About Us
Why the Center Exists
The Wellness Center for Healthy Living grew from my own experience. After a 1992 accident disrupted my health, I had to leave my CPA firm and begin more than 15 years of rehabilitation.
That experience changed the way I think about health. Treatment could be valuable and still leave questions unanswered. Improvement could be real and still incomplete. I began looking for additional ways to support function and quality of life.
What else might help, and how would I know whether it was helping?
That question eventually led me to create the Center. Its purpose is not to offer one answer for everyone. It is to help you understand your options, consider their limitations, observe how you respond, and decide what makes sense alongside appropriate medical care.
What My Experience Taught Me
The Center’s approach grew from lessons I learned through rehabilitation, my own health changes, and working with clients:
- Rehabilitation taught me that meaningful improvement does not always mean complete recovery.
- My own weight-loss experience taught me that a result can be substantial and still depend on conditions I am unwilling to maintain.
- Bringing my blood sugar into the normal or near-normal range and remaining off diabetes medication for approximately seven years taught me that meaningful improvement should not be confused with a permanent cure.
- Working with more than 1,000 Laser Lipo clients taught me that people can respond differently to the same equipment and protocol.
- Stopping a weight-loss product while I still had inventory taught me that financial investment is not a reason to keep offering something once I no longer believe its results are sustainable.
- My experience taught me that wellness services and medical care have different roles. Supportive services should complement, not replace, care from your PCP or specialist.
The question is not only, “Did it work?” It is also, “Did the result last, and does continuing still make sense?
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Meet Marsha
Before entering the wellness field, I was a CPA providing tax and consulting services to small businesses and their owners. After a 1992 accident disrupted my cognitive abilities, I retired from my firm and began more than 15 years of rehabilitation.
That experience was difficult to describe to people who had known me before the accident:
“I never knew I was smart until one day I woke up stupid.”
Rehabilitation helped me recover a great deal, but it did not prevent other serious health problems from developing. At one point, I was taking seven prescription medications daily. From a medical standpoint, my conditions were being managed. I understood the value of that care, but I was not satisfied with management as the endpoint. I wanted to understand what had happened, how my conditions might be connected and what I could still do to improve my health.
“Take Control of Your Health!” became my line in the sand. It did not mean that I could control every condition or guarantee every outcome. It meant that I would no longer remain passive. I began asking questions, changing what was within my control, researching and personally trying additional health approaches.
Some of the results were substantial. I lost approximately 60 to 70 pounds, brought my blood sugar into the normal or near-normal range and remained off diabetes medication for approximately seven years. But those results did not constitute a permanent cure. Some of the weight returned, and my blood sugar later increased again.
That experience taught me an important distinction: a result can be real without being permanent, and an initial success does not necessarily mean that the method is sustainable.
I learned this particularly clearly through a homeopathic HCG weight-loss program. The program produced significant weight loss, but the eating pattern was not something I was willing to continue. Once I no longer believed the results were sustainable in real life, I stopped offering the product even though I still had inventory.
As I continued researching and learning, I realized that my experience could help other people understand their options and evaluate their own results more carefully. In 2012, I began offering wellness services based on what I had learned. In 2018, I formally established The Wellness Center for Healthy Living, Inc.
Before I offer a service, I use it personally, examine the available information and consider both its possible value and its limitations. I continue offering it only while I believe it remains useful and responsible to do so.
I created the Center to share what I had learned and to give people a place to explore supportive options without assuming that one answer will work for everyone. My role is to help you understand what is available, pay attention to how you respond and make your own informed decisions alongside appropriate medical care.
