Our sunroom has become a wellness studio overnight. We sold the pool table yesterday. It was carried out of the room by its happy new owners. The vision to share our home as a healing center with our community is one we’ve held since February 2009, when we moved here. Over the next few weeks and months, we’ll take the steps needed to make it a space for service.
This sunny and spacious room will be a helping and healing place for individuals, couples, and families touched by long-term illness. It will host family care consultations, individual and small group coaching sessions, and wellness programs (yoga, art, music, movement, dance).
I share with you part of the letter I wrote and delivered to our neighbors this weekend, in preparation for an upcoming Town Zoning Board meeting:
As many of you know, Karl and I moved into 202 Haverhill Rd in February 2009, right after my mother passed at the age of 67 from a fast-moving degenerative brain disease (dementia). As a couple, we experienced the trauma and devastation of this illness first-hand. We made a decision at that time that we would do what we could with our resources to help these families, namely, to share our home and gardens with our community.
Since 2010 I have served individuals and families nationally and globally via phone, home and work computers, on-site at partner locations, print & e-publications, and wellness products sold online and at health fairs. Welcoming the public into our home is a new level of service that reflects the healing work we have done as individuals and as a couple and our readiness to be a source of strength, vulnerability, and healing for members of our neighborhood, town, and our North of Boston region.
Moving forward with a listening heart,
vision, inquiry, and action,
~ Mary