Please join me for this incredible event put on by Birth Talks.  I am a founding member of this group and so very proud of the work we are doing to provide women and families with information to make empowered choices.  If you are or know someone who is pregnant, will be pregnant or who has ever been pregnant, you will enjoy and benefit from attending this rare event.

The Business of Being Born is a critically acclaimed documentary about the beauty and the business behind birth in America.  Our panel of experts includes a GP, Midwife and doula who will answer your questions about the prenatal and birth systems in Canada, and much more.

February 26th, 7pm at the Inlet Theatre in Port Moody.  Tickets are available at www.birthtalks.com

You’ve made it through the holidays (Happy New Year!), hopefully without falling victim to the nasty cold and flu bugs that were going around.  But the CDC is reporting that another spike in flu cases is on the way and that the flu vaccine is not well matched to the viral strains circulating this year.  Good thing you know that there are so many more important health saving measures you can take, other than the vaccine!    Here are my Top 5 Ways to Beat the Flu and come out on top this year:

Originally Posted on Semperviva Yoga on May 6, 2014

Hormones are vital to our health, energy and youthful vitality. As we age there are natural changes in the release of hormones and in the body’s ability to metabolize them. The decline in estrogen at menopause is often what comes to mind when people think about hormonal imbalance, but did you know that there are many other hormones, like progesterone, testosterone and cortisol that change with age and that imbalances can happen long before menopause? Hormone imbalances can affect women of all ages, not just women approaching menopause. This is why taking a proactive approach to health, including hormone health is so important.

Originally Posted in Tri-City News on April 04, 2014

Your skin is your largest organ and, for some people, it is a large health concern.

Eczema affects roughly six million people in Canada and most cases first appear before the age of five. I’ve seen countless new patients come in with a bag full of medicated creams, washes, moisturizers, etc. on which they’ve spent a fortune with little improvement, or whose skin problems return as soon as they stop using these topical products.

Originally posted on March 31st, 2014 at Semperviva Yoga

This month’s blog question from a Sun Studio Semperviva yogi is about how ageing affects the digestive tract. There are a number of anatomical and physiological changes in the digestive tract of an older adult. Today I will discuss a few of these changes and offer tips to help combat the effects of the ageing digestive tract.

Get ready ladies because today we are talking periods. There are so many slang words to describe this time of the month, most of which paint this natural process as an unpleasant experience.

My family business is the business of education: becoming a teacher is the thing to do in my family. It was an incredible environment to grow up in and to have around me now as an adult… but I was never one of them.

“What is food to one man may be fierce poison to another”– Lucretius circa 756BC

Happy Spring! The days are getting longer, the sun is shining and flowers are in bloom! With the changing of Winter into Spring comes the perfect time to do a little Spring Cleaning. Open those windows that have been shut all winter long, clean out the old and welcome in the new!