Everyone experiences occasional digestive symptoms such as upset stomach, gas, heartburn, nausea, constipation or diarrhea. However, when these symptoms occur frequently, they can cause major disruptions to your life. Fortunately, diet and lifestyle changes can have a positive impact on your gut health.
Learn simple ways to improve your digestion naturally.
Read MoreIn celebration of February’s “Psychology Month,” Core Potentials helps raise awareness about mental health in Canada.
Read MoreLate summer and early autumn brings about Earth’s harvest. It’s all about the colours of orange, yellow, sweet tastes, bountiful giving and connecting energetically to our stomachs, spleen, and digestion of both its foods and life.
“Imagination is the most marvellous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.”
~ Napolean Hill
Read MoreAt the end of a long day I go for a run to burn off any excess energy and support my mental and physical health. Here are some great tips that I have learned about running and can be applied for beginners or for people who simply want to enjoy the benefits that I enjoy in a non-competitive way.
Read MoreLast week I had the chance to share with my family, pre-prepared meals from Manna | Sacred Meals, an awesome meal food prep company I provide nutritional consultation for. Manna spends countless hours perfecting their vegan and vegetarian recipes, creating delicious and healthy dishes to deliver to your door.
Read MoreThe summertime’s seasonal qualities perfectly describe the “Fire” Element’s distinctive characteristics. Summer is an active time full of movement, warmth, growth and relationships. Society is typically outside, gathering, and enjoying each other’s company. Humans and plants flourish with the warmth of the sun. Nature itself is moving, the plants are now thriving, animals are getting ready to produce their young and things are busy. Find out what make a “Fire” type personality and why summer time is all about this type of energy.
Read MoreFor many of us, December is a time for holiday sweets. Recipes pass from generation to generation. Gifting of homemade favourites is a sure way to show someone you love them. One of my favourite holiday memories is decorating dozens of my mom’s Italian cookies; a tradition I now do each year with my own children. Giving and receiving of sweets brings joy and comfort to the holiday season and we would be remiss to turn down an offer of homemade cookies and candies.
Choose your sugar consumption wisely. When making handmade sweets try substituting whole foods. If you decide to eat a holiday cookie with processed sugar; relish the sweetness, be thankful of the love that went into making it, and cherish the memories that accompany it.
Read MoreIf you are one of the millions of people like my client who has a form of “insulin resistance,” (fluctuating blood glucose levels, prediabetes, diabetes, metabolic syndrome) maintaining normal blood sugar levels can be challenging. A drop or spike in your levels can result in serious health problems as well as common complications, including fatigue, weight gain and sugar cravings. Implementing our basic strategies can start the process.
Enjoy a Chakra healing diet and eat foods that give out those good vibrations to keep your energy system free flowing. Tasting the rainbow might be the key to keeping your body, mind, and spirit in alignment.
Read MoreI developed habits over the past 5 years to learn and deeply understand all the complex information I needed for my Osteopathic School 5th year finals week. These habits came in handy when I was in the final sprint and I’m sharing them with you to help you through a tough week, whether for exams, a major work project, or any other crazy time you have in the future. These were my keystones – the habits that I used to survive and thrive through my journey.
Read MoreWhen Remote viewers view, they're asked to work blind to what they’ve been asked to explore. When learning to connect to this quantum field of infinite knowledge, thoughts pour in, and the protocol of CRV teaches you how to organize these impressions on a piece of paper. You are attempting to describe very subtle information that is much weaker than your conscious perception.
Read MoreIn addition to diligently following Health Guidelines to stay safe, we can implement strategies at home to keep our families as healthy as possible. Being proactive with our own health and fortifying our bodies and immune systems can shorten the duration and minimize symptoms if we become ill.
Read MoreSitting at a computer all day can be hard on the body. Since many of you are sitting and working on a computer more often, I wanted to give you tools to help make your body more tolerant to this extended sitting. In this blog, I focus on exercises and stretches that will keep your body healthy and happy during your workday.
Read MoreThe Liver is most affected by emotions and stress. It is commonly associated with anger when it’s out of balance, and expansion when in balance. When our liver energy is not flowing smoothly throughout our body it can lead to feelings of stress, frustration, and anger, as well as physical symptoms like a tight neck and shoulders, PMS, menstrual problems, and even digestive problems. The liver in balance brings about positive mental emotional attributes of compassion, patience, acceptance, benevolence and honesty. Read Becca’s newest blog how to help your liver make a smooth transition into Spring.
Read MoreEnergy animates our lifeforce and is propelled through our bodies in intricate patterns, rhythms and channels. If we are alive, as electrical beings, we have a biofield. Our biofield is like our energetic skin and is our first line of sensing and defense to outside influences. This protective bubble is generated in part by our hearts and brains, the earth’s polarities and the grander universal energy field matrix we all belong to. Our personal energies are constantly intermingling with the energy of others and it’s not uncommon for us to take on some of the energy of other people.
Our biofields, called auras by Eastern traditions, are also capable of holding on to our unwanted thoughts, unprocessed emotions, negative self-images, and negative self-talk. Even drugs and food can muddy our biofields.
Read More‘Computer neck'' is that achy, tight area in the back and sides of your neck that seems like it won’t go away no matter how many visits you make to the massage therapist. The neck can turn into numbness and tingling in your arms and fingers, cause low back pain, tension headaches, and eventually irreversible damage in your spine. On top of that, a lot of tubes run through our neck area that are in charge of lymphatic drainage, arterial flow, digestion, and respiration. What does this mean? Well, if we are chronically tight in our neck muscles, this can lead to not only issues in our spine and upper extremities, but respiratory issues, cardiovascular diseases, and even changes with digestion. This is a big problem!
Read MoreMany of us that set goals or resolutions for 2021 have just reached the 1 month hump into the New Year. This is when we get the first wave of resolution burnout and some of the goals get dropped by the wayside. Letting go of some things, especially if that is energetically what you need to do, is okay, just check in and ask yourself why you are choosing to let it go. At my one month check in, I have asked myself these questions as I reflect on my progress.
Read MoreGrounding offers an instant way to discharge unwanted energies
Grounding supports us energetically
Grounding restores and rejuvenates our energy field
Grounding promotes an instant sense of calm
Grounding improves mental, emotional and empathic clarity
Grounding helps to give our life’s purpose somewhere to land
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