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Non-discrimination, part 2
It seems only fitting on Martin Luther King Day that we shout out our Non-Discrimination Statement loud and proud today. Unfortunately today, a client decided to verbally abuse several of our practitioners and sadly, this was not an isolated incident. They carried the MIS-belief that the “customer is always right” and that the staff at…
Food of the Month by Dr. Scott ND: Kohlrabi
Kholrabi is a delicious vegetable that is part of the Brassica genus. Amongst other nutrients, it provides you with vitamin C, phosphorous, potassium and calcium at appreciable levels. If you have never had it, I would describe the taste as a cross between a cabbage and a radish. Raw, the texture is crunchy and the…
Countering Racism & Oppression in Holistic Healing
Thought-provoking article from “Queering Herbalism”, http://queerherbalism.blogspot.ca/2013/03/no-herbal-revolution-without-anti.html “Power imbalances exist between herbalists and those who come to them to be healed/ to co-heal. As healers who are very much human, we bring in our assumptions and biases. We can’t leave them at the door. They are very much present in our consultations and inform our healing…
Kintsugi
From Ando Modern Zen: “When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandise the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.” This quote [1] from Barbara Bloom describes Kintsugi [3], the Japanese practise of repairing precious but broken objects with gold. It’s a…
Post-surgery update from Christina
My long awaited ureter reimplantation on Nov. 1st surgery went as well one could possibly wish for and the reconstruction was much less invasive than anticipated. My blood pressure had also normalized immediately after surgery, which indicated that the blockage on my right kidney has finally been relieved. An added a bonus, the cystogram on…

