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12/09/2025

Bowen Therapy works with the body, not against it.

This approach isn’t about fixing or forcing — it’s about offering the body space, time, and support to respond in its own way.

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12/06/2025

This is so well written:

The Lymphatic System of a Griever 🌿
The Body Remembers What the Mind Tries to Forget

There are wounds the world cannot see.
The ones you never speak about.
The ones you try to bury under strength, responsibility and routine.

You tell yourself you’re fine.
You tell yourself you’ve moved on.
You tell yourself that “time heals.”

But your body knows the truth.

Because your body remembers everything your mind tries so hard to forget.

Grief doesn’t disappear just because you silence it.
Trauma doesn’t dissolve simply because you refuse to look at it.
Pain doesn’t leave the body because you decided to “be strong.”

The body stores what the heart cannot carry.

It hides in the fascia, the deepest connective tissue holding your life stories.
It sits in the tightness of your shoulders, the lump in your throat, the heaviness behind your sternum.
It wraps itself around the diaphragm, stealing the breath you need to heal.
It settles in the abdomen, slowing digestion and filling the lymphatic system with inflammation.

This is not weakness.
This is physiology.
This is a nervous system that has had to protect you for too long.

When grief goes unspoken, the lymphatic system becomes overloaded.
Stress hormones thicken lymph.
The fascia tightens and restricts drainage.
The vagus nerve retreats.
The body shifts into a long-term protective state.

And then you start to feel it.

Your body is not betraying you.
It is communicating.
It is whispering, “There is something here that needs your compassion.”

Healing begins when you allow your body to exhale.
When you soften the areas that have been holding the hardest.
When you release the lymphatic pathways that froze in moments of fear, loss or shock.
When you finally give yourself permission to feel what you avoided just to survive.

You do not heal by pretending the pain isn’t there.
You heal by creating safety for your body to let go.

Because here is the truth:
Your body has always remembered you.
It held the parts of you your mind could not face.
And it is ready to release — the moment you are ready to listen.

By Bianca Botha, CLT, RLD, MLDT & CDS
Lymphatica – Lymphatic Therapy & Body Detox Facility
PROPERTY OF LYMPHATICA

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🩵 This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your healthcare provider before making changes to your diet, exercise, or health regimen.

12/02/2025

We’re taught to push through — to ignore the whispers until they become shouts.

But the body’s quiet messages are where true awareness begins.

Bowen Therapy teaches us to pause, to listen, and to trust the body’s own intelligence to guide the way.

Whether you’re learning Bowen or receiving it (or both!) — start by tuning in.

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11/28/2025

Our systems work like a well tuned car, all depend on all the other parts. Bowen helps to promote homeostasis in the body, which creates a place for healing. Stress and life takes a toll on the body and the body can get stuck in fight/flight/freeze or fawn. Bowen helps to remedy that so that you can be in rest/repair. Have you tried Bowen Therapy? www.TrueRootsHolistics.ca

11/25/2025

WOW, 5 weeks to Christmas and 6 weeks till near the end of 2025. Have you booked your Bowen or Massage Treatment to use your benefits?

11/22/2025

Food for thought… 🤔. www.TrueRootsHolistics.ca

11/18/2025

5 Fast Facts About Your Lymphatic System 🌿

1️⃣ Your lymphatic system is your body’s detox highway — clearing toxins, waste, and excess fluid every day.

2️⃣ It’s part of your immune army, carrying white blood cells that defend you from infection and inflammation.

3️⃣ Unlike your heart, your lymph has no pump — it flows through movement, breath, and gentle muscle contractions.

4️⃣ About 70% of your lymphatic tissue lives in your gut, connecting digestion, detox, and immunity.

5️⃣ When lymph flow slows down, you may feel puffy, tired, or inflamed. When it flows freely, your body radiates energy and glow ✨

💧 Keep moving. Keep breathing. Keep flowing. www.TrueRootsHolistics.ca

—credit to:
✨ Bianca Botha, CLT, RLD, MLDT & CDS
🌸 Lymphatica – Lymphatic Therapy & Body Detox Facility

11/15/2025

What you feel is just the tip of the iceberg.

Discomfort and tension can be surface-level signs of deeper imbalances within the body.

Rather than focusing solely on symptoms, Bowen Therapy considers how underlying imbalances across the muscular, fascial, joint, and nervous systems may be contributing to what you're feeling.

Using precise, gentle movements, Bowen aims to support the body’s own ability to unwind tension and restore balance.

It’s not about chasing symptoms — it’s about listening to what the body is really saying and working with it, not against it. www.TrueRootsHolistics.ca

11/11/2025

🍬 What Sugar Does to Your Lymphatic System

Most people know sugar affects weight, energy, and teeth… but did you know it also impacts your lymphatic system – the body’s waste-removal and immune highway? Let’s break it down.

1. 🚰 Sugar Thickens Your Lymph Fluid

Your lymph fluid is about 95% water. High sugar intake pulls water into your bloodstream (to dilute the excess glucose), leaving your lymph thicker and sluggish.
👉 This makes it harder for your lymph to flow, leading to puffiness, swelling, and fluid retention.

2. 🔥 Sugar Fuels Inflammation

Excess sugar spikes insulin and triggers pro-inflammatory molecules (like cytokines).
👉 This increases pressure on your lymph nodes, which have to filter more inflammatory waste. Chronic inflammation makes nodes tender, sore, and less efficient at doing their job.

3. 🛡️ Sugar Weakens Immune Response

Your lymphatic system is a big part of immunity (housing ~70% of your immune cells). When blood sugar is high, white blood cell activity can be suppressed for hours.
👉 That means your lymph nodes aren’t as strong at fighting infections.

4. 🍭 Sugar Overloads the Gut–Lymph Axis

Refined sugar disrupts gut flora, feeding yeast and harmful bacteria. Because the gut drains into lymphatic vessels (lacteals and Peyer’s patches), toxins from an imbalanced gut leak into the lymph stream.
👉 This is linked to systemic inflammation, autoimmune flare-ups, and lymphatic congestion.

5. 💔 Sugar Strains the Liver & Lymph

The liver and lymph work as detox partners. Excess sugar (especially fructose) overloads the liver, leading to fatty liver changes and reduced toxin clearance. The lymphatic system then has to carry more waste products, which worsens swelling and fatigue.

✅ Lymphie Tip:
• Swap refined sugar for fruit, raw honey, or dates (in moderation).
• Hydrate to keep lymph fluid thin.
• Move daily (walking, stretching, rebounding, dry brushing) to flush out the sugar-induced congestion.

✨ Your lymph thrives on clarity and flow. Less sugar = smoother lymph highways, stronger immunity, and less inflammation.

Healing regards,
Bianca Botha
CLT, RLD, MLDT, CDS

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11/11/2025

I hate to be the one to mention this but it’s almost 6 weeks to Xmas and 7 weeks till your benefits run out. Book your appointment so you don't miss out. Gift Certificates are available as well. www.TrueRootsHolistics.ca

11/08/2025

Would you pay attention if your body came with a low battery warning?

HINT: It does.

Tight shoulders, aching back, poor sleep, irritability — these can be signs your nervous system is running on empty.

Bowen Therapy works with your body’s natural repair mechanisms, gently reminding your system to rest, rebalance, and recharge, to the best of its ability.

Sometimes, the body doesn’t need more pressure — it needs permission to reset.

Time to top up your inner battery? www.TrueRootsHolistics.ca

11/04/2025

When posture and the nervous system don’t see eye to eye

When the body is out of alignment — maybe one shoulder sits higher, or there’s a slight shift through the spine — it’s not just a structural issue. This unevenness can affect how the brain and body communicate.

Uneven posture can send mixed messages through the nervous system, influencing balance, coordination, and even emotional regulation. For some people, especially those with retained primitive reflexes, this imbalance can keep old movement patterns “switched on.”

Reflexes such as the ATNR, STNR, TLR, and Spinal Galant are designed to help us develop in infancy — but if they’re not fully integrated, they can contribute to muscle tension, altered spinal curves, or inefficient movement patterns later in life.

Bowen Therapy offers a gentle way to bring attention to postural and nervous system patterns, inviting the body to explore greater ease and balance as best it can.

Source: https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/61/3/427 www.TrueRootsHolistcs.ca

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