Heather Lu May walked into 216 Coworking with the easy warmth of someone who has spent two decades making strangers feel safe enough to cry in front of her, and by the end of the conversation, host Logan Lewis understood exactly why. Heather is a holistic wellness advocate and founder of Heather Lu Lifestyle, where she helps people pursue natural healing through clean living and intentional wellness. Her story runs from a farm in Massachusetts to a plastic surgeon's treatment room to a divorce that blindsided her at 47, and through it all she kept circling back to one idea: the body is always talking to you, and it's worth learning to listen.
A Farm Kid from Ludlow, Massachusetts
Heather grew up in Ludlow, Massachusetts, the daughter of Portuguese immigrants, on a farm where the family grew their own food, raised chickens for soup, and skinned the deer her father brought home from hunting. She describes herself as a quiet kid who stayed out of the way of an outgoing older brother and a mother who, by Heather's account, told her she'd nearly had an abortion while pregnant with her. At 19, after a toxic relationship ended when the guy she was dating got another woman pregnant, Heather left for a summer job in Nantucket and never looked back. On a cobblestone sidewalk there, a stranger named Christopher "with a K" hired her on the spot to nanny her son, and that family's holistic lifestyle became Heather's first real exposure to the world she now works in. From Nantucket she followed the family to Colorado, then made her way to Georgia to visit her brother, a chiropractor, on what was supposed to be a short trip. "There goes the journey," she told Logan. "I don't want to go back to Massachusetts."
Clearing Her Skin Through Hypnotherapy
The stress of that move showed up on Heather's face. At 20, newly on her own and far from home, she developed acne for the first time. A job at an Atlanta-area spa introduced her to a hypnotherapist named Karen, who noticed Heather couldn't stop looking in the mirror and offered to help. Their session had Heather picture a golden mirror and imagine the clear skin she wanted, craving green apples and water instead of her usual diet. "My acne was cleared pretty much after that," Heather said. The scarring that followed pushed her toward esthetics, where she'd spend 13 years working for a plastic surgeon before moving into skincare sales, then back into her own treatment room by 2016.
A Diamond Ring, a Tattoo, and a Sudden Goodbye
In 2023, Heather married a man who, by her telling, had her name tattooed on his arm and had bought her a big diamond ring. They purchased nine acres to build a wellness retreat center and lived in a 280-square-foot camper with three dogs and two cats while it came together. Two weeks after finally moving into the finished house, he told her he didn't love her anymore and asked her to leave. "You're the one who told me to close my business and come be this woman on the land while you go make the money," Heather remembers telling him. She was 47, entering menopause, and grieving not just a marriage but a mother-in-law she adored. "It'll be three years this summer," she said of how long it took to feel like herself again, and how she now tells the women she works with that the pain "happened because you are made for war."
Why Heather Swears By Kangen Water
Heather's interest in Kangen water started during the pandemic, when her esthetics business slowed and she went deep down the rabbit hole of what's actually in tap water. The machines run tap water over nine titanium plates to filter and electrolyze it, producing everything from 11.0 water strong enough to strip pesticide residue off produce (Heather has posted the before-and-after on social media, and it isn't pretty) to a 2.5 acidic water she uses to clean mirrors and counters streak-free. The units have reportedly been used in Japanese hospitals for over 50 years and run around $6,500, which Heather argues pays for itself compared to a lifetime of bottled water. "People that are buying alkaline bottled water, it's a scam," she said. "You go test it. It's not going to be alkaline." She's now working on placing the machines, which she calls "the well," into chiropractic offices, yoga studios, and wellness spaces on a membership model.
Manifesting Generator: Trusting Her Gut Over Everyone Else's Opinion
Heather's biggest critique, she says, is that people think she does too much between skincare, Kangen water, affiliate marketing, and corporate wellness talks. Her answer is human design: she's a manifesting generator, someone built to sense what's next and chase it rather than stay in one lane. She said her gut told her to turn down her second husband for a year before finally dating him, a read she trusts more than logic. That same instinct led her to a psilocybin journey after her divorce, where two dragonflies landed on her hand while she journaled about writing a book. She has a dragonfly tattoo from the same period, marking the day one flew into her house as she moved out of the home she'd built. "That's a big sign of transformation," she said. "I started writing the book that night."
A Book, Group Retreats, and What's Next
That book is set to publish at the end of May 2026, in paperback and on Amazon, with a launch party planned for downtown Woodstock. It traces her acne journey, being born with rickets, and the lessons she's pulled from a life spent chasing natural healing over quick fixes. Heather is also running day retreats for women built around breathwork, sound baths, tuning forks, and face yoga techniques she teaches to calm the vagus nerve, plus group hikes with a chiropractor friend near Stone Mountain. Longer term, she wants to develop her own skincare line with a chemist friend in Tampa, building on the ingredient obsession she's carried since her plastic surgery days. "It's all people-focused," she told Logan when he asked how she keeps so many projects straight. "Everything I do kind of dances around each other."
Listen to the Full Conversation
Heather Lu May's episode of Your Morning Drive is full of even more, from her take on human design and astrology to her honest thoughts on injectables and the wellness industry's marketing traps. Catch the full conversation with host Logan Lewis on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and follow Heather Lu Lifestyle on Instagram and TikTok to keep up with her book launch and upcoming retreats. Your Morning Drive is proudly produced from 216 Coworking in downtown Cartersville, Georgia, and brought to you by Hammerhead Creations.
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