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Michel Tetrault

Personal Coaching Wellness, general

Wellness is Personal

P – personal and individual planning & execution E – effort is required to “normalize” weight and keep it off R – reasonable, achievable goals are required S – self-discipline is at the center of lifestyle transformation O – optimal health is achievable in most cases N – natural choices are always better A – addictions need to be overcome L – lifetime pursuit (not a quick fix) Warning… Taking any drug for symptomatic or maintenance reasons is NOT healthcare but just disease…

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Chiropractic Spinal Health

Chiropractic Focus – Cervical Spondylosis

Martha has been suffering from arm and hand pain and numbness with gradually increasing severity. It all began with frequent earlier neck pains and some reoccurring headaches. These are symptoms of a neck in trouble that is now pinching or irritating nerves that go into the arms and hands and / or other nerves that go from the neck up into the head. Signs to look for are limited neck movements; that is, the neck exhibits a restricted range of motion. IT’S EASY TO CHECK… Turn…

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Chiropractic Wellness, general

Sinusitis: Non-surgical & Non-drug Options

sinuses of the face

Mary suffers from sinusitis since her college years. Sinus pressure, sinus headaches, allergic rhinitis describe pain conditions caused by an abnormal increase in sinus fluids and the resulting increased pressure it produces in the sinus cavities of the skull and subsequent post nasal drip. The fluids can become inflamed and produce refered headaches or become infected and the inflammation with accompanying pressure may also cause a headache and/or spread the infection in the throat and lungs. Mary was prescribed antihistamine medications and analgesics for…

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Personal Coaching Wellness, general

Are You an Adrenaline Addict?

Thomas Leonard, the father of Life Coaching, noted these Top 10 Signs identifying if … You’re An Adrenaline Addict. You and your body feel pressure to perform or produce. You arrive at appointments just in the nick of time or late. You over-promise results. You procrastinate and then rush to deliver. You are impatient. You speak quickly and can’t slow yourself down without lots of effort. You don’t maintain a healthy reserve of time, money and space for yourself. You…

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Chiropractic Wellness, general

Pregnancy & Back Pain

According to scientific studies, roughly one half of all pregnant women battle backache (Obstet Gynecol 1988). Fortunately, there’s a powerful and safe solution to pregnancy-related backache: chiropractic care. In fact, Chiropractic helps many expectant moms prepare for childbirth without the needless aggravation of back pain and without drugs. Although backache occurs with similar frequency in both pregnant and non-pregnant women, back pain during pregnancy tends to be more severe. Why does pregnancy provoke such intense back discomfort? Take Mary’s case for…

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Chiropractic Spinal Health Wellness, general

Children and Headaches

When you think about someone having a headache, you probably think of an adult. However, an increasing number of children experience chronic headaches. Chiropractic has an enviable record of locating and treating the causes of most headaches, including for children. As a parent looking for a non-drug approach to helping their children suffering with recurring headaches and Migraines needs to fully evaluate this option for their children. The National Headache Foundation in the USA estimates 60 percent of all children suffer from occasional…

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Fitness Health Spinal Health Wellness, general

Reducing Golf injuries

Golf Swing

Golf has become a power game. It’s all about power and distance. Statistically, most people drive the ball less than 200 yards, but they get a big case of ‘distance envy’ when they see the pros on television reaching 300 yards. Once they start trying to match what the pros are doing, injuries are bound to occur simply because they have not conditioned their body to swing that hard. Golf-specific training and conditioning are the best ways to improve your…

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Personal Coaching

Wellness Reflections: Mid-life Crisis

Mid Life Crisis

Midlife crisis is a term coined in 1965 by Elliott Jaques stating a time where adults come to realize their own mortality and how much time is left in their life, as noted in Wikipedia. Men tend to experience this event at the ages of 40 and 60 and women experience their version at the ages of 30 and 50. For a few people the fear of an impending death approaching sparks this crisis; for most it is actually a…

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Wellness, general

Liver and Gallbladder Flush

The liver and gallbladder flush is an important detoxifying agent which will help restore normal functional capacity of these organs in people suffering from chronic-degenerative diseases.  If you want certainty that this protocol really worked its best to have a diagnostic ultrasound sometime before and then after to verify that stones were in fact expelled. People have been successful for decades by following these directions:  through Saturday noon, you should drink as much apple juice or apple cider as the…

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Personal Coaching Wellness, general

Wellness Mapping

Here is an interesting health coach / life coaching tool helpful in prognosticating your future health. The purpose of any life coaching tool is to create awareness, and the ensuing impetus to cause someone to make positive changes in their life. Demosthenes proclaimed, “Nothing is easier than self-deceit.” Very often, the future consequences of what you are doing today begins with the fact that you are believing things to be true that are not true. Why do we do that?…

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