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Let’s Get Personal… with Vanessa Pettit

Posted on November 8, 2021 by Vanessa Pettit • 0 Comments

Welcome to our newest blog series - Let's Get Personal! This series is all about vulnerability & getting to know a different side of our healthcare team. Let's hear from Vanessa Pettit - our wonderful doctor of acupuncture. 1. What is your favourite part of what you do for a living? I love... Continue Reading

Find Your Heart Centre

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Dr. Meaghan McCollum • 0 Comments

Are you feeling the stress of life? Lots of thoughts, responsibilities, work, etc. Busy, busy, busy. I wanted to share with you all a little trick. A little meditation of sorts that helps to centre you, to pull you out of the daily dramas and be in your centre. It doesn't take a lot of... Continue Reading

The Art of Cupping

Posted on April 10, 2021 by Vanessa Pettit • 0 Comments

I like to think of cupping as a little slice of healing heaven for the mind and body. It has a multitude of applications and there is something for nearly everyone with this therapy, even for the kids! Cupping has become somewhat popular in the media with sports figures and celebrities, but it has... Continue Reading

Sadness: The Portal to Happiness

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Naturmend Staff • 0 Comments

Sadness is the most profound, pivotal, and powerful of emotions. No other emotion has the power to transform us, to evolve us, to change us from the inside out. It’s also the most discounted, maligned, shamed, countered, misunderstood, resisted, and feared emotion, according to Dr. Gordon... Continue Reading

Welcoming Spring with Open Arms

Posted on March 14, 2021 by Naturmend Staff • 1 Comments

Spring officially kicks off Saturday, March 20th so YES I’m a little early but I just feel so excited to talk about this upcoming season of rebirth and regeneration. I’ve already started to notice subtle shifts in the people around me – more movement, more smiling, more sunshine, more active... Continue Reading

Meditation Changed Me

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Dr. Meaghan McCollum • 4 Comments

I was at a low point during the pregnancy of my 2nd daughter. I had a stress breakdown midday way through the pregnancy. Just so much on my plate, and felt I was lacking support and that I couldn’t handle it all. My personal life had challenges and my personal emotional and spiritual health was... Continue Reading

As We Turn in for Winter, Focus on Relationships.

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Christina Sutter • 0 Comments

Relationship is a foundational part of so many aspects of our lives. Whether it is with our parents, partners, siblings, coworkers or friends, relationships truly are the core to our emotions, thoughts and behaviours. That being said, because relationships are so prevalent in our lives we can... Continue Reading

Natural Beauty: Lean into Yourself

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Dr. Meaghan McCollum • 0 Comments

You are beautiful. I truly believe that. And if you are over 40 it's the wrinkles, the grey hairs, the slowing down of our mature bodies that is perfect. It's wonderful and the way it's supposed to be while living in this physical body. I work a lot with women 40+ years old. And I know for... Continue Reading

Transitioning “Back’ to a New Normal

Posted on June 22, 2020 by Christina Sutter • 0 Comments

In an ideal world that wasn’t filled with challenges, joys, stresses and never enough time we would all be able to do exactly what we wanted to do when and how we needed to. However, we do all live in a wonderfully chaotic and ever changing world and there are a few things that can truly help us... Continue Reading

And Then Came June…

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Vanessa Pettit • 3 Comments

Or as the popular meme states: Welcome to level 6 of Jumanji! We are, to say the least, truly living in unprecedented times and by the time I return to the new norms of the work I love as an Acupuncturist and Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I will have been home for the duration of the... Continue Reading

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