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Hi, it's Dr Manon Bolliger, ND and I want to welcome you to the Healers Cafe.

I am so excited to be doing this series of interviews and what I'll be doing is, is asking all kinds of healthcare practitioners, doctors, healers of all types, to really share with all of you their experience, why they became healers, what called them what they think about this being a healer thing. Is it, a thing? Who's really healing in this, what they've experienced from their their interaction with clients and patients and what the takeaways and understanding of what the process of healing is all about and the process of life. So that's the essence of what I'm doing. I'm hoping that this will serve also for patients that have issues and are looking for different ways of approaching it.

* De-Registered, revoked & retired after 30 years of practice. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!

The Healers Caf‪é‬ Dr M - Manon Bolliger, [ND] (De-Registered*)

    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.4 • 7 Ratings

Hi, it's Dr Manon Bolliger, ND and I want to welcome you to the Healers Cafe.

I am so excited to be doing this series of interviews and what I'll be doing is, is asking all kinds of healthcare practitioners, doctors, healers of all types, to really share with all of you their experience, why they became healers, what called them what they think about this being a healer thing. Is it, a thing? Who's really healing in this, what they've experienced from their their interaction with clients and patients and what the takeaways and understanding of what the process of healing is all about and the process of life. So that's the essence of what I'm doing. I'm hoping that this will serve also for patients that have issues and are looking for different ways of approaching it.

* De-Registered, revoked & retired after 30 years of practice. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!

    Indoor and Outdoor Plants that Remove Airborne Chemicals by Silva Santé on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    Indoor and Outdoor Plants that Remove Airborne Chemicals by Silva Santé on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Silva Santé, Natural Consultant & Author.
    For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/silva-sante2 
     
    Highlights from today's episode include:
    Silva Santé 
    they conducted a study on plants that didn't need a lot of light to grow and could eliminate toxic substances created by the equipment in these space stations. Their findings showed that indoor plants can actually clean air of cancer causing volatile organic compounds like formaldehyde, and benzene. These chemical compounds are actually found everywhere.
    Silva Santé 
    So, there's more energy basically, I would say, in a fresh sprig of mint, or basil, or anything that you pick from your garden, basically, than there is in a whole processed meal.
    Silva Santé 
    if you don't have the time and space, then at least grow some flowers and grow some herbs. And that will help a lot. And it aids a lot of things in your life, digestion and gives your body real nutrients and vitamins and minerals that it actually needs.
     
    ABOUT SILVA SANTÉ:
    A Natural Health Consultant and author. I developed the Silva Santé System – a Phytoholistic© Approach to better health, and increased quality of life. By applying some very simple foundational shifts, this approach can help you create an environment that strengthens your own foundation for improved function of immune, digestive, and nervous systems. Since 1996, I’ve specialized in the use of therapeutic plants in various forms and their incorporation in the preparation of daily meals. In 2019, I was a guest on a talk show called Bienvenue chez Cécile Diane which airs on CTRB TV; a French station in Quebec Canada where I showcased a few of my recipes. Due to popular demand, I documented these savory recipes and more! The Silva Santé cookbook is chock-full of information on the benefits of all the ingredients used in the recipes, a section on essential oils, plus a chart of edible flowers. Now available in French and English.
    Les recettes Silva Santé  Silva Santé Recipes.
     
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    ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER 
    As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver. 
    My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  'What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship' and 'A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress'.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.
    So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience".
    Mission: A Healer in Every Household! 
    For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog. 
     
    For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips 
     
    ABOUT THE HEALERS CAFÉ: 
    Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives. 
    Follow on Social –Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Twitter | Linktr.ee | Rumble
     
    * De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!
     
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    • 34 min
    How Hydrotherapy Can Regulate and Heal the Body with Dr Marcus Coplin, ND on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    How Hydrotherapy Can Regulate and Heal the Body with Dr Marcus Coplin, ND on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Dr Marcus Coplin, ND about the health and wellness space is in desperate need of an expanded paradigm.
    For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/dr-marcus-coplin-nd  
     
    Highlights from today's episode include:
    Dr Marcus Coplin, ND
    while I was in school, I learned that the tradition of naturopathy really comes from the German water cure system, and that there were these health resorts. I mean, there, they were called sanitariums. They were called nature care centers. But they were these places where people would go and spend a period of time, like a health vacation in which they would undergo a series of treatments.
    Dr Marcus Coplin, ND
    helping this body better regulate itself, you can help the body better kind of scan and attenuate to whatever conditions are present
    Dr Marcus Coplin, ND
    the emergence of spaces like hot spring resorts, urban bath houses, health retreats, health resorts, these are places where people are going to be actively able to go and spend a focused amount of time to go through a process of healing, under properly trained guidance.
     
    ABOUT DR MARCUS COPLIN, ND:
    Dr. Coplin is a Naturopathic Physician specializing in the field of integrative Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine and integrative Oncology. He is the medical director for The Springs Resort in Pagosa Springs, CO and Murrieta Hot Springs Resort in Murrieta, California where he advises on science-based usage of thermal mineral hot spring water for health. Dr. Coplin writes and teaches extensively on the re-emergence of Health Resort culture and programming in the 21st century health care field.

    Core purpose/passion: Now I took that experience into the world of Health and Wellness spaces where I am the medical director and consulting Balneologist for a variety of Hot Spring and Thermal health resorts around North America. My focus is on expanding the concept of health and wellness culture and creating a demand for well trained integrative medicine specialists and naturopathic physicians in the field of Health Resort Medicine, Balneology, and Hydrotherapy.
    Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | 
     
    ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER 
    As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver. 
    My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  'What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship' and 'A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress'.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.
    So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience".
    Mission: A Healer in Every Household! 
    For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog. 
     
    For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips 
     
    ABOUT THE HEALERS CAFÉ: 
    Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives. 
    Follow on Social – Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Twitter | Linktr.ee | Rumble
     
    * De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!
     
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    • 34 min
    How To Build a Healthy Relationship with Food with Amy Bondar on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    How To Build a Healthy Relationship with Food with Amy Bondar on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Amy Bondar about Nourishing Body, Mind & Soul
    For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/amy-bondar
     
    Highlights from today's episode include:
    Amy Bondar 
    I think the main obstacle that people have is that for so many years, we've approached nutrition for weight loss. And we really just thought about using food as a way to use lose weight. And I believe that food is so much more than that, right?
     
    Amy Bondar
    what we're missing is that exploration, we go into shaming, guilt about eating it, and veering off our nutritional path, but we're not doing the work. We're not doing the work to resolve the stresses and conflicts so that we're not constantly repeating that pattern of going back to food.
     
    Amy Bondar 29:43
    I just think food is meant to be enjoyed. And it's really here to give us the energy and vitality to do what we love every single day of our lives. And when we can get to the place where we're nourishing from there, then will forever change our relationship with food.
     
    ABOUT AMY BONDAR:
    Amy Bondar, Nutritional Therapist, Certified Eating Psychology Coach, Dynamic Speaker and Author, changes lives!

    Amy brings two decades of clinical experience in the field of nutrition and mind-body coaching and believes that nourishing our body with the power of food, resolving stresses that are contributing to our unwanted eating behaviors, weight, and health challenges, and living a life with meaning and purpose are essential ingredients to optimizing our health.

    Amy lives in Calgary Canada where she raises her two beautiful children with her husband and optimizes her own health by eating well, working out, walking her dog Bagel, using essential oils, spending time in nature and going to the spa!

    Amy is the author of Journey to Optimum Wellness through Sound Nutrition, and a recipient of the 2021 Brainz 500 Global Awards, recognized for being an influential leader in entrepreneurial success, achievements, and dedication to helping others.

    Amy will inspire, educate, and guide you to nourish your body, mind, and soul so you can live your most vibrant, energetic, and fulfilling life. Amy offers virtual consults and lectures to clients around the world and will partner with you on your journey of transforming your relationship with food, body, and self.

    Core purpose/passion: I love to help women transform their relationship with food, their body and themselves.
    Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube 
     
    ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER 
    As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver. 
    My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  'What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship' and 'A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress'.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.
    So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience".
    Mission: A Healer in Every Household! 
    For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog. 
    For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips 
     
    ABOUT THE HEALERS CAFÉ: 
    Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives.  
    Follow on Social – Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Twitter | Linktr.ee | Rumble
     
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    • 31 min
    Empowering Women with Holistic Health with Aeryon Ashlie on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    Empowering Women with Holistic Health with Aeryon Ashlie on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Aeryon Ashlie our use of innovative technology and QR codes so each product has a full program.  We are the only 100% women owned women focused Canadian brand
    For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/aeryon-ashlie  
     
    Highlights from today's episode include:
    Aeryon Ashlie 09:13
    It's the first one is the thoughts you think, okay. And the reason I say that is you can take all the ashwagandha in the world, but if you are in a fear based negative state of mind, and if that story or racket or whatever you want to call it in your head is a constant negative narrative, you're not going to be motivated to work out, you're not gonna be motivated to take care of body to eat well.
    Aeryon Ashlie
    But if you're really trying to have a goal of health and wellness, then surrounding yourself with people who are also on that same journey is really important as well.
    Aeryon Ashlie
    Really ensuring that you're having great food. And I think living by the 80-20 rule has enabled that for me, really, you know, 80% of time, I eat really great food. And on weekends. If I want licorice, and I want a glass of wine and I want to go with my friends and have a great meal I let myself do that.
    ABOUT AERYON ASHLIE:
    Since I was a young girl, my weight and size were something I was aware of teased relentlessly and ostracized from my peers, food became my comfort. Food never made fun of me or excluded me. Then as a young teen, I experienced heavy, painful periods, acne, weight gain and mood swings. Like many young girls my age, I was put on the birth control pill. Around that time, I fell into the trap of obsessive dieting and exercise, which led to my 20-year battle with the eating disorder Bulimia. I believed if I could just be smaller and fit like the girls in the magazines, I would finally find contentment.

    A further psychological impact, was a result of my choice, to enter fitness competitions for over 13-years. That, and continued use of the IUD, resulted in hormonal imbalance and cycles of severe weight gain and loss.

    In an “Ah-ha” moment 9 years ago, I finally took action to change my behaviours, patterns, and life. However, even as I took all the necessary steps to heal my relationship with food and my body, I was still having physical side effects from my years of continuous dieting, synthetic hormones, and high stress.

    My body had stopped responding, I was gaining weight, suffering from exhaustion, insomnia, a non-existent sex drive, cravings, and mild depression. My whole body felt like it had turned on me.

    So I started working on my nutrition, natural support supplements, daily movement, stress management, and sleep habits. Over time, I was able to finally find balance. As someone who has experienced the frustration of extreme hormonal imbalance, I knew that I wanted to help others who felt the same hopelessness. As a trainer and a coach, I was able to work with clients one-on-one, and address their needs through nutrition, movement, stress management, and sleep.
    Core purpose/passion: Changing women’s lives… 
    Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube
     
    ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER 
    As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver. 
    My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  'What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship' and 'A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress'.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goal

    • 32 min
    How To Use Hypnotherapy to Support Gut Health with Kerry Madgwick on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    How To Use Hypnotherapy to Support Gut Health with Kerry Madgwick on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Kerry Madgwick about Kerry's Natural Health Solutions: Holistic Solutions using Nutrition, Mindfulness and Hypnotherapy. 
    For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/kerry-madgwick
     
    Highlights from today's episode include:
    Kerry Madgwick
    We heal holistically. We don't just heal a physical part or a mental part. We have to heal everything. So, it's our environment, our relationships. It's the relationship we have with the food we eat with the thoughts we think.
     
    Kerry Madgwick
    I think that's the thing is once people learn to love themselves for themselves, then that also changes their relationship with food and then automatically then start eating better. And then has that knock on effect as well.
     
    Kerry Madgwick
    But I think that is the thing is, I think, for people to understand that there is always hope, there is always a way to heal, it's just finding the right way for you and the right person, for you to work with, to help you achieve your goals and what you're looking for.
     
    ABOUT KERRY MADGWICK:
    Kerry guides her clients to release past stress, trauma and limiting beliefs that are holding them back by helping them taking control of their Health, Happiness and learn to Manage their Mind to change how the past plays out in the future, so they can move into thriving, embracing the core principles of living a healthy and happy lifestyle with simple and easy techniques that work. Kerry has been passionate about all things health related for over 25 years and she helps her clients embrace the core principles of living a healthy lifestyle without fads or gimmicks, building successful habits in simple and easy steps. Kerry's talks are based on her own experience of being extremely ill, stressed, depressed and overwhelmed to who she is today. She really does "walk her talk" and shares her story to inspire and motivate others to take control of their health and wellbeing and is so passionate about this topic she wrote the book "If you believe you can Heal Yourself you Can" available on Amazon. Kerry is the author of "If you Believe you Can Heal Yourself You Can", and creator of the Foundation of Health Programmes, Podcast Guest, ex Radio Co-Host and Motivational Speaker


    Core purpose/passion: My core purpose and mission is to inspire others to heal, to find health, happiness love and laughter and that this is possible no matter your starting point and that it is possible to continue to be healthy as we age

    Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube
     
    ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER  
    As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver. 
    My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  'What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship' and 'A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress'.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.
    So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience".
    Mission: A Healer in Every Household! 
    For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog. 
     
    For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips 
     
    ABOUT THE HEALERS CAFÉ: 
    Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives.
     Follow on Social – Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube

    • 32 min
    How To Honor Mother Earth on Earth Day with Kerri Hummingbird on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    How To Honor Mother Earth on Earth Day with Kerri Hummingbird on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger

    In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks with Kerri Hummingbird - Inner Medicine Training - teaching the Medicine Wheel for inner power and guidance.
    For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/kerri-hummingbird2    
     
    Highlights from today's episode include:
    Kerri Hummingbird
    Okay, so we're in a global human initiation, so how can you discern what's true, and what's not true? And the answer is, the answers are inside your body. So that's why I said, becoming one with Mother Earth, for the survival of humanity, because your body is made of earth, that nobody can dispute.
    Kerri Hummingbird
    when I started taking that perspective, that the earth is conscious, and is interacting with us all the time through our bodies, I started listening to my body in a different way. Like when my stomach gets upset, I stop and go, what are you trying to tell me? What's going on? What am I doing?
    Kerri Hummingbird
    if you're connected with the planet, you're just connected, just like all the mycelial network and all the mushrooms are connected, and the trees are connected, they communicate through mycelium networks, and science has shown this and proven it. So therefore, we're also connected with everything to, and we're not separate.
     
    ABOUT KERRI HUMMINGBIRD:
    Kerri Hummingbird, Medicine Woman, Mother and Mentor, is the Founder of Inner Medicine Training, a Mystery School that shares potent ancient traditions from the Andes and Himalayas for owning your wisdom and living your purpose.  She is the #1 international best-selling author of The Second Wave: Transcending the Human Drama; l bestseller over 190 weeks  and  Love Is Fierce: Healing the Mother Wound ; which describes the most direct path to self realization. As the host of Soul Nectar Show, Ms. Hummingbird inspires people to lead their lives wide awake with an authenticity, passion and purpose that positively impacts others. As a healer and mentor, she catalyzes mind-shifts that transform life challenges into gifts of wisdom. Her newest book, to be released on Earth Day 2023, is  Inner Medicine: Becoming One with Mother Earth for the Survival of Humanity

    Core purpose/passion: Revolutionizing the mental illness industry into mental/emotional/physical/spiritual wellness.
    Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube 
     
    ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER 
    As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver. 
    My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  'What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship' and 'A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress'.  I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.
    So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience".
    Mission: A Healer in Every Household! 
    For more great information to go to her weekly blog:  http://bowencollege.com/blog. 
    For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips 
     
    ABOUT THE HEALERS CAFÉ: 
    Manon's show is the #1 show for medical practitioners and holistic healers to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives. 
    Follow on Social – Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | YouTube | Twitter | Linktr.ee | Rumble
     
    * De-Registered, revoked & retired naturopathic physician after 30 years of practice in healthcare. Now resourceful & resolved to share with you all the tools to take care of your health & vitality!
     
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    • 33 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

Joyful After 50 ,

The Healers Cafe

Engaging series of interviews with integrative practitioners, mixing personal and professional reflection. Sincere and warm-hearted. Dr. Manon Bolliger is a kind but perceptive interviewer. Recommended for those interested in the range of integrative practice.

Cindybgood ,

Interesting and Informative

Highly recommend this podcast for anyone who is actively seeking information on taking responsibility for their own health and wellness...or anyone who is feeling frustrated or overwhelmed by the conventional medical system of ‘over prescribing’ and quick fixes. Very informative with an array of interesting guests.

Dr.Chris bjorndal ,

Inspiring podcast!

The Healers Cafe is a very inspiring podcast and shares some amazing stories of healers. It is a very informative and interesting podcast! Would definitely recommend!

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