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Positive Change For Your Wholeness
Natural Healthcare for Families is focused on the well-being of you and your family. It is my privilege to assist you on your journey towards optimal health. There are many avenues provided in nature for healing the body and mind: proper nutrition, exercise, and various types of bodywork that facilitate your strength,promote toxin removal, improve circulation, increase your immune system function, and improve overall well-being.
Purification/Detox Program
Purification is like "spring cleaning" for your insides. Standard Process has a great Purification Program! The products/supplements are made from organic whole foods. This is NOT a fad diet. It is a program that helps you live a healthier life by purifiying, nourishing and maintaining a healthy body and weight.
You'll support all of your organ systems that play a role in purification - the kidneys, liver, lymphatic system (related to immunity), lungs, intestines, blood and skin. You will learn about your body and what it needs to stay healthy, and you will likely shed some extra weight.
Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral Therapy has become a well-known, effective therapy through the work of Dr. John Upledger and several others like him, who have discovered the benefit of assisting the body's healing in the craniosacral system. They have found that what is happening in the craniosacral system affects the fascia (the durable membrane that covers the muscles, bones, nerves, organs, and blood vessels). When the fascia is affected, the body can be set off-balance and, immediately or over time, experience restrictions in function.
Craniosacral Therapy (CST) is a light, non-invasive touch that can help to release tension in the body, relieve pain, and improve your function in life. Our cells have "tissue memory", which can cause them to hold onto changes that happened during injuries, traumas, or just the stress from every day living - stress with work, family, etc. With CST, the soft tissues that surround the brain and spine can relax into their natural movement, and the fluid that is contained in the spinal cord can flow more easily and more symmetrically.
This therapy is very gentle, and is appropriate for all ages - infants to the elderly.
Just several areas of dysfunction that CST helps are: pain from accidents, headaches, TMJ Syndrome, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, chronic neck and back pain, post-surgical pain, torticollis, and some infant feeding problems caused by difficult/traumatic delivery.
CST can facilitate overall health, well-being and body/mind comfort.
Lymph Drainage Therapy
One of our body's most powerful tools for removing toxins is built right in! It is our Lymphatic System. The lymphatic system is busy 24 hours per day filtering, removing toxins and waste products, housing and transporting immunity "helper cells" as well as proteins, hormones and fatty acids. When the lymph is "backed up" or blocked for some reason, these substances also get stuck and toxins accumulate. The health of every cell in the body depends upon the lymph system to be able to do its job.
Lymph Drainage Therapy (LDT) was developed by doctors Miller and Millard in the 1920's and by Vodder, a massage therapist in 1932. The Upledger Institute utilizes the LDT technique developed by Bruno Chikly, MD, DO (hon.) to train many LDT therapists worldwide.
LDT is a gentle hands-on technique that manually promotes proper flow of the lymph fluid. Trained LDT therapists can detect areas of lymph stagnation, as well as patterns and rhythms of lymph flow. This knowledge helps the therapist to know which direction to direct the lymph flow, and how much pressure to use (averages the weight of a nickel).
Many clients report feeling much lighter, feeling less "tight" or "congested" in areas where the lymph was stagnant prior to therapy, and sometimes temporarily increased urine output from the improved lymph flow.
Because promoting proper lymph flow delivers nutrients and removes toxins, it is a great adjunct therapy, along with proper nutrition, exercise and healthy lifestyle, to help the immune system to function at its optimum!
