by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
Pain, believe it or not, serves an important purpose in our bodies. It warns us of dangerous things like sharp objects and fire. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to gauge safety. Like a fire alarm, it alerts us when things go wrong. Yes, there are rare cases where a...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
If you are in a continual state of stress, like in PTSD, this greatly affects your interoceptive ability. To foster interoceptive accuracy, it is important to move the client from a sympathetic state into a parasympathetic or vagal state, which is what happens with...
by Dr. Manon | Advancing Your Practice
Healing demands hard work. We all know just how physically demanding certain body therapies can be. Healthcare practitioners work long hours putting constant strain on their joints and muscles. Many body therapists overextend themselves depleting their energy and...
by Dr. Manon | Advancing Your Practice
Do you have health-promoting boundaries with your clients? Do you suffer from a limited understanding of your role as a therapist? Unhealthy boundaries where we are taxing our own bodies may actually stem from a genuine desire to heal our clients despite knowing that...
by Dr. Manon | Advancing Your Practice
Taking the wellbeing of our clients as our own is far more common than you think. Actually, it stems from the belief that we can fix everything. That your patient’s story and their pain is literally yours, to the point where you have neglected or disconnected from...
by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
I recently treated a patient who was suffering from back pain. She had seen a chiropractor and tried other therapies before someone told her that I could help her. I asked her, “What’s your back pain about?” To which she responded, “Well, no one has asked me that.”...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
The nervous system extends a vast network of nerves that runs through the fascia, becoming part of the fascia itself. The result is a fluid nervous system with neuropeptides and neurotransmitters that communicate chemical, emotional and biological information from one...
by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
I was inspired to create Bowen College when I realized that it was not only an effective program but that it could also reach so many people. I wanted to create a pain elimination program that would really support the practitioners by helping them hone in on all of...
by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
Today’s post is a national television interview with Dr. Manon about the biggest mistakes that most people make in treating pain. Host: Well, it’s estimated that one in four Americans have suffered from pain that lasts longer than 24 hours. So what’s the...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In a previous post, I discussed one of the consequences of the war on symptoms: the over-reliance on cortisone shots, which create a false sense of security often leading to a “re-injury” of the original problem. Though really it’s more of an aggravation of the...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
Have you or anyone you know had an unwelcome diagnosis, could be tennis elbow, diabetes, arthritis? I have developed a system to help you take the story out of the diagnosis and reframe your health, starting by listening to your body. What I have come to know for...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
At the British Fascia Symposium, I had the pleasure of listening to many talented professionals, researchers and scientists. In particular, I wanted to share the insights of Carol M. Davis and Robert Schleip, as well as incorporate my own experience as a clinician and...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
The recent few posts here told a personal story about how I discovered firsthand the importance of not treating an injury and its pain as mere symptoms, but allowing a deeper personal, subjective experience to emerge. This is the key lesson I have been trying to...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
What I know for sure is how you live is really how you feel. Being able to empower people to really trust that they can heal. WIth Bowen Therapy, people have to get completely involved in the treatment themselves, they’ve got to engage their own bodies to heal....
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
The last couple posts have been telling the story of my experience as a patient and how I learned firsthand that pain is more than just its symptoms. After getting a variety of conflicting advice, I finally made myself the doctor of my own treatment and came to...
by Dr. Manon | Advancing Your Practice
Massage therapist, Christopher Sherman reviews Dr. Manon Bolliger’s LISTEN program – a part of Bowen Therapy certification program at Bowen College. Sherman has taken Dr’s Bolliger’s LISTEN program. The LISTEN program is an exploration of all the...
by Dr. Manon | Addressing Your Pain
In the last post I introduced you to a personal experience I had of subluxation of my right shoulder during a holiday in Paris. A trip to the hospital got me a sling and some drugs that either didn’t work or made me feel ill. What was to be done? The pain grew...
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