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Thriving During The Holiday Season With Emotional Freedom Techniques

November 24, 2020
David Gilbert
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Being responsible for parents, partner’s, children’s’, and work needs can feel exhausting. Competing demands day after day can put caregivers into survival mode. Overwhelming feelings of stress burn out, guilt, resentment, incompetence, and emotionally running on fumes. Christmas, and the upcoming Holliday Season during the time of Covid 19 may feel like the proverbial last straws. It doesn’t have to be that way: The use of Emotional Freedom Techniques commonly known as Tapping, allows the…

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My body and mind SUCK since Covid

November 20, 2020
Lindsay Reid
#ChangeOneThing, Blog, Fitness, Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Other Stuff, RMT, Wellness, Whole Therapy

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Canadian Neuroscience To The Rescue – Help for ADD, ADHD and Maintaining Your Focus

October 29, 2020
Pat Moore
Integrative Therapy

As an Integrative Therapist, I see every day how Covid 19 has brought with it a level of stress not seen in living memory. One of the major effects of elevated stress, is a general reduction in how well the brain functions. This includes reduced abilities to learn, focus, stay on task and make decisions. In addition, an estimated six percent of children and four percent of adults already had ADD or ADHD as of…

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The Place Between Injured and Functional

October 23, 2020
Jen Wright
Uncategorized

(Check out the video version of this post HERE). There's a place between "I'm injured" and "I'm functioning normally" and it doesn't get looked at very often. Have you ever had an injury? Did you get it looked at? Whether you did or not, you probably reached a place with the injury where you felt "better" but you didn't feel 100% like your old self again. At Whole Therapy, we see this all the time.…

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Our Story, So Far: A Covid Tale

October 16, 2020
Jen Wright
Collaboration, Jen's Journey, Multidisciplinary, Whole Therapy

Stories help. Ours isn't tragic, nor remarkable, nor is it resolved. But just like your story, and your neighbor's, and your dad's, ours is unique to us. I share our story to help find meaning within this crisis; I would love to hear your stories, too. We decided to close the doors on a Sunday. No one had mandated it, but we were feeling the fear sweep across the city, and decided it was the…

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Stretch your benefits

October 7, 2020
Jen Wright
Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Fitness, Integrative Therapy, Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Nutrition, Personal Training, Physiotherapy, Wellness

How do you stretch your benefits and get the most from them? If you don't have benefits, how do you best stretch your wellness dollars to work best for you over the year? I'm not one to say "Well, you have benefits, let's squeeze the life out of them just because it's 'free' money" because that's, honestly, unnecessary. BUT. If we take a little bit of time to plan out our wellness budget, preference, and…

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Small words, Big effects.

How often do we hear ourselves say.. “I should,” I have to, I got to”, but nothing happens? Or we must force ourselves to get things done? We’ve been hearing these words since our earliest years, but what are two-year-olds best at? Saying NO. Unless we change the script, our inner child and subconscious mind still react the same way when hearing these words internally. Try an interesting experiment for two weeks. Really…

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Recovery Room

September 15, 2020
Pat Moore
Other Stuff, Uncategorized

Feeling worn down? Maybe your muscles are sore from the workout you did yesterday. Perhaps you’re feeling a little mentally drained from work or the ongoing list of chores that need doing at home. Whatever the reason, everyone needs some recovery time. Time to rest your body and mind so you can recharge those batteries. According to the Mental Health Commissions of Canada (MHCC), one in five Canadians experience a mental health problem or illness…

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Combating (excessive) Fear Of Covid-19

September 3, 2020
Pat Moore
Integrative Therapy

The advent of the Covid 19 virus has brought radical changes to the ways we connect with people and the world around us. Health departments have given the best advice they could based on their limited and evolving understanding of this particular Covid virus, but the level of uncertainty has been intimidating. The steps of care most of us have taken, combined with viruses’ usual pattern of becoming less deadly over time have…

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Stop Pushing Back

August 28, 2020
Jen Wright
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One day, a lifetime ago, when he was neither my Husband or my Trainer, Jamie and I walked a block together to get a coffee. The wind was strong that early Spring day, and I braced myself against the icy gusts as I walked. Jamie glanced at me as he walked comfortably along, seemingly unaffected by the frosty wind, and said, “Do you know how to be less affected by the cold?” “Yeah, put on…

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