Women Rising: Yael Lehmann

Yael Lehmann serves as executive director of The Food Trust, which strives to make healthy food available to all. Their work has been recognized by former First Lady Michelle Obama and described by Time magazine as a “remarkable success” for increasing the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables in schools and reducing the number of students becoming overweight by 50 percent. Read More »

A Doula is Like Having a Personal Birth Assistant

After the birth of her third child in 2010, Heather Keeney could not stop talking about it. “I was telling a friend, ‘Everyone should get to feel like this about their birth!’” Keeney recalls. “She laughingly told me I should become a doula. Read More »

A New Paradigm for Health and Healing

Healing to Empower and Restore (HER) Wellness Days at Bryn Mawr Hospital’s Newtown Square cutting-edge women’s health facility for Philadelphia area women that have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer are one of the organization’s signature programs. Read More »

Skin Care Options Expand to Philadelphia

Nu You Well Med will hold a grand opening June 1 at their newest location, 1601 Walnut Street, Suite 1523, in Philadelphia. At Nu You Well Med, professional aestheticians offer holistic solutions to skin issues and concerns. Read More »

Holistic Treatments with Ellie Rosenblum

Herb. Alchemy. Craft. & Wellness will be opening a sacred space at 232 South 4th Street, Philadelphia, in Center City’s quaint Society Hill neighborhood on June 1, offering “holistic” massage, energy healing, crystal therapy, reflexology, aromatherapy, Ayurveda treatments and more. Read More »

Inaugural Mt. Airy Holistic Health Fair May 20

Northwest Philadelphia's alternative health providers will be on hand to explore the many modalities represented in and around Mt. Airy from 1 to 5 p.m., May 20, at a Saturday street fair on Germantown Avenue between Carpenter Lane and Pelham Road. Read More »

Love Your Local Park

Love Your Park Week begins with a city-wide service day from 9 a.m. to noon, May 13. The effort continues through May 21. Read More »

Relaxed Living on Virginia’s Eastern Shore

The Kirkwood Group offers beautiful waterfront properties, beachfront properties and water access properties along the Chesapeake Bay and the creeks and coves that feed into the bay and the seaside sounds. Read More »