Interior designer-turned-wellness entrepreneur Charmaine Haworth insists her creation of 8th Harmony, an emotional wellbeing center in La Jolla, was miraculous.
Her son Joseph, diagnosed with rare degenerative Retinitis Pigmentosa (Usher’s Syndrome) at age 8, had become legally blind, hard of hearing and suicidal by age 18.
To help him, Haworth spent the next decade studying everything in Eastern and Western philosophies covering both traditional and alternative treatments including epigenetics, neuroplasticity, emerging relaxation and frequency technologies, cognitive-behavioral therapy, NLP, and hypnosis, among others.
“I’d walk into walls, I’d walk into poles,” noted Joseph of his disabilities, which stemmed in part from degeneration of the rods and cones in his eyes. “I wasn’t able to live my life – do the things I enjoy.”
“He couldn’t leave the house by himself, drive or work, he had no friends,” said Charmaine, who managed finally to discover a mind-body protocol to aid in reversing Joseph’s symptoms, now largely gone at age 25. “He can see now,” she said adding, “He’s the first person in history to have reversed this disease.”
“I’d pretty much given up hope up until that point,” admitted Joseph noting, “We’d tried everything.”
“Then we went the alternative route,” concluded Charmaine.
Haworth put her newfound theories into practice creating 8th Harmony at 7818 Ivanhoe Ave. Formerly a dentist’s office, the space now offers personalized, technology-driven, and science-backed breakthrough treatment for stress and anxiety.
“Our mission is simple: we provide a safe haven for people to experience the healing power of deep relaxation and the integrative coaching to help them thrive,” states the wellness center’s website at 8thharmony.com. “As a result, our clients report increased self-awareness, mental clarity, a renewed sense of purpose and focus, increased self-confidence, a lasting feeling of internal peace, and profound self-healing.”
Ultimately, Haworth acquired a custom-made relaxation chamber, which she combined with the latest research on the effect of coaching/therapy on the neuroplasticity of the brain. That led her to open the emotional well-being center in La Jolla. She has also developed a standardized anxiety and depression healing methodology called the 5 Step Release Method.
Treatment protocols at 8th Harmony involve:
- In-depth initial consultation with a wellness concierge
- 24 well-being concierge-supervised relaxation therapy treatments
- Six well-being concierge-led personal ERT coaching sessions
- Digital tools & integration support
- Musicologist-produced soundscapes
- Red light therapy treatments
- Complimentary community events
Explaining the rationale behind her treatment protocol, Haworth said: “Environment plays a part in the expression of a genetic predisposition to a disease. And having had an interior design business for 20-plus years, I’d seen that, when an environment is lovely and peaceful, then people have a more peaceful experience in life. And so in that space (relaxation chamber) I figured that magic and miracles happen. What happens here is people get connected to the thing that is bigger than us. And in the space of that connection – miracles happen.”
Concludes the La Jolla wellness center on its website: “The success of 8th Harmony demonstrates that with the right tools and approach, it is possible to achieve miraculous transformations and become who you were meant to be.”
Joseph is currently employed and has a side business painting tiny War Hammer figurines. He loves being alive and still receives treatments at 8th Harmony while regenerating the rods and cones in his eyes.
Haworth said she, along with Joseph’s help, is developing an online program for 8th Harmony, whose standard procedure involves a 12-week treatment protocol. She talked about her eventual goal.
“I would like to open two more center in San Diego,” Haworth said. “One specifically for victims of rape and domestic violence and trafficking. And one for military Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD).”
