Dr. Tonia Posts (2013-2020)

Naturopathic Medicine, Mind-Body Healing

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Here is an alphabetized list (links - coming soon) of all of my published articles.

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Podcasts

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 01 – What You Need to Know about Supporting Your Immune System

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 02 – The big “S” Stress, How it Affects Us, and How To Heal It

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 03 – Staying Healthy over the Holidays

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 04 – Eating Healthfully

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 05 – Depression & Anxiety: a Naturopathic Approach

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 06 – Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

TONIC PODCAST – EP 07- How to Support Yourself through Perimenopause

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 08 – You and Your Thyroid

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 09 – Healing Your Skin Naturally

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 10 – Heal Your Emotions to Heal Your Skin

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 11 – How to Communicate

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 12 – How to Get Back to Your Goals

TONIC PODCAST – EP 13 – Healthy Tips for Summer

TONIC PODCAST – EP 14 – 5 Ways to Heal Your Brain Naturally

TONIC PODCAST – EP 15 – What is Naturopathic Medicine and How Did I Get Here?

TONIC PODCAST – EP 16 – 7 Lifestyle Tips to Supercharge your Health

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 17 – Mind Body Energy Healing

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 18 – Birth Control

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 19 – Choice

TONIC PODCAST – Ep 20 – Simple Tricks To Get a Good Night’s Sleep

TONIC PODCAST - Ep 21 – Your Body Wants to Heal (MindBody Radio Interview)

TONIC PODCAST – EP 22 – Alexa Linton Interview

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3 Tips to Survive this Awkward Time of Year

3 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Say Yes to Anything

3 Mouth Watering Frozen Treats That You’ve Gotta Try This Summer

3 Rooms in Your Home That May Be Preventing Weight Loss

3 Must Read Lessons for Grownups Who Are Kids at Heart

3 Reasons Why Your Loved Ones Don’t Want You To Change and What To Do About It

3 Things to Avoid if You’re Trying to Conceive a Healthy, Happy Baby

3 Things to Make Sure You Consume if You Want to Conceive a Healthy, Happy Baby

3 Ways to Ward off That Nagging Cough.

4 Mind-Altering Ways Food Can Affect Depression and Anxiety

4 Proven Ways Jumpstart your Body for Bathing Suit Season

4 Simple Tips to Enjoy Naturally Healthy Periods (and Shrink your Man Boobs)

5 Steps to Prevent Disappointment in Relationships

4 Steps to Easy, Relaxed Breathing

5 Tested Methods To Decrease Seasonal Allergy Suffering

5 Evil Ways Evil Sugar Messes With Your Program

5 Top-Notch, Over-Looked Tactics to Fight Off Infections Like a Superstar

5 Questions to Ask Yourself if You Don’t Want to Gain Weight This Holiday Season

6 Secret Reasons Why Your Skin Isn’t Sparkling

6 Ways to Stay Positive During Self-Isolation

7 MORE Physical Foundations of Your Well Being

7 Steps to Cultivate Happiness

7 Ways to Maximize Your Health Outcomes

7 Ways to Know if Your Body Needs a Break

7.5 Tips to Supersize Your Nutrition WITHOUT Increasing your Waistline

8 Ways to Heal your Stress Once and For All

8 Ways to Reduce Fear and Increase Joy and Confidence

9 Reasons to Pause Before you Slather on Sunscreen

10 Natural Remedies for Depression

10 Reasons Why You Should Pray

11 Ways to Eat More Veggies Than You Thought Humanly Possible

20 Ways to Attract More Joy into Your Life

25 Simple Ways to Overcome Burnout

100 Reasons Why Your Healthy Living Plan Isn’t Working Out (and What To Do Instead)

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A Cocktail you Might Actually Need

A Five Minute Practice to Increase your Life Satisfaction

A Fun Practice That Will Change Your Stress Forever

A Hard Thing To Do.

A Love Note To You: The Kindest Blog Post That Ever Lived

Are the Stories You’re Telling Yourself True?

Are You Eating Reactive Foods? 14 Ways to Tell.

Are You Missing this Opportunity for Joy?

Are You Suffering From an Upper Limit Problem?

Are You Taking the Wrong Fatty Acids?

A True Story of Humans Helping Humans

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Balancing Hormones at PeriMenopause and Menopause

Balancing the Thyroid Gland

Balancing Your Hormones for a Healthy Menstrual Cycle

Balancing Your Immune System with Naturopathic Medicine

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Calling You Home – a Pep Talk for the COVID-19 Crisis

Can Anger Be A Graceful Emotion?

Choose to Be Happy and Watch Your Life Change

Communications 101: How to Talk and Listen with out Triggering Each Other

Considering Meditation? My Surprising Secret About Where to Start Your Practice

Curing your Stress Like a Ninja: Deep Breathing for Beginners.

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Do You Ever Feel Like You Need a Compass to Navigate this Crazy Human Life?

Don’t Give Up. It’s Possible to Feel Better

Dr. Tonia’s Favorite Things from 2016

Dr. Tonia’s Natural Sleep Support Compendium

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Everything is Medicine: 3 Healing Herbs in My Garden

Everything You Need to Know Before Your First Acupuncture Appointment

F

Finding the Sacred in the Everyday (and in Every Day!)

Forgiveness Prayer – Ho’oponopono

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Get Rid of Your Headaches Naturally

Gratitude 201: Kicking Your Gratitude Practice Up a Notch

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Health Doesn’t Really Matter. Here’s What Does.

Histamine: Your Body’s Secret Frenemy – Part 1

Histamine: Your Body’s Secret Frenemy – Part 2

How Donating a Dress Opened My Heart

How Far is What You Choose From What You Really Want?

How I Lost 7 Pounds in 20 Days

How My Perspective Shifted Over A Public Sink

How Naturopathic Medicine Can Help Anxiety and Depression

How to Create a Healing Goal

How to Delight Yourself First

How To Find Rest

How to Find Satisfaction (even in crappy situations)

How to Fly Smoothly Through Life’s Ups and Downs

How To Get Fit In Less Than An Hour Per Week

How to Get Through the Holidays Without Going Up a Pant Size

How to Get Yourself out of Overwhelm

How To Guide: How to Get in Your Daily Water

How to Know if you have Allergies or a Cold

How to Know If You’re Consuming Too Much Caffeine

How to Learn New Health Habits with a Beginner’s Mind

How to Make the Most of your Peri and Menopausal Years

How to Make the Right Decision

How to not feel triggered by the stupid things other people do

How to Poo More, If You’re Not Pooing Enough

How to Prevent and Treat 3 Common Summer Ailments with Natural Remedies

How to Say No When You Don’t Want to do Something.

How to Talk to Your Hunny About PMS

How to Talk to Your Loved Ones About Your Diet Changes

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I have Nothing To Say and That’s Okay

I want to give this back to you

I want to Live in a World… (My Birthday Wish)

If It’s Not Scheduled, It’s Not Real

If Laughter is the Best Medicine, Then Here. Have Some.

Improving Digestion – What you need to know to have a healthy gut.

Interview with Diana Marchand of Raw Foods Made Simple

Is He The Right One? How to Know

Is Your Extended Health Plan Keeping You Sick?

It’s Called an Order for A Reason

It’s Not What You Know, But What You Do

It’s Okay To Change Your Mind

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Just Be Unabashedly You

Just Say Thank You

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Knowing What Supplements to Take with the Reba Device

L

Listening to That Little Voice

Love and Healing Meditation

M

Make Art. Define Your Own Perfection. Lessons From Col. Chris Hadfield

Maximizing Nutrients – How to get the most out of your food

My Secret Intention I Say Before I Do Pretty Much Anything

My 7 Day Food Experiment

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Natural Cycles of Growth & Evolution

Natural Therapies to Heal your Brain Injury

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One Stroke at a Time

P

Possibly the Most Vital Thing We Can Ever Learn

Pour the Wax Out

Preparing the body and mind for a healthy, happy baby.

Preventing Stress: Avoiding Energy, Time & Money Drains.

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Repairing Relationships – Connecting Through Touch

Resolutions Don’t Work. Consider this Instead.

Rethinking Your Diagnosis – Is It Really All That?

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Sleep Support in Stressful Times

SNEAK PEEK: Behind the Scenes of my Morning Routine

Stomach Acid and Stress. It’s Not What You Think.

Supplements. Why You Need Them. When You Don’t.

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The 6 Steps I Take to Make Sure You Get Better

The Best Way to Create a New Habit

The Choice is Yours

The CRUCIAL Thing You Probably Know but Need To Remember About This Moment

The Easiest Way to Organize Your Supplements

The Healthy Secret Everyone Knows, But Few People Do Anything About

The Honest Truth about Overcoming Fear

The Importance of Being Honest

The Lesson I’m Not Sure I’ve Figured Out Yet

The Line of Fine: Measuring Below What We Can See

The Massively Overlooked Thing You MUST Do to Truly Thrive in Life

The Most Important Thing to Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes

The Number One Secret to Sleeping 8 Hours a Night Like a Champ

The One Thing you MUST do Before you can EVER Consider Achieving “Work-Life Balance”

The Surprising Lesson I Learned From a Public Washroom

The Thing You Can’t Lose Weight With Out

The Truth Is… Reductionism Isn’t Reality.

The World Needs You and Your Gift

There’s Hope for Cancer – Radical Remission Book Review

Train your Intuition in 12 Steps

Two Magic Little Words That Can Change Everything

Two Steps to Healing Miracles

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Using Nature’s Wisdom to Heal From Injuries Faster

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Water: Life’s Not So Secret Sauce

What Are You Committed To?

What Do You Truly Deserve?

What Doctors Aren’t Telling You About Healing Pain

What Moving Taught Me About the Healing Process

What our Ancestors Can Teach Us About Healing Anxiety

What It Means To Really Heal

What is the Root Cause of Illness?

What To Do With Your Negative Emotions

What You Need to Consider About the 80/20 Rule

What Your Skin Is Trying To Tell You…

What’s Really Behind Bone Loss

What’s Your Medicine?

When Convenience Becomes Inconvenient

Where Following Led Me

Who Holds the Key to World Peace?

Who’s in Charge of your Health and Well Being?

Why ABSOLUTELY Nothing is Wrong with Your Body or Your Health

Why Aren’t You Eating Your Broccoli?

Why Food Needs to be Part of Your Health Plan

Why Forgiveness Isn’t What You Think

Why I Don’t Believe in Night Owls.

Why Ignoring Your Emotions is Keeping You Sick

Why I Rarely Recommend Fancy Allergy Testing

Why I Recommend Marie Forleo’s B-School to Live Your Dream

Why I’m Purging 365 Things This Year

Why It’s Best to Start Small

Why Joy is Overrated

Why Making Ice Cream Bars Was a Spiritual Experience

Why the Word Healthy Makes Me Cringe

Why We Have the Holiday Season All Backwards

Why We Should Make Toddler Choices and Have Adult Tantrums.

Why You Can’t Just Cleanse To Be Healthy

Why You Get Sick On Vacation and How To Not

Why Your Body is like a Bucket

Why You’re Not JUST What You Eat.

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You Gotta Just Ask For What You Want

Your Body Remembers How To Heal

Your Digital Permission Slip

Your Intention Matters More Than You Think

Your Responses – What is YOUR medicine?

Your Responses: What does HEALTH mean to you?

Other Websites / Media

Guest Blog Posts

Bright Almond:
5 Innovative ways to use tea without drinking it!

Conscious Nutrition:
Four natural ways to have a healthier, happier period (or decrease your man boobs)

Elephant Journal:
Life Lessons from Horse Manure

Elephant Journal:
Making Wiggle Room for Change

Health Topics:
An Introduction To Naturopathic Medicine

Health Topics:
Avoiding The Flu – Whatcha Gonna Do?

Health Topics:
Common Food Allergies – Itching For Relief

Health Topics:
Healthy Holiday Tips – Get Your Sweat On Not Your Sweet On

Health Topics:
Herbal Healing – The Doctor Is In The House

Health Topics:
Home Hydrotherapy – Get Stimulated

Health Topics:
Menopause Relief – Could It Really Be About Stress Relief?

Health Topics:
Natural Cures for Constipation – How To Pull The Plug

Health Topics:
Natural First Aid – Take The Bite Out Of Summer’s Little Woes

Health Topics:
Naturally Quit Smoking – Part 1: Preparation

Health Topics:
Naturally Quit Smoking – Part 2: Action

Health Topics:
Stress Reduction Techniques – Breathe or Die and I’m Dead Serious

Health Topics:
The Physiology Of Stress – In The Eye Of The Tiger

Health Topics:
The Symptoms of Stress – Is Your “To Do” List Out “To Do” You

Introvert Spring:
The Best Diet for Introverts: Suprising Links Between Personality and Food

Real Food Witch:
5 Inventive Ways to Use Herbal Teas

Save Your Time Biz Solutions:
3 Foolproof Tips to Get Your Body Rocking So You Can Get Business Hopping

Thrive Thursday:
Interview on Self Care

Internet Video & Audio

Marie Forleo’s – Live Your Dream Campaign

Annihilator – Stonewall [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Diana Marchand of Raw Foods Made Simple

BCNA –

Stress

BCNA –
Castor Oil Pack

BCNA –
Dr. Tonia Intro

TV

CTV Island News –

Seasonal Allergy Segment

Radio

CHLY (Nanaimo):

Immune System


A Sound Constitution

, November 17, 2011

Mental Health (part 2)


A Sound Constitution

, June 30, 2011

Mental Health (part 1)


A Sound Constitution

, June 23, 2011

Food Allergies


A Sound Constitution

, June 9, 2011

Airborne Allergies


A Sound Constitution

, June 2, 2011

Vitamin Deficiencies


A Sound Constitution

, March 8, 2012

Magazine

Health Action Network Society

Herbal Collective

Colour Magazine

Costco Connection

(Sept 2012)

Newspaper

Expert Advice –


Nanaimo News Bulletin

Every two months or so

Parksville Qualicum Beach News

(for Scientists and Innovators in the Schools) – December 18, 2012.

Public Lectures

TOPS Parksville

Crohn’s and Colitis Canada

Jodine Buydens

– Calm and Confident

Scientists and Innovators in the Schools

Kids 4 Kids (Nanaimo)

Child Development Centre

Young Professionals of Nanaimo

City of Nanaimo

Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo – nursing and home care students

VIU, Duncan

Cowichan Valley Regional District,


Island Savings Centre

BC Cancer Society – Prostate Cancer Support Group, Vancouver

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