2025 Winter Wellness Guide
With winter comes colder days and longer nights, but instead of wishing the dark season away, let’s tend to our wellness – as individuals and as a community. The Winter Wellness Guide is full of special offers from local businesses- from healthcare, fitness, herbs & supplements, to salons, spas and financial advisors – there are so many ways to support well-being.
Not only will you be giving yourself some love this season, you will be supporting our community businesses. Don’t just survive this winter – thrive!
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It’s not always all about you!
More Health & Wellness Tools
Healthy Food
Find local food that is grown, caught, raised, and made locally with the Washington Food & Farm Finder. Learn about food preservation, local fermented foods, and how to subscribe to a local farm and keep your kitchen stocked with fresh healthy food.
Healthy Home
Programs such as the Community Energy Challenge provide expert assistance to help you create a healthy environment in your home with energy audits, comprehensive reporting, ongoing consultation, quality assurance, and financial incentives.
Healthy Neighborhoods
The Whatcom Housing Alliance creates opportunities for more diverse housing choices in all neighborhoods that will contribute toward equitable, prosperous, healthy, and vibrant communities for everyone.
Healthy Planet
30% of the food we purchase ends up in a landfill emitting CO2 emissions. Learn what you can do at work, at home, and in our community to reduce food waste with Sustainable Connections’ Food Recovery Program.
Healthy Economy
Think Local First makes it easy to find what you need locally, celebrate where you live, and put what matters most first. Keep your dollars where your heart lives, support a healthy economy of friends and neighbors, and build a community that thrives by thinking local first!
Healthy Landscapes
The nursery at Cloud Mountain Farm Center opens February 1, with regionally adapted fruit trees, ornamentals, and unique plants for edible and resilient landscapes. Your purchases there support food system innovation, resource sharing, and new farmer support in Whatcom County.
Healthy Communities
When everyone in our community is healthy, we all do better. Please visit whatcomresources.org for a comprehensive database of social, health and human services in Whatcom County.
Whatcom Think Local First Gift Cards
How does it work? Choose your recipient and send your gift card via email, text message, or print it out and hand deliver it. The recipient can use it to make purchases at participating businesses.
The Following wellness-focused businesses accept Whatcom Think Local First Gift Cards:
3 OMS Yoga, A Touch of Wellness, Avalon Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, BBay Running, Barre3, Bellingham Community Acupuncture, Bellingham Sportsplex, Binyon Vision Center, Blaine Healing Arts Massage Therapy, Crosier Skincare Proaging and Acne Spa, Day to Day Dance, Fairhaven Runners and Walkers, Flow Motion, Flying Bird Botanicals, Health and Exercise Prescriptions, Honey Salon, Intent Hot Yoga, Joy of Pilates & Fitness, Kara’s Beauty Barn, Little Bird Salon, Living Earth Herbs, Lynden Skateway, MJ Esthetics, MoonSea Holistic Healing, North Coast Gymnastics Academy, New Life Chiropractic & Wellness, Northwest Life Medicine Clinic, O’Neill Massage Therapy, Prime Sports Institute, Resilient Acupuncture and Fire Cupping, Salon Aloha, Sandalwood Salon and Spa, Serene Footfalls Reflexology, Shanti Center, The Beauty Mark, The Chrysalis Inn and Spa, The Metta Center, The Spice Hut, Topaz Salon + Gallery, Velocity Athletic Training, Veritas Massage Studio, Vital Source Natural Medicine
3 OMS Yoga, A Touch of Wellness, Avalon Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, BBay Running, Barre3, Bellingham Community Acupuncture, Bellingham Sportsplex, Binyon Vision Center, Blaine Healing Arts Massage Therapy, Crosier Skincare Proaging and Acne Spa, Day to Day Dance, Fairhaven Runners and Walkers, Flow Motion, Flying Bird Botanicals, Health and Exercise Prescriptions, Honey Salon, Intent Hot Yoga, Joy of Pilates & Fitness, Kara’s Beauty Barn, Little Bird Salon, Living Earth Herbs, Lynden Skateway, MJ Esthetics, MoonSea Holistic Healing, North Coast Gymnastics Academy, New Life Chiropractic & Wellness, Northwest Life Medicine Clinic, O’Neill Massage Therapy, Prime Sports Institute, Resilient Acupuncture and Fire Cupping, Salon Aloha, Sandalwood Salon and Spa, Serene Footfalls Reflexology, Shanti Center, The Beauty Mark, The Chrysalis Inn and Spa, The Metta Center, The Spice Hut, Topaz Salon + Gallery, Velocity Athletic Training, Veritas Massage Studio, Vital Source Natural Medicine
Show your local love
Show your love of local with a custom “Think Local First” or “Drink Local Frist” tee, tank, or sweatshirt. Suuuuper soft cotton-polyester blended fabrics are sure to keep you comfortable and stylish this summer! Don’t need another tee shirt, but still want to support local? Consider a Think Local Frist donation, gift card, or browse our online directory of locally owned businesses before running to that big box store or ordering from an online giant.
Many Thanks To Our Think Local First Sponsors:
