By Liz Liokumovich

I recently met up with Lisa Banks of Live Healthy Be Healthy, a wellness center that incorporates several interesting facets under one roof.  Lisa, who is a Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, Health Coach and Registered Nurse was called to help guide people into a healthier living lifestyle. The methods are based on the six pillars of lifestyle medicine: physical activity, healing sleep, cultivating social connections, stress reduction and management, plant-based nutrition, and avoidance of risky substances including tobacco cessation. 

Lisa offers sessions for your feet under Fresh Feet Footcare. With three rooms set up for foot care, there is plenty of room for yourself and a friend. Lisa’s holistic approach came from her past experience in wound care. Her gift is to focus on foot care and help people feel better. Her gentle technique includes a complete foot and lower leg assessment. This includes non-aggressive nail treatment (fungal and/or ingrown), callus treatment, massage for feet and legs with the purpose of circulation improvement, and foot moisturizing treatments. Fresh Feet Footcare also offers an innovative solution for the treatment of toenails damaged by fungus, infection, or injury, restoring them to their original appearance; just ask about the Keryflex Nail Restoration System. This is perfect for getting those feet looking fresh and healthy for summer! 

Live Healthy Be Healthy will be offering classes and workshops to help people get healthy, and with that comes being happy. The plant-based nutrition classes educate people how to eat right with an “outside the box” approach, not just a focus on a particular diet. As part of the nutrition classes, Lisa brought into her facility a multi-tiered hydroponics system for growing your own greens inside! Growing microgreens is also a topic within the classes. 

Sleep classes will help get the mind and body ready for a good night’s sleep by teaching techniques on how to fall asleep, stay asleep, and wake up refreshed. Sleep is very important to our health, especially when so many of us stay up late on our phones and fall asleep with phones next to us. 

Gentle exercise classes are also offered, including the use of a row machine and explanation of its benefits, as well as TRX straps. TRX straps are used for strength building exercises, cardio workouts, stretching, and flexibility training. 

With such an interesting array of modalities and approaches to getting and staying healthy and happy, you would think everything was covered! But guess what? At the back of the office there’s an art studio run by local artist Edna Davis. Ms. Davis offers a form of art therapy classes called “intuitive art,” which is a process of creating art using an inner awareness and intuition. 

Overall, this has been a very informative and a fun experience to meet Lisa and learn what Live Healthy Be Healthy is all about! Stop by for a visit and to learn about things that you thought you knew about, but there is actually much more to know! 

For more information about the six pillars of health and comprehensive foot care, contact Live Healthy. Be Healthy at: 864-243-8614 or visit: LiveHealthyBeHealthy.health.

Liz is a wife and homeschooling mom of four by day, and a self-proclaimed “Researcher-Hawk” by night (hopefully with some sleep in between). She’s looking forward to discovering more natural therapies to keep her life in balance.