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May is Mental Health Awareness Month
By Dr. Mary MacDonald, ND May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Helping patients achieve their optimal mental health is a very important part of Dr. Mary’s practice. Addressing mental emotional aspects of mental health as well as offering optimal nutritional...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
By Dr. Mary MacDonald, ND May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Helping patients achieve their optimal mental health is a very important part of Dr. Mary’s practice. Addressing mental emotional aspects of mental health as well as offering optimal nutritional recommendations and potential supplementation are all important. In this newsletter, Dr. Mary, ND will discuss some evidence based...
10 Popular Ancient Chinese Herbs for Hormonal Balance
Angela Warburton, R.TCMP Women come into my clinic everyday feeling off and wonder what’s wrong and what they need to take to ‘fix’ it. So often in our culture, imbalances (hormonal, digestive, emotional, sleep...) are due to very simple lifestyle habits and routines...
RMTips: The Heating Compress
Rhiannon Hughes, RMT, BSc Clients often ask me whether they should use heat or ice on tense or sore areas of the body following a treatment, an activity or at different stages post-injury. I know the advice out there can seem contradictory and confusing sometimes....
Achieve Your Health Goals This Year!
By Dr. Tiffany Eberhard, ND Many people have good intentions at the start of a new year to focus more on their health, such as eating healthier, sleeping more, and exercising regularly, and start off strong but quickly fall back into old habits. You don’t have to do...
Gluten-Free Shortbread Cookies
This gluten-free recipe is a little less sweet than a typical shortbread cookie (which gets some natural sweetness from the wheat flour) but lends itself to some wonderful variations. The key to a great shortbread is to knead it very well…with lots and lots of love!...
Warm Holiday Drink Recipes
Alas, the first major snowfall of the season! Winter, it seems, has finally arrived... and with a BANG! These drink recipes are great for entertaining guests or enjoying alone with a good book. Regardless of how you enjoy them, these festive drinks should keep you...
Mindfulness over the holidays
Article courtesy of www.angelawarburton.com - It’s hard not to get caught up in the busyness that seems to plague our culture at the best of times, but often during the holiday season, the busyness can hit overdrive. Luckily there are some simple things that you can...
Massage Therapy and Cancer: The role of the RMT in cancer care
By Rhiannon Hughes, RMT, BSc The pervasive impact cancer has on an individual’s life is clear. The diagnosis alone can provoke extreme feelings of worry and fear. There are difficult decisions to make regarding course of action that require navigation through...
Naturopathic Home Remedies
It’s that time of year again… Don’t worry, we’ve got your back! Dr. Michelle Richea, ND It happened already. Mid-October I was flat on my back for three days with what felt like (at the time) the worst flu ever. It caught me by surprise - so early in the season - but...
The Importance of Sadness
Angela Warburton, R.TCMP We tend to run from sadness. To push it away, medicate it, ask ourselves what’s ‘wrong’ when we’re not cheery, chipper and filled with energy to get s*&$ done and dive into the world head first all the time. In Chinese Medicine –...
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