But if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, just how do you find a specific organization or group that can help you on your wellness journey?
That’s where a new online venture by Maggie and Lynn Brochu hopes to fill the void, bringing enhanced exposure in addition to a host of perks designed to offer almost everything one would want to know wellness businesses in Moose Jaw.
The mother-daughter duo launched The Lit Garden — www.thelitgarden.ca — back in mid-June and are now looking for pioneer members for their ultra-enhanced directory website.
“We’re basically a one-stop virtual wellness shop local to Moose Jaw,” Lynn explained, adding that their focus is on alternative, organic, holistic and self-empowerment businesses, which include handmade wellness products or any business centred around creation and art, as well as plant-based businesses, whether they’re to create or eat.
“To us, it’s all wellness. We’re not you’re typical directory; we do have a very unique niche and purpose and vision.”
Both Lynn and Maggie come from an extensive background in wellness, with Lynn having spent 21 years in physical therapy, the bulk of those in alternative and holistic physio. She closed down her practice in June 2020 and is now a wellness coach through Step Within Intuitive Energetic Coaching (www.thelitgarden.ca/listings/step-within/).
Maggie is a longtime Reiki practitioner dating back to the 1970s. After retiring from teaching, she got back into the alternative therapy in 2008 and now runs Believe With Maggie (www.thelitgarden.ca/listings/believe-with-maggie/).
Having so much experience with the Moose Jaw wellness community led to The Lit Garden being launched.
“Moose Jaw has always had a really strong interest in alternative wellness and we have a wealth of alternative wellness business, but we just feel they’re not getting the exposure they deserve,” Lynn said. “Our main purpose is to try and bring clients to the right wellness business for them, and our audience will be both shoppers and wellness and business owners, so we’ll look to cater to and help out both.”
That’s where the ‘not just another directory’ comes into play.
Members of The Lit Garden will have a 45-second video on their profile explaining what their business is about and how they’re unique as well as text and images offering a summary of what they have to offer. Links to all member social media sites will help further spread the word.
“Our main goal is to be easy to navigate and complete than a typical directory you’d find online,” Lynn explained. “We want everyone to have everything they’d want to know about wellness businesses with a few simple clicks… A lot of people want more than the mainstream and conventional and want to drive their own wellness journey and we really want to help them do that. We really want everyone to find fulfilment and wellness and we really want to create a really ‘Lit’ community after such a rough 2020 and 2021.”
Signing on is simply a matter of filling out a form on the website, after which further details will be sent along, all with a focus on keeping things as streamlined and easy as possible.
The Lit Garden is aiming to create a heavy sense of community once it gets rolling, and you can see their plans for doing so and even more about what they’re all about in the Mission and Details sections of their site.
For more on The Lit Garden, visit their website, find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheLitGarden, on Instagram at www.instagram.com/the.lit.garden/ and check out their FAQs by searching The Lit Garden on YouTube.
