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TONIC PODCAST – Ep 03 – Staying Healthy over the Holidays

Holiday crazy time! Wowzas. It’s on. Personally, I have three parties this week alone! Oy. Staying healthy over the holidays is possible, I promise sweet one. This podcast will show you how. In this podcast you will learn: why we’ve got the holiday season all wrong what mother nature teaches us about how to approach [...]

Your Responses: What does HEALTH mean to you?

I have these posters up in my office that are also a collaborative art project. The big pieces of paper have questions on them. Beside the poster is a box of felts. When people come to my office, if they feel so inclined, publically answer the questions. It’s time to rotate them so I wanted [...]

Your Responses – What is YOUR medicine?

There is a fun thing I do in the office. I post a question on a poster size piece of paper and conveniently leave some felts lying around. Our patients and clinic visitors fill the blank page with inspiring responses, transforming them into beautiful, collaborative art projects. It’s time to rotate them so I wanted to [...]

Preventing Stress: Avoiding Energy, Time & Money Drains.

I recently closed the chapter of an illuminating (and extremely stressful) situation. It required a lot of time, a lot of energy, and unfortunately some money. Even though it came out of the blue it somehow didn’t surprise me. But I still hadn’t budgeted the time, energy or money for it. I drew on deep emotional [...]

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 02 – The big “S” Stress, How it Affects Us, and How To Heal It

“Health is not something you do for one day, it is something you do every day.” Dr. Tonia Winchester In this podcast you’ll learn: three uber common root causes of stress how stress affects the entire body specifically the gut, nervous and reproductive systems simple strategies to support the affected organs including three easy breezy [...]

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 01 – What You Need to Know about Supporting Your Immune System

Hooray! I am so glad you’re here listening to my first podcast. This week is all about the immune system – perfectly timed since we’re deep in the gunk and mucus of cold and flu season. In this podcast you will learn: Why “immune boosting” is a myth and what you need to be doing [...]

I Have Nothing To Say, and Why That’s Okay

I put my hand up and when he called on me I said, “I have nothing to say.” After pausing for my retreat mates to stop laughing I continued speaking. But… ~ Before I go on here is some back story for context: A couple weekends ago I went to an Emotional Freedom Technique event. Brad [...]

Your Intention Matters – More Than You Think

Love. Joy. Peace. Integrity. Kindness. Love. Joy. Peace. Integrity. Kindness. With each step I kept repeating these words. Love. Joy. Peace. Integrity. Kindness. This was my. mantra as I left the centre of the labyrinth on a retreat recently, grounding those words into the earth under my feet, and the earth of my body. I [...]

4 Steps to Easy, Relaxed Breathing

I finished my book and it was time for another one. I was standing in front of my bookshelf and nothing was jumping out. You know the, “I have nothing to wear,” thing except for books. I thought, “Okay, what has been on my shelf for awhile that maybe I forgot about and never got [...]

The Most Important Thing To Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes

At a naturopathic conference at the end of April one of my favorite speakers presented on women’s health. Dr. Jonathan Wright is a medical doctor practicing functional medicine (aka naturopathic medicine). He is a very entertaining man, and always full of incredibly relevant data and insights. He spent several minutes talking about how women can [...]

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