The 50-member WellnessWestSeattle.com is in its second year of serving the West Seattle community. The ad-free site includes a directory of health and wellness practitioners with educational links. Visitors to WellnessWestSeattle.com can find service descriptions, photos of practitioners, contact information, and links to practitioner sites.
Categories include Acupuncture to Yoga. Some of the services include medical and dental, mental health and well being, coaching, complementary and alternative medicine, body work and fitness, youth care and other “community care” services, and more.
To celebrate their second year as a community wellness resource, health and wellness professionals at WellnessWestSeattle.com have been talking about the special things they personally appreciate about West Seattle. With the perfect storm of economic pressure meeting typical holiday stress, the gratitude antidote is especially valuable.
Kat Allen, counselor and yoga instructor at The Four Aims Center says she is grateful for the smaller town feeling of West Seattle and how the sense of community supports health and healing. She continued, “being next to Lincoln Park means that clients can take time to feel the peacefulness of nature, when they come for counseling or yoga.” Laura Gramly Kelley of Turning Point Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine appreciates West Seattle because “it attracts individuals with all the vibrant personality traits of Seattle-ites but with an extra dose of easygoing warmth and genuineness.”
The site’s publisher, Laura Worth, commented that, “building the site has been a rewarding eye-opener to West Seattle’s rich resources in the helping arts and the wisdom of so many of its practitioners.” She adds that this has inspired her to plan a wellness blog and e-newsletter for the coming year.
Worth continued, “Because we are Web-based, we continue to readily add members to our directory. Coupled with the educational FAQ and links, this site expands the West Seattle public’s opportunities for informed health care choices.” Contact Laura Worth at (206) 463-9283 or www.WellnessWestSeattle.com .
