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Energy Tracking: Personal Embodiment Practices to Hone Your Intuition (2 courses!)
I am delighted to announce that my Energy Tracking course
Energy Tracking: Personal Embodiment Practices to Hone Your Intuition
Energy Tracking: Personal Embodiment Practices to Hone Your Intuition
Stuck In The Middle
When I wrote that title, naturally the song “Stuck In
What Never Was
A very old friend, we will call her Clara, who
Energy Hygiene: Vital Practices for Healthcare Providers, Fall 2023
This class is meant for you if you want: -
The Soul, In Hard Places
Much of our lives are spent in our analytical mind or our emotional body. But how many of us are in touch with our soul’s journey?
My Ocean Awakening
Little did many of us suspect, the ritual of meeting up every morning, stripping down to our swimsuits, and sauntering into the water would become a beloved tradition as the months wore on...
Disorientation While Distancing: Mental Health in Times of COVID
If you are anything like me, this time of physical
Naturopathic Medicine. What?
My profession is my passion and one of my pet
On Being, Not Doing, and Burnout
The orientation is toward growth (yang), achievement (yang), competition (yang), and pushing through (yang). Where is the yin in all of that?
How A Uterus Spends It’s Time
The uterus has a particular rhythm of contractions that changes, depending on the time of the month. And even more interesting, if this rhythm is out of order, it can affect...
The Voice of Intuition and Your Pelvis
Recently a friend linked to a fantastic blog post by
Letter to Victoria Fertility Centre
My patients are now reporting up to 6 months of wait time before they get to meet with you ... this is 6 months of lost time. It breaks my heart that I have my first meeting with so many patients on the eve of their initial meeting with VFC, when they could have spent those 6 months laying the foundation for a quick and successful experience of IUI or IVF.
Bringing Forth The Emotional… The Feminine
"The center of our femininity, as women, is in our pelvises. This our center for creativity, for inspiration, for processing our world, for making sense of our experiences. The pelvis is the fountain of our feminine energy, our yin."
Are You At Risk of Starting Menopause Early?
Are you in your 30’s and experiencing changes in temperature? Do you wake up in the night between 3-4am? Has the rhythm of your period changed? Is your bladder less reliable than it used to be? That got your attention, didn’t it? All of these symptoms in a woman below 45 most often indicate that you are running yourself too hard! They are likely signs of what Chinese Medicine calls “yin deficiency”. It can also be understood as “stress,” but it is more nuanced than that.
Hand, Foot, And Mouth Disease, Fevers, and Childhood Illnesses
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease reared its head in the
On Facing Pain
I am going on year 2 of intense episodic back and leg pain. Well, to be fair, I am going on year 24 but there were many years in there where my life was not characterized by managing my back pain. Although, to be fair again, many of those years were characterized by surviving brutal monthly cycles with endometriosis.
A Delicious Autumn Recipe: Ghormeh Sabzi
For the last handful of years I have been slowly
Pleasure In The Patriarchy
why do I, a woman who spends everyday working to help women connect more deeply to their own emotions and their own pleasure, feel like it would be 'inappropriate' to share a video about female anatomy and pleasure?!"
Women, Boundaries, and Autoimmune Disease
In the last few years my practice has taken a
The Birth Control Pill: The Dark Side of “Easy” Contraception
If you are on OCP’s to “regulate” your cycle, be not fooled! They are not actually regulating your cycle. The Pill does not regulate your menstrual cycle. The Pill is inducing a state much like pregnancy, which means that you are not ovulating...
On “Yinning”
The solstice is drawing near. The season of yin is
The Dark Goddess
The Dark Feminine is stirring, and the well of wisdom is cracking open. She will not move in haste, but will move slowly, deliberately, and with grace
Countering Violence in Our World, In Ourselves
I can't take credit for either of these posts, but
Every Profession Has Its Shortcomings
I found this article a while back and I find it inspiring, as it highlights a few of the significant contributions Naturopathic Medicine has made to the healthcare field at large...
Speaking and Listening
I have a 5 yr old boy. For the
Bringing Forth The Emotional… The Feminine
...the feminine energy, whether you are a man or a woman, is an energy of expansion, of fluidity, of mystery, lack of predictability, and of deep emotion and creativity. We all contain this energy, however most of us have never learned what to do with it. It can be scary and feel unwieldy...
Endometriosis, or Excruciating Menstrual Pain!
You sweat, you vomit, you curl up in a ball on the cold bathroom tiles. Uterine cramps? Hah! Where is that uterus anyway? Your ENTIRE BODY is gripping in pain...
Endometriosis, or Excruciating Menstrual Pain!
Uterine cramps? Hah! Where is that uterus anyway? My ENTIRE BODY is gripping in pain.
Women and Fertility: Did you know…?
Being in the field of women's health, I sometimes forget
This Year’s Flu Vaccine
Hmm. Worth taking note. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5146719/
My Return To Victoria: Women’s Pelvic Health
I am thrilled to be returning to Sage Clinic in
Naturopathic Medicine vs. Functional Medicine MD
A question was posed in my professional discussion group this
Good Info on “The Pill”
I don't often find articles that fully encapsulate my stance
Uterine Fibroids, Hysterectomies, and Naturopathic Care
Fibroids are hearty little buggers and can be quite challenging to budge. Meanwhile, they give rise to a number of miserable experiences for the patient including menstrual cramping, excessive bleeding with long and heavy periods, anemia, fatigue, and other complaints.
Daughter’s Pride
My Dad is not only a gifted teacher and historian, but he is also part of a generation of cardiologists who have exquisitely developed auscultation skills, a dying art in this age of technology. His retirement is a big deal not only for our family, but for a generation of physicians.
A Father and Daughter
I think a lot about the dynamics between the masculine
Sunscreen Choices- More to Consider Than You Thought
While I was in medical school we had to write
The Flu
“Should I get a flu shot?” “The flu is really
Why I Maintain A Naturopathic Medical Practice
Most of my patients come into my office with a
Vaccines: How Can We Do Better?
Filmmakers Leslie Manookian, Kendall Nelson, and Chris Pilaro have turned
The Dirty Little Secret About Cholesterol
In the last year or so there has been a
That Good Old Sweet Tooth!
I recently witnessed a fascinating conversation. It fascinated me because
I WANT my Patients to Get Sick (Colds, Flus and The Arrival of Fall)
Is avoiding a cold or flu actually keeping you well?