East End Family Wellness

05/26/2022

📚 Great deal! 📖 ❤️

Join us for our Book Fair on Saturday, June 11th for unparalleled deals 😎as part of the 2022 Danforth East Yard Sale!

Yard Sale

12/25/2021

Merry Christmas 🎄 from our family to yours! ❤️
Focusing on being grateful for all the bright and merry in our lives. Grateful for our friends and family and wonderful community who we have the pleasure of serving!
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12/04/2021

Just finished our family photos with & can’t wait to see how they turn out! As someone who doesn’t love having her picture taken and is often the one captioning the family memories it’s important to me to get professional family photos done. I know we’ll cherish them even more in years to come. The years pass quickly!
Having just finished the Create your Story with . I did lots of reflecting on my family memories and what story I want to leave for my son. It led me to think about what I hold dear when thinking of my family and childhood.
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12/01/2021

Beautifully written about self-care

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”
-Brianna Wiest
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11/11/2021

07/25/2021

Chiropractic and Pregnancy are a perfect match! Your body goes through incredible changes during pregnancy & Chiropractic care helps you to function at your best!! 🤰❤️
Yesterday a patient told me she is a much more pleasant pregnant Mama since starting Chiropractic care and her husband wanted me to know. 😂 For her less pain meant she was a happier Mama!

06/16/2021

🎉 15 years ago today Dr. Kelly & Dr. Amanda graduated Chiropractic College! 🎉

We’ve had the great honour to serve many families in that time. We’re grateful for the all the families who have made chiropractic part of their healthy lifestyles. Doesn’t feel like 15 years...but time flies when you’re having fun! 🤩

06/05/2021

Happy International Women Chiropractor Day! Proud to be Women Chiropractors and honoured to be in such great company!

This is our 15th year in practice. We’ve had the pleasure of being mentored and being supported by a wonderful group of Women Chiropractors! Grateful for all that we have learned and for the wonderful patients we get to serve.

~ Dr. Kelly & Dr. Amanda

05/06/2021