Help to make your next vacation free from developing a travel-related illness. Plan and speak with your pharmacist about how to stay healthy while travelling away from home. Your Pharmacist can give you vital health information regarding managing your medications, recommended vaccines and medications to prevent illness, useful travel products, and basic first aid supplies to have on hand while travelling. Your pharmacist will ensure you have the information and products you need to be prepared for health issues that may arise while you are away. Stay healthy on your vacation.
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New Year, Financial Liberation
Step into the New Year with financial empowerment through a Lifestyle Mortgage. Unlocking up to 55% of your home’s value as tax-free cash offers unparalleled flexibility. Maintain your residence without monthly payments, easing financial burdens. The No Negative Equity Guarantee safeguards your equity in fluctuating markets, ensuring peace of mind. Use the funds to enhance your retirement or fulfill long-held aspirations. Embrace a worry-free financial journey in 2024, seizing the benefits of a Lifestyle Mortgage for a secure and fulfilling future.
Business Spotlight
Navigating the Next Chapter. We guide seniors and their loved ones through the process of finding a retirement community and/or care options that best meet their wants and needs. With a compassionate understanding of the emotional stress and challenges a significant transition like this can have on both the senior and their loved ones, we have created a personalized concierge service to simplify the process, and help families navigate through the maze of options and resources with compassion, offering a clear and simplified path to peace of mind.
Yoga, Ayurveda for Wellness
We are all trying to feel better with each choice we make, whether we are conscious of it or not. By taking small, gentle, well supported steps each day, we can improve the quality of our lives – from better sleep and digestion to better mobility, stamina, motivation, self-worth, state of mind, sense of purpose, and cessation of pain. Ayurveda, the science of living well, guides us in harmonizing with seasonal cycles and establishing profound connections with the world. Developed to support yoga, which removes obstacles to inner peace, daily Ayurveda and restorative yoga practices can transform your life by unveiling your inner bliss.
Seniors New Year’s Resolutions
A new year means it’s time for a fresh start! Why not use these New Year’s Resolutions as inspiration? 1) Challenge Your Brain – this is important for maintaining your cognitive skills and lowering your risk of memory loss. Play games, do puzzles, or learn a new language. 2) Exercise Daily – even just 10 minutes a day to start can make a difference. Aim to work up to 1 hour per day in the future. 3) Connect with Others – volunteer, join a seniors club. This can boost your mental well-being and confidence.
Share Quality Time All Year Long
Now that the holidays are over, many of us will go back to our busy lives, resulting in less time to spend with family and friends. We challenge you to keep an element of “Holiday Quality Time” going in January and throughout the year. We encourage you to see someone close to you with more frequency than you did in 2023. You will both benefit. A previous director of the Harvard Grant Study, a 75-year comprehensive study of adult development and happiness, said, “The only thing that matters in life are your relationships with other people.” (George Vaillant)
Remedy for Arthritis Pain
Arthritis is the development of calcium crystals in the body. It is especially painful when it develops in the joints. Contrary to common belief, it is not a normal part of aging. Crystals will develop if a body has been inactive for as little as two to three weeks. You can get rid of the calcium crystals in your body and, therefore, the symptoms of arthritis, by using movement. There are massage techniques that can be done by a practitioner, or you can learn how to perform these movements on yourself. Contact me for more information on massage services and self-massage classes.
January 2024 New Year’s Resolutions
A common ritual around the New Year is to make resolutions for the upcoming year. For many, these resolutions are typically broken within the first couple of weeks. The greatest challenge with these resolutions is that they are focused on what we ‘think we should do’ as opposed to what would be really helpful to us. Common resolutions are: to exercise more, lose weight, quit smoking and so on. Now, all of those ideas are healthy; however, they are not always a good plan for self-care. Make your New Year’s resolutions about increasing self-care, which is about finding activities you enjoy doing and doing them regularly!
Welcome 2024!
Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to concentrate on health and wellness? The WellnessHub, our local, online Health and Wellness resource has great information to help you with your health and wellness journey. It features hundreds of health tips and articles on a variety of health and wellness topics along with a directory of hundreds of local businesses and practitioners offering services and products. It is easy to search, access and share information. While you are checking out the WellnessHub, don’t forget to enter the January Contest. The draw date is January 31, 2024. Happy New Year!
Support is a Game Changer
2024 Post-holiday debt can pile up quickly and become overwhelming. The stress of overdue bills can tempt us to use gambling as a quick fix. Gambling can cost us everything—not only our money but our mental and physical health, especially when we are seeking financial or emotional relief. Free tools and confidential supports are available, including voluntary self-exclusions, gambling-blocking apps (GamBan, GamBlock), a 24/7 toll-free phone line, credit counsellors, financial advisors, ministers, pastors, podcasts (Fold ’Em), or connect with us. Support is a game-changer!
Danger of Negative Thoughts
Do you find yourself having negative thoughts? Negative thinking can be very harmful to our mental and physical health and make us weak. If we think, “I can’t do this” or “I am worthless,” we start to believe that it’s true. It is up to us to dismiss them. Thoughts are like clouds floating in the sky. We have the choice to latch onto them or to let them float by. What we latch onto most, whether positive or negative, becomes the trend. Positive thoughts make us strong. Make 2024 the year to be strong in mind and body.
