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Inner Essence Wellness is committed to fostering holistic health and well-being through a range of therapeutic practices. Our blog serves as your primary source for discovering how acupuncture can aid in various conditions, along with updates from our clinic, lifestyle advice, tasty recipes and even yoga poses. We encourage you to delve into the transformative effects of acupuncture in Sherwood Park and see how it can improve your wellness journey. Together, let’s achieve balance and harmony in your life, one enlightening post at a time.
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Chinese New Year and Lunar Celebration
The Lunar New Year celebration is a festival unlike any other. Also known as the Chinese New Year and Spring Festival, this celebration...
Jen Badach
Feb 11, 20213 min read
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a Healthy Heart
In the spirit of Valentine’s day, let’s talk about heart health. Did you know, the heart will beat over 100,000 times pumping roughly 2,000 gallons of blood each day! Heart health is massively important to one’s overall wellbeing. When the heart is strong, circulation will be sufficient, the body will be well-nourished, and the pulse will reflect that by being full and regular. Traditional Chinese Medicine (or TCM), just like Western medicine, believes the heart is responsibl
Jen Badach
Feb 1, 20213 min read
You’re Getting Sleepy...Enjoying Naps in the Winter Season
Most mammals are polyphasic sleepers, meaning that they sleep for short periods throughout the day. For humans, days are divided into two...
Jen Badach
Jan 15, 20213 min read
Five Reasons to Get Acupuncture for Migraines
Migraine headaches are a bit of mystery to the medical world. This ailment tends to be poorly understood and frequently undiagnosed and undertreated. According to the Migraine Research Foundation, this neurological disease affects nearly 39 million Americans. Migraines are characterized by severe, throbbing pain usually found on only one side of the head. Migraine headaches can also be accompanied by visual disturbances, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and extreme sensitivity to
Jen Badach
Jan 1, 20212 min read
Acupuncture and Seasonal Affective Disorder Symptoms: Depression
Acupuncture is known to be one of the best treatments to combat symptoms of seasonal affective disorder. SAD affects millions of Canadians a year and can turn a once productive person to a tired and depressed individual. Although, SAD has various symptoms, probably the most common is depression. And, acupuncture has been shown to work great when treating symptoms of depression. WHAT IS SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER? Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is related to the change in
Jen Badach
Dec 15, 20203 min read
Five Self Care Tips for Winter
Traditional Chinese medicine teaches that humans should live in harmony with the seasons. According to traditional Chinese medicine there are five seasons: winter, spring, summer, late summer and fall. Each season has many associations that help us change our habits, allowing for a more balanced mind and body. When these systems were being developed, people were living in harmony with nature. People rose with the sun, ate what was available during the different seasons and th
Jen Badach
Dec 1, 20203 min read
Support your Kidneys this Winter
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, health is achieved by living in balance with nature and the seasons. Winter, the season of the Water...
Jen Badach
Nov 30, 20202 min read
Exploring the 24 Qi Clock
Most people are familiar with the terms diurnal and nocturnal. Diurnal means active during the daytime, while nocturnal means active...
Jen Badach
Oct 15, 20203 min read
How Can Meditation Help Me?
Life is full of ups and downs. And everybody tends to get overwhelmed at times. But there are many ways of dealing with what happens. Some people go to the gym to workout. Others meet up with friends and enjoy a nice meal with lots of conversation. But sometimes it comes down to what we can do by ourselves, for ourselves. Many things are beyond our control. However, we can take responsibility for the state of our mind and meditation is a wonderful tool that helps us do that.
Jen Badach
Sep 15, 20203 min read
Give Your Body a Fighting Chance - Tips to Stave off Covid-19
If you feel like you’re battling frequent colds, a cough that won’t quit, or just seem to be tired all the time, it may benefit you to find time for a daily walk or simple exercise routine. Doing this a few times per week can have many health benefits and help build your immune system. Viruses such as COVID-19 take hold in our bodies when our immune systems are at their weakest points. Below are a few ways to help increase your immune function so your body can function as it
Jen Badach
Sep 2, 20203 min read
Tune into Health
Remember the days of rabbit ear antennas on your television sets? If you were lucky enough to find the exact seating position in your living room to optimize your body’s own magnetic field and the tilt of the earth’s axis, these beauties could tune in your favorite show with the crystal clarity of a thick San Francisco fog. If - heaven forbid - you wanted to tune to another channel, this required a coordinated, two-handed effort of spinning and rotating the antennas, the lik
Jen Badach
Aug 15, 20203 min read
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