ABOUT

Alisha DiMasi, Well Within’s founder, comes to you as an occupational therapist, mother, and deeply curious human. Over her studies and career, she has worked with infants through elders in public and private schools, hospitals, and assisted livings.

During Alisha’s many years in the local public and private residential schools she served students with a wide range of physical and cognitive (dis)abilities. Those years highlighted for her the importance of parent (and caregiver) engagement and the power held within the home setting to support a child’s growth. Through her own mothering she witnessed the transformative capacity of coregulation.  

Alisha’s involvement with Threshold Care began in 2016 and gave home to a longtime interest in burials that were environmentally sound and financially accessible.  Her involvement with Threshold Care nurtured an interest in holistic end of life care. It was an education to compare Threshold’s work to the end of life practices she saw in the assisted livings. In 2021, she became a board member.  

Through her two pregnancies and home births, Alisha became a student of Trust. It was also then she began looking in wonder at the multitude of parallels between birth and death. She continues to study the power of these portals and the rites of passage marking the space between them. Alisha’s experience as a parent has been expansive, beautiful, and grueling (often within moments of one another!).

Alisha holds exploration in high regard and has many interests. She loves building community connections, loves to sing, and is learning to play her first instrument- a banjolele. Alisha has lived her personal study in: physiological birthing, respectful parenting, natural motor development, the natural care of our bodies (including in acute and chronic illness), permaculture design, living with loss and grief (and the sensory integration changes that can accompany trauma), and most recently but certainly not least—Human Design.  Alisha lives in Lyndeborough with her two children and husband on their small homestead.