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Health Partnerships That Matter

by | March 6, 2025 | Health Goals | 0 Comments

On the road-trip to health, you are the driver, but I'll keep you on track (and bring snacks)!   In healthcare, you can often observe the relationship of the "all knowing expert” and the "passive patient”, a powerful dynamic which is often reinforced by factors...
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Why Diagnostic Imaging Isn’t Your Whole Story

by | February 18, 2025 | Fitness, Health Goals, Misconception | 0 Comments

Breaking news: Diagnostics are not the ‘be all and end all’! Sometimes your health journey can feel challenging. You may have been making progress but then somewhere along the way you hit a wall, and you start to wonder if all your efforts have been in vain. Instead...
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Small Steps, Big Outcomes: It’s never too late to start

by | January 8, 2025 | Fitness, Health Goals, Misconception, Self-care | 0 Comments

Growing old is inevitable, but choosing to “age well” is a choice you get to make every day. Admittedly, as fundamental as good health is to your wellbeing, achieving and maintaining it can sometimes come with a host of challenging factors. Genetic predispositions,...
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From Setbacks to Success: A Fresh Approach

by | December 6, 2024 | Health Goals | 0 Comments

Sometimes challenges lead to the best opportunities. I’m sure there have been times in your life when a plan fell through, a goal wasn’t achieved, or an expectation wasn't met and although this may have left you feeling rejected or like a failure, it is sometimes, in...
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Walk it off: Why movement is medicine

by | August 27, 2024 | Homecare | 0 Comments

Movement matters. At Theralleve, we advocate for our clients to 'get moving' after our treatments. We purposely provide simple "home-care" to not only improve daily routines around things like posture and breath-work, but also provide exercises that can help with...
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Cupping: is it all hype?

by | June 15, 2024 | Wellness alternative | 0 Comments

When most people hear the word “cupping”, they may think of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps when he revealed his fixation towards this technique by showing the world his large, purple, and painless welts on his back. Regardless if we’ve jogged your memory about Phelps...
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When opportunity knocks twice, answer!

by | April 5, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Have you ever said "no" to doing something but really wished you'd said "yes"? I did. Back in late February, a mentor of mine advertised the opportunity to speak at one of her upcoming online events. The event was called the Women's Spirit Festival and it would be a...
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Avoiding burnout for better productivity

by | March 12, 2024 | Health Goals, Self-care | 0 Comments

Want to know an amazing secret weapon against burnout? With only two sleeps left before I go away for a family-focused weekend, I am considering doing something that will take considerable effort: leaving my work at home. In a world that glorifies "hustle" culture,...
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2024: Focus on what matters

by | January 9, 2024 | Health Goals, Self-care | 0 Comments

  It's January 4th and I just put the finishing touches on something I have tried to do every year since opening my business, and that is: create a vision board. For me, a vision board is a collection of visual cues that help align my intentions on the inside...
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Massage misconception #2: water and toxins and massage – oh my!

by | March 17, 2021 | Misconception | 0 Comments

Drinking water is, without question, one of the best things you can do for your body. Not only are we made of it (roughly 60-70% depending on which health journal you read), but water provides many other benefits to the body including:   - Maintaining homeostasis (the...
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Massage Misconception #1: Pain versus Gain

Massage Misconception #1: Pain versus Gain

by | Feb 2, 2021 |

You may be familiar with the expression "no pain, no gain.” Well-known to the fitness industry, it promotes the idea that without pain we will never achieve our fullest potential. Even if we are left battered and bruised in the process, we must still be willing to do...

Self-care is not selfish

Self-care is not selfish

by | Sep 22, 2020 |

Many of us are familiar with the adage “you cannot pour from an empty cup”. In simplest terms, this means that you cannot give to others (in time or effort) when you have not taken care of yourself first.