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Lyme Disease: Should I get antibiotics after a tick bite?

By |May 8th, 2019|Categories: Conditions, Health Education|Tags: , |

Should I get antibiotics after a tick bite? Answer: it depends who you ask… Ticks can transmit bacteria when they bite us. This bacteria can cause Lyme Disease. If not treated promptly and adequately, Lyme often progresses to become a degenerative disease that leaves many severely debilitated. With Lyme disease on the rise in BC the controversy surrounding it continues ...

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Is Breathwork The Cure For Anxiety?

By |April 29th, 2019|Categories: Health Education, Therapies|Tags: , , |

Could Breathwork be the solution for anxiety? By having breath experts in our team and providing various breathwork modalities at Empower Health, we have had the chance to observe and follow up on the results of breathwork therapy in conditions like anxiety and panic disorders. We are amazed by some of the results that our clients achieved. With this simple ...

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Pathways Serious Mental Illness Society: Family Support and Advocacy

By |April 29th, 2019|Categories: Community Partners|Tags: , , |

Pathways Serious Mental Illness Society is a unique, peer-led, volunteer, grassroots society of families with a shared vision to alleviate the suffering caused by serious mental illness (SMI).  Our mission is to inform, support, educate, and advocate for all families suffering from or with serious mental illness. Formerly the North Shore Schizophrenia Society, Pathways has worked for 30 years to ...

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Needless Acupuncture- All The Benefits and No Needles!

By |April 29th, 2019|Categories: Health Education, Therapies|Tags: , , , , |

Did you know you could get the benefits of acupuncture with zero needles? Acupuncture has been proven effective for a variety of conditions, such as muscular and joint pain, insomnia, depression and various other conditions. While acupuncture needles are very thin, most people don’t feel any pain or feel mild soreness when needles are inserted, there still many people feel ...

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Revol Girl, Period Proof Underwear That Is Making A Difference In Our Community

By |March 30th, 2019|Categories: Community Partners|Tags: , , |

At Revol Girl, we are a rapidly growing company of diversity. We have come far from our humble beginnings of me, Sara, the Founder, cutting and sewing everything on my own, to introducing 3 staff and an intern, Revol Girl has grown immensely and with each new person on the team, we get new ideas and feedback from very different ...

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Remembering The Past 5 Years…

By |March 30th, 2019|Categories: Empower Team|Tags: , |

Five years have gone by in the blink of an eye and it feels like it was only yesterday that we were ripping up carpets and tearing down walls to make room for a clinic we would call Empower Health. Having an anniversary on April Fools Day has been the source of many jokes between us.  For instance, on the ...

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