Benefits of virtual naturopathic care consultations.
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Understanding Functional Freeze: Impacts on Body, Mind, Mood, and the Healing Response
Explore a deeply ingrained survival response in the nervous system and how it influences our capacity to heal.
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Nurturing the Heart Center: Tending a Delicate Balance
Therapies you can try at home to help nurture the Heart and Pericardium channels and calm anxiety.
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Harmony Within: Heart Patterns from the Perspective of East Asian Medicine
Exploring the pattern of Heart Qi Deficiency and how it impacts the vitality of the entire body.
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Placement of an acupuncture needle for treatment of right shoulder pain. Image: Nolan Calisch
Demystifying Acupuncture: Does Acupuncture Hurt?
Clarifying common misconceptions about acupuncture and exploring the sensations that are most likely experienced in a treatment.
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Healing the Gut-Brain Axis
The interconnected nature of the gut-brain axis helps explain why digestive symptoms can be a bit tricky to heal: they defy a silo-ed approach and often respond best to holistic strategies.
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Protect Your Health from Wildfire Smoke Exposure
Recommendations for protecting your health from wildfire smoke exposure.
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Holistic Approaches to Treating IBS
Irritable bowel syndrome is caused by multiple factors, so it makes sense that it responds best to multi-pronged treatment approaches including holistic therapies.
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Right side body and terrain of the liver. Artwork by Chantal Convertini @paeulini
Patterns of Liver Imbalance
Patterns of Liver imbalance from the poetic language of East Asian medicine.
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Managing Allergies Holistically
A deep dive into allergy symptoms, what causes them, and integrative holistic approaches to managing them.
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Image: The Divinely Guided. Reflection across the midback approximates the respiratory diaphragm; the liver sits just below it inside the right side rib basket..
On Liver Detox: Sequence + Nuance
A step-by-step guide to the detoxification process of the body’s largest internal organ.
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Get to Know Your Liver : Symptoms of Liver Imbalance
Learn to interpret signs of imbalance in the largest internal organ in your body: your liver.
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Image credits: Li Hui, 2022
On Connective Anatomy
Regarding the kind of care you may be used to receiving and how my approaches may differ.
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Making The Most Of Your Virtual Naturopathic Care
Tips to ensure the best virtual telehealth appointment possible.
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Nourishing your Body through Wintertime
Earth-based seasonal living teaches us that our bodies, like the earth, move in cycles. We have seasons too. In the earth-based tradition of Chinese medicine, winter is a time of seasonal rest.
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Adaptogens and How They Help Us Adapt
Adaptogens are a family of herbs that help us better adapt to stress. This category of herbal medicine works by impacting our stress response systems over time, supporting improved stamina, resiliency, and nervous system flexibility.
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Approaching Digestive Symptoms Holistically
Integrative holistic approaches to working with ongoing digestive conditions such as IBS, SIBO, SIFO, yeast/candida, IBD (Crohn’s/UC), GERD, or gallbladder conditions.
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All Flavor Has Direction: Exploring the Quality of Saltiness
In Chinese medicine, flavor is not just taste, but also describes a direction or energetic movement. The following is an invitation to explore the energetics of just one of the five flavors — salty— as a way of understanding how herbs and minerals move in our bodies.
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Clean Water Practices
I've created a brief guide around my water practices + my recommendations for making sure (y)our water is as clean, pure, and as safe as possible. Read on for both individual and collective health.
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A Practice to Nourish & Sustain Wellbeing
An exploration of self-compassion as a potent self-care tool that sustains healthful behavior and bridges the (perceived) mind-body gap.
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