How tidying up clutter improves your health Professional organizer, Marie Kondo’s international bestseller The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014) and Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (2019) sent a shock wave through our consumer driven culture. Kondo’s signature “tidying up” process applies a sense of ritual and ceremony that we don’t [...]
The past few months have been incredibly challenging for me personally and to many of the patients I serve. The uncertainty around the Coronavirus, job loss, and financial challenges are on the top of everyone’s minds. So, the real question I keep asking myself and now you — are you stressed-out and don’t even [...]
Are you aware of your environmental toxin exposure? What comes to mind when you hear the words ‘heavy metals’? No one living in the modern world is immune to toxins, including heavy metals. While heavy metals are naturally found in the Earth’s crust, most human exposure is through environmental contamination from a combination of [...]
Have you noticed your skin changing over the years? Oily? Dry? Loss of elasticity? Irregular and rough? Breakouts or acne that come and go? New (and unwanted) hair growth or hair loss? Our skin gives us clues about our inner hormone health. From our 20’s to 50’s we can naturally see shifts in our [...]
The Womb is an extremely deep and rich topic. I could do an entire facebook/blog series dedicated to the Womb alone. I thought it would be appropriate to define the womb. “The womb is defined as the organ in the lower body of a woman or female mammal where offspring are conceived and where [...]
Are you a woman that has irregular heavy bleeding or even absent periods? One common cause of absent menstruation (amenorrhea) is polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). PCOS impairs ovulation and causes infertility amongst a slew of other physical symptoms, which can affect how a woman looks and feels about herself. While there is no cure, [...]
Do you dread getting your period? For one or two weeks of the month, do you feel like someone else? Irritable, anxious, insomnia, headaches, bloated, heavy? Are you constantly fighting low iron and fatigue? Hormone imbalances can happen gradually over years but can eventually affect every part of our day from work to sleep. [...]
Recurrent headaches are annoying at best and debilitating at worst. Understanding where your headaches are coming from can give you the tools you need to reduce the frequency and intensity of your future headaches. Over the counter and prescription medications for headaches can be helpful but they rarely address the underlying causes to our headaches [...]
Headaches have affected my life since I was in my teens. In university, I had neck stiffness and headaches often. I could never find a comfortable position for my head and neck while studying at my desk, sitting in lecture halls or trying to fall asleep. Stress, long hours of studying, irregular sleep hours [...]
Stress is the “response of the body to any demand for change” (as defined by Hans Selye).This describes how the stress response isn’t always a health threat and in fact, stress can be an important process in growth and development. For example, exercise temporarily activates the stress systems and over time the body responds [...]
