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Type of information we collect

Personal information is collected from you only when it is reasonably necessary for a business purpose.  After purchasing one of our products or services, or signing up for a free event, newsletter or webinar the personal data we may hold about you is as follows:

(a) Health information. We may collect information for a coaching appointment about the health, medical history, prescriptions, allergies and other information about an individual;

(b) Personal information. We may collect personal details such as an individual’s name, location, date of birth, or family details;

(c) Contact information. We may collect information such as an individual’s email address, telephone number, postal address and other information that allows us to contact the individual;

(d) Financial Information. We may collect financial information related to an individual such as any bank or credit card details used to transact with us and other information that allows us to transact with the individual and/or provide them with our services;

If unsolicited personal information is received that is not necessary for one or more of our business functions or activities, we will destroy the information as soon as practicable, provided it is lawful and reasonable to do so.

Why we collect personal information

Personal information is collected from you when it is reasonably necessary for a business purpose. Any information we collect may be used in one of the following ways:

•To improve your individual experience (your information helps us to meet your individual needs now and in the future)

•To distribute publications (the name and email address you provide may be used to send periodic emails, including information, updates and related product or service information)

•To improve our website (information and feedback we receive from you helps us to improve our website offerings)

•To respond to feedback (we may contact you in response to feedback submitted to us)

How we protect your information

We take all reasonable precautions to protect an individual’s Personal Information from unauthorised access, misuse, loss, interference, and modification. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. We endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services.

Use and disclosure of information

•We will retain Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law

•We will not disclose or sell an individual’s Personal Information to unrelated third parties under any circumstances.

•We would only release your information when a release is appropriate to comply with the law.

•We may utilise third-pay service providers (such as Gmail from Google, Inc., and MailChimp from The Rocket Science Group LLC) to communicate with an individual and to store contact details about an individual. These service providers may be located outside of Canada.

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When you access our website, we may send a “cookie” (which is a small summary file containing a unique ID number) to your computer.  This enables us to recognise your computer and greet you each time you visit our website without bothering you with a request to register.  It also enables us to keep track of services you view so that, if you consent, we can send you news about those services.  We also use cookies to measure traffic patterns, to determine which areas of our website have been visited and to measure transaction patterns in the aggregate.

We use this to research our users’ habits so that we can improve our online services.  Our cookies do not collect personal information.  If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser so that your computer does not accept them.  We may log IP addresses (that is, the electronic addresses of computers connected to the Internet) to analyse trends, administer the website, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information.

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An individual may opt to not have us collect their Personal Information. This may prevent us from offering them some or all of our services and may terminate their access to some or all of the services we provide. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include an unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email that can be used. If an individual believes that they have received information from us that they did not opt in or out to receive, they should contact us by sending an email to michelle@wellbalance.ca. In some circumstances you may request to have your personal information deleted from our database, as long as there is no overriding legal reason we must retain it.

Updating your information

You may, at any time, request access to the personal information, which we hold about you, by sending an email to michelle@wellbalance.ca. We will respond to such request within a reasonable time of it being received by us. We will take such steps as are reasonable to correct information to ensure that it is accurate, up to date, complete, relevant and not misleading.

GDPR rights for EU residents

If the General Data Protection Regulation applies to you because you are in the European Union, you have rights under data protection Laws in relation to your personal data:

    • The right to be informed – that’s an obligation on us to inform you how we use your personal data;
    • The right of access – that’s a right to make what’s known as a ‘data subject access request’ for copy of the personal data we hold about you;
    • The right to rectification – that’s a right to make us correct personal data about you that may be incomplete or inaccurate;
    • The right to erasure – that’s also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’ where in certain circumstances you can ask us to delete the personal data we have about you (unless there’s an overriding legal reason we need to keep it);
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    • Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling – that’s a right you have for us to be transparent about any profiling we do, or any automated decision making.
    • These rights are subject to certain rules around when you can exercise them.
  • If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at michelle@wellbalance.ca

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It’s a vicious cycle. But you can get out of it. It’s a vicious cycle. But you can get out of it. And it makes a huge difference for all of your symptoms.

This is especially important for those of us with autoimmune and endometriosis symptoms.

If you want an effective plan & toolkit to get control of stress & physical symptoms like pain, fatigue, and digestive troubles, I’ll be teaching exactly what to do tomorrow in the workshop: Relaxing You.

Registration closes TONIGHT

Even if You can’t make it live, the recording & all the extra continuing education courses I’ll be gifting you after the workshop is worth it so you can finally get better control over stress & your symptoms.

Send me a DM to @wellbalancend and I’ll send you all the details, and answer questions you may have about it 💛
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The nervous system is a very important piece of th The nervous system is a very important piece of the puzzle for overall health, especially for us with chronic illnesses like autoimmune or endometriosis.

Just like it’s important for our muscles to be toned & flexible, the same is important for the nervous system. It’s what keeps us well in many ways.

If the autonomic nervous system is NOT flexible, meaning you experience poor vagal tone, poor heart rate variability, or you’re stuck in sympathetic fight or flight or dorsal vagal freeze modes, studies show it has all sorts of negative effects on your physical body, including what’s listed on slide 1.

When you start teaching the nervous system to become more flexible, all sorts of benefits come from it, including better control over inflammation, pain, anxiety and depression, autoimmune conditions and endometriosis.

This is such an important & necessary step that it’s the very first thing I teach my own clients. It creates the foundation so everything else we do works better. It’s the first step to getting better control over fatigue, pain, digestive troubles, mood, and more.

If you want to learn exactly what I teach my own clients in their first 2 sessions with me to develop better nervous system flexibility, then register for the upcoming workshop: Relaxing You.

Registration closes Friday night, so time is of the essence.

Even if you can’t make the live workshop on Saturday, I encourage you to register so you’ll receive the recording. I’m offering email Q&A support for replay watchers.

It’s going to be an informative day, with lots of value, and I’ll be gifting tons of extras to help you continue your learning journey afterwards.

Send me a DM ✉️ to @wellbalanceND and I’ll give you all the information you need about the workshop, and I’m happy to answer any questions you have about it.

I’d love to see you there 💛
When your nervous system isn’t regulated, neithe When your nervous system isn’t regulated, neither is your health.

It’s important! Do you consider this?

When the nervous system is dysregulated, it can impact all the processes listed in the slide & so much more. This is especially important news for any of us with chronic illnesses like autoimmune or endometriosis.

When the nervous system is triggered, so is everything else.

The first step? Start creating nervous system flexibility - it takes the pressure off all the other systems & processes in your body.

It will also help you see, perceive, and manage stress much more easily, which, in turn, helps you keep your nervous system better regulated. It creates a positive cycle.

This is so important, it’s the first step I take my own clients through - it makes everything else work better.

Within the first month, they start seeing improvements in mood, energy, sleep, and digestion - because of this nervous system regulation work.

I’ll be teaching exactly what I guide my clients through in their first 2 sessions with me this coming Saturday. It’s a virtual workshop that’s jam packed with tools & techniques, along with explanations as to why - because when you understand, you’ll be more apt to try them.

All participants will be gifted with extra learning material after the workshop so they can continue their learning journey. It’s truly a value-packed experience that will get you on the road to getting much better control over symptoms.

If you’ve been trying all the diets, even Carnivore, and you’re still struggling with fatigue, pain, bloating, digestive troubles, and you want to learn exactly how to better regulate your nervous system so you can finally get some results, I suggest you join me in this workshop.

There will be a recording if you can’t make it live, but registration closes this Friday night - for both the workshop & the recording.

Want in? Send me a DM to @wellbalanceND, I’ll give you all the information & answer any questions you may have 😊
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Who’s that girl talking about the nervous system Who’s that girl talking about the nervous system, autoimmune, endometriosis, Carnivore, and all that other stuff?

My name is Michelle Dowker, Naturopathic Doctor turned Empowerment Coach.

What does that even mean??

I learned my calling & magic involve helping women, who’ve struggled like I have with autoimmune conditions & endometriosis, empower themselves to find better health by healing the emotional roots of their physical symptoms.

The women I best help have tried all the diets, often all the way to Carnivore, just like I did.

But they know there’s something missing. They know that stress, unresolved emotions, and past trauma are affecting their physical symptoms, preventing them from experiencing all the results they would have expected from the degree of commitment they’ve put into such major changes to diet & lifestyle.

For me, Carnivore helped me get back on my feet after a major flare, like a miracle. But reintroduction was impossible. And I was becoming more & more intolerant, even to some meat.

Once I dug deep & did some personal healing work myself, things got better. My tolerance to food improved. My life transformed, and continues to.

This is what I help my clients with now.

While I have clinical experience as an ND from my past career life, my role now is a guide & coach, to assist women to connect to their own self-knowing, get out of survival mode & blossom into the full potential of their health & lives they truly deserve.

Sound interesting? Make sure to follow me & turn on post notifications to learn more. Or send me a DM to @wellbalanceND, I’m happy to hear from you 💛
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Metabolic flexibility = ability to respond or adap Metabolic flexibility = ability to respond or adapt to changes in metabolic demand.

Those with type 2 diabetes, for example, often have poor metabolic flexibility. It creates a cycle of decline difficult to get out of, unless metabolic flexibility is addressed.

Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) flexibility is equally important = Ability of ANS to adapt to changes in environment by modifying body functions, attention & perception.

When ANS is flexible, it can easily move back & forth between its different states. This helps us deal with challenges then quickly move back to a relaxed state.

The problem is when we don’t have flexibility - - we lack vagal tone, have poor heart rate variability, exhibit incoherence, in sympathetic dominance or dorsal vagal dominance. If we remain stuck here, allostatic load & overload result in serious physical changes.

This affects health in many ways: inflammation, anxiety, symptom triggering of autoimmune, endometriosis, fibromyalgia & chronic fatigue, heart disease, even cancer.

Developing nervous system flexibility is vital for everyone - especially for those of us with chronic illness.

If we don’t, no matter what diet, treatment, or therapy we try, we may not see all the results we want, or any at all.

This is the 1st step of many I guide my own clients through.

I work with women who’ve tried all the diets to try to improve things like fatigue, pain & bloating.

They’ve come to realize stress & emotions are really at the root of why they haven’t seen all the results they desire.

When we work to heal the emotional roots of their physical symptoms, everything transforms in beautiful ways.

The first step is ALWAYS to create nervous system flexibility. The rest of what we do won’t work as well without this.

That’s why I’ve created a workshop to teach you exactly what I guide my clients through in their first 2 sessions with me, so you, too, can create better nervous system flexibility. It makes a difference for symptoms, mood, energy & more.

Want in? Send me a DM to @wellbalanceND or check out my bio link for information. Registration closes Friday. I’d love to see you there 💛
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This one very important nerve can do a lot to infl This one very important nerve can do a lot to influence health & symptoms in all sorts of ways.

This is especially important for any of us with chronic illness like autoimmune & endometriosis. Studies show the state of your vagus nerve makes a difference.

The aim is to have good vagal tone, which supports good nervous system flexibility. When these are strong, heart rate variability is also strong.

All of the above positively influence how the body & brain function in many different ways. Swipe to view some examples on the slides.

Without these things, we can get stuck in states of sympathetic fight or flight, or dorsal vagal freeze modes - because the nervous system isn’t flexible enough to bring you back to a relaxed state.

Without these things, we can end up with allostatic load & overload, which can have serious physiological consequences to the body - from inflammation, autoimmune development, heart disease, all the way to cancer.

When I work with my clients, teaching the nervous system to become more flexible & improving vagal tone are the very first things we do. Without this step, the rest of the work we do won’t be as effective.

It’s a mandatory foundation that makes a huge difference.

I’ll be teaching this foundation step in my upcoming workshop called Relaxing You.

The goal is to learn how to relax the nervous system & gain improved flexibility & vagal tone, to gain better control over symptoms like fatigue, pain, digestive troubles, and other symptoms of autoimmune & endometriosis.

Registration is open until Feb 26. To register, go to my bio link or DM me & I’ll send you details. You can do that at @wellbalancend 

Or you can go to

https://wellbalance.ca/relaxing-you

Improving the state of the nervous system can do a lot, not just for the mind, but the whole body.

I’d love to know: do you believe this to be true?
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