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Letter to Victoria Fertility Centre

November 17th, 2019|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

My patients are now reporting up to 6 months of wait time before they get to meet with you ... this is 6 months of lost time. It breaks my heart that I have my first meeting with so many patients on the eve of their initial meeting with VFC, when they could have spent those 6 months laying the foundation for a quick and successful experience of IUI or IVF.

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Bringing Forth The Emotional… The Feminine

November 1st, 2019|Tags: , , |

"The center of our femininity, as women, is in our pelvises. This our center for creativity, for inspiration, for processing our world, for making sense of our experiences. The pelvis is the fountain of our feminine energy, our yin."

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Are You At Risk of Starting Menopause Early?

August 22nd, 2019|Tags: , , , , , |

Are you in your 30’s and experiencing changes in temperature? Do you wake up in the night between 3-4am? Has the rhythm of your period changed? Is your bladder less reliable than it used to be? That got your attention, didn’t it? All of these symptoms in a woman below 45 most often indicate that you are running yourself too hard! They are likely signs of what Chinese Medicine calls “yin deficiency”. It can also be understood as “stress,” but it is more nuanced than that.

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On Facing Pain

January 28th, 2018|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

I am going on year 2 of intense episodic back and leg pain. Well, to be fair, I am going on year 24 but there were many years in there where my life was not characterized by managing my back pain. Although, to be fair again, many of those years were characterized by surviving brutal monthly cycles with endometriosis.

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The Birth Control Pill: The Dark Side of “Easy” Contraception

March 28th, 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

If you are on OCP’s to “regulate” your cycle, be not fooled! They are not actually regulating your cycle. The Pill does not regulate your menstrual cycle. The Pill is inducing a state much like pregnancy, which means that you are not ovulating...

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Every Profession Has Its Shortcomings

April 11th, 2016|

I found this article a while back and I find it inspiring, as it highlights a few of the significant contributions Naturopathic Medicine has made to the healthcare field at large...

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Bringing Forth The Emotional… The Feminine

February 17th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

...the feminine energy, whether you are a man or a woman, is an energy of expansion, of fluidity, of mystery, lack of predictability, and of deep emotion and creativity. We all contain this energy, however most of us have never learned what to do with it. It can be scary and feel unwieldy...

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Endometriosis, or Excruciating Menstrual Pain!

January 31st, 2016|Tags: , , , , , |

You sweat, you vomit, you curl up in a ball on the cold bathroom tiles. Uterine cramps? Hah! Where is that uterus anyway? Your ENTIRE BODY is gripping in pain...

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Uterine Fibroids, Hysterectomies, and Naturopathic Care

June 26th, 2014|Tags: , , , |

Fibroids are hearty little buggers and can be quite challenging to budge. Meanwhile, they give rise to a number of miserable experiences for the patient including menstrual cramping, excessive bleeding with long and heavy periods, anemia, fatigue, and other complaints.

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Daughter’s Pride

June 25th, 2014|Tags: , , |

My Dad is not only a gifted teacher and historian, but he is also part of a generation of cardiologists who have exquisitely developed auscultation skills, a dying art in this age of technology. His retirement is a big deal not only for our family, but for a generation of physicians.

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