Turning Stress Into Strength – Five Tools to Build Resiliency
Christina Carreau BA, ND Resiliency - 'the ability to recover from difficult life events';' to withstand adversity and bounce back and grow despite life’s downturns.' We all have vulnerabilities, we all have weaknesses, we all [...]
5 Health Benefits of Vacation
Christina Carreau BA, ND Most of us do not need convincing that vacations are good for our health, as we have experienced these benefits firsthand. But I did want to highlight some of the research [...]
5 Health Benefits of Love
Christina Carreau ND Research shows that giving and receiving love is beneficial to our health! Hopefully we have all experienced the benefits first hand and don’t need research to validate this! The good news is, [...]
The Stress Epidemic – The Hidden Cost of Stress
Christina Carreau BA, ND Your stress response is a complex series of interactions between your nervous system, adrenal glands and a number of other organs, which signal the release of cortisol, adrenaline and noradrenaline into the [...]
Diaphragmatic Breathing – A Simple Tool To Reduce Stress
Christina Carreau BA, ND Too many of us are operating under the premise that we need more hours in the day. Our 'to do' lists often exceed our time constraints, so that the only way [...]
Is Stress Making You Sick? – 5 Ways To Combat Stress
Christina Carreau, BA, ND Stress is something that many of us experience on a regular basis and while our experiences of stress can be quite different (i.e. diarrhea versus constipation, headaches versus anxiety, feeling [...]