, when I found my current premises. It seems I will be reinventing myself again, and will be looking at how I move forward from here.

I’m still currently offering treatments, around my family’s needs, throughout July, and will finish treatments from my HQ at the end of July. I will then take August off to regroup and work out where I may work from moving forward (I have a few ideas), how I offer treatments, and I will carry on working on developing some of the offerings I had been waiting to launch before this tragedy happened.

As a family we are taking each day as it comes. My dear friend set up a GoFundMe page to help support us during this time. If you feel inclined to support us, then I have popped the link in the comments. Thank you.

I will be emailing my current clients with more details, and will update you here on my socials once I know more.

Sending love, Charlie 💗

14/04/2025

🧘CHAT WITH CLAIRE BOWRING WELLBEING - YOGA FoR WELLBEING INCLUDING HER JOURNEY TO THE MAT🧘

Last week I chatted to my dear friend, Claire for another episode of my podcast series, In Conversation With…

We talked about Claire’s personal journey to yoga during lockdown, her decision to become a yoga teacher in midlife, and using yoga for our health and wellbeing.

Claire offers online, in person and 1-2-1 yoga sessions currently in Cornwall. She also offers holistic therapies and is a make up artist available for weddings.

I hope you enjoy listening to our chat, and you can connect with Claire on socials: FB Claire Bowring Wellbeing Instagram: or via her website: https://www.clairebowring.co.uk

06/04/2025

🧘‍♀️CHAT WITH PORTIA BREATHWORK – USING BREATH FOR HEALTH & WELLBEING🧘‍♀️

Today I share my most recent podcast chat with Portia Mcmenemy of Portia Breathwork in Somerset, UK

We chatted about how using the breath can help benefit our wellbeing. We discuss several breathing techniques, that can help with things such as anxiety, or when life / situations feel overwhelming.

Portia offers regular in-person breathwork classes, online classes, and has recently launched her new offering, The Habit, which we also talk about.

I hope you enjoy listening, Charlie 🫶🏻

You can connect with Portia via her website: https://www.portiamcmenemy.co.uk or on Facebook: Portia - Breathwork Facilitator and Instagram:

09/03/2025

🌼ARE YOU JOINING ME FOR A DAY OF CREATIVITY & INSPIRATION? 🌼

I have 3 places left on my Vision Board Workshop taking place on Saturday 22nd March, from 10.00am until 4.00pm at The Strode Room in Beaminster, Dorset.

More information here:
https://sophiaschoice.co.uk/vision-board-workshop

05/03/2025

I’m excited to share that I’ve been nominated for:

BEST WELLBEING SPECIALIST

in Dorset, Somerset & Bristol, in the Muddy Stilettos Awards 2025!

It’s the first time I’ve been nominated in these awards, which is super exciting. It’s currently the nomination stage, so if you feel Sophia’s Choice is your Best Wellbeing Specialist, then I’d be delighted if you would nominate me by voting.

Link to vote: https://dorsetsomerset.muddystilettos.co.uk/awards/nominate

Thanks for your support! 💗

31/12/2024

✨CONNECTION✨
2024 for me, has been about connection. 🫶🏻

I began this year creating my vision board with my family in January and much of what is on there has happened or is being created. I love the feeling of focussing my dreams and goals in a visual way that feels more tangible and accessible.

What followed was a sequence of experiences, which had “connection” at their core.

I spent the first part of 2024 being held by a fabulous group of women all navigating perimenopause together, with the brilliant 🙌 The experience stepped me right outside of my comfort zone, but I came away more sure of who I was and what I needed moving forward, which felt wonderfully powerful. Thank you Kate for making that possible for me.

I then held space for the wonderful women I support with my 6 week menopause wellbeing workshops this year, and their need for connection and belonging was a strong theme, that came out of our sessions together. I truly love the time I spend creating these workshops and look forward to hosting more in the coming year. They fill my heart with love and gratitude 🙏

In the summer I finally got to connect with and meet many of the amazing people from the Gold Club membership I’m a part of. The day was filled with lots of laughter, sharing and empowerment from whose infectious, positive, energy should be bottled and sold. 🥳

Later in the year saw me step once again outside my comfort zone, and enter the ‘Soul of Your Business’ with 🙌 This was an amazingly empowering day of connection, sharing, giving and I came away with my mind a tad blown! Using constellation work and tapping into what your business is really telling you, is a profound way to truly connect with where you need to go with your work. I’d love to revisit another day to find out more and Nicola’s work comes highly recommended. 🌺

Scattered throughout the year I chatted to & connected with and for my ‘In Conversation With’ series, which you can find on my grid or YouTube channel. I’ll be doing more of these in 2025. Continued in comments

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Sophia’s Choice is an award winning Health, Beauty & Wellbeing Shop with Treatment Room based in Beaminster, West Dorset offering a range of products for the whole family which are natural, organic and nourishing. In addition to the wonderful natural and organic products we stock , we have our dedicated treatment room offering a range of holistic therapies to help you relax and recharge. Founder, and Holistic Therapist Charlie Hughes offers several forms of massage therapy, reflexology, reiki, natural lift facial massage and holistic facials. If you would like to book yourself a treatment, please contact Charlie direct on 01308 862586 or email her at info@sophiaschoice.co.uk