Elements The Compass Of Health Inc.
10600 101 Avenue T0H 1L0 Fairview, AB, Canada

Appointments available Tuesday 10am-10pm, Wednesday 8am-8pm & Thursday 9am-12pm or by special arrangements. Please visit www.elementscompasshealth.ca for more details and pricing

Welcome back? Or welcome to Elements for the first time!

Beautifully busy week at Elements so the next available appointment times are Saturday February 13 or Sunday February 14. Call toll free to 1-877-226-7843 or message Elements to book

Therapeutic services by appointment will continue and we look forward to wellness services and group classes resuming in the future. Struggling for cash at the moment for therapy? Please check out the Karma Club at www.elementscompasshealth.ca for volunteer credit options. Call toll free 1-877-226-7843 if you have any questions

New book with new scripted meditations for 2021

Is everyone ready for a happier January?

We could not have made it through 2020 without all of you. Thank you for being patient regarding group classes and wellness services. Please know therapeutic appointments are available on land and water with Michelle every Tuesday and Wednesday by calling toll free 1-877-226-7843 or messaging Elements. If those days do not work for you then alternative appointment times can be discussed

The inside bin that supplies the outside Dignity Barn could use more items for the men of Fairview and area. Specifically hoping the following gifts at 10600 101 avenue: -winter gear -socks -shirts of all sizes -toiletries (deodorant, dental care, etc)... Inside bin is available Tuesday and Wednesday but the Dignity Barn is open 24/7. Thank you for all that have supported over the last few months

We look forward to growing with you in 2021!

Bring on Fire!!! Scripted meditation from Deborahh Lipp's book The Way of Four

A few appointment times available on land or water with Michelle Dacyk (Occupational Therapist) for this week! Tuesday December 29th 10:00am 11:30am Wednesday D...ecember 30th 8:00am 1:00pm 4:00pm 7:00pm Call toll free 1-877-226-7843 or message Elements if you have any questions or want to book a 1:1 appointment See more

The Dignity Barn has been well stocked and many gifts have been taken over the holidays. Mostly male items have been popular. We could use male winter gloves/toques, male socks/underwear, hot paw packages, male toiletries (items that can freeze) and various sized long sleeve shirts for the gents. Please drop off 24/7 at the barn located 10600 101 avenue or inside bin available Tuesday 10am-9pm, Wednesday 8am-8pm and Thursday 8am-12pm this week

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 [Illustration: Yaoyao Ma Van As Art ]

To our Elements family, to all that have supported our community and to those who have made sure we are managing as individuals, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts this season

Sleep, Diet and Exercise all contribute to the way we handle stress. If Left Unchecked it can become a domino effect. This is No Bueno.

From the book The Way of Four by Deborah Lipp. Meditation for Air plus the "balance chart"

So sad I missed this on Sunday but pretty sure it will show up in my CREW account someday! Looks like a fun routine from our head peeps on the island in BC

We have a wonderful problem! The Dignity Barn has been supporting Fairview and Hines Creek folks (mostly male) with gifts. The barn is full but the inside bin is getting low. Elements will have the doors open tonight/Tuesday until 9pm, Wednesday 8am to 8pm and Thursday 8am to 12pm to refill the inside bin. The Dignity Barn is available 24/7 to give or receive gifts. Thank you Lip Lickers Candy for the homemade candy canes to sweeten the holidays

Still looking for that unique gift in time for Friday? Call toll free 1-877-226-7843 to arrange for a $50, $100 or more gift certificate. Cash, debit, credit card and etransfers can all be accepted in person or over the phone. All services can be found at www.elementscompasshealth.ca

Happy Solstice to our amazing community of instructors, participants, supporters and seekers!! We love you all so much and we’re so grateful to be walking this ...beautiful path with you. As we enter the darkest night of the year, remember, there is much to be learned from the places that have not yet been illuminated. Fear not the darkness for it is ripe with revelation and will comfort your soul. Trust. Have faith. Use your heart to light the path ahead. You already know the way. See more

Now is the perfect time to start. Make your comeback with the support of a physiotherapist.

Missing classes? Go online with one of my mentors!

Appointments are available next week on land or in the water with Michelle Dacyk MEd BScOT

Under the Health Professions Act of Alberta, Michelle is able to offer 1:1 therapeutic appointments in the warm salt water pool or on land. Medical receipts provided as an Occupational Therapist. Call toll free 1-877-226-7843 or message Elements to book an appointment

Over the weekend someone needed the gifts and someone left some gifts at the Dignity Barn (10600 101 avenue by the school buses). The barn is restocked with food, winter gear (male/female), toilet paper and toiletries. These gifts are available 24/7 for anyone so please share this post

December 21st (Solstice) many are reaching out again for another global prayer and meditation. Please take some time to get comfy in your safe place and help us shift from the dark into light