ODE is a wellness café, a curated retail space, and a place to connect amidst lifestyle shifts. Through offerings that have been deliberated over decades of personal research, ODE brings nourishing food, functional supplements, herbal remedies, clean skincare, and experienced people together to create an atmosphere where people can feel safe to discern for themselves what it means to be well. 

ODE’s café serves dairy-free, gluten-free, and refined-sugar free food and functional drinks that are uncompromisingly healthful and delicious. Ingredient transparency is an essential component. This ensures that people can be led by their curiosity to try new foods and enjoy them with full peace of mind. ODE’s menu considers the food we eat and the supplements we take as extensions of the same core desire: to creatively fashion rituals that work. 

The same thoughtfulness is applied to ODE’s curation of replenishing self-care items. Many of the ingredients found in their clean skincare and beauty products overlap with the herbal and functional supplements on offer, exhibiting the purity and versatility of their formulas that can be integrated into daily rituals with ease. ODE works with brands that value the integrity of their ingredients and manufacturing practices, show research-backed efficacy, and tell impactful stories. ODE’s expansive selection of brands, products, and tools have all provided a personal source of relief, joy, and inspiration.

Founded by mother and daughter, Gail and Laine, ODE is the physical expression of an intertwined history of healing and self-discovery. Their challenges with chronic pain, autoimmunity, UTIs, leaky gut, candida overgrowth, and eczema introduced them to a robust healing network. A team of naturopaths, bodyworkers, and practitioners, all utilizing a client-centered approach, helped them finally find relief. This support allowed both women to become agents of their own wellbeing. They became advocates for themselves and were inspired to continue learning together as more than mother and daughter—as partners in honest self-reflection. Today, they share a wellspring of connections with backgrounds in many healing modalities. With the support they have received, from professionals and each other, they have learned to revere hurdles and revel in what feels good.

“Being well means being in the moment enough to know what needs adjusting.” – Co-founder, Gail Bolte.

As Gail and Laine enter new phases of life, encountering novel challenges along the way, they continue to rely on each other for comfort and motivation. With the other as a mirror, they understand themselves as dynamic, always in need of a check-in, or a moment to adjust. They honor each other’s imperfection. They respect exactly where they are in the process.

This much is true for everyone: our needs change from one day to another, from one moment to the next. Gail and Laine have learned to tune to their needs through an approach that honors individual wellbeing as the dynamic process it is. Whole-body wellbeing requires having lots of choices. Through the interplay of nutrition, meditation, spirituality, movement, and practices of joy, Gail and Laine have found lasting relief and connection—to themselves and each other. This is what they want to share.