February is Heart Month! Heart Month was created by The Heart and Stroke Foundation and is a national, community-based fundraising campaign to bring awareness to heart disease and stroke. More information here: http://heartmonth.heartandstroke.ca/ At Connect … Read More
New Year, New You?
10 Tips for Making, And Keeping, Your New Year’s resolutions The time has come again for New Year’s resolutions and making healthy promises to ourselves. January represents the fresh start of a new year and … Read More
The Season of Winter & Reflection
The power of winter is the power of emphasis: it emphasizes the essence of life. Without the external ornamentation of leaves, flowers, and fruits of the growing season, the plant is just bare essence: a … Read More
The Top 5 Health Tips for Cold Weather Seasons
The crisp fall weather has arrived, hinting already at the coming winter. Known as the cold and flu season, the cold weather months are also linked to seasonal affective disorder (SAD), depression, and aggravation of … Read More
Helping You Transform
Helping you Transform with Chew-Nyet Lee, Registered Counselling Therapist, Certified Hakomi Therapist, Certified Yoga and Meditation Teacher Frequently Asked Questions 1.What do you do at Connect Health? I help individuals change limiting beliefs that are causing pain … Read More
Being Happy Just Being
Summer typically involves holidays that take us out of our routines, and into novelty and excitement. Holidays can be stimulating and often require lots of energy. Even on the day of my last yoga class, … Read More
Healing Mindfully
There has been a lot of buzz lately about ‘mindfulness’. I’m sure you’ve heard of it in the media, and information is exploding within the scientific literature too. But what does mindfulness really mean? I … Read More
An Osteopathic Story
Dr. Fulford, a legendary Osteopath, whom many of you may have heard of through Dr. Andrew Weil’s book “Spontaneous Healing”, stressed the importance of looking at the living process of life. He said, “we have … Read More
Eat Better, Move More, Love More… Lifestyle Medicine As Prevention + Treatment
We are at a pivotal point in the evolution of medicine where we are beginning to truly appreciate both the incredible power of modern technological medicine, but also its limits. More than 70% of all … Read More
Why Do We Need Functional Medicine?
“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them”. – Einstein The most powerful question we can ask in medicine is “Why?” Why did this particular person get this form … Read More