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In this episode of The Healers Café, Dr. Manon chats with Sharon Smith about emotional and physical pain, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or Tapping, a life-changing book “Feelings Buried Alive Never Die” by Karol Kuhn Truman, and so much more. Sharon is a delight to listen to so be sure to watch today!

For the transcript and to listen to the full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/sharon-smith

Highlights from today's episode include:
At 4:28 - The list that changed Sharon's life
At 11:45 - A treatment for Sciatica
At 14:44 - Tapping to treat Disappointment

About Sharon Smith

I've been in the business of helping people release pain since 2005. What I've discovered is that pain is actually a finely calibrated information system in the body. It's here to help us not harm us and is trying to communicate some important things about our bodies and our lives. The problem has been that we do our best to ignore it, work around it or medicate it. We haven't been open to listening to pain because we haven't had the "tools" to hear it clearly. I'm here to change people's perspective about pain and I've developed a proven system that allows us to both access the information while also releasing the pain quickly and effectively.

Core purpose / passion: | I want to work with large groups of people helping them to release both physical and emotional pain while achieving higher consciousness. I have a goal of reaching one million people by 2022 with my work.

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About Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND:

Dr. Manon is a Naturopathic Doctor, the Founder of Bowen College, an International Speaker TEDx talk Jan 2021, and the author of the Amazon best-selling book "What Patient's Don't Say if Doctors Don't Ask." with her new book "A Healer In Every Household" released September 2020.

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In this episode of The Healers Café, Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND, chats with Dr. Christina Bjorndal who is a Naturopathic Doctor, who is an authority in the treatment of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders and eating disorders.

For the transcript and to listen to the full story today! https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/Dr-Christina-Bjorndal 

Highlights from today's episode include:

Dr. Christina Bjorndal  08:47

Yeah, so the first step we want to understand is that there are four aspects to us as people. We have the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, and a holistic approach. We want to be investigating all four of those areas. But just speaking strictly on that physical side, understand that there are three macro systems in your body essentially. You have your neurotransmitters, you have your neuroendocrine or hormonal system, and then your organs of detoxification and immune system. And imbalances can lie in any one of those three areas.

Dr. Christina Bjorndal  11:36

I guess the main message I really like to leave people with is there's an explanation for your suffering. We just have to investigate it. And it naturally could be for sure on that physical level, but let's not forget the mental, emotional, spiritual sides of health too. I think that's the big problem with our system is it's focused solely on that physical level, unless you're seeing a psychologist, right.

Dr. Christina Bjorndal  13:35

Yeah, so the big thing is when I'm working with people, I talk about those four aspects, and then the three macro systems in a way to support ourselves are the foundation of health is diet, sleep, exercise, and then managing stress. So this managing stress piece involves looking at our thoughts and our emotions and how we behave and react in the world. And ultimately, the other two steps that I think are important is the environment and then wrapping everything up in love and compassion and this idea of spirituality, so to speak.

About Vaishali Nikhade:

Dr. Christina Bjorndal, ND is an authority in the treatment of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders and eating disorders.  Having overcome many mental health challenges, Dr. Chris is a gifted speaker and writer who loves to share her philosophy of wellness in interviews with icons like Jenny McCarthy and many more. She is recognized as one of the top NDs to follow by two independent organizations. Dr. Chris has helped many patients achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. She has written four books on mental health as well as a created two courses a 10-week online course for individuals and 2) a Clinician’s Integrative Mental Health 10 week online course.

Core purpose/passion: I feel more core purpose and mission is the help others see that there is another way to navigate the mental health challenges they may be experiencing and that you can actually heal/cure/manage conditions like bipolar disorder without having to take pharmaceutical after pharmaceutical.

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About Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND:

Dr. Manon is a Naturopathic Doctor, the Founder of Bowen College, an International Speaker, and TEDx speaker, and the author of the Amazon best-selling books "What Patient's Don't Say if Doctors Don't Ask" and "A Healer In Every Household".

About The Healers Café:

Dr. Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives.

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In this episode of The Healers Café, Dr. Manon chats with Dr. Bob Baker, a retired GI doctor, professional magician and ventriloquist.

Highlights from today's episode include:

At 2:10 - Dr. Bob Baker's inspiration
At 5:03 - The relationship between magic & medicine
At 6:30 - An audience is like a patient
At 7:35 - What is the goal of any performer (or doctor)?
At 8:05 - The doctor visit is a ritual
At 10:10 - The magic of personal connections
At 11:41 - Magic in Medicine and Technology in Medicine (how to prevent technology from coming between patient and doctor)
At 13:43 - Where healing begins
At 14:18 - The usefulness depends on the people who use it Connect with Dr. Bob Baker at www.DrBobBaker.com.

About Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND:

Dr. Manon is a Naturopathic Doctor, the Founder of Bowen College, an International Speaker with a TEDx talk in September 2020, and the author of the Amazon best-selling book "What Patient's Don't Say if Doctors Don't Ask." Watch for her next book, due out in 2020. About The Healers Café: Dr. Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives.

At 6:41….And what I noticed very quickly is that all the veterans I'd worked with had early childhood trauma. So what we were actually doing was working with the early childhood perception of belief that led them to have a predisposition to the raise cortisol and adrenaline. You know, and then looking at the science of that, and many times it was epigenetic.

At 7:41…But now I would say what I specialize in is people come to me that seem to be stuck and have tried everything and they're very, very aware that they need to step forward on their mission here. This time being a soul in a body, having a human experience. And so what I do with them as we work together to release the trauma and the perceptions of belief that stopped them from aligning to their mission. So I feel like my mission is to get people on their mission.

At 16:08…Sometimes it's in a child, sometimes it's akashic records. Sometimes it's, you know, really looking at past lives. Sometimes it's a rebirth thing, looking at the conception, pregnancy, birth process and healing, all of that coming into the world, you know. And yeah, sometimes it's healing relationships. That's a favorite one. Cutting the ties with forgiveness with relationships. So it's like, you know, a smorgasbord of ways that we can have fun and share these things without seeing trauma. 

About Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND:

Dr. Manon is a Naturopathic Doctor, the Founder of Bowen College, an International Speaker with an upcoming TEDx talk in May 2020, and the author of the Amazon best-selling book “What Patient’s Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask.” Watch for her next book, due out in 2020.

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About Susan Kennard:

Dr  Ivano Ongaro (06:41): ..... Like my father had only grade five education. My mother not at all, so they weren't able to help me. So I've always been interested and curious, curious in the sciences. I loved science. I think I had I mean since I was about 12 or 13 years old, I've always had a microscope, right. So I love looking at things under the microscope and I loved science, but it wasn't till grade eight where there was an academic shift and I think it was a probably confidence building. I know my handwriting was notorious and it was it was Mrs. Kennedy who, who insisted that I improve my handwriting. But I was originally left handed and I was forced to be right handed. So cursive writing never, worked for me. And so she had me go back to printing and that made a big difference because now I can actually read what I wrote.

Dr  Ivano Ongaro (32:40): I know there were classmates of mine that would be out fishing every weekend while I was studying, but that's, you know, they were obviously brighter than I was cause I had to, I had to do the work to get through. And, art. I've always been, I've always had that little spark of passion for art and, and slow, keep chipping away at it, keep, keep at it. You know, and someday you'll be surprised. I was surprised with my first bust, how lifelike it was.

Dr  Ivano Ongora (35:55):  But you know, I've always believed that your award in life is proportional to the people you serve. ....... I've written a book that's entitled cavities no more. I think I mentioned it on the, on the cruise. And I want to set up a foundation, a nonprofit foundation to, to educate parents of children who are who are underprivileged and, and make this information available to them. So that's, that's sort of, my last sort of big goal.

About Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND:

Dr. Manon is a Naturopathic Doctor, the Founder of Bowen College, an International Speaker with an upcoming TEDx talk in May 2020, and the author of the Amazon best-selling book "What Patient's Don't Say if Doctors Don't Ask." Watch for her next book, due out in 2020.

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About Ivano Ongaro, B.Sc., D.D.S., M.SC.

My journey as a healer began in the fall of 1962. On my walk to school one fall morning, I had picked some ripe raspberries that were growing along the fence of one of several houses along the way. It happened that one of the larger seeds of one of the raspberries got stuck in the cavity that was developing in my upper left molar. I knew the hole was there because when I chewed gum I could get an imprint of the hole, and occasionally the tooth would ache if I ate candies and therefore avoided them.  Although it was not painful the seed was very annoying and my tongue it played with it incessantly. I resolved to remove the stuck seed with a paperclip I found in my desk. I straightened one end of the paperclip and proceeded to pry out the offending seed. Things did not go as I planned. Instead the seed popping out I succeeded in driving it into the cavity with surprisingly unpleasant results.  The pain was intense and throbbing, not as bad as when I’d been stung by a wasp under the fingernail, maybe it was the proximity to the brain made it more worrisome. It was my first serious tooth ache, and a sleepless night for me and my mother. Fortunately the next morning we got an appointment, my first, to see the dentist Dr. Wally Meyer. It was a magical experience. Within minutes of what ever it was he did in my mouth caused the pain to vanish. I remember every detail of that visit, smells, the weird machine with belts and pulleys, the grinding noises, the dust flying out of my mouth, the sensation of my face seeming to slide off my skull and the squeaking noises packing and carving of the filling. I remember thinking “I could do this.” Most of my academic life was struggling with learning challenges and did not believe I had the intellectual resources necessary to become a Dentist. It was not until my high school biology teacher, Mr. Risuto, convinced me that had the capacity to achieve if I continued to be disciplined in my studies. The rest was doing the work to the best of my abilities.

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Hi, it's Dr Manon Bolliger, ND and I want to welcome you to the Healers Cafe.

I am so excited to be doing this series of interviews and what I'll be doing is, is asking all kinds of healthcare practitioners, doctors, healers of all types, to really share with all of you their experience, why they became healers, what called them what they think about this being a healer thing. Is it, a thing?  Who's really healing in this, what they've experienced from their their interaction with clients and patients and what the takeaways and understanding of what the process of healing is all about and the process of life. So that's the essence of what I'm doing. I'm hoping that this will serve also for patients that have issues and are looking for different ways of approaching it.

So I've interviewed all kinds of complimentary health practitioners and then some that you may already know about, like chiropractors or physios surgeons, psychiatrists and also some that are less known, like some of the energy workers and things I don't know about yet.

And then I'm so excited to, to learn and also I'll be sharing stories from Bowen therapists that I have trained myself or that are practicing it now and have stories to tell. So it's really the, the goal here for the end user as in the person who needs help is to see who they relate with and what, you know, what the insights of the therapies might be, especially the, the less known ones. And so hopefully that will give you an insight there. And then for practitioners, it's really to, to have a, a place where we can meet and talk and have discussions on, on all aspects of healing. It's really conversations on health that I'm looking forward to, to having.

For those who don't know me, I'll tell you a little bit about myself. So I have been blessed and that's a retrospective view with having encountered several health conditions.

So I had turned-in feet when I was born. I also had scoliosis, I developed multiple sclerosis and I had stage four cancer. All of them, were treated naturally at least. Although the last three. And I became really interested in discovering what we can do to help ourselves and how amazing and powerful our own bodies actually are. So something called innate or intelligent healing that we all have. It's like, it's within us. But how do we trigger this? What excites that energy to, to manifest? And for those of you who, when I say the word energy are cringing I was the same. My background actually, I went into law. I have my LLB from Quebec. So my interest was really, I guess human rights is the, the, the baseline. But I really wanted to help empower people to make informed choices, to really understand what they're getting into, what they're signing and what they're signing up for.

And one of the areas that when I was doing my master's at McGill that got me super excited was alternative, so to speak, complimentary healthcare. So I was looking at it homeopathy and at the time chiropractor because at that time, which is quite a few years, and I don't want to date myself it was not that well known. Right. So I wanted to see how did they, how did they become accepted in our society or significantly more accepted? So I was looking at all that and I was looking at how is research done? How's the end user done? What are the, what are the aspects that take into what are taken into consideration to make decisions for what therapies get seen or not seen? And then as circumstance would have it. I I bumped into after I had done my naturopathic physician training, which, so basically after I finished law school, I I wasn't quite content.

I wanted to really be at the, at the level of where movements are made, when people care and when do people care? They care when it's their, their health, but especially when it's their health of somebody in their family. And that's when they really take charge and they want all these things informed consent. They really want to make the right decision. So that's what really got me going. It's like, okay, I need to actually be in the same position. Now I'm starting a family. I want to know all the right answers. I'm in. Who do I trust? How do I, you know, how do I understand research? So I started a whole path of really going down the, the way of like, how do I get to know what are the right things and how do I eventually learn to trust myself?