When patients come in for their appointments I usually ask them “how are you today?” Or “what’s new?” I’m not just being polite. I’m listening to their responses and “reading between the lines”. Tuesday morning this past week, I heard many responses and what most of them had in common was that they were stories. “I’m not good at making …
“We don’t so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.” ~ Carl Jung ‘Outgrowing the problem’ is really about expanding your mind and energy to a place where the problem becomes insignificant. Outgrowing the problem is based in neurology: creating new habits create new connections in …
The other day Karen was in. She has been dealing with a lot of tension, pain and stiffness in her pelvis and hips. She finds it difficult to walk and ambulate. As I assessed her on the table I could feel that the tension and pain that she was feeling was deep in her groin, pelvis and hips. And yet …
Many who come to the Happy Spine wonder, “what the heck do they do there? They use such a gentle touch (not always:)) and I feel better, my body has healed and rebalanced and I even find that I’m sleeping better and taking better care of myself.” The approach we use isn’t limited to the physical application of a set …
If you looked at a human cell, you would see it has numerous parts called organelles. All these organelles have their different functions. And it is through these organelles working together that a cell can live and function. If they didn’t work together, the cell would not be able to do what it does. “Working together” When the different parts …
Karen was in the other day for her regular visit and she noted that after a year and a half of care, when she feels pain now, she feels it much more than she used to. She said this with a tone that implied a question: Why am I feeling pain more now? Shouldn’t it be the opposite? I went …
Mental health week began being observed in Canada in 1951. Since then, with our society becoming more complex, especially in interrelating, mental health challenges have grown. Our understanding of mental health has grown as well. Evolutionary biologists have posited that the human brain developed over thousands of years into the complex organ that it is today. And the mind has …
When you have symptoms or when you get sick, what you might think is the problem isn’t actually the problem. For example, if you come into a clinic and you tell the doctor that you have pain in your low back and hip, that’s going down the back of your leg, you most likely will receive “sciatica” as the diagnosis. …
When you think about your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health, how much do you consider the quality of the food that you eat? After all, whatever we eat gets broken down into carbohydrate, protein and fat and these basic building blocks then get turned into all of the various tissues including muscles and hormones as well as being turned …
It’s been such a beautiful day today, Goldilocks would be happy. It was not too hot and not too cold, but just the right amount of breeze to keep the mosquitos at bay, warm enough to not need a jacket but not to be sweat-inducing. So I decided to clean the car, mostly because it really needed it:). I noticed …
