Our Y Stories

We sat down with Tacoma Y Member Kwabi to discuss his mission, vision, and how he is on a quest for peace.

Puyallup Early Learning Center

Eric has recently rejoined the Y as a volunteer at the Lakewood Family YMCA to work with seniors to improve their physical and emotional well-being.

Finding the right time to start on the path to weight loss can be more difficult than it would seem. The pressures of life can get in the way, leaving the first steps of setting weight loss goals and planning on the backburner. As Wendy would discover, it can take a single health scare to act as the catalyst to start taking weight loss seriously.

"The last six months have been hard, especially physically. A good exercise routine was hard to find because I have an arthritic knee and I was running out of motivation to work at home. It was also easy to eat a lot. The virus made me nervous about coming back and yet I was so glad the Y reopened.