Author: Health Collective

What a relief to know I can address this stress with healing before it becomes so stagnant it solidifies.

What a relief to know I can address this stress with healing before it becomes so stagnant it solidifies.

I’ve had a pain in my neck, for months. I went for one Gua sha treatment with Jade. The next night, I was getting ready for sleeping and I noticed, the pain is gone! What a relief to know I can address this stress with healing before it becomes so stagnant it solidifies. G.T.

Words cannot express the gratitude I feel, I honestly feel like I’ve been given a second chance at life.

Words cannot express the gratitude I feel, I honestly feel like I’ve been given a second chance at life.

I’ve been getting acupuncture from Christina for over 6 months now.  I have lived a lifetime of trauma and abuse growing up and it’s affected my thinking patterns and caused a great deal of anxiety and depression. In 2016 I suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), which was not diagnosed until several years later. I…

H&H turns 14: enter our Humans of Heart & Hands Drive!

H&H turns 14: enter our Humans of Heart & Hands Drive!

This October, we can hardly believe it ourselves, but Heart & Hands turns 14!!!AND we are inviting you to share with us your Humans of Heart & Hands stories!Tell us about the impact we have made in your lives and be entered in a prize draw! We love community. And we love stories. Humans of Heart…

Herbal Broth for Fall Immune Support, by Jade (JO) Oswald, R.TCMP.
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Herbal Broth for Fall Immune Support, by Jade (JO) Oswald, R.TCMP.

“My body is not a temple, it’s a thermos for soup”  Fall is the perfect time to begin incorporating more nourishing broths into the mix to bolster our immune system and protect ourselves against seasonal illnesses. Medicinal herbs can be combined with bones or chicken feet and seasonal vegetables to make for a nutrient-rich broth…

H&H and Green Muse Herbs team all masked and standing in front of our windows

Heart & Hands + Green Muse Herbs joint masking statement

Green Muse Herbs and Heart & Hands Health Collective, as businesses, have both been built on values of economic and disability justice, mutual aid, community care, and upholding public health and safety. We are one of the few remaining safer retail and clinical spaces for people with vulnerable and suppressed immune systems and will continue…

Closure Monday Sept 30, 2024 for the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation
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Closure Monday Sept 30, 2024 for the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation

We will be CLOSED Monday Sept 30th in observance of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation. We will be back to regular programming Tuesday October 1st. The H&H team will taking the day to reflect upon the ongoing colonization of the unceded Indigenous territories we reside upon. If you are a settler residing on Lekwengen…

Jade is on the left, JO is on the right, they are both smiling and pointing at one another. They are standing in front of a yellow wall.
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Reintroducting your acupunks: Jaay (Jade) Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac & Jade (JO) Oswald, R.TCMP.!

It’s been a few weeks operating at 2612 Quadra St and we’ve had a few scheduling mix-ups, so we are taking the opportunity to reintroduce two members of our acupunking team with somewhat similar names… Jaay (Jade) Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac. If I were to describe myself in 3 words: Curious, considered, candid How tall are you?…

Harmonizing with the Fall season, by Jade (JO) Oswald, R.TCMP.

Harmonizing with the Fall season, by Jade (JO) Oswald, R.TCMP.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the season of Fall is associated with the Metal phase or “element”. The natural movement of the metal phase is of contraction or gathering of energy for storing. Think plants dying back to store its energy in their roots, trees dropping their leaves to prepare for dormancy, or bears gathering…

H&H acu-nappers receive discount for Green Muse Herbs Immune formulations!

H&H acu-nappers receive discount for Green Muse Herbs Immune formulations!

We wanted to encourage and entice more of our H&H clients to take advantage of all of the abundant herbal, educational and ceremonial offerings from Green Muse Herbs AND more importantly, it’s been a pretty respiratory virus riddled summer and many of you are heading into the fall season with thrashed immune systems :( This…