Welcome to our inaugural Natural Awakenings Gulf Coast Women In Wellness feature, part of our month-long salute to women’s health! We are highlighting some of the incredible integrative and natural health professionals and businesswomen in the Gulf Coast area and celebrating women everywhere who hold wellness as a priority and passion in their lives.

NAGC is thrilled to showcase these stories and missions in this special multi-platform feature, which begins with our May print issue and continues to our website at NAGulfCoast.com and our social media platforms. We are proud to present the stories of 15 diverse women from various fields who have made a difference in so many lives by their hard work, their extensive research and their belief in natural healing through a mind-body-spirit approach in everything they do. These are the women that support and enable Natural Awakenings to connect, educate and empower readers all along the Gulf Coast to live healthy on a healthy planet.

We invite you to join us throughout the month of May for special digital features, including video interviews on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Plus save the date on May 11, 12:30 to 1:00 p.m., when our publisher, Michelle Smith, will make an appearance on Gulf Coast Today, NBC 15 WPMI-TV, to promote her passion, encouraging all things related to “Healthy Living on a Healthy Planet.”

We hope you will read, share and save this wonderful section of our magazine, follow these Women In Wellness practitioners and purveyors of natural health and wellness and consider their products and services when you, your friends and family are seeking health and wellness professionals. Enjoy learning all about them, as we did!