Realistic Health & Wellness WNY

09/12/2025

Mindfull Healing Alchemy

09/11/2025

Setting up for a zoom demo for gummy production!
With good intentions! Chakra Buds
Love, Cailley Ann

09/09/2025

🌿✨ Seed to Ceremony: A Realistic Health & Wellness WNY Update ✨🌿

Many of you have been asking when our microbusiness dispensary will open, and I want to give you the inside scoop. 💚

Unlike a standard dispensary license, our Microbusiness License means we can’t just stock shelves with other brands — everything you’ll see at Realistic Health & Wellness WNY must be produced by us or sourced from other microbusinesses only.

That means:
🌱 We oversee cultivation (while building our own grow).
⚗️ We handle processing to our exact specifications — using real science to create products designed for desired effects.
🌿 We ensure we have enough seed-to-ceremony products ready before opening.

This is truly cannabis you can trust from the ground up.

Right now, we’re:
🔒 Finalizing compliance & OCM tracking systems (a few big state changes are slowing this piece down).
🏗️ Building out the space and preparing for inspection.
🌿 Developing a full product line that reflects our healing-first mission.

📍 Processing Location: 6399 Transit Rd. East Amherst, NY

We are aiming to open before the end of this year — and we can’t wait to welcome you into this space we’ve poured so much heart into.

Thank you for your patience, support, and belief in our mission. Together, we are bringing cannabis back to its roots: healing, wholeness, and community. 💚

Love,

Cailley Ann

09/06/2025

What Does the OCM Inspection Entail?
• Validation of Our Vision
The inspection verifies our site plan and operating procedures, ensuring everything aligns with what we’ve proposed—proof that planning really pays off. 
• Launchpad for Licensing
Passing this inspection is a key milestone for final license approval and the go-ahead to open our doors to the community. 
• Commitment to Safety & Trust
OCM inspectors assess everything on-site to confirm we’re compliant with all state regulations—helping us ensure a safe, responsible environment for customers and staff alike.  
• Comprehensive Compliance Ready
This inspection reaffirms that we’re prepared not just for state checks, but also for any reviews from fire marshals, banking partners, insurance providers, and local building officials. 

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Why This Is a Big Deal for Us All
• Every Detail Counts
From security systems and inventory tracking to age verification, labeling, and customer education materials—your effort in these areas demonstrates our commitment to excellence.  
• Building Trust and Credibility
Passing the OCM inspection sends a clear signal: we’re a legitimate, trusted, and responsible business—ready to be a safe and reliable part of our community.
• Opening Doors—Literally and Legally
Successfully clearing this inspection leads directly to final licensing, opening day preparations, and serving our local community with care and integrity.

So close we can smell it!! 🍃

Love, Cailley Ann

09/05/2025

The Displacement of Medical Cannabis by Recreational Markets

Eroding Patient-Focused Products

The legalization of recreational cannabis has had a profound impact on the availability of therapeutic products. Dispensaries now prioritize high-THC offerings such as flowers, edibles, concentrates, and vapes to cater to recreational users.

Consequently, products tailored for therapeutic purposes—such as those with balanced CBD-to-THC ratios, high-CBD formulations, and microdose options—are becoming increasingly scarce on shelves (The Guardian, 2018; AJMC, 2022).

✅🍃💚Realistic Health & Wellness WNY

How adult-use cannabis legalization is eroding medical care, leaving real patients without access to proper formulations, guidance, or protections.

09/05/2025

The new story of my life! Everything is beeping, but where is it coming from and is that normal?

09/04/2025

Missing Nikki’s from AWakening4Wellness Chakra-Chi class here at Realistic Health & Wellness WNY?

You’re in luck! She is going to be at our personal favorite place of healing tonight @ Soul Healing Center

Hope to see you there! ✨🫶🏼✨

Schedule your appointment online Shapiro Holistic Health LLC

09/04/2025

Good Morning Friend! Thank you for your reminder to bring calm home. I needed to hear that. Anyone else? 🫶🏼Cailley Ann Realistic Health & Wellness WNY

Spiritually and symbolically, the praying mantis is often seen as a messenger of:

✨ Stillness & Mindfulness – It reminds you to slow down, be present, and carefully consider your next move. Just like the mantis waits patiently before striking, it may be guiding you to trust divine timing rather than rushing.

✨ Clarity & Intuition – Mantis energy often arrives when you’re being asked to listen more closely to your inner voice and instincts. It’s about focusing your energy where it matters most.

✨ Transformation & Spiritual Growth – Because mantises are connected to meditation and spiritual insight, seeing one can be a sign that you’re aligning with a higher path or stepping into a deeper phase of awareness.

✨ Balance – With their posture of prayer, they remind us to balance the physical and spiritual, action with contemplation.

Since it came right to your door, it may be a personal message for your home or inner life — perhaps telling you to bring more calm, intention, and alignment into your space.

💡 A good practice: Take a few minutes to sit in silence today, tune inward, and ask yourself, “Where am I being guided to pause, and where am I being guided to act?”