Inside The Polished Apple

It is that time-we're about to get carried away with school, kid's schedules, and events available at every opportunity! With school starting after Labour Day, I'm beating the rush this year and have started-a la Pinterest bullet journal style-a Habits Tracker. I have projects and habits that keep falling away in my to-do list and memory and thought the easiest way to establish them was with a visual tracking system. This was a plan to establish new habits, or track the ones I hit and miss with-so you're not going to see “Feed kids. Pick up kids. Shower.” I've got those ones down. September is all about Structure and Routines, so here's my next 30'ish day plan. Every time I complete an item, I get to mark it down! Top of my list was to incorporate Morning Rituals. For me this means starting the day in gratitude, visualizing my day, and creating some routine and rituals to energize this and stick to it. Most of the inspiration has come from Tim Ferr...

Elan Family Wellness Centre is excited to welcome back Mother's Wellness Circles, presented by Full Circle Parenting and Womankind Calgary. The Story: If you are like most moms, your life experienced a radical and overwhelming upheaval when motherhood happened to you. You're probably spending the majority of your time focused on your child or children, and you may feel like there's no time left for you. In the back of your mind, you may be hearing a quiet voice, whispering: Who are YOU now, anyway? You may not know what you do for fun, anymore, or what kind of career you want, anymore, or what you want to look like, anymore. You may also be trying to remember what it feels like to be 100% you - maybe you are struggling with expressing yourself fully and authentically around your children. Maybe your friendships aren't feeling fulfilling to you.  Maybe you want to go back to some of who you were before you had kids, or maybe you're pretty sure that pre-mom you i...

GRIEF & LOSS GROUP: PREGNANCY LOSS This 5 week group therapy series is  focused on providing support for women who have experienced pregnancy loss. These group sessions will offer a safe space for you to share and process your loss, connect to other women who have had similar experiences, learn about and relate your experience to the different stages of grief, learn coping strategies, and find ways for moving forward.  Groups are facilitated by  Jen Reddish , Counsellor and Psychotherapist at   The Essence of You . This is a closed group with 5 sessions. Dates listed below: Monday August 21st 7-9pm Monday August 28th 7-9pm Monday September 11th 7-9pm Monday September 18th 7-9pm Monday September 25th 7-9p m   To register or to learn more, contact Jen Reddish:   jen@theessenceofyou.ca   | 587-225-1764. Group will be held at Elan Family Wellness Centre in Bowness, NW Calgary. 

Coming up October 14, 2017... 11 hours of training, inspiration and amazing vendors devoted to helping you add energy to your life! Want to hear and see more energy rich stuff? Check out our  Facebook Energy Rich Day event page !  Plug into our  Energy Rich Minute YouTube vlog here  on the Elan channel. Be aware, our  Energy Rich Day  in October is now selling tickets. Act fast... the VIP  tickets  will sell out soon. energyrichday.ca Eventbrite YouTube channel Facebook event

It's Kids Month at Elan... Here's thoughts from Scott, one of our Registered Massage Therapists at Elan Family Wellness Centre. By the way, August 15th is his birthday!  Scott's thoughts : Why are kids so full of energy??? August is bitter sweet for me. As a kid it meant my birthday... August 15 th  by the way... (wink wink)... and it meant that school was just around the corner. Kind of a “Yay/Boo!” polarity for me. Now, having a little one about to enter the third grade, I don't see that tension in her at this point in her development. What I do see is a crazy energy rich kid with passions and tension from boredom and soggy clothing from squirt guns and dirt on her pants for playing outside. All the things I remember as a kid. But done with energy, an energy that makes me envious. Is it that kids just have more energy? Or is it they are able to tap into some unseen resource and I have simply lost that skill that they have naturally? To live with that inner chi...

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It's Kids Month at Elan! Here's some advice from Dr Robert Clarke, Chiropractor at Elan Family Wellness Centre, on Optimizing Kids Potential.  Eat well, rest well, spend time in nature - these are at the top of my list on how to give kids the best chance to have a healthy, happy summer. Having their spines checked is another great tool in allowing their nervous systems and bodies to stay flexible and adaptable. Start with nutrient dense foods, eat lots of fruits and veggies, water - lots of water and avoid refined sugars. Having lots of fresh fruit around and veggies cut up for snacking gives kids an easy snacking options. Another piece is getting enough sleep. During our long summer days it can be a challenge, as going to bed when the sun is up doesn’t work for many kids. One important tip in getting quality sleep is no screen time for 30 to 60 minutes before bed. This allows the nervous system to reset. As long as your little ones get a good extended sleep, they are do...

It's Kids Month at Elan! Here's a share from the archives on Wonders of Movement.  I'm going to explore some of the things we can do as parents with our young ones, from infancy to older kids. Many of these activities are easier in the summer, so kick them outside if you can (not the babes, just the older ones)! Developing Crawling Skills:  Giving baby a chance to move and stretch on her own, she will master rolling, pushing up, and eventually crawling. Crawling is a rich neurological skill-coordinating of the right and left brain, moving opposite arm and leg together, having the back muscles fire in a new pattern to help develop a side to side motion, opening up the environment to be explored. Crawling will give baby a new perspective as she's more off of the ground and can see new objects with a different depth of vision. This cross crawl and the resulting brain patterns will help form the basis for more complex tasks later in life - walking, running, writin...