For a few years now, I’ve carried a picture in my mind of a place where women can walk in, exhale, and feel immediately understood. A place that feels like community, like possibility, like coming home to yourself after years of taking care of everyone else.
Picture it: (No, not “Sicily, 1929”, ha ha) A COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER
Not a spa. Not a clinic. A community space where we learn, grow, laugh, cry, rebuild, and reconnect with our own strength:
I imagine:
- Workshops that feel like conversations around a kitchen table
- Classes that meet women exactly where they are
- Support groups that normalize what we’ve been taught to hide
- Opportunities that bring us together like; community garden days, cooking nights, pop-up Wellness “Fairs”
- A place where women can show up messy, brilliant, exhausted, hopeful, curious, or unsure… and still feel like they belong
This is the heart of Grassroots Health & Wellness. This is the space I want to build for my community.
The Hard Part No One Talks About: Funding the Dream
Here’s the truth I don’t sugarcoat:
Finding grants and funding as a small, woman-owned wellness business is hard.
I’ve spent hours digging through grant databases, only to hit paywalls, outdated information, or opportunities that don’t quite fit. I’ve applied for grants that felt promising, only to learn that wellness (especially women’s wellness) is still considered “niche” or “nonessential” in many funding circles.
But I’m not giving up.
I’m working to increase my income, strengthen my business foundation, and build the financial stability I need to make this brick-and-mortar center a reality. Every workshop I teach, every client I support, every resource I create; it all moves me one step closer.
This dream isn’t just about opening a building. It’s about creating a home for women who have spent decades putting themselves last.
Listening First: The Midlife Stories Project
Before I build anything, I want to understand the women I’m building it for.
That’s why I created a survey for women over 40:
A space to share their real experiences, challenges, frustrations, and hopes. The responses have already been powerful, honest, and deeply human. These stories will shape a future project I’m developing, one that centers the voices of women who are too often overlooked.
If you’re a woman over 40 and want to share your story, your insight is invaluable. Your voice helps me design programs, workshops, and support that actually reflect what women need,
Not what the wellness industry assumes they need.
Why I Keep Going
Because I know what it feels like to navigate midlife without a roadmap. Because I know how isolating it can be when your body, identity, and priorities shift all at once. Because I believe women deserve spaces that honor their wisdom, humor, resilience, and complexity. Because community heals,
And we need more of it.
This dream is bigger than me. It’s about all of us.
And I’m going to keep moving toward it, one step, one story, one woman at a time.
Take the survey here: 👉 The Midlife Woman’s Story Project
In Health, Georganne
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