The Birth of Beyond Wrapture

Debra Pender has always believed that, “If you know what is important to you today, it will guide you to where you want to be tomorrow.” Debra keeps this in mind as she travels through her day-to-day life journey. Below details some of her story towards the birth of Beyond Wrapture.

Debra started her working life with a variety of jobs ranging from berry picking to dishwashing, with words of wisdom from her father often guiding her to always be the best that she could be no matter what the job in hand was. Throughout high school Debra participated in Volleyball, Basketball, & Softball team sports, however, her burning desire, she later wrote in her graduation Annual, was to learn to ski on the slopes of the Swiss Alps. That in mind, she set about pushing through her environmental boundary of never having been to a ski hill and became the president of her local Ski Club. A year later, she found herself in Lauterbruen, Switzerland experiencing one of her first “dreams do come true” AH HA's.

The European’s first introduced Debra to health spas, and she realized very quickly the importance of spa’s assisting individuals to have a healthy and balanced lifestyle. She watched the Europeans smiling and dealing with life issues in an intriguing way. Returning home to Canada and entering the business world with her husband, she observed the lack of these ‘spa’ venues available to facilitate similar characteristics in her fellow Canadians. A seed was planted, what would it be like to own your own health spa?

Eventually Debra settled in the Okanagan Valley and declared Kelowna home. Having a fitness instructor background and the experience of developing community programs for the Department of Public Health Debra became a Behavior Breakthrough Counselor at the then very popular Nutri-System Weight Loss Center in Kelowna. Observation: Women were coming in daily and telling her how they were spending money on body wraps they thought helped them to lose weight. As a nutritional counselor Debra knew this was only a temporary water loss but she wondered: ‘what was it these women were really getting out of these wraps?’