We are pleased to announce our new acupuncturist, Un Jeung Jones, and a new role for our very own Jennifer Roles!

What’s better than getting three sessions of Baltimore’s best Red Light Therapy?

Getting a package of three RLT sessions… and also getting a Salt Room + Infrared Sauna session and a Vibroacoustic Therapy Boost session for free!

(You save $65, getting a $200 value for $135!)

I’ve working on a “unified theory of wellness,” with which I hope to simplify people’s thinking around getting well and staying well over the long term.

Part of the process of articulating this is a curiosity about where people get their current ideas from. What led to taking a particular supplement or medication, including or excluding certain foods from a diet, or adding or subtracting certain habits from your daily regimen?

And one of the most common answers I hear is: Prevention.

If you’ve been wondering about the stunning new artwork around the Very Well offices, please join us for a special reception to meet the very talented artist and learn more about it! Refreshments will be served.

You are invited to a relaxed, informal and interactive presentation to understand how your nervous system is an untapped resource for emotional balance, mental clarity and whole body health.

In preparation for summer, this will be our Heart-Focused event, with specialized meditations and tropical smoothies (both dairy and non-dairy options).

Over the years, I heard more and more about red light therapy, and you probably have, too. The internet is awash in weird little red-light masks for your face, and even red-light caps that supposedly stimulate hair growth. As I contemplated expanding Very Well, I looked more into larger, more powerful panels. Whether or not the small, low-powered devices have any effect, there is plenty of research into benefits of full-body treatment that have nothing to do with improving appearance.

We all know you can get powerful healing results at Very Well. Let’s talk about why that’s important.

Our latest service offering is here! Vibroacoustic therapy is a game changer for creating any desirable state of mind, from relaxation to focus to inspiration… and more. Find out about it here!

Our most versatile and accessible membership can help you get well… then help you get even better than that. It’s time for optimal living!

Our most exciting announcement yet. This new subscription is how we can leverage the resources of the new Very Well expansion to directly benefit your Quality of Life!

How to find our new location in the Village of Cross Keys.

Now that the cat’s out of the bag, you’ll find much more about Very Well: Optimal Living’s new services in the coming days: in this blog and across our website. But we thought you’d like this sneak peek at our new services and how they might help you live more fully.

I've hinted, teased, and mused out loud about it for most of a year.

If you've been following our Instagram, Facebook page, blog, and email newsletter, you've seen logo changes, site redesigns, new employees, cryptic photos of paint chips, and other signs of something in the works.

Now what could that madcap acupuncturist be up to? you may have wondered. And what does it have to do with me?

Today it's time to open up the curtains and let the light shine in on the next phase of Very Well.

There is a concept in ancient Chinese cosmology – and therefore in Chinese medicine, as the two are closely interrelated – called Ming, which roughly translates as destiny.

Notably, this doesn't quite align with our Western idea of destiny, which was has more to do with what happens to us in life overall, or in certain cases, whether or not we are meant to kill an evil wizard.

Here’s what happened with that color palette.

When I was in graduate school, my dear friend and mentor, the infamous Bob Duggan, talked about wellness as distinct from health. Health, he proposed in the electrifying tones of a revolutionary in a beret, does not exist.

I feel I have been in an extended conversation with the universe in which we are both speaking different languages. I am using English, the dialect of Hollywood and Madison Avenue and the absurdities induced by their mesmerizing transmissions; she, the universe, communicates in a brogue of wind and nebulae and minor coincidences with earth-shattering ramifications.

Still more mystery.

Mysterious photographs have turned up in our blog. What’s going on?!