Total Body Health

Most people react before they realize they had a choice (it's just part of being human).

The trigger lands. The body responds. The behaviour follows. And then the mind builds a story to justify what just happened... usually some version of "this is just how I am."

Except it isn't. It's a loop. And loops can be interrupted.

The Profound Edge is the moment between impulse and action- the small space where your nervous system is still deciding, and where, with practice, you can choose differently.

This is what we call nervous system prehab: training the body to feel safe enough to respond instead of react, and training the mind to operate from truth instead of old protection.

Three movements:
Regulate the body. Repattern the mind. Activate a new way of being.

Save this for the next moment you feel the loop start to run.

And if you want to learn the full process in person comment EDGE and we'll send you the details for the upcoming workshop at Total Body Health.
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Workshop led by Melissa Blyth, Clinical Counsellor (CPCA, ACCT) at Total Body Health, Cordova Bay.

If you’ve been doing all the “right” things for your body and still feel stuck in pain, tension, or stress patterns… This might be why.

Your nervous system plays a key role in:• how your body holds tension• how pain is experienced• how well you heal and recover

When your system doesn’t feel safe, it stays in protection. And protection often looks like tension, bracing, overthinking, or shutdown.

The goal is to create the conditions where the body can actually respond, adapt, and heal. That’s where real change begins.

〰️Join us for our next experiential workshop:
Saturday June 6th 1:30-3:00pm
Total Body Health Victoria
5118 Cordova Bay Rd (Haro Building)
Call to Register: 250-477-5776

😮‍💨 Stress isn't just in your head — it's in your body.

Chronic stress leaves measurable biological footprints: it drives inflammation, weakens your immune defences, disrupts your hormones and metabolism, and physically turns up the volume on pain signals.

And yes — doomscrolling the news counts. 📱

Our latest patient education article breaks it all down:
✅ How your stress system actually works
✅ What chronic stress does to inflammation & immunity
✅ The stress–pain connection (it's not just in your head)
✅ Why the news and social media make it worse
✅ Evidence-based interventions: exercise, mindfulness, CBT, sleep, nutrition & more

This is one of our most comprehensive pieces yet — written for anyone who wants to understand what's really happening in their body under stress, and what they can actually do about it.

🔗 Read the full article at the link in bio, or head to:
totalbodyhealthvictoria.com/blog/when-stress-becomes-a-health-problem

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Total Body Health Victoria | Move Better. Feel Better. Perform Better. Victoria's trusted multidisciplinary health clinic. Chiropractic, massage, naturopathic medicine & advanced therapies. Book your appointment today!

We are looking for an administrative and front desk employee for our multi-disciplinary healthcare clinic, Total Body Health.
We are currently offering a 30 hr - 40 hr position.

We are looking for someone who:
Is a great communicator who is highly organized and detail-oriented. You probably have worked in the service industry because you're great with people and love working in a dynamic environment, and enjoy helping people.
The work you'll be doing is typically alongside another Office Assistant and you will be in almost constant communication with patients.
Is capable of balancing multiple tasks while maintaining a calm, positive tone and temperament.
Is very dependable and reliable and shifts can change.
Is calm and relaxed, but always pushing to get things done. It's important that you like to take responsibility, and your main focus is always delivering results. This work is designed for the talented communicator who is highly organized and capable of multi-tasking. It will require you to keep checklists and work from them. We are really looking for someone who is great with people, dependable, and organized in their work life and personal life.
It will be considered a strong asset and preference for applicants with the following experience:
Reception / Customer Service
Accounts Receivable / Payable
Office Administration
Billing: MSP, WCB, ICBC
Experience with Jane.app considered a plus
Please send me an email and include the following:
Your career history, with each job you've had, what the responsibilities were, who your boss was - along with what each of your bosses would say were your strengths and weaknesses. Please also include contact info for your job references

We are going to review every response we get and we'll contact you if we think that you'd be a good fit.

Job Types: Full-time
Pay: 20.00−27.00 per hour
Expected hours: 30 – 40 per week

Experience:
healthcare office admin / reception: 1 year (preferred)

To Apply - submit via our contact form at:

https://totalbodyhealthvictoria.com/

Call us: 250-477-5776
Text Us: 250-404-5577

Total Body Health Total Body Health offers comprehensive health care from a multidisciplinary team of allied health practitioners, including: Chiropractors, RMTs, Naturopathic Physicians, Clinical Counsellors, Acupuncturist & Kinesiologists.

By popular demand, Strong Senior classes on Saturday's are starting up in March!

Each Saturday from March 7th - May 23rd at 12:30 - 1:30 P.M.

Spots are limited. Call to book your spot now.

250-477-5776

B.C. faces a severe primary care access crisis, with about 700,000 residents lacking a family doctor, leading to delayed diagnoses and care. National polling shows that by 2025, 50% of Canadian adults either lacked a family doctor or struggled to see the one they had, up from 40% in 2015, despite an increase in family doctors per capita in most provinces.

This points to a two-fold problem: a shortage of primary care physicians compounded by an administrative and workflow design failure—care is bottlenecked at the primary care “front door” rather than simply a shortage of clinicians. In B.C., patients seeking care for musculoskeletal complaints, whose differential diagnosis is already determined by a chiropractor, must still see a family physician solely to obtain a publicly funded imaging requisition, adding a documented average of 1.4 redundant primary care visits per patient for a purely clerical function.