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Beyond the Five Senses: Your Body Is Talking and Here’s How to Listen

Apr 29, 2026

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21 min read

Beyond the Five Senses: Your Body Is Talking and Here’s How to Listen

In elementary school, most of us learnt about the five senses. Touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing. Nice clean categories that seemed to cover everything. But there's a sixth sense that rarely makes it into those lessons, one that's been diligently working alongside the others this whole time: interoception.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
When Your Body Forgets How to Regulate Itself

Apr 9, 2026

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26 min read

When Your Body Forgets How to Regulate Itself

Imagine standing in a grocery store parking lot with your children, perfectly fine one moment, then crumpling to the pavement the next. Your kids are scared, and you're trying to stay calm for them while strangers hover, unsure how to help. No warning. Not dehydrated, not hungry. Just a body that suddenly stopped managing something most of us never think about: blood pressure.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
When Play Becomes Healing: Understanding Play Therapy for Children

Mar 11, 2026

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23 min read

When Play Becomes Healing: Understanding Play Therapy for Children

When our children are hurting or struggling with their emotions, we often say something along the lines of "use your words.". However, what happens when the feelings are too complex, frightening, or deeply buried for them to articulate?

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
Healing Your Inner Child

Feb 11, 2026

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29 min read

Healing Your Inner Child

The phrase “inner child” might sound like pop psychology—but the idea behind it is simple and real. It points to the emotional parts of you that took shape long before you had the words to explain them and can remain stored, unresolved, within you. Not just in your thoughts, but in your body too.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
Plant Wisdom for Women: Why Herbalism Feels Built for Our Bodies

Jan 21, 2026

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28 min read

Plant Wisdom for Women: Why Herbalism Feels Built for Our Bodies

For decades, most drug research studies were conducted almost entirely on men. Women were thought to be “too complicated” because of hormonal cycles. Researchers worried these cycles would make it harder to interpret results. To avoid this potential muddying of results, the solution was to exclude women from clinical trials.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
The Body’s Hidden Calm Switch: Why Resetting Your Vagus Nerve Might Be the Key to Better Sleep

Dec 17, 2025

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25 min read

The Body’s Hidden Calm Switch: Why Resetting Your Vagus Nerve Might Be the Key to Better Sleep

Fortunately for us, the body has a built-in reboot switch hidden in a nerve most of us know little to nothing about, the vagus nerve.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
Microplastics on Our Plates: How Tiny Particles Enter Our Bodies

Nov 12, 2025

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21 min read

Microplastics on Our Plates: How Tiny Particles Enter Our Bodies

These tiny plastic fragments, less than five millimetres in size, have quietly infiltrated our food, water, and even our bodies. Plastic surrounds us in packaging, clothing, cosmetics, and car tires. But now, it’s not just around us; it is also inside us.

Annette Trépanier
Annette Trépanier
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