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What is stress and what is happening in our bodies when we experience it?Stress is the feeling of being overwhelmed or unable to cope with mental or emotional pressure. Stress describes a person’s physical or emotional response to the demands or pressures of daily life. Some of the common causes of stress include:Relationships – arguments […]
Traditional Chinese Medicine has a long standing history of helping women ensure they have healthy pregnancies and babies. Acupuncture throughout your pregnancy can be beneficial to the mother and baby by helping the mother manage the many changes in her body and the growth of the the baby. Around 36 weeks is when […]
Can Counseling Really Help Me? I’m Not Sure I Can Ever Get Over the Loss This is a very normal sentiment for someone who has experienced a major loss. Recovering from grief requires persistence, tolerance of vulnerability, self-awareness, and courage. No doubt, this is difficult. However, the alternative to working through it is NOT GOOD. […]
House work is not for the faint of heart! Depending on your task, you could be carrying loads of laundry up and down stairs, maneuvering a heavy vacuum, chopping fire wood, shoveling snowy driveways, on hands and knees to scrub dirty floors or reaching up high to dust ceiling fans. All in all, it is […]
For a lot of women, knowing how to safely exercise during pregnancy can be very confusing. There is a lot of information out there and sifting through what is up to date and accurate versus what is out of date and inaccurate information can be difficult. Although this is an area in need of more research, […]
What is Dry Needling? Dry Needling is a treatment used by medical professionals to treat issues related to myofascial and neuromuscular dysfunction. This can include but is not limited to muscle pain, pain referral patterns, migraines/ headaches, poor or restricted posture, restrictions in range of motion of a joint and chronic musculoskeletal issues. The thin […]
As we approach the second wave of Covid-2020, it is imperative to acknowledge just how meaningful and important mental health awareness is to our communities this year. We are in a pandemic; an unprecedented time in our history. This has dramatically changed our everyday lives, and unfortunately some have experienced illness, and lost loved ones. […]
Did you know that your mental health directly affects your physical health?That they are fundamentally linked? You would think this was a no-brainer, but many of us naturally notice and focus on just one and think of these as separate systems. This simply is not the case. The link between mental health and physical health […]
All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. It is a voluntary state and a familiar state. Most of us will go into this state often, for example, when we get “lost” in thought or during an activity which is enjoyable such as reading a good book, watching tv, or anytime we go into what can be described as […]
July is Diastasis Rectus Abdominus (DRA) awareness month and with so much misinformation and fear around what diastasis is and what it means in your recovery postpartum, I thought this was a good opportunity to provide some information and dispel some common myths! What is Diastasis? Diastasis is the separation of the central abdominal wall […]