No matter how cleanly you live, your body builds up toxins over time from your surrounding environment. Our modern society makes it all too easy to accumulate these toxins, and sometimes we need to take some time to help clean up our system. Spring is a great time to detoxify, sort of a spring-cleaning for your body. It will help you feel healthy and energized, and is a great way to launch into healthy habits for the summer.

Get a jump-start on your summer health goals with our 10 day Detox Challenge. 

For only $6/day you will receive

• One 90 minute pre-challenge group session
• Step by step instructions for successful detoxification
• 980g of Thorne Mediclear to help support your detox efforts (a $55 value!)
• Daily e-mails with tips, recipes, and encouragement!
• Group support through the process!

Our first group meeting will be Tuesday May 21st at 6:00pm, and the detox will run from Wednesday May 22nd to Friday May 31st. Total cost for the program is $60 + HST. If you are interested in joining the group please sign up at the front desk or contact us by phone 613-966-9660 or email reception@quintenc.ca.

Don’t forget Saturday May 11th is our OPEN HOUSE and YARD SALE! Stop by between 9am – 12noon to visit.

We would also love to see all patients and guests drop by for our Open House and Yard Sale on Saturday May 11th 9am – 12 noon. If you have items you would like to donate to the yard sale please let reception know and arrangements can be made. All proceeds from the yard sale will go to the Quinte Naturopathic Centre Relay for Life team.

The staff at the Quinte Naturopathic Centre will be spring cleaning for Naturopathic Medicine Week this year and would like you to take part! We will be hosting a yard sale on Saturday May 11th from 9am – 12pm with the proceeds going to Relay for Life. This event will also give the public a chance to meet our staff and have a tour of the clinic. People can learn about our 10 day Group Spring Detox that we will be promoting that week to start their own “spring cleaning”.

There will also be 2 free seminars held at the Quinte Naturopathic Centre that week:

1. Tuesday May 7th 6:30 – 7:30pm Dr. Daralyn Bates, ND will give a seminar called “It Makes Cents.” This talk will highlight the cost of eating healthy and the cost of good quality supplements. She will disprove the myth that eating healthy has to be expensive.

2. Friday May 10th 12:00 – 1:00pm Carolyn Coffin from Living Primal will give a seminar called “Why Diets Don’t Work.” She will discuss the psychology behind why diets don’t work and the negative effects of yo-yo dieting.

Please call the office at 613-966-9660 or email reception@quintenc.ca to register for either talk OR the Group Spring Detox.

1. Eating for Weight Loss seminar

2. Why Eat a Plant-based Diet seminar

3. Dr. Durkin on the Lorne Brooker show

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1. Cooking for Weight Loss with Living Primal (Carolyn Coffin and Kevin Beatty). You have the option of choosing a half or a full day seminar. Dates for half days include: Sat Apr. 13th, Mon Apr. 15th, and Mon Apr. 29th. All half day seminars are 9am – 12pm and include breakfast and lunch.  Cost is $60. A full day seminar is available on Saturday Apr. 27th from 9am – 4pm and includes breakfast, lunch, and a snack. Cost is $100. Please visit the Living Primal website to sign up: http://www.livingprimal.ca/workshops.html

2. Why Eat a Plant Based Diet? with Vibeke Vale. You have the option of choosing a demonstration cooking class Tuesday Apr. 9th 6:30pm – 8:00pm ($35) OR a hands-on cooking class Thursday Apr. 25th 6:30pm – 8:30pm ($50). Includes full course meal eg. Green juice, Avocado Kale salad, Carrot Quinoa soup, and Banana ice cream. Contact Vibeke to sign up at 613-921-3558, or veganfaery@gmail.com .

3. Naturopathic Medicine Week: May 6th – May 10th. Help celebrate at QNC as we will be hosting a FREE Brown Bag Lunch seminar called “The Psychology of Food, Why Diets Don’t Work” Friday May 10th 12pm – 1pm. Please sign up with reception through email reception@quintenc.ca or by calling the office 613-966-9660. Other seminars and events TBA.

4. 10 Day Clean Eating & Detox Challenge: May 22nd – May 31st. Cost will include intro seminar, foodplan, and detoxification powder. Details TBA. Email reception@quintenc.ca or call the office at 613-966-9660 to sign up.

5. Anti-inflammatory Eating Seminar: Tentatively scheduled for Friday May 31st depending on interest. Please advise reception by email reception@quintenc.ca or call the office 613-966-9660 if interested. We are also looking to see if people would prefer a morning or an evening session.

FAMILY DAY Monday Feb. 18th OPEN 1:00pm – 7:00pm

Thursday Feb. 21st OPEN 10:oo am – 5:00 pm

Thursday Feb. 28th CLOSED

Monday Mar. 5th CLOSED

Tuesday Mar. 6th OPEN 2:00pm – 6:00pm

If not indicated above we will be open our regular hours. Dr. Bates or Dr. Bull will be covering for Dr. Durkin when she is away.

Enjoy this 3 hour nutritional cooking seminar with Carolyn Coffin and Kevin Beatty from Living Primal. They will take some of the key points of the book Wheat Belly and the Paleolithic diet and show you how to incorporate these concepts into your daily meals to help you lose weight. Seminar is 9am – noon at Quinte Naturopathic Centre. Please sign up on their website: http://www.livingprimal.ca/workshops.html. Cost is $50. Includes breakfast & lunch.

My mission last year was to attend the International Conference in Aromatherapy held in Dublin – Botanica 2012 – was attended by over 200 therapists from over 30 countries – mainly European countries – 3 of us from Ontario made it!   Myself, my aromatherapy teacher – Danielle Sade, and fellow therapist also originally from the UK, Marianne Tavares. Marianne had been invited to speak – she gave a presentation on aromatherapy and palliative care – new shoots in Canada.

I’ve been keeping myself out of trouble (ha ha) with a new certified modality – Ayurvedic head massage – this   treatment uses pressure spots from the ancient medicine of Ayurvedic traditions from Indian. Pressure points or Marma points – there are 107 in total – are activated on the back, neck, head and face. These points release energy through the body – improving circulation, lymph and lots more – whilst releasing tension and stress. I also incorporate extra facial reflexology points – targeting many aches and pains throughout the body.

I have also become a member of the International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists recently – this is a council held in good standing in the UK with over 3000 members – I am happily an Education council member of our own Canadian Federation of Aromatherapists – the aim of the federations is to improve standards in training and to promote the safe of use of essential oils.

My next project for spring will be to gain certification in clinical hypnosis – I hope to incorporate this knowledge into cancer care to develop self-image and positive thoughts regarding treatment and diagnosis. I will also be developing sessions to help with addictions– including smoking and weight loss.

And yes!!  I will be  returning to the UK this year to gain more in-depth knowledge related to my work with end of life clients – through specialist courses offered at the award winning hospital –  The Christie  - more on that later …

Good health to you all

Annie House

Annie currently has clinic hours for appointment on Thursdays at QNC and will soon be adding Wednesdays.