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Dr. Heidi

Naturopathic Doctor at Broadway Wellness Clinic

04/29/2025

WISDOM + GUIDANCE FROM ELDERS

“Down, down down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950

When I speak with many Pink Zones women—those who’ve walked more miles on this earth, gathering wisdom —certain common truths rise to the surface.

Top 2 to share for these times:
1/ They know exactly what they don’t approve of.
Not in a judgmental way, but with clarity that comes from:
• HOLDING A BIRDS EYE VIEW- seeing the bigger picture
• KNOWING THEMSELVES- potent self-knowledge +attunement
• BEING A BOUNDARY BOSS- knowing how to draw firm, unapologetic boundaries. They know their Needs, Preferences, Desires, Limits, Deal Breakers

And most importantly?
2/ They are not resigned.
I’d love to hear what else should be added to this list. Any thoughts?

04/24/2025

Menopause is not something to fear, and it does not need to be fixed. What needs to be fixed is the dinosaur thinking that currently dominates this conversation.

The mindset that sees perimenopause not as a transition to move through to another life stage but as a problem to fix is tired and outdated. This "fix it" mindset replicates the same shenanigans that cause some of our daughters + young girls to dislike their bodies and feeling bad about themselves as they go through puberty. Puberty itself isn't a problem- it is a transition time to the life stage of being a potent reproductive woman.

Perimenopause is a transition time to the life stage of being a powerful wise menopausal woman. Both transition times can have challenges but they aren't pathological conditions. Let's evolve the mindset and elevate our conversation about growing up in all our phases. What would it be like if we stopped trying to "fix" and started supporting ourselves, girls and women instead?

04/22/2025

Giving and receiving advice… Best piece of wisdom I have been given: “People who avoid their feelings will neglect yours”

A fellow writer on Substack Sue Kusch, wrote a post about advice and asked some good questions. She said this: Advice can be helpful/not helpful, solicited/unsolicited, and offered in compassion or selfishness.

What is the best advice you have encountered?
What is the worst kind of advice?

04/17/2025

The Pink Zones is both a storytelling initiative and research project dedicated to elevating and venerating the wisdom of women. It explores the places and cultures where women are celebrated, nourished, and empowered to share their deep experience and gifts.

Much like Blue Zones identified the keys to longevity, Pink Zones seeks to uncover the conditions that allow women to thrive in midlife and beyond—where menopause and aging are embraced as a time of expansion, not decline.

Through storytelling, interviews, fieldwork, and community-building, Pink Zones challenges societal narratives that diminish aging women. The goal? To inspire the creation of more Pink Zones worldwide—places where women flourish as they age, where they are valued as guides, mentors, and knowledge keepers.

04/15/2025

"If we surrendered to the earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

These two know how to lean on each other and grow tall. (Cortes Island, BC). A tree-faller friend who has explored so many remote forests of BC says that the Western Red Cedar and the Douglas Fir often do this. I love that, we can learn so much from trees, I know I enjoy leaning on them, like good wise friends. Sometimes they also talk back :).

04/10/2025

I'm a Naturopathic Doctor who has been practicing in BC for over 20 years. With a background in cultural anthropology and over 30 years in the plant-based cooking field, my passion for traditional wisdom and healing runs deep.

My experience working with the Dene in the Northwest Territories on a traditional medicine project—conducting oral histories with elders—sparked my journey into naturopathic medicine. I later coined the term Pink Zones, a project dedicated to uncovering and celebrating cultures where aging women are revered, nourished, and empowered.

I'm an active voice on Substack, currently writing a book, and always seeking new stories of wisdom. If you have a story to share—I'd love to interview you!

04/08/2025

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood". Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less. -Marie Curie

Nobel prize winner Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911. Born Marya Skłodowska in 1867 in Warsaw. Her family struggled under a repressive Tsarist regime, which was trying to stamp out vestiges of Polish culture.

04/03/2025

Coined by John Welwood in 1984, “spiritual bypassing” describes the tendency to use spiritual practices as an escape hatch from difficult emotions, unresolved wounds, and real transformation. In a culture that often prefers quick fixes and analgesic relief with little side effects, spiritual bypassing fits right in.

While mindfulness becoming mainstream in the West has undeniable benefits, it sometimes gets watered down and repackaged for easy consumption. Social media wellness slogans, in their gleaming paintbrush fonts, promise peace and enlightenment in one simple mindset shift.

But this approach often skips over the hard stuff. Think of the way fiber gets stripped from whole grain to make a fluffy white flour product that doesn’t require so much chewing — it gives us a quick sugar rush, but leaves us crashing later. By glossing over “negative” emotions like anger or shame, we’re denying what makes us human. True transformation isn’t delicate or tidy.

As Thich Nhat Hanh wisely said, “No mud, no lotus.” You need to wade through the mud of discomfort to nurture the roots of true happiness. So embrace the muck — because that’s where the magic of a full, embodied life blooms.

04/01/2025

Like a “swing change” or the messy process of cooking from scratch, personal growth happens in the tangled in-between — not in the polished, airbrushed final product but in the raw, vulnerable moments when we’re inhabiting ourselves from the inside out.

We need grace to be human — to try, to fail, to miss the mark — because getting it “wrong” is often an inevitable step en route to getting it “right.” In fact, recent research studies also show that our brains learn better after being thrown off balance and then regaining it. These studies I reference below are in older adults – pay attention my Pink Zones people! :)

Balance Training Reduces Brain Activity during Motor Simulation of a Challenging Balance Task in Older Adults: An fMRI Study
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00010

Lower Cognitive Set Shifting Ability Is Associated With Stiffer Balance Recovery Behavior and Larger Perturbation-Evoked Cortical Responses in Older Adults
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.742243

Are there some other ways you have experienced the upside of embracing imperfection? I’d love to hear!

Watch Georgia Ball's swing-change video:
https://loom.ly/EZ1sBxg

Photos: Georgia Ball

03/27/2025

Natural Beauty (whatever that means) The current trend of “natural beauty” is, let’s be honest, a bit of a cheeky oxymoron. Let’s not kid ourselves — that “effortless” glow we see on ads and social media is anything but. It’s the result of a fleet of products, perfect lighting, filters, and a sprinkle of meticulous editing magic.

This picture-perfect, “natural” ideal keeps us spinning in circles of self-criticism, comparison, and dissatisfaction when really, the kind of glow worth chasing is the one that comes from embracing the messy, unfiltered energy of being unapologetically yourself. The most compelling beauty isn’t about perfection; it’s about authenticity.

It’s in the laughter lines that hold memories, the scars that tell stories, and the messy hair that shows you’ve been living life, not posing for it.

03/25/2025

Slow Burn + Sweat! True satisfaction comes from embracing the journey, not just rushing to the finish. I’m thinking of the difference between heli-skiing and ski touring. I’ve also been lucky enough to cook in remote backcountry ski huts, slipping out with skins on the bottom of my skis hike up a mountain with the guide and group in between breakfast and dinner.

With ski touring, you spend hours climbing uphill — quads burning, breath fogging your sunglasses, sweat soaking through every swish swish. Then, you pause. Sip hot tea from a thermos. Take in the glistening champagne powder stretched out below.

The descent? Just minutes. But those effortless turns through untouched snow feel infinitely richer—because you earned them. The effort, the grind, the burn—it all closes the loop, leaving you both superhuman and deeply connected to your amazing body.

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