Why Diet May Not Be The Answer To Your Health

Health food stores are popping up like mushrooms after rain online and offline, thriving on people’s single-minded obsession with food. What began as useful awareness that what you put in your body affects the state of your body (and mind!) has turned into an almost religious fervour pursued by those of us seeking to heal … Read more

Tana Saler’s Seven Principles for health recovery and well-being

1- First condition to recovery: have a life purpose and meaning that is compelling enough for you to want to be well. Have a “Why” before the “How”. Everything else depends on having this condition met. 2- You are in charge of your health decisions, and nobody else is (assuming that you’re over 18 and … Read more

Relationships are Medicine

Relationships weigh heaviest as factor in health and well-being, much more than diet, arguably exercise, and drugs. I’ve felt at my worst when living or working in emotionally toxic environments, and at my best when being part of a supportive community. Lack of care and support, given and received, is a poison. It causes body … Read more

The Scenic Road to Well-Being: Reading the Signs of How You Are

Reading the Signs of Well-Being Taking the scenic road to well-being means that I use therapies and practices which take time, some of which are short-term, and some of which are long-term; some methods bring immediate results, while other methods work like a snowball effect, with noticeable changes occurring much later in time. Some methods … Read more

On Vitality – Tools, Obstacles and Signposts

According to the Vitality or Chi / Ki paradigm of thought, Life is a force comparable to a river who is best flowing freely and without obstacles. An imbalance in the Life Force affects its course, slowing it down or speeding it up, creating areas of deficit and areas of excess. Healing modalities that focus … Read more