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Anxiety

Having trouble ‘calming down’?

Having a hard time ‘calming down’ right now? It makes sense, when you know that the nervous system is responsible for deciding when we’re safe, deciding when we need to run, or freeze, and when

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Energy

Your Holiday Survival Guide

The last two years have been rough. I know the holidays can bring up mixed feelings, and that’s okay. It’s a time of year where our priorities and the needs of our hearts can be

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Uncategorized

Why hives are on the rise

I had severe hives and eczema for 15 years. I used to get a lot of hives and itching, especially when I was stressed out. A lot of my sensitive skin, allergic-type patients do too. 

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Body-Mind Medicine

Paying attention to the niggle

Do you ever have a feeling about something to find out you are right? But you have no evidence (immediately) to prove it? This week, my funny feeling was about something not being right. Two

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Digestion

Frankincense as YOUR pain saviour

Frankincense was given to Jesus, seen as the saviour of the world in Christianity, on his ‘birth’ (or the date recorded as his birth) as a gift. Frankincense however can also be your saviour this

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anger, self-loathing, shame
Body-Mind Medicine

How to stop being an angry ‘ogre’

You’re not an ogre, but you do get frustrated and the feelings overwhelm you. If only there was something you could do to stop feeling angry, right? An intervention? A padded room so you can

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My happy place_rested
Anxiety

Tired? Me too.

The beginning of the colder months, less light, more indoors time. More “back to the grindstone” kind of working.
I don’t know about you, but it makes me feel heavy.

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breathe relaxation
Mental Health

Let’s make meditation easier.

Meditation. It’s become a “buzz” word. I hear a lot that people have a hard time relaxing and that meditation is apparently the best thing for that. Could be true… but maybe not? And what

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Herbal Medicine

Are you a supplement junkie?

Take a look in your medicine cabinet. How many bottles do you have in there for random vitamins that are supposed to make you better? The vitamin clutter quiz What does each of them do?

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