When I asked my dad his thoughts, I remember he told me: “Leah, she supported me for years when I was posted all over, serving overseas in Afghanistan and Africa. What if it didn’t work out? What if the people in our area didn’t have an interest in something like this? My family was a little nervous about the idea, as we really did not know the first thing about opening a business. So the idea for a spa business that could offer relief from anxiety, stress, sleep disorders and more - the kinds of afflictions that are all too common for military personnel - hit close to home. My mother had served 12 years in the army before having my sister and I. My dad served 35-plus years in the air force. So the idea for a spa business that could offer relief from anxiety, stress, sleep disorders and more - afflictions that are all too common for military personnel - hit close to home. It’s dark and silent, gravity no longer has an effect and the sensory-deprivation experience is designed for maximum relaxation. Therapeutic floating involves lying in a salt-water solution in a specially designed isolation tank. When she shared the idea of a “float spa,” my sister and I exchanged curious glances at the mention of a term we’d never heard before.īut after flipping through the various papers spread across our living room table, we quickly understood the difference a sensory deprivation spa could make in many lives, especially in an Ontario community that has such a prominent military presence with CFB Trenton. I remember it like it was yesterday - my mom sitting my family down on the living room couch in our Prince Edward County home and laying out her plans for her own business: I-Float in the County. Fidel and Neal Matthews hanging up “Opening Soon” sign.
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