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, Advancing Your Practice
As our community is slowly returning to practice and as many of our supporters are hoping to receive the much needed care from our Bowen practitioners, I want to share as my message for this month a deeply resonating message that will hopefully fill your hearts with...
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, Advancing Your Practice
The Bowen Technique abides by the healing principles of First do no harm and respect for the innate healing capacity of the body. Bowen Therapy uses the smallest of interventions and results in the maximum of results. Bowen is non-invasive and gentle; works on the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Stress affects your thinking (and your perception). When you’re under stress, hills look taller and weights feel heavier than they really are. You go into automatic survival mode and creativity and adaptive problem solving thinking goes out the window. Thinking, in...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Despite a 98% survival success rate in confirmed Covid-19 in hospital study, using “tried-and-tested ingredients” reconfigured into a new methodology called MATH+ protocol, no one seems interested. Can you imagine the frustration it must be for the experienced...
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 | 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
March 2020 COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT & PRESS RELEASE We at Bowen College want you to know we are thinking about you and ways to help our community andthe many challenges each of you might be facing during this time. We have all had to adjust our lives,schedules, and...
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
According to the federal government, no products or therapies have been approved in Canada to prevent or treat COVID-19. The public health Agency’s main recommendations thus far are to self-monitor, self-isolate or go into isolation for people with symptoms or...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
For more information go to: DrManonBolliger.com Children run across the playground, unbothered by life’s worries. They climb trees and hang on branches. The laugh over the simplest things. A stick can turn into a wand one minute and a sword the next. In their...
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 | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
“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...
