by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
5 Tips to Begin Your Day Feeling Refreshed and Energized Whether you are the CEO of a major corporation responsible for the gain or failure of your company, or the CEO of your household with kids running rampant and a list of never-ending chores, you still need time...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
One woman’s journey from dis-ease to optimal health Always being a healthful-minded, go-getter type of person, my career and family life have always been extremely busy. As an entrepreneur and mother of three, everything was scheduled down to the minute, yet...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Advancing Your Practice
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by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
In my experience as a health professional and a business owner, it is vitally important to ensure business practices meet and/or exceed Health & Safety Regulations and follow all applicable laws to protect the lives, health, and wellness of all their employees....
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
How fear can cripple your body, mind, and spirit As the spine-chilling images of a new horror film flicker across the screen, your heart races as you try to anticipate the impending scare. Knowing the ‘killer’ will pop out at any second but not wanting to miss a thing...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
It has become evident to me that several clients and patients are feeling coerced into medical procedures that are yet to be proven as effective and safe for all segments of the population. Making any medical decision about your body requires informed consent....
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
We concluded the last post with a discussion of the contribution of Samuel Hahnemann to symptom diagnosis and homeopathic treatment. The key idea was that diagnosis and treatment required a full assessment of the individual patient’s larger life situation. The point...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
My last post began a discussion of important historical figures in health diagnostics who laid the ground work for recognizing the importance of not neglecting the fundamental mind-body connection. Arguably, the most important of these was Samuel Hahnemann. Known as...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
The earliest physicians understood that health encompassed the mind, body and spirit. This insight can be traced back to the 2nd century. with Claudius Galen, an influential Roman physician, who noticed that any part of the body can affect any other part through...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
Over the last year and a bit that I have been writing this blog, we’ve covered a lot of material. I began way back at the outset with the project of dissecting the conventional SOAP approach to patient evaluation. Though we’ve taken many detours and required some deep...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Recently, Dr. Daniel Amen has performed functional studies of tens of thousands of brains. Many “mood disorders” can actually be visualized as distortions and concavities in the actual brain and can be readily repaired with proper nutrition and “brain food.” When...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Anti-depressants interfere with the brain’s natural self-regulation of serotonin and other neurotransmitters. The brain can over correct once medication is suspended, triggering new depression. All forms of antidepressants disturb the brain’s natural...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Let’s refocus discussion on the therapeutic effects on patients. Evolutionary psychologist Paul Andrews, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, is the lead author of a 2011 article in the journal Frontiers of Psychology....
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
Let’s follow up on our last post (https://www.bowencollege.com/psychiatrys-role-in-the-suppression-of-emotional-symptoms/) on the history of psychiatry. It is interesting to note that both the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I) and DSM-II,...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
The history of psychiatric medicine offers an illustrative example of just the kind of Cartesian-based misunderstandings about the mind-body connection that leads to ideas about emotional suppression which I discussed in my last post...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
In the last couple posts (https://www.bowencollege.com/insights-from-gabor-mate-on-emotions-and-health/) I discussed the implications of the faulty assumption that somehow people suppressed their emotions. We’ve seen why this doesn’t make sense and can’t be true....
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In another post (https://www.bowencollege.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-emotional-suppression/) I addressed the widespread myth of emotional suppression or repression and explained how this construct misunderstood and misrepresented the healing process and health...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In my other post (https://www.bowencollege.com/emotional-release-and-good-health/) we explored the idea of suppression. The body is not equipped to suppress itself. Illness is either expressed through signs and symptoms or released through elimination or...
