Inflammation and Mood
When the Body’s Alarm System Stays Switched On Inflammation is often misunderstood. Most people associate it with visible symptoms such as swelling, redness, or pain after an injury. In reality, inflammation is one of the body’s most important protective mechanisms. It is part of the immune system’s natural response to infection, injury, and perceived threats. […]
Who is Weston Price?
Weston A. Price is a Canadian that you have probably never heard of. Price was a dentist that travelled all around the world and through his research connected diet to physical health. Price also was the forerunner of understanding tooth decay, and his research was the foundation that influenced nutrition. Weston was the first to […]
Adults Suffering From Childhood Trauma
It is estimated that 60% of adults have experienced childhood trauma of some sort. 64% of adults report having an ACE, Adverse Childhood Experience. Children often do not tell about the incident for many reasons, including being afraid of getting into trouble, shame, guilt or self blame about the events; fear of the offender, fear […]
What is Cortisol?
Cortisol is a critical hormone and can be called a “stress hormone” which is produced by the adrenal glands. Cortisol affects nearly every organ and tissue in your body. What most people do not know is the cortisol’s primary function is to regulate metabolism, controlling blood sugar and blood pressure, suppressing inflammation, and managing your […]
What is Healing?
Healing can have some negative tension to it, in general it is thought of as the act of becoming healthy again. Individuals who have experienced trauma might not associate your physical issues with your trauma experience. The other issue is that there might be a fear of vulnerability. There are five warning signs of stress; […]
Negative Thinking
Often, I have clients who are plagued by negative thinking. I define negative thinking as thoughts about yourself, others, or the world in general that are characterized by negative perceptions, expectations, and attributions. These thoughts can be associated with unpleasant emotions and adverse behavioural, physiological and health outcomes. Literally you can make yourself sick from […]
What Is In My Control
What is in my control is a good question to ask yourself. Often, we labour over things we have no control over. We lose sleep and stress ourselves out with things that are not in our control. I will often work with this in session and is a great conversation to have with yourself and […]
How Does Fear Affect My Body?
I have talked extensively on fear in past blogs. This blog is about the body’s response to fear and how it changes our bodies chemical makeup. There are over 200 chemicals (hormones) that react when we experience a stressful event, perceived as a threat. In an acute stressful event, there is a cascade of changes […]
Gut Brain Connection
Remember we always say…trust your gut…a gut feeling is inexplicable but so very powerful. To feel something intensely is to feel it viscerally, literally in the intestines. The idea that Gut-Brain Axis is a two-way street had some cultural momentum before science caught on, continuing with my thoughts from BLOG #51. What we do know […]
Gut Brain Axis
BLOG 49 discussed Gut Brain Connection and the Canadian experiment where scientists found that there was a correlation between gut bacteria and cognitive development! What started the thinking was what we already know that there is a link between psychological aspects such as autism or depression, which are correlated with digestive disorders such as irritable […]
The Mindful Body
Understanding how our mind and body work and thinking out way to chronic health is the knowledge we all could benefit from. But what does mindfulness really mean and how do we find it? I believe that the mind and body are one single system not two separates as we always discuss. If we open […]
Choice
Choice is described as an individual’s opportunity to perform an action selected from at least two available options. The right to make a choice can be difficult when we get too much information, we struggle to make the “right” choice, we overthink and “what if” questions circle our minds. Albert Einstein once said, “if I […]