by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
I’ve spent quite a while now discussing the symptom as a bodily function. Now I’d like us to look at the emotions as symptoms. Given that at least one-tenth of the North American population is taking some form of anti-psychotic medication, what we perceive to be the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
I’ve spent quite a while now discussing the symptom as a bodily function. Now I’d like us to look at the emotions as symptoms. Given that at least one-tenth of the North American population is taking some form of anti-psychotic medication, what we perceive to be the...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Let me ask you a question: are we really in a world in which ‘superbugs’ are out to eradicate the human race? Or are we really in a world in which we need to learn how to manage and live alongside stressors, even if we believe them to be bacteria instead of our own...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In my last post I told the terrible story of how I was cut off (from a socialized health care system which I support with my taxes, despite my disapproval of so many of its methods) from the option of monitoring results from of the treatment for my stage 4 cancer that...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
I was faced with the conflicting views toward disease and its treatment discussed in the last few posts. After refusing a prescribed hysterectomy at an Ontario Oncology ward, to treat my Stage 4 cancer, I was dismissed from the hospital. Both the nurse and I, were in...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In the last couple posts I’ve been examining the processes of endogenous cell decay as an alternative to the mainstream paradigm of the Germ Theory of Disease. We’ve seen how certain internal processes can generate the cell decay that gives rise to invasion of...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
In my last post we examined how yeast, fungus and mold contributed to susceptibility to illness through processes that starved tissue of oxygen. Among the by-products of the process are uric acid and acetaldehyde. The amount of uric acid and acetaldehyde produced by...
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...
by Manon Bolliger, facilitator & retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice | About Your Health
Everyone talks about finding one’s life purpose, but not many people know what it is. As a child, it’s easy to dream big dreams. You can be an astronaut, a pirate or a mermaid. Children are unafraid even of dreaming what grown-ups would consider dreams that are “too...
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...
