All too often during my disability management practice, I see employers making choices about their employees' insurance benefits. I'm very clear on this - if it looks like a WSIB case, then it is! Don't be choosing which benefit plan suits the company best. Have integrity - choose the plan that is in fact congruent with the illness and injury. Then! Manage it through [...]
You may want to think twice about your beverage choice! Your cup of tea could be filled with pesticides. Yes, one more thing to worry about. The English ceremony of having afternoon tea dates back hundreds of years, to the 1650’s, when ships would carry tea, beautiful porcelain tea pots and cups from China and Japan to Europe. Since tea leaves were extremely expensive, [...]
In a forum for discussion regarding disability and health concepts, I continue to be asked the simplest of questions regarding disability management concepts from employers across Ontario. All too often, these employers have a staff member or many staff members managing their disability claims. The saying that a warm body to fill the position is better than none is not true in this case. [...]
So, it’s fall. That means brisk weather, warm clothes, colourful trees and enjoying the glorious pumpkin spice latte at your desk on a cool morning. Or is it so glorious? Our research indicates that it is a scary, Hallowe’en nightmare! What is actually in a Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte? You would think just pumpkin, some spices and either milk or soy milk. Sadly, it [...]
Cool as a Cucumber! As the days of August get cooler and shorter, you can feel the panic and buzz in the air. The stressors and triggers are different for kids, parents and teachers, and it’s important to care for your well-being. Here, we break down some tips and tricks to sail into the next few months stress free (or at least with less [...]
You’re ready to start your day. You reach for frozen berries, banana, cherries and fresh greens, along with some super foods, such as cacao, maca, chia seeds, hemp seeds, sesame seeds, and flax seeds to add to your smoothie and then you head to the fridge for the milk. If you just reached in for some cow’s milk, whether it is homogenized, whole, 2%, [...]
What is your internal dialogue saying? What has become the internal “record player” of your subconscious mind that informs your consciousness? What do you “listen to” inside of your mind all day? Many people experience thoughts of not being good enough, feeling judged, feeling unworthy, unheard and even unloved. But in reality, many times this pattern has been developed through several isolated experiences throughout [...]
Cell phones make you feel ‘busy’ as there is a whole electronic world happening in your hands that you are part of, while you are also part of real-time life. As life seems to be getting busier and busier, and the answer to “How are you?” has become “Busy”, it is important to take a time-out from our devices to just “be”. It isn’t [...]
You’re stuck in traffic or you had to work late. You swing into the nearest fast food restaurant and place your order. But do you actually know what you’re ordering? Can it even be called food? Let’s swing into McDonalds or Wendy’s for a minute and check out their French Fries. Dimethylpolysiloxane1 is a type of silicone used in deep fryers to keep [...]
What is in your detergent? Have you ever read the ingredients? Could it be making you sick? Could it be attributed to weight gain? Conventional detergents are filled with an incredible amount of toxins and industrial chemicals that we should not be breathing in, adding to the environment, exposing ourselves to, or putting on our skin once our clothes are dry. Theses toxins are [...]
