Stephanie Farwell BSc, Naturopathic Doctor, Reiki Master, and Bowen Therapist. Angel Fertility. Spe My practice has ignited a passion for women's health issues.
As a Naturopathic Doctor, I have a special interest in fertility and pain resolution and management. Having studied various body healing techniques, such as Bowen and acupuncture, I am able to view my patients as a whole, not only allowing me to identify what their physical bodies require for healing, but also their mental/emotional and spiritual aspects. In particular, I have uncovered a particular interest and talent in the treatment of infertility. Various health issues that can adversely affect one's fertility are: endometriosis, PCOS, fibroids and irregular menstrual cycles. These play a large role in one's success. However, I have also discovered, from my clinical experience, that if the spiritual, mental and emotional aspects are also addressed in treatment, that the chance of conception increases dramatically. I have developed various techniques and treatment options that suit each individual to increase their fertility! Working with patients one-on-one in this exciting journey is an honour and privilege that I am lucky enough to do on a daily basis! MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This page is for educational and informational purposes only, it is not intended to give medical advice. Always seek out a Medical Professional for health advice. Please do not message me with personal medical questions. You need to book an appointment. Thank you for your understanding.
11/05/2025
Emma’s Journey: Finding Hope in Fertility ✨
Month after month of negative pregnancy tests left Emma feeling disconnected from her body and unsure of what to do next. One evening, she discovered Dr. Stephanie Farwell ND’s approach: acupuncture isn’t just about needles—it’s about restoring balance, supporting natural rhythms, and nurturing your fertility.
💆♀️ Her first session brought an unexpected calm, releasing the tension and stress she’d carried for months. For the first time in years, Emma felt a spark of hope.
Acupuncture helps:
Reduce stress and support emotional balance
Improve circulation to reproductive organs
Nurture the body’s natural fertility rhythm
If you’re struggling with fertility, know that gentle, holistic support can restore balance and hope.
If you would like to try a different approach or integrate it with your current journey and live in the KW area, book our initial today!
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10/22/2025
✨ When your body starts speaking a new language… ✨
Perimenopause can feel like a whirlwind of hot flashes, sleepless nights, and unexpected waves of anxiety. But what if these weren’t just “symptoms” to endure — what if they were your body’s way of asking for more space and alignment?
Your nervous system is recalibrating to a new frequency — a deeper rhythm that connects your body, energy, and soul.
I guide women through a gentle 4-phase journey:
🌿 Opening the nervous system with Bowen therapy
🎶 Attuning with healing frequencies
🌱 Integrating with herbs and nutrition
🌸 Embodying your next, authentic self
Perimenopause isn’t just a phase — it’s a spiritual initiation through your body. Your symptoms are signals, not problems.
If you’re ready to move through this time with more ease and grace, DM me or check the link in bio to book an appointment today. 💫
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08/14/2025
Your Nervous System Is the Missing Piece
If your body feels stuck in stress, pain, or exhaustion, it might be your nervous system asking for care.
When it’s out of balance, everything feels harder.
When it’s restored, your body remembers how to heal.
Gentle therapies like Bowen work with your body—not against it—to bring you back into harmony. Add the right healing frequencies, and your system can shift even faster into rest, repair, and renewal.
Your healing starts here—by caring for the system that connects it all. 💛
If you are interested in trying Bowen-
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08/12/2025
THE GUT—A POWER GRID UNDER ATTACK ⚡
Take a slow breath in.
Hold it. Now, exhale—steady, deliberate, controlled.
Your nervous system just regulated itself. But what if I told you… your gut does the same thing? Because your gut isn’t just breaking down food—it’s managing charge.
Sleep Disruption? Serotonin (which converts to melatonin) isn’t produced properly.
Mood Swings? Neurotransmitter production becomes unstable, leaving you anxious, irritable, or exhausted.
Cravings? Oh, now this is where it gets interesting…
Sugar—The Cheap Charge
Your body needs charge. But when the gut is out of balance, the microbes signal for the wrong kind.
Sugar cravings? That’s the microbes calling for a quick power source.
⚡ Why does sugar work? Because it’s fast—too fast. It dumps energy into the system without stability.
What happens next? The crash. The cycle repeats. Crave, spike, crash. But that’s just the surface. When bad bacteria overgrow, they hijack the system. Think of it like a faulty circuit board—rerouting signals, forcing the body to ask for the wrong things.
⚡ The Gut Must Be Grounded Before It’s Rebuilt ⚡
Yes, clean-burning carbs, fiber, colostrum, prebiotics—they all help. But when the gut is already misfiring, when the nerves are too sensitive—you can’t start there.
Pain after prebiotics? That wasn’t failure.
That was a body that didn’t have enough charge to process them yet. Before you rebuild the gut’s ecosystem, you have to ground the circuit.
⚡ The Next Step: Restore Electrical Stability ⚡
If your gut is out of balance, your entire system is out of balance. It’s not just digestion—it’s how your body holds charge, fires nerves, and stabilizes energy. Ready to fix it?
Link in Bio!—let’s get your nervous system back online.
07/28/2025
When your body gears up to fight, flee, speak, or cry—but never finishes the job—
the unused energy stays inside.
It shows up as 👇
• Chronic tension or fatigue
• Anxiety or looping thoughts
• Emotional reactivity or flat-numb days
• Restless sleep, buzzy nerves, sudden shutdown
That’s not weakness. It’s incomplete survival energy waiting for permission to finish its cycle.
⚡ The Completion Sequence
1️⃣ Notice the charge
Where do you feel buzz, tightness, or heaviness?
2️⃣ Create a container
Safe space, warmth, soft light—or a trusted practitioner.
3️⃣ Match your discharge method
(Lightning, Earth, Fire, Water types)
5️⃣ Integrate
Long exhale, grounding touch, stillness or journaling.
Completion feels like:
A deep exhale • Tears without panic • Shaking that slows • Softness where you were braced • Calm without collapse
Healing isn’t control.
It’s finishing the cycles your body never got to complete.
If you'd like help with this, I am accepting new patients in my Naturopathic clinic!
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07/26/2025
🌿 Ready to come home to your body?
If you're overwhelmed with your health or unsure where to start, this is for you.
I offer real, grounded care rooted in 19 years of experience — with individualized treatment, deep listening, and body-based healing like Bowen Therapy, Acupuncture, Naturopathic guidance and Reiki.
Whether you're working with pain, fatigue, fertility, burnout or just feel off — we’ll start where you are.
I don’t offer quick fixes. I help you return to your own rhythm — clearly, gently, powerfully.
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Let’s build your wellness — together. You don’t have to figure it out alone.
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07/04/2025
Have you ever noticed how your body reacts before your mind catches up?
That flutter in your chest, a tight jaw, or the sudden urge to flee a conversation — these aren’t just random symptoms. They’re messages from your nervous system, and they all begin with something called charge.
⚡ What Is “Charge”?
Charge is the electrical and energetic signal that builds in your body in response to a stimulus. It’s how your nervous system prepares you to respond to life. And it always starts in the body, not the mind.
Energy – the physical activation that rises
Intention – the internal readiness to act
Polarity – the sense of moving toward or away from something
You don’t think your way into charge. You feel it first.
🔄 How Charge Works
Stimulus or Trigger
A sound, memory, sensation, or interaction occurs.
Interpretation
Your nervous system assesses: Is this safe or not safe?
(Using your past experiences as its filter.)
Charge Builds
You might feel:
→ A faster heartbeat
→ Shallow or held breath
→ Muscle tension or fidgeting
→ A freeze or dissociation response
Action or Suppression
If your system feels safe, the charge is used — maybe through movement, tears, speaking, or laughter.
If it doesn’t feel safe, the charge is held — stored as tension, anxiety, shutdown, or fatigue.
Integration or Dysregulation
Used charge = regulation.
Suppressed charge = symptoms.
Learn more in my blog, Link in Bio!
07/02/2025
Why Your Body Might Still Feel Stuck (Even After Trying Everything)
“If your body isn’t healing the way it should… there’s a reason. And it’s not because you’re doing it wrong.”
You’ve likely tried so much already—
Supplements. Diet shifts. Stress management.
Therapy. Yoga. Mindset work.
And yet…
Your anxiety is still circling.
Your digestion still feels unpredictable.
Your pain still returns like clockwork.
It’s exhausting. It’s discouraging.
And it’s not your fault.
Here’s what most healing paths miss:
Your body doesn’t change through information alone.
It changes through safety. Through signal. Through current.
If your nervous system is stuck in defense (even subtly), it’s holding tension patterns that override every protocol—no matter how smart or holistic.
That means:
Your gut won’t fully digest.
Your fascia stays tight, restricting circulation.
Your breath stays shallow, and anxiety lingers beneath the surface.
This isn’t sabotage.
This is your system trying to protect you—even from healing—if it still senses threat.
What We Do in My Clinic:
We help your body feel safe enough to heal.
We map the nervous system.
We work with fascia (your body’s liquid wiring).
We use breath, touch, and real-time cues to repattern chronic stress.
This is not about doing more.
It’s about doing what actually works with your system, not against it.
✨ Healing happens when your body says:
💡 “I’m safe now.”
💡 “I can let go.”
💡 “I know how to come home.”
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06/23/2025
🧠 Your Nervous System Is Not Sabotaging You — It’s Protecting You
Your nervous system isn’t just a bundle of nerves—it’s the interface between your body, emotions, mind, and world. It shapes how you feel, connect, and respond.
When it’s balanced: you feel calm, clear, and present.
When it’s overwhelmed: you might feel anxious, foggy, reactive, or shut down.
This isn’t failure. It’s your body’s protection plan.
⚙ You have two main operating modes:
🔥 Sympathetic (Fight or Flight)
→ Activates in danger, real or perceived
→ Increases heart rate, alertness, and muscle tension
→ Meant for short-term survival
🌿 Parasympathetic (Rest, Digest, Repair)
→ Supports relaxation, digestion, and healing
→ Regulates breath, heart rate, and recovery
→ This is where healing happens
Most people today live in chronic sympathetic overdrive.
🌀 Enter the Vagus Nerve
Your body’s “safety switch” that connects brain to heart, lungs, gut, and voice.
It helps regulate emotions, digestion, and your ability to feel safe.
A strong vagus = emotional resilience, digestion, clarity.
A weak vagus = anxiety, gut issues, emotional reactivity.
💫 Regulation doesn’t mean perfection.
It means your system can return to center after stress.
You can feel emotions without being overwhelmed.
You respond rather than react.
You feel safe in your own skin.
⚠️ When you’re dysregulated, you might notice:
→ Fight: anger, tension, control
→ Flight: anxiety, overworking
→ Freeze: numbness, fatigue
→ Fawn: people-pleasing, burnout
These aren’t flaws. They’re protective patterns your system learned to survive.
❤️🩹 You don’t need to be fixed.
You need to rebuild safety from the inside out.
That’s why all true healing begins with nervous system repair.
You deserve to feel safe, regulated, and supported in your own body.
And it starts here.
✨ Stay tuned for the next post: how charge moves through the nervous system and how to work with your system—not against it.
If you live in Waterloo, see my link in Bio to book!
04/22/2025
⚡ Castor Oil—Your Body’s Missing Capacitor ⚡
You’ve heard it’s grounding. You’ve heard it helps detox. But what if I told you—castor oil is conductive?
⚡ It doesn’t just soothe—it regulates charge.
⚡ It doesn’t just sit on the skin—it moves energy. It doesn’t force healing—it clears interference.
✨ Why? Because castor oil is highly polarized. Its molecules interact with your body’s bioelectric field, stabilizing nervous system charge.
Think of it like placing a capacitor in a circuit board. A capacitor doesn’t just hold charge—it regulates it. So when you place a castor oil pack over your liver, intestines, or adrenals—this happens:
✔ Overactive nerve signals slow down → Stress response regulates
✔ Stagnant inflammation & toxins are pulled out → Electrically-driven detox
✔ Gut & liver regain coherence → The system restores itself
✔ Adrenals stop overfiring → The body shifts into recovery mode
This is why castor oil works—even when the gut isn’t stable yet. It doesn’t overload the system—it resets the circuit.
⚡ Your body isn’t broken—it’s just overloaded.
Ready to reset? —let’s restore the charge.
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04/17/2025
**“If you’re overwhelmed, your nervous system knows.
Bowen Therapy works with the body’s natural rhythms to reset your system gently.
No cracking. No force. Just safe signals that remind your body how to calm itself again.
Nervous system repair is the foundation for hormone balance, better sleep, digestion — and yes, feeling like you again.
Let’s calm the chaos, one system at a time.
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04/16/2025
**“Your nervous system isn’t broken — it’s just overloaded.
In my clinic, I use Bowen Therapy to reset your entire system — gently, deeply, and without forcing anything.
Each subtle move tells your body: it’s safe now.
The nervous system stores more than stress — it holds emotion, trauma, hormone responses, and even spiritual overwhelm.
When it calms, your whole field recalibrates.
You feel your center again.
If your system is tired and you don’t know where to start — let’s begin here.
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Send a message to Stephanie Farwell, Naturopathic Doctor, Bowen Therapist, Reiki Master:
As a Naturopathic Doctor, I have a special interest in FERTILITY, weight loss and pain resolution and management. Having studied various body healing techniques, such as Bowen and acupuncture, I am able to view my patients as a whole, not only allowing me to identify what their physical bodies require for healing, but also their mental/emotional and spiritual aspects.
Having a special interest in fertility, I have successfully aided many parents in their journey to parenthood! It is an amazing process that I have over a DECADE of experience in! I have discovered that adding acupuncture and herbs to the process have increased the likelihood of conceiving dramatically!
I have been a practicing Naturopathic Doctor for over 13 years. I have found detox to be the base or a great jump off point for people’s health journeys, including my own! I have suffered from gut and weight issues over the years and used detoxification to begin my healing journey, and to help me get past any plateaus! My passion is to help people overcome their health challenges, particularly gut and weight issues, and to support them not only physically, but mentally, emotionally and spiritually! I am not a Naturopathic Dr. that has never suffered any ailments myself. This is NOT THEORY to me, I have lived this and have found my solutions that I want to teach to you!
I have developed in-office programs to heal the gut (or an online DIY Detox program) and have launched a 12 week Weight Loss program, called the Goldilocks Weight Loss Method-not too much, not too little-the key for you is somewhere in the middle! Where I will teach women that want to simply lose weight without giving up their beloved morning latte, their girls night out or their sanity!
I have discovered, from my clinical experience, that if the spiritual, mental and emotional aspects are also addressed in treatment, that the chance of healing increases dramatically. I have developed various techniques and treatment options that suit each individual to reach their health goals! Working with patients one-on-one in this exciting journey is an honour and privilege that I am lucky enough to do on a daily basis!
MEDICAL DISCLAIMER: This page is for educational and informational purposes only, it is not intended to give medical advice. Always seek out a Medical Professional for health advice.
