What is Health Coaching?

Health Coaching assists clients in attaining the knowledge, skills and tools to become active participants in their own health care.  A coach can facilitate behaviour change by helping you set long and short term goals. Together, we set action plans and monitor progress in attaining your goals. Together, we develop strategies to bring out your strengths and to realize your desired outcomes.

What is Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT)?

Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) is based on neuroscience and combines the most beneficial effects of hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, neurolinguistic programming, and psychotherapy.

Before a child turns 3 they are developing a million neural connections a minute. Up until a child turns 7 the brain has its biggest growth. Even before a baby is born, the baby is picking up clues about the world 

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Stress Anxiety Management can assist you in reducing your stress, and help you optimize your health and enable your body to better handle the stresses you encounter in your life.

Everyone has stress in their lives. Good stress, not so good stress, is all part of living in this world today. Getting married, having a baby, planning for any huge event is usually considered good stress and is short lived.

When the event is over, so is the stress. A flat tire on the car, being late for work are examples of not so good stress, but they too, are usually short lived. It is  when the stress goes on and on, and you see no end in sight that it can become dangerous to you and your health. Your immune system suffers, you feel as though your brain is in a fog sometimes, you have trouble keeping your weight down no matter how well you eat or how much you exercise. The stress hormones take a toll on your body, mind and spirit.

I have developed an entire website  focused on Stress Anxiety Management. Together, we will reach the light at the end of your tunnel. Contact me to make an appointment.

Frequently Asked Questions about Diabetes

Is having Diabetes bad? Types 1 and 2 diabetes can be bad because hight blood sugar can lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, nerve damage, blindness, and a host of other ailments. If your blood sugar is kept under control - in the normal range - it’s less likely for complications to happen.

Is Diabetes curable? Type 2 diabetes can be reversed (some scientists say cured, but there is debate in the scientific community about this). Following a healthy diet and lifestyle that include lots of greens and vegetables, some fruit and exercise, and managing your stress can bring down your blood sugar to normal levels and keep it there. (Dr J Fung. MD)

The term meditation encompasses a wide variety of practices that include techniques to promote relaxation, build internal energy or life force, and develop compassion, love, patience, forgiveness, and even emotional intelligence. 

Proven Benefits of Meditation

Meditation is the most powerful way of reducing stress that is available today. Thousands of studies have been done by many Hospitals, Universities and Health Institutions that show huge benefits of meditation all over the world. According to JAMA Internal Medicine meditation helps heal depression and anxiety atleast as effectively as any antidepressant on the market and actually performs better than some, and there are no side effects.

Stress creates mayhem on us all

Research now shows that chronic stress is associated with a decrease in our immune system function and our inflammatory response can become out of control. Research done at Carnegie Melon University has discovered that chronic stress is associated with the body losing its ability to regulate inflammation and can lead to the development andprogression of disease: including heart disease, infections, asthma, autoimmune disorders, and more.

Learn more about how to detect stress and how to cope with stress » 

There are many valid questions in regards to stress, how to better cope with stress, health related consequences if you endure prolonged stress... from fatigue to fertility, from heart problems to impotence. 

Explore answers and solutions to the top ten questions asked about stress »

What is it?

Anxiety is “a feeling or worry, nervousness, apprehension, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome”. It’s normal to be anxious once in a while, but when it occurs often enough to interfere with your life for longer than a few months it is considered an anxiety disorder.