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I feel like I am going to have a rant today as when I watch television I can’t believe the amount of adverts that tell about medication we can take for allergies, hayfever, bowel problems, athelete’s foot, bowel flora etc ! I find myself talking to the telly and telling the advert off!

Why do we seek a pill and feel that this will be the answer, how I see it, is that coming from a complementary view what I want to know is why the problem is there in the first place.

As a therapist I would be asking these questions, looking at lifestyle to see whether this is a factor on why health issue’s come up, which includes stress, diet, sleep pattern, bowel movements,, does it happen more at any particular time of day or night. There are more but I feel these are all valid questions to ask when say for example you have never suffered from hayfever before then suddenly it comes on one year. Here I would want to know if anything had changed in that person’s life, as why just suddenly suffer?

 I have also just taken on a medical herbalist, she has had medical training but  will prescribe using herbs, which if you think about it, herbs have been used for centuries by many different cultures and also used as a basis for allopathic medication as they have such medicinal usage.

I would long to see more people realising the benefits of what complementary health has to offer, not only are the appointments at least an hour, the client is listened to, lifestyle taken into consideration and you are looked at on so many other aspects on trying to find out why suddenly your health is being impacted.

I have used complementary medicine for all my ills, which are not that many I have to say! I also have my 4 year old treated this way and notice that her recovery time is generally much quicker than taking lots of allopathic drugs, I guess her system copes alot more naturally and even though I think children should get colds to boost their immune systems, I don’t want to suppress the illness with lots of decongestants, better for them to let it all come up and out!

I never thought I would be writing about this but hey here I go! I have this clinic in Canary Wharf and I have been thinking about what types of other therapies to bring in and a friend of mine whom I have known since practicing complementary health, all of 14 years ago and who I see for homeopathy, well she also does colonic hydrotherapy.

Anyway, a few weeks ago, we were talking on the phone and I said that I would like to have colonic here at the clinic and had found a therapists who came and had a look at the clinic but since then I have not heard from so I gathered they were not interested, so my friend said she would consider it. So she came and had a look and I am hoping to have her here practicing by the end of May.

Yesturday however I went over to her house for homeopathy for me and my daughter then the plan was to go to her clinic and have a look at how the system of colonic’s is set up, then after was going to go food shopping and get home! This did not happen as she asked me to have a session, to which I said, “no, you are alright” But would she take no for an answer, so I had my first experience of colonic hydrotherapy.

What was so interesting was that I thought that I was generally healthy, I eat really well, hardly ever drink alcohol, maybe have too much coffee sometimes and guess what, how toxic was I! She talked me through what was coming through the tube but what amazed me was nothing moved at first because the tube was full of air, and there was me thinking it was in the tube but what it actually was, my wind/gas! This had to pass out before ther rest of my contents started coming out! I never thought for a minute that it was all so complicated and like I said, I really thought that I would be relatively healthy, how wrong was I.

How I felt after was quite tired but after a couple of hours I felt completely energised, my skin was clearer, my stomach felt softer. The therapist told me that I needed to have more sessions as I was some what toxic and it is best if you do a shortcourse of treatments.

I don’t feel that the therapy is a way that you get healthy, alot of other things are needed as in a healthy diet, managing your stress, hydration, sleep, rest, and lots of fun!

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It’s funny as when I got this blog set up on the website I thought, fab I can do all these blogs on a weekly basis, letting people know what we are about here at Exceptional Health, keep them informed of health issues, my discoveries being a therapist and really I have been quite slack! Where does all the time go!

I can’t say I have been lazy, no way, been busy not just in my professional life but being a lone parent with a 3 year old also takes up time, not that I am complaining, it’s all great!

So what have I  been upto this year, been focussing alot on the clinic, thinking up ways of getting busier for all the therapists and realising that as we are a small business in the scheme of corporate businesses that are here in the wharf. I have therefore realised that it is good to link up with like minded small companies and look at how we can all help each other out on the marketing front. I have done just that, we are swapping with City Bunker and they are offering deals for Exceptional Health clients at a reduced cost, so good news for clients. www.citybunker.co.uk if you want to know what they are about. Visit our web site for the special offers they are offering us.

The other thing that I have done is joined the Wellbing Network and again we have some offers from them to, again look at our web site under company news to see what is on offer.

I have also been looking for therapists to come and join us here and in April we will be joined by a company called UrBod, they are a team of nutritionist and have a very different view to nutrition, again if you wish to find out what they are about go to www.urbod.co.uk

In March we have a dietician joining and she works closely within the NHS, again I am excited at seeing her get busy.

New therapists to the clinic are Martin who does Thai massage as well as sports massage.

So you see I have not been watching time slip away doing nothing but I will try and write a little more often ! I hope this finds everyone well, dandy and happy with life!�

The weather seems to be playing havoc with everyone’s health at the moment, myself included! What is needed is a long cold spell to kill off the germs but alas that is not happening, as one minute it’s freezing then it goes mild again.

I have had a bad cough for 2 weeks and now it has moved to my sinuses and I have a glorious cold sore to go with it! As I am a homeopath I have not been using my remedies that I always make up for everybody else, clients and friends, more fool me really. I have come into work today and made up lots of remedies for myself to take so I can knock this into touch.

I have lots of things that are tried and tested from clients that I make up to help them overcome their illnesses. So if you are wanting help to get over something it is worth checking me out, even if you are not a client with me, I am often here and handing out remerdies to other therapist’s clients.