I’d rather hand you the plain version and let you decide.
I once wanted to own a garage.
Thirty years ago, as a single mother, I was quoted for repairs my car didn't need. More than once. The assumption, I think, was that I wouldn't check.
So I worked out the garage I wished I'd walked into. Before anything was touched, the mechanic would explain what needed doing and why — the reasoning shown, so you could check it rather than take it on trust. And a waiting room built for a woman with children in tow — somewhere to sit, somewhere for them to play — instead of somewhere you'd rather not be.
I never owned one. I've never stopped designing it either.
That is more or less what I'm still doing, with health claims instead of transmissions. There is a great deal of noise in the wellness industry and not much of it is checkable. I'd rather hand you the plain version and let you decide.
Which means you will sometimes see me say we don't know that yet, or quote a smaller number than the one on the marketing. That is deliberate. It is the whole point.
A drug-free wearable, and what is actually known about it.
Super Patches are small, drug & chemical-free wearables designed to enhance mind-body communication. They contain no drugs, chemicals or supplements — nothing is absorbed into the body. They work through touch: a pattern on the surface of the patch that your skin reads.
The technology is called Vibrotactile Trigger Technology, and it has been in development since 2008.
- Research — Super Patch has been the subject of published studies.
- In development — since 2008.
- Composition — no drugs, chemicals or supplements. Nothing absorbed into the body.
How I earn. I am a Super Patch Independent Affiliate, not an employee. If you buy through a link on this page, I receive a commission. I'd rather you knew that before you read another word.
If you'd rather start with a question than a catalogue, Super Patch runs a short wellness assessment that suggests patches based on your answers. It's their tool, so it recommends their products — but it's a gentler way in than a shop page, and it costs nothing.
I write two things. Both are free.
Most people who find me aren’t looking to buy a patch today. They’re looking to work out whether any of this is worth their attention. That’s a reasonable place to start, and these are for exactly that.
The Wellness Dispatch — monthly. A short note once a month on drug-free wellness — one idea at a time, written the way I’d say it. Unsubscribe whenever you like.
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Read the Message — every other Thursday. Longer essays, on Substack. Where I take the science seriously and write about what my own body had been telling me for sixty years before I learned to listen.
Read the Message on Substack
Forty years of reading the research, mostly for myself.
I'm a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, and I've been studying natural health for forty years — first out of necessity, for my own family, and then because I couldn't stop.
- Holistic Nutrition — Canadian School of Natural Nutrition
- Herbology — Wild Rose College
- Bach Flower Remedies — Bach International Education Program
- Hotel & Restaurant Management — Ryerson Polytechnic
- Years behind the counter in health food stores, and on the road as a sales rep for natural health product distributors
This business used to do something else.
In-Harmony Lifestyle Solutions started in 2022 as a home organizing and staging business. If you search far enough back you'll still find it — including a Chamber of Commerce interview from those days, which is lovely and entirely about tidying people's houses.
It didn't work. I opened the doors more or less the week the housing market turned, and the leads never came. I mention it because I think you should hear what hasn't worked from someone before you weigh what they say has.
The work changed. The instinct behind it didn't: find the people nobody designed for, and design for them.
I answer my own email.
joanne@inharmonylifestylesolutions.ca
Based in Georgetown, Ontario, serving Halton Hills and the surrounding area — and anyone in Canada by phone or email.
Elsewhere
- LinkedIn — where I write most weeks
- Facebook — the longer stories
- Pinterest — boards by what you're after
- Substack — Read the Message, every other Thursday
DRUG-FREE
Nothing on this page is medical advice, and I am not a doctor. For anything to do with your own health — particularly anything involving medication — please talk to your own practitioner.
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