A focus on health and healing
Sherman woman opens ‘holistic health resource center’ to offer wellness services
NEW MILFORD — With 25 years of experience in human resources, Dawn Tuthill said she knows how important it is to “bring to light how people can get help.”
“When you’re in human resources, you happen to deal with people on a very personal level, so you get to hear more of their personal life and story,” said Tuthill “Everybody has different issues that arise in their lives… It’s something I’ve been doing for so long, so when someone comes to me with some kind of problem, I work to help them resolve it.”
That experience inspired her to open Breathe Peace Wellness, a group of licensed and credited health and wellness practitioners that operate out of Suite 3 at 30 Bridge St. The center opened in December and services are available by appointment.
Tuthill said she intended to create “a holistic health resource center” where people can access a number of wellness services and “work with people that can address different physical, mental and emotional components of health and healing.”
“I’ve had a focus on health and healing myself for a while,” said Tuthill, a Sherman woman who has worked in human resources in the Connecticut-New York area. She was named vice president of human resources for Lex Products Corp. in 2014, according to the company.
“I do a lot with employee health, wellness and safety as part of my job — educating people on stress reduction and navigating health challenges — so this opportunity came up for me to pull together a number of people who can offer different services and people who are focused on health and healing.”
In addition to health and career coaching, Breathe Peace Wellness offers massage therapy, energy healing, spiritual wellness and workplace wellness programs. Tuthill said the team includes three massage therapists, a hypnotherapist, two therapists, and an individual who focuses on energy healing, Reiki, journaling therapy and other healing techniques.
She said she’d like to add services and health coaches, as well as partner with someone “who has an accreditation in nutrition.”
“Sometimes people are not aware that there are individuals out there that can work with you, that can support health and healing,” Tuthill said. “It’s important for people to realize there’s support out there.”