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Arcanum Wholistic Clinic

December Newsletter

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My Twelve Days of Christmas

About 20 years ago, I converted to Judaism as a function of my marriage. Since Judaism is a matriarchal religion (could have fooled me) the goal was for me to be able to mysteriously birth Jewish babes from my loins. At the time, it was an adventure into learning the nuances and language of this ancient culture steeped in rituals and laws. Although my babes had white blond hair, one of them Scottish-bald with nothing but new-born chick fuzz for over a year, I did not realize until years later what a gift choosing to be Jewish would be.


I hate shopping. I may spend a total of about an hour in a mall annually out of necessity and that is almost too long. I’ve always innately supported local crafts-persons, or given a gift card for an experiential delight like an airplane ride with a friend’s son logging air-hours or a jaunt in a hot air balloon, or I’ve made my own gifts out of love only if I feel compelled to give something from my heart to another. One year, I asked my beautiful organic farmer to make up a basket of her East Indian delicacies and ship them to my best friend in New Brunswick. I like this kind of gift best of all...


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Trauma Bonded In Canada: Healing Beyond the Margins (Short Stories)

Allyson McQuinn, DMH, JAOH has done it again! This is book number twenty five! Writing in a completely different genre in literature, McQuinn furnishes the reader with short story vignettes of the traumas she experienced in Canada. The first story begins in a school yard marred by violence just outside Montreal, Quebec, all the way up to being a practitioner of natural medicine in Ontario and being forced out of the province if she didn’t comply with the government condoned College of Homeopaths...


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Closing Quote

Dear Jeff,



Happy holidays! Are you wondering how to get through the holidays without another unwanted 5 - 10 pounds? I totally get it. That was also my plight.  


What I realized was that my addiction to food was related to a lack of connection to myself the rest of the year. By examining the roots of my need for a second helping, that extra Christmas cookie, and another glass of wine, I realized that I was in the game of short-term palliation for much deeper issues of pain and abandonment.


As a mother of two, a wife, a farmer, and owner of a busy clinic, my needs were often being abandoned in favor of a laundry list of obligations. When Christmas came around and a relative asked if I wanted more of the delicious offerings from the family buffet, I realized I was bereft of healthy nurturing in my life. No wonder I went completely overboard at Christmas. My thought was that I’d always deal with the fall-out in the new year. The thing is that I didn’t. My issues were cumulative.


After the holidays, I was left with the feelings of demoralization and extra weight, wondering how I was going to get out from under it all again this year. The extra roll around my belly was a token of all the unmet needs, and starting in January, I just started the cycle of self-abandonment all over again. That is, until I finally felt fed up with the same old rinse and repeat emotions and began studying the opposite state of mind and what it would take to stop self-sabotaging.


I had to grow my self-worth and stop gorging on temporary fixes for a long-term problem. I had to deal with the accumulated pain from the past and be more cognizant of my primary needs all year round. In this month’s feature article I address the practical ways that I stopped perpetuating the weight-gain cycle that kept me caught in the loop of feeling bereft and let down. If you want, you can do it too! Just read on.



Love,


Ally and Jeff

Twelve Ways to Stay Healthy and Fit Over the Holidays

Do you look forward to the holidays each year but think, “Oh boy, I hope I’m not going to be grappling with another unwanted 5-10 pounds after this holiday”? I used to think the same. All year long, I’d taken care of my husband, the kids, a full-time job, most of the meals, and kept a fairly neat and tidy home. I’d spent another whole year serving others. I deserved a break.



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