by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
It all started one morning, when I was battling with a little voice that kept saying, “It’s ok, you don’t need to be at work at 9am, just call in and tell them that you will be delayed.” But the better part of me scrambled for change to take the bus and packed my bag...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Addressing Your Pain
Pain is a construct of the brain. Pain is created in order to protect us, and yet the key is to understand the mechanism of pain. Only then can you overcome it. Contrary to what you might believe about pain, there are no pain signals being sent to your brain. Instead,...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In my practice, I have treated many patients who had claims with ICBC or Work Safe and these agencies are always on the look-out for malingering. The patient/claimant is often viewed as an opportunist making a big deal out of a small incident. Questions based on the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
By touching a body, we touch every event it has experienced. For a few brief moments, we hold all of a client’s stories in our hands. We witness someone’s experience of their own flesh, through some of the most powerful means possible: the contact of our...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Since the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus a Pandemic, everyone has been inundated with news, perhaps some misinformation. It’s only natural that your uncertainty, stress and anxiety are running high. How, then, are you to remain grateful, calm,...
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 | 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 Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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 Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Addressing Your Pain
The BowenFirst™Technique is a body manipulation therapy that uses very gentle pressure to stimulate the brain to reboot the body. Oftentimes, the most common approaches to stress management just don’t work and when they do, they don’t have long lasting results for the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain, Advancing Your Practice
I am Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND and I started Bowen College because I felt it was important to share an approach to healing that could help engage patients and clients in their own health. Once you address people’s pain they are then ready to address all of their health...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
I finished my last post with the provocative claim that non-war on symptoms healthcare approaches were not only unfunded and sabotaged, but actually outlawed. If you suspect I’ve exaggerating, consider the case of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski over the last 30 years. His...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In my last post I reflected on the short-sighted predilection to remove the gallbladder of patients with chronic gall stone problems. As I pointed, though, this was not the end, but the beginning of a treadmill of new problems. Certainly those symptoms too can be...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In recent posts I’ve been discussing fallout from the misguided war on symptoms approach to health care and – in the last post – specific problems related to cancer treatment were raised. Let’s look more closely at this situation. Despite all the effort and resources...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In my last post I raised the broad statistical costs of the war of symptoms. But what about the impact on the individual patient? This “war” is waged against part of the body and has just a partially “functioning body” as its best outcome. That paradigm sees symptoms...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In my last post I left off by raising the question of what doctors can do to change the misguided and harmful obsession with symptom relief in our healthcare system. The first step may well be simply coming to terms with the situation. For most people in the Western...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In recent posts I explained the limitations of popular current ideas of health as merely the absence of symptoms. Do doctors have a role in expanding the expectations of what is considered health? Can we broaden patients’ views on health or are we merely technicians...
