Natural Health Centre

10/16/2025

Last Thermography Clinic for 2025.

Watch out for new dates for 2026!

Helen Live
Dana Irvine

09/24/2025

From Worth-Cappell

Chill A** Run Club!

This run club is for those who want to get active, be with people and have a laugh. It's gonna be...pretty chill, just less chill than sitting on your couch. Think 1.5 km circuit for walking, walk/running or running.

You. Do. Not. Need. To. Be. A. Runner.

We meet at the Natural Health Centre just before 5 PM every Wednesday until it's too cold and/or isn't fun to run outside. It's free. See you there!

https://sacredgrovenaturopathic.com/offerings/runclub

08/18/2025

Let’s give a warm welcome to Victoria Smith to our Natural Health Centre family😊

07/10/2025

Please welcome Victoria Smith, a social worker who will be practicing out of the lower level on Saturdays.
She will be starting on Sat. July 26th as her first day.

👉 Victoria Smith, Registered Social Worker, MSW RSW

Areas of Practice: Individuals including children ages 11+, adolescents, families/parent support and adults

519-664-0514

vsmithcounselling.ca

Victoria is a registered social worker with 17+ years experience supporting children (11 +), teens and their families navigate mental health diagnosis, social difficulties and relationships. She is also passionate about supporting adults navigate their mental wellness including relationships, ADHD, Anxiety, OCD, Depression, Stress and Trauma. Victoria works from a client centered perspective meaning I meet clients where they are at. She utilizes a variety to modalities to help clients make change including CBT, DBT, Narrative, and Solution Focused Therapy. As well, Victoria is trained in Phase 1 and 2 of Brainspotting; a brain/body based technique that uses eye positions to process emotional activation.

Victoria obtained her MSW from The University of Western Ontario in 2014 and is registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW) and the Ontario Association of Social Workers (OASW). Her fee per 50 minute session is $175 and is covered by most major insurance companies. You are responsible for paying for your session at the time services are delivered and will be issued a receipt you can send into your insurance company.

As well, Victoria is a registered provider with the Metis Nation of Ontario (MNO) and NIHB and can bill directly to these two organizations.

Victoria resides full time in Kitchener Ontario and has property in Whitney Ontario where she love to spend her free time. She is offering a hybrid model of therapy to folks out of Barry's Bay and surrounding area which will be a combination of in-person and virtual therapy.

In her free time Victoria enjoys bowling, golf, reading, riding her motorcycle, fishing and relaxing by the water

VSMITH Counselling supports children, youth, families and adults with issues related to mental health, relationships and wellbeing including ADHD, Anxiety, Stress, Friendships, Depression, Social Skills, Trauma and much more. Sessions are available in person and virtually. With over 17 years experie...

07/01/2025

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Join us to see the herbs behind the St. Francis Herb Farm herbal products, hosted by St. Francis Herb Farm and guided by Dr. Lisa Murray.

06/28/2025

Happening today at the Opeongo Seniors Centre 👍

06/26/2025

Join us to see the herbs behind the St. Francis Herb Farm herbal products, hosted by St. Francis Herb Farm and guided by Dr. Lisa Murray.

06/25/2025

MVHPC is very proud and excited to announce a new program we have upcoming in October 2025!

Participants looking to register will recieve our registration package with further instructions and information.

Please share!

06/09/2025

From Dr Sandy Musclow

🌿 Perimenopause, Estrogen Overload & the Power of Midlife Transformation 🌿

Too often in Western medicine, the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause — brain fog, fatigue, weight gain, mood swings, hot flashes — are seen as a deficiency of estrogen. The automatic response? Add more estrogen. Estrogen has become the new probiotics, or collagen of the hip but misdirected and not so useful wellness trends (I don't prescribe any of those).

But what I'm seeing in our modern, estrogen-saturated world, many women are already dealing with too much estrogen — not too little. And in the perimenopausal years, estrogen is oscillating up and down, before it starts to really drop. This is what makes testing tricky - if only we had continuous estrogen monitors!

I’ve seen women who've been recommended estrogen for symptoms like pain or fatigue or dryness/heat, without any testing or understanding of what’s truly driving the imbalance. I've seen practitioners recommend HRT when there is already abnormal vaginal bleeding, history of estrogen-based cancers, and more recently, in a smoker with family history on both sides of estrogen-sensitive cancers.

🔍 Some women in menopause — no longer cycling — still show elevated estrogen levels.
🌀 Others are prescribed estrogen despite signs of high estrogen: bloating, anxiety, irritability, sore breasts, weight gain around the hips, etc.
💊 And often, we’re treating symptoms while ignoring what the body is trying to eliminate. In an estrogen-dominant culture, where plastics, pesticides, body products, stress, and xenoestrogens flood our systems daily, clearing estrogen is often far more important than adding more.

🧬 Supporting our organs and emotional processing is key. Estrogen needs to be metabolized and cleared to avoid buildup and imbalance.

From an wholistic perspective, menopause is not just a hormonal event — it's a soul transition. As our reproductive forces recede, they re-emerge as creative, intuitive, and spiritual forces. This is a time of evolution, not just symptom management. My teachers from China and India noted that their patients in their home countries didn't have the intensity of menopausal symptoms that we see in North America. Our Yang, stressed-out culture likely contributes to these changes, more stress and more anxiety and more feeling like we have to do it all, and so perfectly.

But if we bypass this transition by overriding the body with more hormones, we risk missing a deeper opportunity — and potentially aggravating the very symptoms we’re trying to fix.

✨ What if your symptoms are not a call for more estrogen… but a call to release what no longer serves? To re-kindle your passions, to find yourself again, to slow down, to nurture you.

Clearing, detoxifying, and listening deeply to the body can bring relief — and open the door to the next chapter of your life with vitality, clarity, and purpose.

This is a powerful time. Let’s treat it that way.

06/03/2025

05/24/2025

welcome Marie Manchester

05/20/2025

Please contact Serenity Reiki & Wellness or Janice Cybulskie