I’m so happy to be presenting again to the women at this weekend’s Bliss B4 Laundry retreat at Camp Kawartha! This year’s workshop: “Resolving Insomnia!” Here are some of the important resources I’ll be sharing with them this weekend:
Book Review: “To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest” by Diana Beresford-Kroeger (Published by Penguin Random House, Hardcover, $32.00, ISBN 978-0-7352-7507-2)
If you are a tree fan, then Diana Beresford-Kroeger is likely not a name new to your bookshelf! Diana is a world-renowned medical biochemist and botanist. She is the author of six books and has been the feature of a very successful documentary on the subject of her expertise – trees – “The Call of the Forest”. I had the recent opportunity to review her latest book (release September 24th, 2019) and then to interview her for my Possibility Podcast.*
As a scientist turned energy healer I often reflect on one of the fundamental equations of science, E=mc2.
Einstein’s equation tells us that energy (E) and matter (m) are interchangeable. It says that a beam of light and an apple core are essentially the same thing. The c in the equation represents the speed of light, and tells us that when energy is released from matter, it travels at the speed of light.
Another quality of energy is that it vibrates at a certain frequency, depending on the kind of energy that we are talking about.
In Kingston, there’s a lot of talk about harmful energetic frequencies emitted by electromagnetic fields. Like all energy, this energy has the ability to interact with matter, possibly changing its structure. This is certainly a great concern.
You may have noticed a few lawn signs in Kingston advocating for “No Small Cell Antennas; No 5G”. Implementation of this “fifth generation” telecommunications technology is progressing rapidly worldwide, despite more than 20,000 scientific studies citing harmful effects of electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) from electric and wireless devices. Concerned physicians, scientists, and local action groups (including Kingstonians for Safe Technology) are advocating for proof of safety before installation is permitted in residential areas. It matters because, once installed, we’ll all be exposed to massive increases of EMF.
“Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century.” World Health Organization
Many of us know that healthy lifestyle choices are also environmentally responsible choices. We know, for example, that biking to work rather than driving, is healthy. We know that reducing our exposure to synthetic chemicals by using natural household cleaners and eating organic food is also correlated to better health. But have you stopped to consider why this relationship exists?
We’re celebrating 10 years and our 11th annual Open House! Please drop-in to say hello, ask questions, share stories, and help us celebrate all that integrative and natural healthcare has to offer our Kingston community!
Are you ready for that moment when you have to pull a tick from your skin or your child’s skin? Do you know when to seek medical help or request antibiotics? Review my updated Lyme Disease Prevention Guidelines and please share them with friends and family… Prevention is critical when it comes to Lyme Disease and associated infections.
I’m concerned by the sudden rise of debilitating anxiety in the patients who walk through my door. These people are feeling deeply unstable, ungrounded, and unsafe. Anxiety is harming their relationships with people, with food, and their environment. They’re confused by the cause of their anxiety and are hoping that I have a pill to take it away. Though I often suggest a pill to help, the real value in our work comes from identifying and treating the underlying source of anxiety. For those of you struggling with anxiety currently, I’m sharing some of the common contributing physical causes that are often overlooked. (In other words, it’s not “all in your head” and we can do something about it.)
Having recently returned from a working holiday trip to Tanzania, a place that I visited in 2011 and that continues to draw me back, I’ve been reflecting on why it holds such appeal to me. One might think that volunteering at a children and women’s centre, housing a number of orphans and disadvantaged widows, would breed some pretty heavy emotions, but I beg to argue that the opposite can actually be true.
By Olivia Mew, Queen’s Student
We’re grateful to have had Olivia complete her Queen’s University Community Internship with us here at KIHC.
Having a mental illness is often considered a flaw or weakness, but does it have to be? With a small change in perception, mental illness actually provides many strengths and positive attributes in an individual.
