Introducing the OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY
A message from Dr. David Meredith, D.Ac.:
It’s the Time for Optimal Living!
When I was researching the expansion possibilities for Very Well, much of the thought went into what options would not only complement my existing acupuncture practice the most, but into wellness services that could stand on their own or be combined for even greater results. I leaned toward the technological, not only as a lover of gadgets but because I knew a lot of work was being done in this realm to improve the lives of high-powered executives, sports stars, and even astronauts. It became my goal to make these cutting-edge solutions as accessible as possible, giving everyone the chance to benefit from what was recently available only to a few.
And of those devices, I purchased the most powerful versions on the market, to give my clients the best experience and results possible, in a setting that is welcoming, tranquil, and healing.
I can honestly say my plans have come together better than I’d hoped, and as they continue to fall into place, it’s time for another big announcement.
The topic is “optimal living,” a phrase you might have seen me use before. I consider optimal living to be the ultimate level of health and wellness. In this state, you are not only free from pain and troubling physical and emotional concerns; it goes beyond that. If you are living optimally, you are regularly feeling peaceful, energetic, focused, calm, and joyful. You are making progress toward your own life goals, and you are an effective presence for your family, friends, coworkers, and community.
This has always been my goal for my clients, and there are aspects to the therapeutic relationship formed in acupuncture that can make it particularly conducive to that outcome, over time. As a holistic medicine, acupuncture can benefit the whole of the body and mind, and it is based on a traditional philosophy of “right living” that has endured for thousands of years.
But it is the way acupuncture can be enhanced with our other new treatments that I want to talk about today, and how those services can both enhance your life on their own and in powerful combinations with each other.
How do you get well? And how do you get better than that?
How do you get well? How do you stay well? How do you move beyond wellness to experience optimal living?
The answer—by whatever metric you go by and whatever intervention you use—is that improvement usually comes down to balance and counterbalance.
Even though it may appear to be so, your symptom did not appear from out of the blue; something (and usually an accumulation of somethings, over time) originated it. And in general, only an accumulation of interventions outweighing it on the other side of the equation—over time—will truly relieve it, moving you from distress into wellness.
Acupuncture, red light therapy, PEMF therapy, salt room therapy, infrared sauna, and vibroacoustic therapy—the services offered at Very Well—are powerful interventions. Like all therapies, they need to be experienced frequently enough that their results accumulate, retraining the body and mind to a new way of being, more functional, no longer generating the troubling symptoms. (Consider this the proper dosage.) And the more you support these interventions with beneficial lifestyle choices, the quicker the process is, and the longer the relief lasts.
But these interventions are not like taking a prescription, where you throw away the pill bottle when it’s empty and go back to doing whatever you were doing before you got sick, learning nothing from the experience.
The services at Very Well offer broad-spectrum improvement. When you keep using them at a low dosage, you maintain your progress. And when the dosage is more moderate… you keep getting better and better.
Acupuncture, red light therapy, PEMF therapy, salt room therapy, infrared sauna, and/or vibroacoustic therapy, when experienced regularly, offer an outsized contribution to the beneficial side of your life balance—generating good results in the moment while also working against the accumulation of more harmful experiences, such as stress, lack of sleep, poor nutrition, genetic predispositions, and even the complications of aging.
So these therapies are beneficial in the short and long terms, and people love them, and they need to be done regularly to have the best results. And I just started a new wellness center that offers them.
See where we’re going with this?
Introducing the Very Well
OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY!
As our current introductory promotions end, OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY will be the most accessible and versatile monthly membership possible, giving you your choice of treatments and services and the motivation to use them frequently enough—at a high enough dosage—to make a true difference in your life.
The membership is $99 per month, all of which will be deposited into your Very Well account for immediate use toward any of our offerings. Consider it a pre-payment plan. If you don’t use all of these funds in one month, they roll over for you to use in the next.
And here’s the best part: as long as you are a member of OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY, all of the services we offer (except acupuncture)* will be 20% off the retail price. That is a permanent price reduction on Red Light Therapy, PEMF Therapy, Salt Room Therapy, Infrared Sauna Therapy, and Vibroacoustic Therapy.
The 20% off offer extends to the products we sell, as well.**
And there’s more. Again, Very Well’s services themselves are extremely beneficial, but they are only one component of your life’s balance toward health and wellness. Your own lifestyle choices, bodily wisdom, effectiveness in relationships with the people around you, motivations to accomplish your goals… these are also pieces to the puzzle of optimal living.
OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY will also offer other benefits over time. Rolling out this spring and summer will be members-only events, classes, and sessions—and an exclusive newsletter—offering new perspectives on health, wellness, personal effectiveness, empowerment, and more. You will also get access to a private online group where we can discuss ideas and strategies that move us even closer to optimal living, and support each other in the process. These are some of the building blocks to true community
That’s it! Simple, powerful… a no-brainer for achieving and maintaining your wellness goals, and even transcending them… for motivating you to regularly prioritize your health and wellness while taking some of the guesswork out of how to go about it… for helping you explore the possibilities for a life beyond the familiar stresses and frustrations… to come together with others in multiple types of setting
Click Here to Sign Up for OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY!
$99/month
20% off (almost) all services and products
Unused funds roll over to the next month
Upcoming members-only classes, events, sessions, newsletters
Private online community for mutual
Cancel anytime
What Is Possible at Very Well?
Most people visit us for our award-winning acupuncture and have not yet experienced our new services and how they can work synergistically to move you toward lasting wellness, toward optimal living. Here’s a taste of what’s possible with our full range of offerings:
Our Red Light Therapy bed is the most powerful in the Baltimore area, generating visible results in just 16 minutes. Combine it with acupuncture or our Salt Room + Infrared Sauna for a soothing escape from pain, inflammation, and stress. Combine it with PEMF for enhanced healing, energy, and immunity.
PEMF Therapy combined with Salt Room + Infrared Sauna is a deeply penetrating supercharger of your body’s cells and systems. Combined with acupuncture, we can potentially double the progress of each therapy.
Add Vibroacoustic Therapy (coming soon) to any other session and leave Very Well walking on air, or deeply inspired to pursue your goals.
With the OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY membership, it is possible to mix and match these therapies based on your long-range wellness goals or whatever you are inspired to try in the moment.
Just this week at Very Well, we have had a client rapidly recover from post-surgical pain and regain mobility by combining PEMF and Red Light therapies; another client quickly overcame Bell’s Palsy via a few acupuncture and Red Light therapy sessions. Someone else has made astonishing progress in eliminating sciatic pain by doubling up on PEMF and acupuncture. And we helped halt a springtime allergy attack in the Salt Room + Infrared Sauna.
Of course, everyone’s goals and results will be different, but let’s find out what’s possible for you with regular integrated treatment…
Thank You from Dr. David Meredith, D.Ac., Founder of Very Well
Offering a membership like this is what will help keep Very Well serving the community for the long haul. It allows us to allocate resources, set hours, and have the best staff available to give you the best experience possible. And it goes without saying that it helps us keep the lights on and the door open during the most risky and uncertain phase of starting any small business. Thank you for considering signing up, and helping us to help you. I will do whatever I can to make it the best decision you’ve made.
—Dr. David Meredith, D.Ac.
P.S. Our existing introductory offers on Very Well’s new services are ending on March 31. After that time, our memberships (including Optimal Living Community and VERY WELL QoL) will be the only ongoing discounts on services.
P.P.S. See the footnotes and FAQ below for more info! And please get in touch if you have any questions. Hitting “reply” to this email will message me directly.
Click Here to Sign Up for OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY!
*You may use your $99 account credit toward acupuncture appointments and copays, but we cannot discount acupuncture services as per our agreement with the insurance companies we work with.
**We do not sell Qualia Senolytic separately from the VERY WELL QoL memberships, but the 20% discount applies to all other products, except gift cards.
FAQ
So what really happens with this subscription?
It’s pretty simple. We want you to utilize our wellness services often enough to achieve and maintain the beneficial effects. We charge your card $99 on the same day each month, and that money goes directly to your house account, to apply toward any service you like. It is at its essence a pre-payment plan.
In addition, every service and product you purchase (except acupuncture and Qualia Senolytic, see above and below) will be available at a 20% discount. For example, you will get our powerful Red Light Therapy session for the discounted price of $36 instead of the usual $45, whether you are using up your monthly credit or another mode of payment if your credit runs out.
If you have a balance left at the end of the month, it will roll over to the next month.
You can cancel anytime.
What is the difference between the OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY and the VERY WELL QoL memberships?
The VERY WELL QoL memberships are designed with a set type and number of treatments to maximize specific desired results. They also feature a monthly supplement (Qualia Senolytic) to enhance those results. The discount on the retail costs of those products and services is generally over 25%, but they feature a larger up-front monthly investment. QoL members also get benefits of 20% off of additional products and services outside of the ones they receive from their membership
The OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY membership is more flexible and requires less of a monthly investment. You may choose whatever treatments you like to work toward your individual goals and preferences, plus get 20% off of almost all services and products. (A specific difference here is that the Qualia Senolytic is not available for sale outside of the QoL memberships.)
ALL members of any kind will have access to members-only events, classes, sessions, promotions, and newsletters.
Why is it called “COMMUNITY”?
I think we are living in lonely times. One of the highest goals of Very Well is to serve the wider community and create community among those clients who are interested in coming together in a positive way. Once we begin having events, gatherings, and newsletters, the benefits of this should be clear.
Why subscriptions? Why is it set up like this?
Because I want it to have the best value and the best chance of working! This is an investment into your current, future, and ongoing well-being—and these therapies work best OVER TIME and ACCUMULATED over the long term. The absolute last thing I want to hear about any service I offer at Very Well is that "it didn't work." But 90% of the time, "it didn't work" because people didn't take it seriously, or didn't do it enough to make a difference.
A subscription eliminates the guesswork in your routine and reinforces the commitment to the process.
And lastly, a subscription of this sort makes you part of an audience that I know I can communicate with in a certain way, because you have demonstrated that commitment to getting and staying well, improving your daily experience, and making change happen for yourself and the people around you. That common ground can be a launching point for great collaboration.
Will this subscription help with my specific medical condition?
It might very well! It might not! I always encourage mindful observation and tracking of your symptoms over time. With any holistic medicine, it's difficult to predict the specific ways it may work, or the order in which things could get better. Those are specific to your condition and lifestyle. You are always welcome to communicate with me about which interventions are most likely to bring the results you’re after.
How does acupuncture work with the OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY membership?
You are able to use your house account to pay for acupuncture sessions or copays, but the 20% discount does not apply to those payments. According to our agreements with the insurance companies we work with, we are not able to discount or charge separate pricing tiers for acupuncture.
Since you're an acupuncturist. Are all these other services Chinese medicine?
According to the regulations in the State of Maryland, red light therapy, PEMF, vibroacoustic therapy, and salt room/infrared sauna are not Chinese medicine and therefore are not able to be offered under my acupuncture license. (From my personal perspective, technically, EVERYTHING is Chinese medicine, because the philosophies at the core of it describe the movements of life. EVERYTHING is relatively Yin or Yang, or leans in one of the five seasonal directions that make up the core of that medical system.) But while I have numerous ideas and theories about how these other therapies "fit in" with acupuncture and Chinese medicine, I must be clear that according to my scope of practice in Maryland, I cannot and do not offer them under my licensure, merely as a private citizen who has researched and invested in them, and has had and witnessed many positive experiences with them.
Can I cancel the subscription if I don't like it?
Of course. I want to make this as simple a choice as possible. Try it out, and you can cancel anytime. You won't be charged for the next month, and that will be that. Any remaining accumulated funds will remain for your use in your house account. These cannot be refunded or transferred.
However, before you decide to cancel, do keep in mind that results are INCREMENTAL, so please give the therapies a chance to start consistently working for you.
Can I purchase services for non-members using my discount?
No, but you may purchase them their own membership to use regularly.
You may also not use the discount to purchase gift cards.
What if I don't use all of the funds in one month?
Again, they simply roll over to the next month, to be used when you like.
May I relax in the Very Well lounge before, after, or between my appointments?
Absolutely! Use the lounge to contemplate, read, chat quietly, or sip some tea. Another great contributor to a optimal living is stress reduction and taking some peaceful time out for yourself!
Are results guaranteed?
Well, no. No medical or wellness result of any kind can ever be guaranteed. Research, experience, and anecdotal evidence lean toward the treatments having an accumulated effect, however. Results will vary based on numerous factors. Be sure to check out the disclaimer on the sign-up page.