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Connecting With Your Inner Wisdom
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...
No Pain, No Gain? Debunking 3 Myths About Healing
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...
Is Self-Care A Chore?
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...
Is Your Medicine Keeping You Sick?
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 perfect...
3 Reasons Touch Therapy Isn’t Skin Deep
“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...
Are You What You Eat?
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...
3 Ways You’re Stronger Than Criticism and Self-doubt
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...
Are We Addicted to Being Sick
“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,...
3 Pain Triggers You May Not Know
Pain, believe it or not, serves an important purpose in our bodies. It warns us of dangerous things like sharp objects and fire. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to gauge safety. Like a fire alarm, it alerts us when things go wrong. Yes, there are rare cases where a...
Information to Help Us Therapeutically
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...
Does Healing Demand Hard Work?
Healing demands hard work. We all know just how physically demanding certain body therapies can be. Healthcare practitioners work long hours putting constant strain on their joints and muscles. Many body therapists overextend themselves depleting their energy and...
Do you have Health-Promoting Boundaries with your Clients?
Do you have health-promoting boundaries with your clients? Do you suffer from a limited understanding of your role as a therapist? Unhealthy boundaries where we are taxing our own bodies may actually stem from a genuine desire to heal our clients despite knowing that...
Do You Believe that Sacrificing Yourself is of Service to your Clients?
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...
Bowen College UK: Making Strides in the News
Three Elements You Can Apply to Your Practice Right Away
Today I have three elements that you can apply to your practice right away. #1. Less is more. #2. Trust that the body can heal. #3. Learn to be as relaxed as your clients while serving them more fully. If you are already a healthcare practitioner, check our...
What’s Your Back Pain About?
I recently treated a patient who was suffering from back pain. She had seen a chiropractor and tried other therapies before someone told her that I could help her. I asked her, “What’s your back pain about?” To which she responded, “Well, no one has asked me that.”...
Why is Interoception so Significant?
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...
Bowen Therapy is the Future of Pain Elimination
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...
Biggest Mistakes Most People Make in Treating Pain
Today’s post is a national television interview with Dr. Manon about the biggest mistakes that most people make in treating pain. Host: Well, it's estimated that one in four Americans have suffered from pain that lasts longer than 24 hours. So what's the best way to...
Pain Hurts More than you Might Know
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...
Are You Listening to Your Body?
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...
Why Is Touch So Important?
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...
Is it really a “re-injury” if you haven’t dealt with the original injury?
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...
How releasing a memory allowed me to heal
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...