The Larger Marshall Chamber of Commerce lately welcomed Candance Well being Wellness and Extra LLC, celebrating with a particular ribbon chopping and presentation of the chamber key.
“We’re so excited that you simply selected to make Marshall your property for your enterprise in Harrison County, and we’re glad that you simply’re right here,” Chamber Board Chair John Oswalt instructed proprietor and operator Candance Pierce in the course of the presentation.
“We’d wish to current you this key to the chamber,” mentioned Oswalt. “Though it doesn’t open up any doorways in Marshall to something, it does open the doorways to our hearts and the relationships that we can assist present you to assist your enterprise and make you profitable in your endeavors,” he mentioned.
Govt Director Stacia Runnels additionally welcomed the brand new well being and wellness enterprise to the world.
“If there’s one factor we all know, if we don’t deal with ourselves, we’re not good to anyone,” mentioned Runnels as she invited proprietor Candance Pierce to share what the enterprise, situated at 112 N. Lafayette St., has to supply.
At Candance Well being Wellness and Extra LLC, Pierce provides an assortment of natural teas, weight reduction and weight achieve merchandise, detox merchandise, skincare merchandise, therapeutic crystals, private hygiene merchandise, ionic foot detox, important oils, tub bombs and extra. Pierce, who can also be an expert physique contour specialist, additionally provides physique contouring in addition to Yoni steams, wherein she can also be licensed.
As an herbalist, Pierce famous that she dabbles in diet and all issues pure to assist heal and assist the physique.
She mentioned she started her personal well being and wellness journey after a bout with sickness that left her motionless and left medical doctors perplexed on the trigger.
“I obtained began simply sort of learning. I actually simply wanted it myself,” Pierce mentioned of the impetus for her journey.
“I went down and obtained slightly sick; I wasn’t strolling and it was sort of onerous to get a prognosis. So I simply sort of needed to educate myself and convey myself again to strolling on my merchandise — sea moss gel, B12 and every thing — simply to be strolling once more,” she mentioned.
“With the ocean moss gel, it offers you nutritional vitamins and vitamins that you could survive. It did preserve me going,” shared Pierce. “What it does is it eats up the mucus that’s in you, and viruses can not thrive with out mucus. And never solely was I not strolling, I couldn’t eat for a month; I couldn’t eat something; I couldn’t drink something. I used to be going to the hospital and mainly all they might do for me was give me an IV to rehydrate me and preserve me hydrated, so that is mainly what I needed to survive off of.”
Along with pure merchandise, she additionally tapped into her spirituality, counting on the therapeutic properties related to crystal jewellery.
“I did use my crystal jewellery and sort of obtained into researching and nicely okay… that is for this let me do that, and simply began seeing it and making a change,” shared Pierce.
“I’ll inform you that the herbs and the crystals and every thing actually have modified my life,” she mentioned. “I do see a brand new me; I’ve seen me develop into an individual that I didn’t suppose that I’d be standing earlier than you.
“It’s simply one thing magical about it; it’s simply one thing religious about it,” Pierce mentioned of caring for the thoughts, physique and soul naturally.
“I do imagine that it’s us getting again to our roots,” she mentioned. “It’s stuff that we are able to do naturally to heal ourselves.”
On account of her analysis and private testimony, Pierce’s enterprise started to develop with many turning to her for suggestions in the course of the top of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
“With all of the illness and every thing and the way it sort of grew was with COVID,” she mentioned of her enterprise. “Lots of people reached out to me, and mentioned: ‘Hey, what can I do?’”
“I do know that the ocean moss gel helped them retain their style and scent again and it sort of introduced individuals round to really attempting what we’ve been attempting to get them to take for years,” mentioned Pierce, noting how sea moss provides a large number of potential well being advantages when transformed to a gel.
Seeing fruitful outcomes, prospects grew to become extra within the well being and wellness choices, and learn how to fight bodily points from a pure standpoint.
“They began leaning in the direction of it…and (asking) what else do you could have?” mentioned Pierce. “Effectively, we’ve the mullein leaf for the respiratory; and it simply sort of grew from there.”
She’s now often called the go-to herbalist in Marshall.
“So now individuals name me and say: ‘Hey, we heard that you simply had been the herbalist in Marshall… are you able to inform us (what’s useful),’” mentioned Pierce. “So it sort of grew as a result of I did begin at house, and I used to be promoting herbs from house, my detox merchandise, weight reduction merchandise — it was so much.”
“So for possibly two to 3 years I simply dibbled and dabbled in a variety of completely different merchandise — merchandise that make you are feeling good, not simply look good on the skin however additionally they make you are feeling good,” mentioned Pierce. “In order that was sort of my angle and simply labored them till we got here into the shop.
Becoming a member of Pierce on the ribbon chopping had been her mom Priscilla Pierce, proprietor of Soul Palace Restaurant in Marshall; her three daughters; and her partner.
Candance Well being Wellness and Extra LLC will rejoice with an official grand opening for the general public on Might 28. The enterprise together with Pierce’s nonprofit Open Arms Basis will likely be awarding a $1,000 scholarship to a college-bound graduating highschool senior in the course of the event.
