Sandra and Patrick are a devoted pair who spent significant time residing in Charleston, SC. while attending medical school and teaching nurse education at the Medical University of SC (MUSC). These folks are people who steadily support wellness in communities and were drawn to the helping nature in each other upon meeting.

Married 50+ years, they team up together to uplift their communities in between attending the local ice cream shop for sundaes and spending cold Minnesota days playing competitive double solitaire fireside.

Having contributed to a sustainable meditative walking maze outdoors of the Owatonna-based Mayo Clinic that Patrick was Lead Director of for decades in MN., they have extended emotional support to help folx in Charleston, SC., Asheville, NC., Minneapolis, MN. and internationally benefit from mental health activism ambitions that their daughter, our founder, Sarah, couldn’t have done in quite the same way without their emotional care through her expansions.

Sarah honors her parents for who they are as unique people in personal life, in the world in their professions + as humanitarians, what they’ve taught her about character, devotion and love ~ as well as their emotional support contribution that has helped Sarah take the leap! to be more present with her mental health launches in greater progressive safer spaces of the southeast.