50 WWW.CHARLESTONWOMENPODCAST.COM | WWW.READCW.COM | WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/CHARLESTONWOMEN WELLNESS + BEAUTY run the system. "If your nervous system lacks energy, everything shuts down," she explains. "Your nerves lose power and you have not only physical breakdown in your body, such as aches and pains, but you feel tired, off, highly reactive and as if your fingers have been plugged into an electric socket. IVY's main focus is unplugging you from that socket—calming down the energy in your central nervous system so you can feel more at ease. We teach your body how to do this so you can access it anywhere. Think of IVY as a school for your nervous system, where you'll learn how to handle dayto-day stress. Instead of relying on a pill to calm you down or regulate your emotions and thoughts, your body will learn how to do it for you." Another women-led holistic healing studio guiding patients with a functional medicine approach to modern health care is Stat Wellness. As a one-stop shop for holistic healing, the practice has a team of dietitians, health coaches, nurses and nutritionists—and will soon add a physical therapist—who collaborate under one roof to individualize each patient's experience. Athena Newell, MSN and FNP-C with the pracAthena Newell outside of her newly opened Stat Wellness practice.
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