Meet the Founder
Kelley Marathas | Visionary & Steward of Thrivewell Estate
Kelley Marathas is the founder and visionary steward of Thrivewell Estate, a legacy project born from both personal reckoning and radical rebirth. Her journey is not one of surface-level success, but of rising from the ashes of total collapse.
In 2020, the world felt like it was falling apart. For Kelley, it truly was.
Kelley was in the full force of active alcoholism. What began as coping had become consumption, consuming her light, her purpose, and her sense of self. At the peak of her addiction, she felt numb, disconnected, and invisible. She describes that time as one where she questioned her very existence, not with a desire to die, but with a haunting sense that she didn’t belong.
As a global pandemic spread fear and isolation, it became the perfect storm for the darkest chapter of her life. Alcoholism, which had taken root in quieter years, reached its full force. With the world shut down, Kelley found herself trapped in a toxic relationship, cut off from any sense of community, and drowning in cycles of self-abandonment. Days blurred together. She had no direction, no voice, and no sense of self-worth. She describes that year as a personal apocalypse, one where her light disappeared entirely, and the question of whether she belonged on this earth became a constant whisper. And yet, even in the darkest moments, she held a flicker of something unexplainable. Since childhood, Kelley had felt a deep, mysterious pull, a knowing in her bones that she was meant to do something more.
Without that season of complete unraveling, Kelley may never have reached her moment of surrender. But in January of 2021, the pain of the chains wrapped around her from years of addiction grew so tight, she could no longer bear it. That was the moment she admitted she needed help and everything began to change.
Through sobriety, Kelley began to rebuild, one day, one choice, one breath at a time. What followed was not just recovery, but profound transformation. In the years that followed, she reclaimed her health, a life partner who supports and loves her for exactly who she is, gained financial freedom, earned three career promotions, and reconnected with every relationship that mattered. She stepped into her own power. And from that healing, a vision was born: to create a space where others could feel safe, seen, and supported on their own paths toward renewal.
Through her own healing journey, Kelley came to understand something vital: recovery is about far more than sobriety. While breaking free from alcohol saved her life, it was in the years that followed—through the rebuilding, the reflection, and the return to self—that she realized people everywhere are carrying invisible weight.
She saw it in loved ones. She saw it in strangers. She saw it in herself. Pain doesn’t always look like addiction to substances. Sometimes it looks like trauma buried beneath perfection. Burnout masked as ambition. Disconnection wrapped in busyness. And somewhere along the way, Kelley found her person, not just in someone else, but in herself. The version of her who had walked through all of it and still believed there was something more.
That “something more” struck like a lightning bolt at four years sober. A vision. Clear, bold, and impossible to ignore.
A place where people could come to recover not just from substances, but from life. From grief. From trauma. From cycles that no longer serve.
A place where healing is held with reverence, and transformation is allowed to unfold at its own pace.
That place is Thrivewell Estate…and this is only the beginning.