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SUBURBAN SAGE PARTY

SUNDAY JUNE 10TH 1 PM TO 3 PM

36 VALHALLA COURT AURORA, ONTARIO L4G 5W4

Women’s Wellness

Empower yourself by learning and experiencing ancient wisdom from both the East and West.

Bev Mcleish, a modern western Herbalist who has a strong drive to share her knowledge of the ever available potent and healing properties of earth’s plant life, will cover multiple plants (many native to Ontario) that have supported women’s wellness for centuries.

Wendy Williams, a tai chi fanatic infuses her calm strength and gentle sense of humour to express and center ourselves through Chinese Martial Arts and philosophy.  Wendy will provide simple practices from tai chi and neigong to leave you with an array of personalized tools for your own empowerment.

From novice to dabblers, all are welcome. There are limited numbers so email bev@herbalnorth.ca to find out how to reserve your spot!

Hold your space for $20. Allergy alert, dog and cat on premises.

 

 

Bev McLeish
Chartered Herbalist
Herbal Nort

what does anxiety feel like, Karen Spencer NLP, Out of the Woods Wellness Aurora

In this blog, we are going to explore what anxiety looks like, what it feels like, and how it shows up in our lives.  I am talking about anxiety that is not productive.  You know, the kind that keeps you up at night, that stops you in your tracks, that makes you and everyone around you crazy.

This unhealthy anxiety can strike at any moment and usually does.  It sometimes creeps into your life bit by bit, tapping you on the shoulder like a person trying to get your attention.  Or it can barge into your life like a house invader that just broke down the front door.  Throwing things around without regard for your feelings.  Totally unwanted and frightening.

What Does Anxiety Feel Like?

When someone asks me what anxiety feels like, I generally talk about these symptoms.  You can feel panicky, unsure, irritable, jittery, numb.  Sometimes you become hypervigilant.  You can experience headaches, migraines, vomiting, nausea, clammy hands, clenched jaw, panting, trembling, racing heart, inability to speak or think clearly, breathlessness, tight chest or insomnia.  You can start performing repeated patterns such as scratching or picking at yourself and you can develop a sensitivity to light or sound.

Thoughts You Can’t Turn Off

You may also have repetitive thoughts that you cannot turn off, no matter how hard you try.  Random, flittering thoughts that are most likely negative and predict a worse-case scenario.  These thoughts tend to lead from one disaster to another such as “this will happen and then that will happen and then that will cause this to happen.

These stories that we tell ourselves are vivid and melodramatic with everything that could possibly go wrong occurring all at once.  These stories are always in the future and have nothing to do with the exact moment that we are living in.  Convoluted and detailed, they become ingrained in our current consciousness as if they were actually happening.

All of this thinking and imagining is so easily triggered and yet so very difficult to stop.

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Karen Spencer

Master Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner and Coach, Master Time Line Therapy® Practitioner, Master Hypnotherapist

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