MEMBER PROFILE
BODISCIENCE WELLNESS
CENTER & SPA
Seeing an
Opportunity
in Crisis
B Y M A E M A Ñ AC A P - J O H N S O N
W
hen life throws you
lemons, you make
lemonade. This was
certainly a life lesson
BodiScience Wellness Center & Spa
President Dawn Tardif learned when faced
with life-altering events. The idea of
launching her own business was inspired
by two major events that took place at a
crucial point in her life: the breast cancer
diagnosis of her mother and the need to
support a friend about to take a career
change in cosmetology. “These two life
events engaged me in seeking out alternative health modalities, leading me to
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study East Indian philosophy.”
Her mother’s diagnosis has certainly
left a profound impact on Tardif, which
led her to leave a gratifying career in the
retail and fashion world as well as
question, investigate and take an
unorthodox approach to her mother’s
disease.
“Seeking this path was because, as a
child, I had a deep sense that there was
more to health and wellness than what
appeared to be the mainstream of
allopathic medicine. Over the next 25
years, I would begin a journey that I had
never expected,” she says.
Tardif drew her courage to start her own spa business from
her mother, Dorothy, (right in photo with Jane Iredale) who
showed deep resilience even in the face of a cancer diagnosis.