by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
No matter how old you get, your memories carry your inner child within you. Yet often, many healers lose touch of themselves as they give all their care to others. Like crumbling buildings, their boundaries are torn down, and their foundation shakes. They no longer...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Though we have been trained to believe that the mind governs everything, mindfulness cannot be embodied if people are disconnected from their bodies. We are wired for survival and those of us who have experienced stresses, trauma, PTSD, and anxiety need another way to...
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
Robert Schleip, research director of the European Rolfing Association in Munich, Germany states, “The more you are able to connect to your own embodied emotions, the better you will be able to read and understand the patient’s facial expressions and signals.” ...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
There’s a growing stigma around touch. We live in a culture where people have isolated themselves. Fearing harassment, many people cut themselves off one of the basic human needs. Then they overcompensate using other sensory outlets such as food, alcohol, sex,...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Often I find people feel like the physical or emotional pain that they harbour is deserved, or at least they accept it. Maybe you had terrible posture your whole life, or wore bad shoes, or lifted too much or played too many body contact sports, so you accept that...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Imagine how much deeper you would heal if you also liberated your body from the humiliating memory and the fears that lurked in your subconscious waiting to attach themselves to new pains. Notice the way you are standing. Are you really standing from a place of...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
It is often stated that pain is an illusion. If your brain never perceived it, it never happened. However, it is inflammation that accounts for the chemical reactions and cascades that occur at the site of injury or irritation… whereas PAIN is a perception,...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Addressing Your Pain
The therapeutic goal is to have our ANS experience that the trauma is over by experiencing a state of safety and calm for repair, restoration and rest. There are a myriad of symptoms that the body adopts in chronic pain syndromes such as anxiety, learned...
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
More and more discoveries are being made about the kinds of neural links made in the brain and how they affect our perceptions, our minds and our bodies. The brain appears to be responsible for our entire system or is that the case? On one level, any attempt to effect...
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 | Addressing Your Pain
Trapped in gray cubicles, the average worker sits hunched over a desk all day. As time passes, there’s a crick in the neck, stiffness in the joints and pain all over. Yet like the artificial lights above, this becomes a “normal” part of everyday life. Most people have...
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...
