Getting ready to have surgery is challenging enough, let alone managing all the post-surgery trauma. This trauma includes stress, anxiety, and tension, all which have an enormous effect on our mind and body. They affect us physiologically, where a tense body feels more pain....
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Buy shoes that support your feet, not make them sore and tired. Buy comfortable shoes first and foremost, and if they are fashionable too that’s a bonus. Proper fitting shoes are so important to our happiness and health. We all have different foot shapes...
Yay! Today is Labour Day! This holiday was originally celebrated to let folks campaign for better wages and working conditions. Nowadays, many people see the first Monday in September as a chance to take a late summer trip, to see friends and family, go...
It’s been a very hot summer in many regions of North America this year, and in other parts of the world as well. In many cases it’s been unseasonably hot and therefore very uncomfortable. Not surprisingly we then hear on the news that heat...
Modern life moves at a rapid pace. Each day it seems we’re forced into navigating the fast lane. Beyond being addicted to our devices 24/7 (e.g., smart phones, computers), we are expected to juggle far too many tasks in time frames that seem to...
Taking vitamin D on a daily basis, especially for us Canadians, is so very important. Often this vitamin is nick named the “sunshine vitamin” because our body can manufacture its own vitamin D when it is directly exposed to sunlight. All that’s required is...
Water, water everywhere! We are so fortunate to live in Canada which has a surplus of water. In fact Canada possesses 1/5 of the world’s freshwater because it has thousands of lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands. So, with so much water freely available, why...
There’s an old idiom that says ‘beauty is only skin deep.’ Sure, it’s true because we know that external beauty does not automatically translate into someone being good, kind, or necessarily possesses other positive qualities. But you can be beautiful inside an out. Feeling...
For decades, companies rarely if ever invested any resources in taking care of their employees physical and mental well-being. It was practically unheard of. If there was any talk of introducing such programs, management and workers alike considered them “fluffy” activities and gave them...
Ho-lis-tic is an adjective that means, “related to a complete system rather than an individual part.” When applied to health care, “holistic medicine attempts to treat both the mind, the body, and the spirit,” rather than specific parts of the body. By ancient design,...