WillowBridge Blog
Cucumbers
Wow! What a little gem the cucumber is. I will look at it differently now!
Did you know...?
Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day.
Just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc.
Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick me-up that can last for hours.
Remember to take care of the Mind, Body, and Spirit.
Jade
Skin Care Specialist
2.20.2012
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A Wellness Triple Boost
A Wellness Triple Boost!
Say WHAT?!
This is an opportunity for YOU to meet your local Homeopath, Naturopath, and a Wellness Coach, for seven (7) Thursday evening sessions of education and interaction! We will each “host” two nights throughout this Spring 2012 Health Seminar and join together as a panel of health experts for the seventh session to answer questions and offer collaborative educational information!
Registration for this event, valued at over $800, is offered for $25 per person! Wow! What a deal! You can pick up registration forms from Beth or Sheryl at WillowBridge Center (763-552-6161) or from Nicole at Total Wellness Coaching (763-237-3245). Online registration forms are available at http://www.willowbridgecenter.com/pages/OurAffiliates/.
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Homeopathy treats both chronic and self-limiting health concerns. Occasionally, do you have self limiting concerns like indigestion from eating too many chocolates or thanksgiving dinner, mild attacks of what feels like food poisoning, or that extra glass of wine that makes your head ache?
You know you need to exercise . . . and sometimes the minor aches and pains that follow doesn't motivate you to do it again! Those muscles aches respond well to homeopathic remedies. Don't let the fear of 'exercise-induced-pain' keep you from getting fit!
" A Wellness Triple Boost” sessions will give you the remedy solutions you need for these concerns. Gentle, effective care that you can use on babies, teens, adults and grampas. ~Classical Homeopathy
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“Eat this and make it a healthy part of your diet!” Advertisements like this can get us to buy into ideas that aren’t completely accurate and food labeling can confuse the truth, making it hard to know what is real and what isn’t.
The truth, according to scientific testing and clinical studies, will be revealed at “A Wellness Triple Boost”. Find out how to know what’s the best food to eat, steps to improve your choices and where to find it. The most nutritious ways to make food, modify recipes, plan meals, and the importance and purpose of supplementation. ~Natural Health Design
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"When will I find time to exercise? I want to know why I'm supposed to get 30 minutes-a-day. Do I have to be "in shape" to go to a group fitness class? I'll do it tomorrow." Sound familiar?
‘Physical activity’ and ‘exercise’ are different! Our bodies are created to move. How can lack of physical activity (and the addition of simple movement) make a difference in daily life, body system function, state of mind (mood), or even sleep? Learn how to make small changes for significant results – at “A Wellness Triple Boost”. ~Total Wellness Coaching
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Your Essential Oil
The use of essential oils can have a positive influence on your personal health and wellness.
Throughout history we have learned that we can harvest smell and oil from plants to enhance psychological and physical well-being. Essential oil is a volatile aromatic organic compound derived from any part of a plant through a process of depression or distillation (aveda.com). Because of the process and the organic compound of the oil and the smell our bodies processes the oil better and faster.
There are many benefits that you can receive from essential oils. Examples include:
· Anti-stress,
· Anti-anxiety
· Anti-insomnia
· Reduce stress hormones
· Reduce feelings of depression
· Feeling uplifting
· Healing burns
· Energize
· Decrease blood pressure
· Anti-fungal
· Decrease adrenaline
· Acne
· Decrease muscle soreness
· Relieve tension
· Use to calm and balance one’s self
· Relieve headaches
There are many ways to use essential oils:
Inhalation
Place 3-4 drops of essential oil on a tissue, cotton ball, your hand or other. Place the tissue near your nose and inhale.
Stream Inhalation
Boil 2 cups of water. Pour the water into a bowl and add 3-7 drops of oil to the water. Use fewer drops if you are using oil that may cause irritation to your mucous membranes (i.e. cinnamon, eucalyptus, rosemary, pine, thyme, cajuput, etc.). Place your nose about 12" away from the bowl and inhale. Don't inhale the steam constantly and if you notice any irritation or discomfort, stop immediately.
Room Freshening
Use the steam inhalation method noted above but don't directly inhale into the bowl. Use up to 10 drops of oil. Use fewer drops if you are using oil that may cause sensitization. Other methods are the use of an aromatherapy diffuser or lamp scent ring available through many aromatherapy companies.
General Household Freshening
Add a few drops of oil to your trash can, laundry wash, drain, vacuum bag filter, or on a tissue for placement in your drawers.
Insect Repellent
Many essential oils including citronella, lavender, and peppermint act as a natural repellent against insects. Sprinkle a few drops of essential oil onto tissues or cotton balls and place near your doorways and windows to help repel insects.
Bath
Add 5-7 drops essential oil to 1 ounce carrier oil. Add this blend to your running bath water and mix well before getting into the tub.
Other Uses
Essential oils can be used in making homemade lotions, facial toners, shampoos, perfumes, soaps, shower gels, and other natural products.
I hope you find your essential oil. I love to experiment with them to find the best use for me. I challenge you to research essential oils. A good website to research is aromaweb.com and aveda.com.
Emily
Massage Therapist
2/13/2012
Be Your Own Valentine
“Where is Your Heart?”
Where is your heart? This month we are to focus on Valentine’s Day; love and buying red and pink items to give to friends and family. My question to you is… “Do you love yourself?” Do you give the same attention to others as you do for you?” I challenge you to look in to your own heart and soul to see if there is anything missing. If you make time for this, and you are honest, you might find the one thing you need the most.
Why are we typically so inclined to put our needs aside? Why do we spend so much time giving, and giving, and giving some more; to then realize we are empty and tired. I challenge you TODAY, to look deep inside, and to seek your heart’s desires.
Be your own Valentine! I dare you.
If you need help, call me. Rochelle
763.552.6161
2/10/2012
Food Inc.
From where does my food derive?
Food Inc.
As a “homework assignment” for my paramour from her boss, she had the opportunity to watch “Food Inc.” Said movie looks deep into the way your (America’s) food is produced. Needless to say, this turned a multitude of heads here atWillowBridgeCenter(my wife being a leader of the pack). I have the great pleasure of working alongside a great number of believers in this informational cinematic adventure, and I see many valid points. First of all, it is very important to know where your meal was grown and how it got onto your dinner table. Second, “shop locally” is a very important phrase at our place of business. I bring up small businesses because of co-ops and other locally owned Mom and Pop stores in the area that offer organic food choices. Being a small business in today’s society is not terribly easy andWillowBridgeCenteras a whole does its best to support other small businesses. And third, finally, there are much higher standards to which organic food is held. Therefore, the producer must go above and beyond what is expected of the corporate companies that produce the vast majority of our meals.
That having been said, as a long time McDonald’s eater, this idea is new and foreign to me. I think that there are a great number of my fellow Americans who share my sentiments. And rightfully so-organic foods cost a good amount more than your everyday grocery item. The taste is another item on my mind. I have tried my fair share of organic foods and beverages and the flavor is the exact same in my ever so biased opinion-coffee being the sole exception. I have come across an organic blend from a local store that tickles my fancy.
So I leave it up to you, the reader with his/her own opinion. Only time shall let us know which is truly a better choice.
Ben
Front Desk
2.3.2012
Unique Boutique
In honor of February, we are doing a drawing for a make-over; I am offering a little bonus. For every boutique product you buy, you will get an extra chance to enter that special someone who inspires you for the drawing. So for example, if you buy 3 products, you will get 3 chances to win!
The featured company that inspires me this month is Primitives by Kathy. Their Box Signs have everything going for them…the style has a great cross-over quality that satisfies your country or contemporary home. The sentiments range from fun and quirky to inspirational, and are a great gift for any occasion. A new product that they launched this year is the linen pillows. The pillows are made from a high quality linen material that is a replica of the good old feed sacks of days gone by. The printing on each design is an ink dye that is absorbed into the fabric, leaving an extremely soft and delicate feel. So come in and check out this great line, they also have great charm necklaces! These products will make great Valentine’s Day gifts.
Also, in honor of love this month, try to make a total stranger’s day with an act of kindness everyday. If you see someone struggling to carry a bag of groceries, offer to carry it to their car. If you like someone’s outfit, hair, or smile, don’t keep it to yourself; share it with them.
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” --Gandhi
Michelle
Boutique Buyer
1/30/2012
Thai Sports Massage
Thai Sports Massage is offered at WillowBridge. Sessions are given by myself, Matt, who has been practicing massage therapy since early 1996.
Thai Sports Massage is a type of bodywork that involves deep stretches and rhythmic pressure. This technique is rooted in traditional Thai Massage and Western Therapeutic sports massage. Perfomed on a mat on the floor, you will want to wear clothing similar to what you wear to work out in. Each session lasts roughly 90 minutes. Afterwards you will feel relaxed and energized.
Does this sound like the right massage for you!? Call today 763.552.6161
Matt
Massage Therapist
1/27/2012
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Balance
WillowBridge Center is a unique sanctuary with one purpose: Health and Wellness.
We have many options at WillowBridge to help you achieve balance in your life. A path to wellness is well within reach, all you have to do is want it for yourself! Health is an on-going process and the dynamic balance of oneself is constantly changing. Here are a few tools to help you achieve balance in a perpetually diverse health and wellness world.
- Establish a daily routine~ start with an early morning walk, do something for yourself every day.
- Nutrition~ eat a well balanced diet.
- Exercise~ be active for at least 30 minutes a day.
- Breathing Exercises~ a couple times a day take a deep breath using both your belly (diaphragm) and lungs. Exhale while letting your shoulders drop.
- Meditation~ enjoy a few minutes of quiet every day.
WillowBridge has many options for you and your family, we are here to walk with you in your personal health and wellness journey.
- Massage
- Acupuncture
- Aveda Salon
- Facials
- Homeopathy
- Naturopathy
- Fitness
- Natural Health Consultant
- Professional Life Coach
Be well in Mind, Body, and Spirit,
Jade
Skin Care Specialist
1/24/2012
763.552.6161
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Nature's Solution for Thinning Hair
There are a lot of people in my life that suffer from thinning or fine hair that can be lifeless and hard to manage. Aveda has finally come up with a product line that can help reduce hair loss by 33%, which helps you keep and maintain the hair you have. Keep in mind also that this is not only for people who are suffering from hair that is thinning or has always been fine or skinny as we like to call it, but it can also be used if you just feel as though your hair breaks easily and just isn’t at the strength level you would like it to be. You may have the thickest hair out there, but if it isn’t as strong as you would like this is also a great product line for you!
The line is called INVATI it is a wonderful line that consists of three different parts starting with the shampoo and conditioner followed up with the scalp revitalizer. The INVATI Exfoliating Shampoo removes build-up that can clog the pores, and will help renew the scalp with wintergreen-derived salicylic acid. The INVATI Thickening Conditioner helps to restore the strength of the hair and improve the elasticity, reducing breakage, with arginine derived from sugar beets and soy protein. Finally before you dry your hair you finish the treatment with the INVATI Scalp Revitalizer with turmeric and ginseng, which helps to energize and rehabilitate the scalp around the follicles when massaged in. INVATI is 97% naturally derived and the main ingredients in the line are turmeric flower, millet, ginseng root, rapeseed powder, babassu, turmeric powder, and milk thistle.
As you can see the turmeric plays a large role in the success of INVATI, but why is it so special? We tap the power of Ayurveda—the ancient healing art of INDIA—with the organic turmeric that we get from an Indian firm called Nisarga—which means NATURE—in Sanskrit. Ayurvedic specialist Dr. Kusum Upadhyay says, “In Ayurveda turmeric has many uses and benefits…it beautifies the skin and scalp”. In INVATI it helps to give you thicker, fuller looking hair. Aveda’s partnership with Nisarga is helping them to convert more farmland to organic which is better for the earth, the farmers—all of us.
Although this is a newer product line to Aveda it is one we have a hard time keeping on our shelves. We have only heard wonderful things back from the people who have been using it they say it takes about a week to see the results from using the line. I have had more than one person tell me that they have seen wonderful results and are having less and less hair loss in the shower or when combing through their hair in the morning. Usually it takes a while for a new product to catch on, but so far this product line has taken off just as they had hoped it would.
I love that I finally have a solution for people who have told me that their hair is thinning, fine, or just breaking constantly. For so long we have been trying to find a solution to that problem for them and I am happy to say that it has finally arrived.
I can’t wait to show this product to more people and hope that by having more information on INVATI more people will come and see us to get this WONDERFUL product!!!!
-Rhea~ Salon Stylist
1.20.2012
“Close your eyes and you will see clearly. Be still and you will hear the truth.”
Horst Rechelbacher (Rejuvenation A wellness guide for women and men)
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Thankful
As I attempt my first blog, my thoughts are going automatically to WillowBridge Center, and why we’re all here to begin with. I believe everything happens for a reason, and a lot of talented and interesting people with good hearts have come together to make this amazing place happen. The Cambridge area is lucky to have this place for healthy living here, so close to home to make it easily accessible and affordable. WillowBridge offers healing, calming inspiration, health opportunities, and/ or pampering, all under one roof.
I love my job because it’s amazing to be able to see how all of our different services can help people. This includes how acupuncture can easily relieve pain or anxiety by opening the meridians that flow throughout the body; how massage can heal by touch to relieve aching muscles; how a facial can rejuvenate skin until it glows; and how a new hairstyle can make people feel better about themselves. Our affiliates are great too, with homeopathy using elements found in nature to heal people instead of drugs, and naturopathy’s vital force. The fitness program can change also people’s lives, from yoga classes to calm and heal, to a muscle toning and/or blood pumping exercise program. Another great thing about WillowBridge is that we are always trying to improve, and I’m currently excited to see how our new life coach can help and motivate our clients.
It’s really all about people, and I’m so thankful to be part of it! We have a good staff that care about people and the quality of their service. We appreciate our good clients, and I know more people are finding us every day. Together we are all making a difference - making the world a better place!
Diane A.
1.16.2012
