The Year of the Wedding: Planning Your Treatments for the Big Day
Wedding planning can be a whirlwind. A drawn-out and stressful endeavor brimming with no shortage of decisions and pressure.
To alleviate some of that stress, consider connecting with your treatment provider early in the process to plan the months and weeks ahead in advance.
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Mother’s Day
To all the mom’s out there, Happy Mother’s Day.
No single day will ever contain all the celebration and accolades moms deserve to have showered upon them. Being a mom is a blessing that is accompanied by as much sacrifice as it is joy.
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Redefining Success Amid Limitation
Like so many clients, colleagues, and friends, I’ve spent the last two years balancing the wellbeing of my family with the wellbeing of my career, while trying to remain mentally, physically, and financially upright amid so much uncertainty.
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The Patient-First Approach and Seasonal Transitions
As much as I push myself to always grow as an Aesthetic Nurse Specialist, one thing remains constant: I am a staunch proponent of a patient-first approach.
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The Empowered Patient
In the past, I’ve cited my experience with cosmetic medicine as one of empowerment. I’m in control. I define my own standard of beauty. Whatever that is or has been to me, cosmetic surgery is one way I achieve it.
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Give Back to Yourself SPOTLIGHT: Belkyra
Early winter is a popular time to undergo treatments with after effects you’d like resolved well before the holidays.
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Burnout: A Post-Back-to-School Check-In (more thoughts on self-care)
School has been back in session for a little more than two months. Whether in the classroom or online, kindergarten or university, I hope students are thriving. This is such a strange and different school year.
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The Benefits and Pitfalls of Altruism
It’s good to be kind.
It feels good. It invites reciprocity, our sense of wellbeing, and the understanding that we are all connected.
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Remembrance Day
We appreciate so many luxuries thanks to the hard work and selflessness of members of the Canadian Forces of past and present. They sacrifice time with family, the comforts of a convenient life at home, and their lives so that we can carry out our lives, rarely thinking of the risks they take to benefit the whole.
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Pay it Forward, But Keep the Change: Caring for Others and Oneself
November is a good time of year to press pause and take a breath. You’ve given a lot of yourself to others over the past several months.
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Ask the Ugly Questions: Treatment Research and Patient Advocacy
As someone who has experience as both a clinician and a patient, I possess unique insights into the experience of people seeking cosmetic medical treatments.
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Slowing Time and Giving Thanks: Pressing Pause for Gratitude in 2020
I look forward to fall every year. Time seems to slow down as the leaves light up tree tops and family gathers if only so the shared presence can communicate the gratitude we feel for one another.
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New Season, New Routine: Changing Self-Care Regimens with the Season
The days are growing shorter and the leaves will soon turn. Maybe change is just what we need. With autumn nearly here, it’s time to start thinking about how a new season demands new self-care routines.
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Your Beautiful: Challenging Beauty Standards
I am covered in tattoos. I started getting them when I was a teenager, years before brightly covered sleeves were a staple of trendy cafés. I realized then that I would be judged for my appearance. I still realize it. But I don’t apologize. I wear what sets me apart with pride.
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YOUR BEAUTIFUL: CHALLENGING BEAUTY STANDARDS AND PREPARING FOR AUTUMN WEATHER
“The only constant in life is change.” – Heraclitus
This timeworn quote feels truer now than ever before. Week to week everything seems ready to change in an instant.
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Back to School in 2020
Last March school let out in a way few had anticipated. Parents had to learn online schooling on the fly. Work was interrupted, schedules thrown into chaos, daily life transformed at a pace and in a way we have never experienced.
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HYALURONIC ACID
It sounds intimidating but it’s exactly the opposite. In fact, hyaluronic acid (HA) exists naturally within the skin, contributing to tissue repair, supporting the network of collagen and elastane, while retaining moisture
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MASKS
Last week we discussed using sunscreen to keep yourself safe. This week, let's consider that other facial covering that’s just as essential these days: masks.
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SUNSCREEN
As much as summer is cause for dressing down, it’s important to cover up. And though it seems that all we do is talk about covering our faces these days, some things bear repeating even as new issues need to be addressed.
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MAKE THE MOST OF SUMMER: SUNSCREEN, MASKS, HYALURONIC ACID, AND BACK TO SCHOOL IN 2020
2020 has turned out to be a year unlike any other, so Kraftwürk is ramping up like never before. I want to be more connected with you, so I’m starting a newsletter and blog and I hope, in addition to Instagram, we can form a deeper relationship through greater dialogue.
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