Inside The Polished Apple

It's time for Spring Celebration and Patient Appreciation Week!  We put the call out that we hope to use our Patient Appreciation Day & Open House to also raise money for the local charity Made by Momma , and our community support has been amazing!   Door Prizes from Evans Dental and Wellness Our local Starbucks contributed a gift basket. A supplement basket from Morning Sun Healthy Snacks from The Light Cellar Young Living Essential Oils and a Scan and Consult from Akasha Essence Manicure, Pedicure, and Facial from Ashley Sage Spa We're fortunate to have so much support in this fun event.  I must mention we have prizes still arriving from Babes in Arms ,  Anthony Burbidge music ,  Adventures of Little , Sandra Catania Reflexology , Treehouse Flowers , The Natural Art of Skin Care , and donations from Westbrook Mall .   You are welcome to join us to help Celebrate!  Saturday, March 29th from 9:30 am...

Elan had the opportunity to host our March CRAVEfuel event, with the topic of Identity.   We had two wonderful presenters- Gemma Stone and Jennifer Powter  and had the chance to chat about our own business identity and how to be congruent in how others see us.   The key to the evening was how do we bring Authenticity to our business?  Whether it is our passion for our work, an incredibly specific customer group, being comfortable in how we present ourselves in our work place, allowing our feminine energy to show up in the workplace, or sharing our background through writing and social media, we all have many opportunities to show our authentic selves.   Our presenters have such an amazing background:  Gemma is a psychologist, coach, speaker, guide and retreat leader.  Her popular programs are Birthing From Love and the Great Life Redesign.  What a great way to literally birth a new being, or birth a new you!  Gemma shared how she...

Dr. Adrienne Perkins- Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncturist & Massage Therapist!   This past weekend we were at the Festival of Health and Wellness.  Between muscle testing for allergies, DTCM Tongue and Pulse Diagnosis, sharing information on Network Spinal Analysis, and meeting some new faces, we were busy!   Here's a peak at our table.   It's always fascinating to see the different health and healing modalities being offered in Calgary-there's no much to do and experience!  From movement therapies, health practitioners, organic coffees, angel readings, crystals, massage, to self help books, and much, much more... How does one decide?   We often see people who are confused by what choices to make.   I can share my own experience of how I make decisions about my health.  I choose NSA chiropractic first because it is the one way that I know I can learn new things about how I do my life, and ...

Kapow! It's March. For the last 3 days I have been trying to clear my head enough to get some of the most powerful things I can share into this Newsletter/Blog. How do you put the feeling of agitation into words? Not... anger.... but an incredible longing, buzz, or high pitched squeal. Something so incredible that you cannot put it into words without softening it. How can you? It's like trying to describe the colour red to a blind person – words are inadequate for the job. I've been asked to talk about appreciation but something bigger and much more important to me is on my mind right now. As a health practitioner, I have long thought that restoring someone to their pre-symptomatic state was the goal. To move them from pain back to normal. To return them to their daily lives. A person would come in with XYZ, I'd treat them and then have them go away, returned to normal. Some time later, they would return with ABC, and we would work on that. Again I'd get them ...

In light of our month of appreciation, I thought I'd share a piece of behind the scenes at our office.  We have much to appreciate-lovely practice members, a supportive community, a beautiful office, and probably key to a lot of this...  some pretty amazing reorganizational tools that we can use for our own healing and growth and to contribute to our own Elan community.   Today is our example of a not so typical day.  Ever wonder what happens at Elan on a quiet day? When the stars align and our schedules are clear at the same time, we've created space for great things.   Such as our staff healing intensive session using Network Spinal Analysis entrainments... Or moments for SomatoRespiratory Integration... (Scott took this one earlier-such beautiful sunlight!) Or strategically plan for all of the fun events we have coming up and work on how to improve our services... ...

We have days that can act as reminders, can't we?   I met with my CRAVE Calgary Women's group for a CRAVEfuel chat about Simplicity.  We had two experts in the fields of Interior Design and Graphic Design share some tips with us before we broke into small group discussion.  A couple of the take-aways... Consider Simplicity like Focus.  The more focus you have in what you do, the more things will fall into place with ease.   Are we consistent with our Values?  Do we know what we place the most value on?  The more we place our focus on our values, the simpler life will be.   Can you teach your system/ process to a 6-year old?  Break it down so that a 6 year old can follow the directions.   To-Do Lists, Written Lists, electronic devices can all help us to simplify. Having something written down helps to get it out of your mind.   Is your space around you and your mind clear of distractions and clutter?   Life is defini...

It's one of those judgment days of our life today and our life past.   We just survived pre-Valentine's Day dinner.  Scott was leaving town so our little family went out on the 13th, after a full afternoon of the two of them at the movie, with popcorn and snacks.   Dinner out usually ends up being sushi.  Or Vietnemese.  However, the 5 year old in our house thought the pizza, pasta and make your own sundae on the TV commercials place would be the best choice.   Did I mention I'm semi-almost fully gluten free for half a month now?  I've had my share of gluten free pasta and pizza lately.  Not that I'm the one to worry about.  I ate the meat-veggie-rice option.  Followed by dessert, but again, I wasn't the problem.   For Scarlett, the pizza probably wasn't the problem, or the fries, but add on a sundae to that with caramel and m&m's... 5 minutes after dinner finished, there was that look of panic and complete unease, followed by 2...