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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...
Herbal Help for Pregnancy Fatigue
“Even my eight naps per day weren’t enough…” If you apply common sense to the idea of fatigue in pregnancy, its no surprise. Your body is working really hard, all the time, to build a whole other person! Many women find that their fatigue peaks around week 9 of...
Anxiety and Depression In Traditional Chinese Medicine: Part Two
Patterns of Anxiety and Depression in TCM and the Foods to Help All anxiety, according to Chinese Medicine (TCM), has something to do with the heart system being out of balance. The heart system in TCM theory is much more than just our functional heart, as we might...
Drop-in for Dad’s and Dad’s to be
Learn and talk about the stuff that nobody tells you about being a dad in today’s world. Frustrations with your wife/partner/girl friend/co-parent? Are they frustrated with you? Not sure how to cope with the overwhelming change of becoming a Dad? Are you a dad...
Sautéed Greens with Garlic
This recipe is perfect for spring. Eating dark greens can help irritable emotions that come up in spring. Also very helpful to our livers which at this time can use the boost! Ingredients: 2 large bunches greens (chard, collards, kale or mustard) 1 tablespoon...
How to Optimize your Spring Energy
Spring is a time where everything is coming back to life after the cold dormant winter. Generally we tend to spend more time cozied up inside trying to stay warm in the winter, but once spring hits we start to come alive again as things come back to life. In Chinese...
Dear Menstrual Cramp Sufferers
Spring is a natural time to focus again on our health. According to research about 60 % of Canadian women suffer from painful periods (source). I am hear to tell you that you do not have to suffer needlessly or continue to pop painkillers. Chinese Medicine offers a...
Spring Detox
Here are some simple tips for a gentle spring cleanse to help leave you feeling light and full of energy: Drink a cup of warm water with lemon first thing each morning. This helps to get digestion going and lemon is a great aid in detoxifying the system Eat green...
Spring Cleaning Our Spirit
Over the next few weeks as the weather gets warmer and warmer, as the trees awaken from their WATER Element winter's slumber, so are does our Spirit strive to capture the essence of this beautiful WOOD Element Spring. When our Wood energy is abundant, we have clarity...
ART THERAPY & ANXIETY
Art therapy can help to reduce anxiety, and the associated tension. Activities such as painting to music, creating mandalas, working with scents and sculpting with clay can be calming, and can at the same time, promote the cathartic release of pent-up tension. In...
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