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Prescribing Empowerment

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Addressing Your Pain, Advancing Your Practice

Our discussions in this blog have continually circled us back to the same set of questions. As a doctor, what is our responsibility for assessing the situation and exploring possible “prescriptions”?  To how much of the patient’s story will you relate, and through...

My Story with MS: The Symptom Picture

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health

In my last post I shared some of the emotional background to my onset of MS. The history, the symptoms and the neurological exam results (ie. Hyper-excitable reflexes, inability to walk foot to heel in a straight-line, hyper-sensitivity to heat) all led to my...

The Ugly Little Secret about Antidepressants and Relapse

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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....

Psychiatry’s Role in the Suppression of Emotional Symptoms

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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...

Drugs are the only way to suppress emotions and that can’t be healthy

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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....

Symptoms Manifest Bodily Processes. Misunderstand the Symptom and We’ll Mis-assess the Body

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain

Let’s explore symptoms as they manifest in bodily processes. Early on, symptoms often appear to be inflammatory or eliminatory in nature. This is the body’s attempt to reach homeostasis, eliminating the problem and the body’s waste products naturally.   Often in...

What is Assessment?

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health

I’ve been writing this blog for just about a year now. Though we’ve been required to make a number of detours, exploring some matters in greater depth, it all began with my desire to unpack the meaning that can be derived from the standard SOAP formula. It has taken...

A Case of Diagnostic Failure

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain

In my last post I addressed the concern of patients’ who had conditions neglected by health care providers as a result of the inability to attach a name to a condition, with the requisite drug therapy dictated. A while back I had a patient who came to see me with a...

Going Under The Knife_ What You Need To Hear Before Considering Surgery

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain

Everyone has that still quiet voice inside them, and it speaks constantly. Amidst the noise and chaos of the world, people turn their focus on other things. Like ghosts, they walk around never truly connecting with themselves. They exist in a space between needless...

Our Body knows that the Trauma is not over even if our mind has another version of reality

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...

Pain Hurts More than you Might Know

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...

Is it really a “re-injury” if you haven’t dealt with the original injury?

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...

Taking the Measure of Contradictory Advice

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | 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...

What is Bowen Therapy

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...

My Trip to the Hospital

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | Addressing Your Pain

In my last post I made some claims about pain that I want to illustrate with a personal example. This will take us a couple posts to cover, but it’s time well invested. During a holiday in October 2011, I had a subluxation of the right shoulder upon arriving in Paris....

Casualties from the War on 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...

Symptom-Free Does Not Mean Healthy

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health

In my last post I contrasted mainstream health institutions’ attitude to health with the definition of the World Health Organization: “complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” It is evident that patients with...

What is a condition of Good Health?

by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health

Understanding the patient’s purpose in coming to you is paramount for a doctor. The Latin root of “doctor” means “to educate,” but this often falls short of the mandate. We must educate patients about their symptoms, as well as the possible causes and all the options...
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