Each month, our therapists share their knowledge in articles they write about different health issues from a holistic perspective. You can read them all, here!
View articles by therapy type: Osteopathy blog | Naturopathy blog | Acupuncture/TCM blog
View articles written by a specific therapist: Raphaëlle Strub’s blog | Chloé Sardin’s blog | Natalie Pateman’s blog | Stephanie Bristow’s blog | Greg Sikorski’s blog | Dr. Laura Gauthier’s blog
Healthy By Nature is a multidisciplinary holistic health clinic located in Parkdale, NW Calgary. We believe in providing high quality care for patients, and fostering a dynamic, respectful, and collaborative clinic environment that practitioners enjoy working in. We are currently three Osteopathic manual therapists, two Osteopathic manual therapist students, an Acupuncturist/TCM Doctor,…
After a holiday season filled with rich foods and celebrations, you might be thinking that it is time to prioritize your health in 2017. There’s no better way to improve the health of your entire body than by ensuring your digestive system is in good shape. If your guts are not in…
You may have heard people talking about “Qi” (pronounced “chee”), the term for “energy” in Traditional Chinese Medicine. If you are lacking in vitality and suffering from exhaustion, low stamina, and poor digestion, Chinese Medicine might consider you Qi deficient. A trained acupuncturist looks for the underlying cause of this fatigue and…
Many psychologists talk to their clients about an emotional bank account: we only have so much in our bank account and the more emotions we extend to external sources (e.g. towards our spouse, children, friends), the less we have to care for ourselves. One of the lesser-discussed concepts is an energy bank…
Everywhere I go these days, I hear about mindfulness. Mind you, I do spend a lot of time around people who like to think about their thoughts and mental processes (“metacognition”) and expand awareness in their lives! But whether it’s magazine covers, social media posts, and even in my sessions with patients,…
Sometimes our body’s have a hard time balancing hormones. For women factors such as birth control, UTI’s, and stress can taper off the balance between estrogen and progesterone. In today’s article Dr. Bristow focuses on a condition called estrogen dominance which can present with symptoms such as: irregular periods, low sex drive,…
During their life, women can have scars from a pregnancy: from a C-section or from interventions on there gyno system (cyst/fibroids surgeries, hysterectomy, or a mastectomy). Most of them will worry about the positive outcome of the surgery, and if it is the case, never worry about it again. The scars become…
