Downtown Chehalis has become an entrepreneurial hot spot for women-owned, wellness-minded businesses, including Lauren Urich Yoga, Shona’s Food Company, Nature Nurture Farmacy, Good Fork and Juice and The Healing Sister. A collaboration headed by Urich has opened new doors and brought the idea of holistic wellness, self care and creating community to the forefront of Chehalis small businesses. Last month, Urich hosted a giveaway featuring 14 local Chehalis enterprises.
The giveaway was born from Urich’s need to focus on something good. “I had gotten sick and then my back went out,” Urich said. “I needed something good to focus on and decided to do a giveaway.
” In uniting the businesses, Urich highlighted one aspect that has been most important to her: self care. Although the giveaway has ended, the businesses continue to grow as they fill the gaps in holistic wellness that the community needs. “I didn’t envision my practice in Lewis County because I didn’t know how it would be received.
” said Jessica Grandorff, owner of The Healing Sister. “But that made me want it even more. There’s so much healing to be done here.
” Grandorff is a massage therapist located on Pacific Avenue in Chehalis. She offers massage therapy and bodywork as well as cupping, gua sha and wellness classes. Of the Chehalis wellness community, she said, “First of all, most of them, if not all of them, are women-owned, and I love seeing women succeed.
It lights a fire in me to keep.