My friend and I went to a food truck festival (om nom nom). We found ourselves in the longest line for the truck that we thought would a) serve delicious food and b) provide us food that would make our bodies happy. This couple walked past us while they were looking at all the food [...]
I’ve been talking about good food, good water, and good air as foundations for your physical well-being. This series of articles and videos came about because someone asked me if my patients had unlimited resources – time, energy, and money – what tools and services would I offer them to optimize their wellness? I got [...]
Life is just one big experiment! Don’t ya think? We’re constantly trying things and seeing what happens as a result. Hopefully, we’re doing this consciously. If we’re wanting things to be different than we need to try new things until we find the result we’re looking for. Take it from me, hoping and praying that [...]
There are several phrases about food that are really useful when it comes to planning your food intake. The FIRST and most important which I didn’t mention in this video is: Let Food Be They Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food – Hippocrates Another one I didn’t mention in this video is: Eat [...]
Today I woke up with a headache and I know exactly why! Watch this video to find out, and also: The easy formula to make sure you’re getting enough water. How much water your organs are using every day – just to function normally! How I healed my eczema (spoiler… it involves drinking the right [...]
Have you ever considered life to be a series of evolutions? Some little ones. Some giant ones. Our human lives seem to be made up of periods of distress or disorder, followed by times of discovery, then eras of integration, leading finally to lessons and growth. Here are two examples. ONE: Lately, at the clinic [...]
As promised, here is a little video describing the remaining steps 5 in the Therapeutic Order. This is a systematic approach to taking the body out of disease mode and putting it into health or healing mode (which is knows how to do, and wants more than anything for you). I talked about the very [...]
Lately, we’ve been seeing a lot of resistance in our patients to making changes to their diets and lifestyles. It’s interesting to me and I’m grateful because it invited me to go back to the foundations of my naturopathic education, and also the base principles guiding all my naturopathic medical decisions. It’s called the Therapeutic Order (aka [...]
Have you ever had a medical test hoping you were finally going to get some answers about what is actually going on with your health? The reason for your headaches, or low energy or constipation? What happens when you’re told nothing is wrong? What do you experience when they tell you, “You’re fine?” Worse… when [...]
I’ve been finding myself more and more dissatisfied with my job. I mentioned this briefly here. This seems ludicrous to me because I LOVE my work. I didn’t know, at first that I was feeling dissatisfied. It didn’t come on with bells and a marching band, “Clang, clang, clang! Tonia! You’re dissatisfied.” It came on [...]
