by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
According to the federal government, no products or therapies have been approved in Canada to prevent or treat COVID-19. The public health Agency’s main recommendations thus far are to self-monitor, self-isolate or go into isolation for people with symptoms or...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
For more information go to: DrManonBolliger.com Children run across the playground, unbothered by life’s worries. They climb trees and hang on branches. The laugh over the simplest things. A stick can turn into a wand one minute and a sword the next. In their...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
For more information go to: drmanonbolliger.com Growing up, most people are unsure of themselves. They wander aimlessly through life not knowing which direction to take. It’s like walking through a city without roadmaps. Some follow other people as their guides. Some...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
You wake up in the morning and make a mental list. Cook breakfast. Do the laundry. Wash the dishes. Take out the trash. Vacuum the carpet. Feed the pets. Add in a family of bustling children, and you’ve got yourself a circus before you head for work. All day long...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
There’s a pill for everything. Yet nobody seems to be getting better. Modern society wants everything fast, and they want everything right now — fast cars, fast food, and fast relief from pain. Like instant coffee, the convenience of a pill seems like the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
“No pain, no gain” is the mantra people have stamped in their heads. Chiropractors crack bones back into place. Cupping therapy leaves behind purple and red marks. Deep tissue massage breaks apart muscle knots. Trigger points are pressed until it feels tender. There’s...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Can healthy food make you sick? I once spoke to a woman who suffered from a wheat allergy for twelve long years. After cutting out gluten, she discovered she couldn’t eat dairy, stock, starchy vegetables, grains or coconut. Finally, she cut down her diet until she was...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
No matter what we do, self-doubt and/or criticism is inevitable. Like knives, words can leave us bleeding, but they can also cut what no longer serves us. Often, we’re blind to our own flaws, and it’s not until we see ourselves through other people’s eyes, that we...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
“Oh, you didn’t sleep last night? That’s nothing. I’ve been working overtime for three days in a row.” Some people treat their pain like battle scars. They try to prove themselves by powering through the day. When they’re tired, they take caffeine. When they’re sick,...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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 Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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 Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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 Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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 Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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 Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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 Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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 Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
We’ve been discussing the impact of the “war on symptoms” approach to health care. Let’s look at another example: pain following an injury. Our perception of the role and function of pain will determine how we experience the pain and what we want to do about it. The...
