Christchurch Naturopath Online

Holistic Natural Treatment for your Stress Anxiety or Persistent Pain

As a naturopath I can help you maintain a healthy lifestyle and support you through difficult life stages and periods of stress.

In the past naturopathic medicine has been called an alternate therapy but nowadays naturopathy is recognised world wide.

Naturopaths are happy to work alongside doctors and other medical professionals as complementary practitioners to promote health and wellness.

Take a different look at stress, pain and anxiety

It's not enough to have a diagnosis of pain or anxiety in its many forms.

To get pills to reduce your pain, your anxiety or stress levels.

Better to find out WHY?

Effects of Stress on our Health.docx

Do you want to change any of these symptoms?

Painful muscle tension, aches and pain
Chronic Pain – fibromyalgia, IBS, migraines etc.
anxiety
Fear for the future
Chronic stress or fear of burnout
Stress and problems it causes

As a naturopathic medicine practitioner, I am trained in the latest neuroplastic ideas to relieve and at times eliminate pain and anxiety.

Regardless of the duration of your condition: -

months,
years

Recovery has been shown by international clinicians to be possible.

Christchurch Naturopath Jean

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Life events can cause physical or mental symptoms

I think you'll agree that we are good at collecting 'emotional baggage' as stuff happens to us in everyday life.

Therefore major life events can cause physical symptoms.

Many illness or undiagnosed symptoms can benefit from being aware of feelings and emotions.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome - IBS

IBS can be a very uncomfortable condition with pain and discomfort especially after eating.

Bowel movements can be erratic constipation over several days or diarrhea at times difficult to control.

As my client Sandra found work incredibly difficult as she worked at a call center. This made going to the bathroom complex and very embarrassing because of the inflexibility of movement within her work situation.

For this reason, she was on quite strong medication just to allow her to get through work.

Don't let IBS be a long-term issue

Although we tend to think of diet and what we eat being the cause of irritable bowel syndrome the reason is more complicated than just food.

What happens if we put too much emphasis on diet people with IBS can end up with an over restricted diet. As one client told me she found just going food shopping in the supermarket was incredibly stressful.

My emphasis as a naturopath is the fact that there are many brain cells in the gut.Therefore one of the prime considerations to treat IBS is the brain gut connection.

The example of going food shopping; searching for ingredients that would not worsen her IBS the stress she was putting herself under made her condition worse. This ongoing stress affecting her brain and the brain creating stress in a never ending cycle.

Therefore for those people who have found little resolution or find living on a restrictive diet such as FODMOP is removing the joy from life, one of the things to tackle is the nervous system and the connection between the brain, our emotions and messages that we send to ourselves.

The above can lead to an overwhelm that can impact all areas of your your life, your work, your relationships, your family, and can even stuff up your holiday as you can read from my story in this blog.

More information about IBS and natural treatments

In a Naturopath Consult you can expect to be asked about:-

What and how you eat and drink
Your lifestyle, both social and work
Exercise, movement and activity
Drugs and medication prescribed by your doctor (important that we know this)
Supplements: across the counter supplements, those from friends or online.

When you book an appointment you will need to complete a client form to provide information about the symptoms and issues you have together with the above details.

NOTE: You will be given easy to use self-help techniques to make changes and improve health

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Learn about how your brain neuroplasticity is effected by stress

You may also want to discuss.

Fatigue, always feeling tired
Lack of energy
Anxiety, or Stress with difficulty controlling your stress levels and daily interactions
Poor concentration and brain fog –neurological factors
Stress that increases your pain – stress information

Naturopathic Medicine is by its very nature and name a natural therapy, recognised as complementary medicine or called alternative therapy.

Naturopaths are trained full-time for three to four years. The courses and subjects they study include anatomy and physiology, pharmacology also many areas of health and wellness not generally treated by doctors.

One of the strengths of naturopathic philosophy is the emphasis on being as healthy as possible and using drug-free treatments, hence reducing complications with side-effects.