Who We Are
Sandra Joy Laratonda
Sandra is a certified Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) Hypnotherapist who studied under Marissa Peer, a Master Usui Reiki Practitioner, a Crystal and Color Energies Expert, a Women’s Empowerment Life Coach, a multi-time best selling author, and certified Oracle Card reader through Colette Baron Reid.
Sandra Joy is the founder and CEO of Healing Realms, LLC and Sandra Joy, LLC. After a 20 year career as an English Literature teacher in the public school system, she shifted gears to open Healing Realms Holistic Wellness Center in Hanover, Pennsylvania. She works with clients nation wide and internationally and embraces the new energy consciousness of Earth while guiding others to embrace this energy to connect and thrive in their soul’s purpose.
She is an Adult Indigo with a deep connection to Indigo, Crystal, and Diamond Children as well as a highly intuitive clairsentient. Her purpose in this lifetime is to connect with people who want to learn how to harness the power of their mind and thrive in their soul’s purpose.
Faith Peck, AHG, MS
Sometimes a new endeavor begins when a mom, who absolutely loved being a mom and enjoyed her children immensely, has to cope with a huge empty nest. Necessity prompts her that it is time to follow a different path. So, she went back to school – an excellent coping strategy, albeit an expensive one. When she completed her first Master’s degree in Nutrition and Herbal Medicine, Hedgewitch Enterprises (HER) was born in a little office in Abbottstown, PA, during the fall of 2017. However, she very much loved the process of learning and though she did learn a great deal with first degree, she wanted to learn much more about plant medicine. She continued for another year and completed a second Masters in Therapeutic Herbalism. She found that her heart truly lies with the plants that can heal us and with the people who need them.
So, HER expanded a little and opened a small booth, Herbs & Sympathy, at The Markets of Hanover in August 2018 with the intention of helping more people and upholding her mission statement. By February 2019, she had expanded again into a larger booth at the market and moved the private office to a home office to conserve time and resources. She loved the name of her little booth so much that she decided to change our business name to Herbs & Sympathy. In July 2022, she expanded a third time into a bigger space. As she has retired from her “muggle” job in December 2021, she can now devote more time to Herbs & Sympathy and she is ready to spread her roots and grow. In keeping with this, Herbs & Sympathy has now relocated to 1059 Carlisle street and is partnering with Healing Realms Holistic Wellness Center. Come and spend some time with us. We would love to share how plants – leaf, petal, root – can heal us and move us from here to healthy.
Our Mission is to strive through honest, heartfelt, educated intention and earth conscious endeavors to create and to bring to clients and customers, services and products that support body, soul and mind.
Visit Faith’s website at HerbsandSympathy.com
Faith Peck, AHG, MS
Sometimes a new endeavor begins when a mom, who absolutely loved being a mom and enjoyed her children immensely, has to cope with a huge empty nest. Necessity prompts her that it is time to follow a different path. So, she went back to school – an excellent coping strategy, albeit an expensive one. When she completed her first Master’s degree in Nutrition and Herbal Medicine, Hedgewitch Enterprises (HER) was born in a little office in Abbottstown, PA, during the fall of 2017. However, she very much loved the process of learning and though she did learn a great deal with first degree, she wanted to learn much more about plant medicine. She continued for another year and completed a second Masters in Therapeutic Herbalism. She found that her heart truly lies with the plants that can heal us and with the people who need them.
So, HER expanded a little and opened a small booth, Herbs & Sympathy, at The Markets of Hanover in August 2018 with the intention of helping more people and upholding her mission statement. By February 2019, she had expanded again into a larger booth at the market and moved the private office to a home office to conserve time and resources. She loved the name of her little booth so much that she decided to change our business name to Herbs & Sympathy. In July 2022, she expanded a third time into a bigger space. As she has retired from her “muggle” job in December 2021, she can now devote more time to Herbs & Sympathy and she is ready to spread her roots and grow. In keeping with this, Herbs & Sympathy has now relocated to 1059 Carlisle street and is partnering with Healing Realms Holistic Wellness Center. Come and spend some time with us. We would love to share how plants – leaf, petal, root – can heal us and move us from here to healthy.
Our Mission is to strive through honest, heartfelt, educated intention and earth conscious endeavors to create and to bring to clients and customers, services and products that support body, soul and mind.
Visit Faith’s website at HerbsandSympathy.com
Bekah Harms
Bekah is our Head Magic Maker here at Healing Realms. She’s the smiling face that greets you, the one who keeps things organized, and who will help you find what you need. Ask her about anything and she’ll lead you in the right direction.
