Cafe of life

November was an exceptional month at the Cafe of Life. We had a ton of exciting moments, and are so thankful for our wonderful practice members.

Congratulations to Ivan, who won the Log-On to Win contest! In an effort to increase awareness about living Life By Design, we challenged our members to be actively involved in online social networking, as well as a multitude of other rules and incentives. Each action won them a certain number of ballots into a draw to win an iPod Nano! We generated some great traffic to our Facebook page, on Twitter, and in the office; and are thrilled with the energy that has been created through our members’ online interactions. Enjoy your iPod Nano, Ivan!!!

Katie, Kara and Sebastian participated in the Life by Design seminar in London, ON. It was great to meet with like-minded chiropractors and gain insight into what works best in each of our practices. Plus, we had fabulous Eat By Design snacks and meals to top off the entire experience! We are starting to implement some new systems and techniques into our own practice to further increase the quality of your wellness care.

Stay tuned for more Cafe of Life updates as the holidays quickly approach!

Join us October 27th from 6:30-8:30pm at the MacLaren Art Studio for our Life By Design Showcase! Enjoy learning about what Life By Design is, how it can help you create the life you deserve and what is involved!
Please RSVP by calling us, there is limited seating, so please book early!

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Hey everyone! I know its been a looooong time since I’ve visited this blog site and made some changes/updates, but better late never….!
Lots of things going on, we will be moving into our new space in July (keep the fingers crossed…will probably be there painting all night the night before we move in!!)…hopefully this isn’t too stressful.
We’ve added some amazing new technologies to our office – more to follow on a separate post!
Here is our newest newsletter – click the image below and it will download directly to your computer so you can read it! Sign up for our Life By Design 101 if you haven’t already – great way to get the most out of your care in our office! See you soon!

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Hi Everyone!
Cafe of Life Family Chiropractic Studio is moving this summer! We have just purchased a new building and are currently in the midst of the demolition/renovation flurry!! We can’t wait to have you see the new space! We’ll keep you posted with the progress and changes that are happening!

This is why we do what we do. This is why we love what we do. This is why chiropractic is SO much more than back pain/neck pain.

Lots of great stuff going on at Cafe of Life! Download the Feb newsletter right to your computer and check it out!
Give us a call if you would like to sign up for any of the talks or the amazing Move By Design Fundamentals Program!
See you soon!

newsletter feb 2011 pdf

Hi there!
here’s the january copy of our monthly newsletter…download it right to your computer by clicking on the image of it!

I take aspirin for the headache caused by the Zyrtec I take for the hayfever I got from Relenza for the uneasy stomach from the Ritalin I take for the short attention span caused by the Scopederm Ts I take for the motion sickness I got from the Lomotil I take for the diarrhea caused by the Zenikal for the uncontrolled weight gain from the Paxil I take for the anxiety from the Zocor I take for my high cholesterol because exercise, a good diet and regular chiropractic care are just too much trouble.

Hey everyone,
just a quick note to tell you that our new Cafe of Life video is out!! woohoo! we love it. the guys at Barrie.tv are amazing – would highly highly recommend them if you are in the market for a video…they do amazing work…but don’t just take my word for it…check it out…and pass along to others that you know – this is a great way to see what we are about and what our Cafe is like. thanks so much, hope you are having a great snowy day!!

well gang – it’s again be a while since we’ve chatted, or at least i wrote and you read, but either way, time for an update.
Germany was great – great to see my Oma again after so long, amazing to watch her go through this process in her life. She is 96 and is in the process of passing, and i found myself often just watching her and trying to be present with her. It was a very humbling experience, an experience that i am fortunate enough to have also had with my grandfathter…one more chance to connect, to tell them that i love them and to say goodbye…until we meet again…
As far as the Cafe of Life goes, lots of changes!! Many thanks to Jen for painting the office and providing us with a much needed ‘facelift’! She painted a whole wall in our reception room with black chalkboard paint and Kara has very artistically written all over it – it looks great!
We also have a new team member at the office – we are super pleased to announce that Shelly has joined our office and will be ‘running the show’ as far as office organization and flow goes! She is very friendly, open and caring and i know that she is really looking forward to getting to know you all!!
We have a new talk coming up – Life By Design 101 is a talk we have created to help empower people to live the LIFE they were designed to live. We find that all too often our culture is happy with mediocrity – happy to be just not sick, rather than healthy, happy to just not poor, rather than rich…etc..etc… and this talk is created to help people see the things that they can do right now to improve their LIFE to a whole new level!! We are super excited about the talk and if you or someone you know would like to attend the talk, please call our office and we will reserve your spot!! 705.792.9226.
We will be putting pictures up soon of the ‘office facelift’ – check back soon!!
much love.

Hi everyone, just wanted to say thanks. Thanks for allowing us to be part of your lives, thanks for allowing us to adjust you and your family and thanks for allowing us to share our lives with you. Was talking to a person in the office this morning about how amazing life is and how we really don’t even appreciate it to the fully extent…got me thinking about this clip…enjoy.
again, gratitude to you. have a great day!

Hi There,
just a quick note that we will be closed this thursday until next tuesday inclusively. I (Sebastian) will be going to Germany to visit my oma. She just turned 95 and I haven’t seen her in almost 4 years now, so I thought I would take this opportunity to go over and connect with her again.
Sorry for the inconvenience, looking forward to serving you soon!

Hi everyone, new video – pretty self-explanatory. enjoy.

Hello! Just wanted to let you ‘blog followers’ know about something great that friends of ours are doing…a radio show! The have developed a “Life by Design” system that they implement in their chiropractic studio (something that we are going to be learning and starting also!) and they have a radio show that airs once a week in London…although we can stream it live on the internet…check out the link below!
This week, I am actually on the show with them, discussing our journey to chiropractic, to Cafe of Life and also talking about the birth stories of both of our children and how the understanding and trust of the human body’s power was a crucial part in both births (for different reasons!).
Check out the link below, the show airs Sundays at 1pm on AM980 or follow the link to stream live off the internet!
Have a fantastic day!

http://www.am980.ca/HostShows/LifeByDesign.aspx

Hi!
This is a topic and concept I was talking to my friend about last night, so I thought I would throw it up on the blog real quick…how can 5 minutes really change your outlook and experience of life?
A chiropractic adjustment takes about 5 minutes (sometimes more, sometimes less but usually averages about 5 minutes)…that’s how long it takes for a chiropractor to check your spine and nervous system and correct the interferences found – what we call subluxations. The intention of checking your spine and nervous system is make sure that your body is functioning properly, not to get rid of pain or aches, give you more energy or to help you sleep…don’t get me wrong, sometimes those things happen as a result of a properly functioning system, but the pure intention is to remove the interference and let your body do the rest. Your body is an amazing system that is capable of billions upon billions of things every second!!

So, how different would your life and life experience be if you were able to live life knowing your body was function to it’s highest potential?!

Are you willing to give yourself 5 minutes on a regular basis to take you TOWARDS HEALTH as opposed to away from disease? (recognize the shift in thinking? – go towards what you want, not away from the things you don’t want)

If this is something that really resonates with you, feel free to call our office to set up a first visit and start on your way TOWARDS HEALTH…and for those of you that are already practice members, I applaud your continued commitment to yourselves.
To your health!

Hi everyone, thanks for checking in to the blog!
We are excited to let you know about a super nutritional/wellness/weight loss seminar that we are hosting here at Cafe of Life on October 18th at 7pm! Lauren Jawno is a great speaker and nutritional guru and this information night is designed to answer some questions and give you information about her program. Interested? check out the PDF below, and if you have any questions, you can call us at the office or call the number on the PDF to get a hold of Lauren and her team!
Let us know if you are interested and are able to make it out to the free talk on Monday night – would love to see you there…and of course, if you know of anyone else that could benefit from this, please bring them along!!

Jawno Change4Good Program

Hi everyone! lots of exciting times over the past couple months – that’s going to be my excuse for the long time since I’ve put up a blog post…but the wait is over, finally, another blog entry. Thanks to some gentle persuasion by a great friend, I am back on the blog-train and will be keeping on top of it now! I just finished editing this video that I just shot tonight and thought I would post it real quick for you…enjoy.

Hi There, it’s been too long since I’ve added anything to our blog, but I was thinking about the amazingness of the Nervous System this morning and felt compelled to add this chart to our blog ‘downloadables’. Check it out. Read through it, and as always, if you have any questions at all about it, please don’t hesitate to call/email/come in/smoke signal and ask us, we love questions about this stuff!
We have some exciting news coming up in the next couple weeks, but I can’t spoil the surprise yet, you will have to check back in find out….(my marketing friend would be proud… ending the blog on a cliffhanger! ha!)

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Hi everyone, thanks for checking in. Today’s post is really not specifically about chiropractic, but rather about what we’ve been doing recently and what makes us smile. I was away this weekend at a seminar for personal growth and personal motivation…i know, i know, sometimes that sounds very cliche or corny, but i had a lot of ‘take home’ points, some of which i would love to share with you today. The seminar was put on by Robin Sharma (http://www.robinsharma.com), and was called “Awakening Best Self” weekend. The driving theme of the weekend was leadership and living your life to the fullest. Easy to say, harder to actually do. We, as a society, have grown accustomed to living our lives in mediocrity, not a life of mastery. If we were to all focus on a few things and refine our art in those few areas, instead of doing many many things at an average level, our lives would be profoundly different. What if we focused on being the absolute best dad we could be? What you became the absolute best taxi driver / custodian / accountant / internet marketer / friend / parent / sister / brother / father / mother you could be? Really lived in the moment, and gave it your all…wouldn’t this world be a better place? One exercise we did at the seminar was to write out what we want to be known for after our physical body dies, essentially writing our eulogy. Powerful stuff. It’s amazing how you don’t care about the new car, the house, the bills, the payments, the paycheck or any other material things…mine was all about leaving a legacy for my children, creating ‘world class’ experiences for my kids and family, knowing that i passed on values of love, trust of natural processes, integrity, compassion, optimism and gratitude. It’s a great exercise, try it with your partner, family member or children – find out what you want to be known for when you are no longer here.
Become a master of your art, be the best the world has ever seen, bring joy to those around you and watch your life experience explode! Here is a short video that someone sent to our inbox, something to make you smile – sure did make us smile! Enjoy, and make it a fantastic, superbly awesome day!

it is with great honour and gratitude that we get to post this picture of one of our youngest and ‘newest’ practice members! what a great way to begin this journey – subluxation free!

welcome Kai – we look forward to serving you for years to come!!

Hi there!
Well, lots going on this past little while….where to start…Kara is back now, she was in Austria for 10 days to be at her dear friend Alena’s wedding, so that left me, at home and the office with Sophie… it was great, I was a bit stressed before she left, but we ended up having a great time together, really had a chance to bond a bit, some father-daughter time.

It’s hard to believe, but we have been at Cafe of Life now (well almost now – on the 2nd of June) for 2 years! What a great 2 years it’s been too! We are honoured, humbled and grateful to be your chiropractors, and to help you lead a life full of health and happiness!
C’mon in this week and help us celebrate!

We have something fun planned for the next little bit, somewhat of an experiment…some of you will have already seen something similar, but its a very powerful and shocking visual…you will have to stop in to see whats going on!!

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Hi There – well, tomorrow we’ll be heading down to Toronto for 2 days to work with one of our favourite musicians Xavier Rudd! We are super excited about the opportunity, we had worked with him last year while he was on tour and look forward to the experience this year! That’s something I truly love about this profession, the ability to work with anyone! Anyone can benefit from having a clear nervous system, and anyone can benefit from their body working to its best potential….its no coincidence that some of the best of the best have a chiropractor at their side when they are doing what they do best…(ie. Lance Armstrong, Jerry Rice, Tiger Woods)…

anyway, really excited about this weekend, just thought I would let you know what we are going to be up to this weekend, be safe, have fun and we’ll talk real soon!

So…this weekend we were part of ‘An Amazing Race’ here in Barrie – it was truly an amazing race (thanks so much to Rose for setting up the fantastic day!)
The race was in support of ‘Seasons Centre for Grieving Children’ and more than $8600 was raised!! Amazing Day.

We had a great day, and team ‘wii not fit’ (that’s us) actually won the race! Gotta train for next year to keep the streak alive!

Check back again soon for more pictures of race day!

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you have within you an innate intelligence. an intelligence that created you from two cells, which grew to 4, then 8, then 16, 32 and so forth. you created a brain, a spinal cord, organs, systems and cells. some cells are for fighting off bad guys (bacteria, viruses, pathogens) and other cells are red blood cells, others are nerve cells – all of which are created in the perfect amount and put into the perfect place. ever wonder how everyone’s heart is in the same spot? ever have to think about healing the cut on your finger? ever have to concentrate on producing the right amount of insulin for your body to work properly? ever have to try and get the acidity right in your stomach to be able to break down certain foods? in this increasingly ‘academic’ world of ours we have lost touch with the fact that there are millions of things happening in our bodies every second, and that its our innate, inborn intelligence that runs the show. if you cut your finger, are you better off thinking about every little thing that has to happen for it to heal properly (white blood cells, red blood cells, fibrin, platelets, angiotensin, angiotensinogen, etc…) or should you just trust that your body will heal it to the best of it’s ability? the answer is obvious.

chiropractic is not about neck pain. it’s not about back pain, shoulder pain, wrist pain, leg pain or sciatic pain. in fact, chiropractic has nothing to do with pain. chiropractic allows your body to be the best it can be. sounds cheesy, but honestly, your body can do everything it needs to do, as long as there is clear communication, as long as there is no interference in your nervous system. we all know that the brain controls everything we do and creates everything we need. you can create any drug you need, and not only that, but you can create the exact right amount and have it delivered to the exact right place at the exact right time too…amazing huh?

chiropractic is way more than just another modality that you can ‘have done’. its a way of looking at, and living, life. having trust in your body that it is always doing everything perfectly, or as perfectly as it can in the moment, is such a free and liberating way to live your life. no need to mask symptoms because you understand that there is a reason for it. no need to live in fear that something is wrong because you know that millions of things are going right within you. no need to drug ourselves into a daze to make it through the day because we know that truly living is being able to experience fully this ride we call life.

live with your nervous system clear of interference, live full out.

Hi there!
Below is a downloadable PDF version of our March Newsletter. Simply click on the image and you can download the newsletter to your desktop!

Symptoms – March Newsletter

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