I hope you enjoy the ‘soft launch’ edition of the Wellnessnews Choices for Healthy Living® in White Rock | South Surrey! Healthy living means making positive daily choices and taking personal ownership to enrich our lives in areas such as our physical, emotional, social, occupational, financial, and spiritual wellbeing. Fortunately, our wellness can always be enriched through education, awareness, and practice. We strive to be the community resource that showcases health tips, local opportunities, and resources; plus, the variety of health practitioners and businesses that can help you achieve your goal of optimal health and wellness. When we are healthy, our entire community benefits!

Neurofeedback addresses imbalances that are going on in the brain, such as anxiety-depression spectrum, attention deficits, behaviour disorders, various sleep disorders, concussions, PTSD, and emotional disturbances. Neurofeedback is a computer-guided way to help train your brain to help you function better. The treatment uses a 21-channel brain map and database, the most comprehensive method to determine the brain locations and frequency bands that need attention. Most brains can be trained like any other part of your body, without drugs. In a matter of months, 2-3 hours/week can make lasting changes in how we think, feel, act, and perform—even in how our bodies work.

When selecting and working with an investment advisor, you may be curious about what you are getting for your money. Your advisor should be able to tell you why their services warrant the fees they charge and why working with them will be more beneficial than managing your finances on your own. Services that investment advisors offer range from understanding your needs and goals, to providing investment advice, to offering reports on how your investments are doing, to aiding in estate/tax and insurance planning. These specialized and individual services ensure your money is working for you. Developing a trusting relationship with your investment advisor can help you understand their role in your financial world.

When pets are young, it is important that the gut barrier be strengthened. Young animals are born with leaky or open guts. This allows absorption of immune system proteins from their mothers’ first milk that will protect them from disease. Young pets always need deworming, and sometimes prescriptions, to kill off parasites. The gut remains slightly open to protein absorption throughout life, and so veterinarians use an animal’s excrement to judge and manage reactivities to different foods. Healthy excrement is firm excrement usually, unless an animal is dehydrated.

Todd was originally a professor for chemical engineering with a passion for Chinese medicine. After watching how traditional Chinese medicine positively transformed the health of his family, he decided to devote the rest of his life to this mastery. He is now an R.TCM.P and has traveled around the world to learn from acupuncture masters. His technique uses short and thin needles to minimize pain and stimulate chi flow to cure ailments and symptoms naturally. Todd is excited to be part of this community and better the lives of each client at Super Life Acupuncture and Wellness Centre.

There is a lot of research that indicates that as a culture we do not get enough vitamin D, especially in the winter. Reason? We don’t go outside! We typically don’t linger in the rain and cold, or do much gardening, or go for leisurely walks like we do in the warm, sunny months. However, our bodies need it. Being outside is good for our mental and physical health, significantly reducing anxiety and depression. So bundle up and go for that walk, or go skiing, or snow shoeing, or for that nice hike. Remember, there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad gear! So get outside, your mental health will thank you.

The physiotherapists at Diane Lee & Associates are experts in the physical diagnosis of movement impairments and have taken several post-graduate courses in their specialty. They work to address the cause of your pain as opposed to merely treating your painful structures; by understanding how the whole body functions and how certain problems can impact other regions of the body. By not only treating you for your pain, but also empowering you with the knowledge to make the right changes in your own body, we are simply guides in your own healing process as you transform to live with a healthier, more active body.