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What’s problematic with the current culture and mentality of modern medicine’s fix-it strategy?
The current culture and mentality of the healthcare system facilitates a “fix-it” approach when it comes to any form of injury, illness or disease. Along my healing journey I became fascinated to see how I had adopted a fix-it mentality toward my own healing. In other words, I was looking externally for someone else to…
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Is there a better way? Gaps in helping individuals with persistent pain in physical therapy practice.
Today I want to talk about our current healthcare or medical model. I worked as a physiotherapist, and it was in this setting I found a gap in helping people with pain. Which was being able to get at the root cause or causes of pain and/or why a person was still experiencing pain. To…
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I want my meditation practice to be perfect
Starting a meditation practice isn’t easy. It can soon lose its novelty and become a challenge to remain consistent even though we know it’s something that can help us. Meditation can look however you want it to look. It doesn’t have to look like what we see in the media, such as sitting cross legged…
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How to build a successful meditation practice when you are anti-meditation
An alternative pain management strategy that has played a huge role in my life and in my healing is meditation. I was first introduced to meditation when I attended a two-day course for yoga for chronic pain. I attended this course both for personal and professional reasons. At that time, I was working as a…