Frequently Asked Questions
Where do I start?
At OwnHealth and Wellness we offer a 30 minute free discovery call. During this call, you will learn about OwnHealth's foundational principles, EMOTION CODE, and have time to ask questions.
To request a discovery call, go to the 'Schedule Appointment' tab above.
What is an Integrative Health Practitioner?
An Integrative Health Practitioner is trained in Ayurvedic Medicine, Bioregulatory Medicine, Chinese Medicine & Herbalism, Eastern Philosophy, Traditional Naturopathy, Orthomolecular Medicine, and Functional Medicine. IHP's approach rebalancing the body through a wholistic approach through food, exercise, detoxification, supplementation, stress management, rest, and success mindset.
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Ashley will help you create your OwnLifestyle that is authentic and sustainable for you.
What should I expect during my first consult?
Your first consult is 90 minutes. During this time you and your practitioner will go over your health goals, symptoms, diet, lifestyle, and personalize your foundation program. You will come away with a personalized OwnFoundation program created around your goals, diet and exercise plan, functional medicine lab recommendations (if applicable) and a follow up appointment in 4 weeks depending on your specific needs.
Supplement companies OwnHealth and Wellness recommends:
At OwnHealth and Wellness we use only professional, third party tested supplement products.
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Below are some of the product lines we recommend most.
Standard Process
CellCore Biosiences
Apex Engergetics
Energetics
Nutri-West
Ortho Molecular
Premier Research Labs
Drucker Labs
Equi.Life
What is OwnDetox Program?
OwnDetox Program cleanses the liver, blood, tissues and organs from waste through working on phase 1 and phase 2 of liver detoxification.
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If you do not have a bowel movement everyday, struggle with acne, hormone imbalance, food cravings, anxiety, depression, a diagnosed disease, aches and pains, a functional medicine detox is a great place to begin.
Your detox pathways need to be open before you start cleansing the body of unwanted elements or you could have unwanted symtoms arise known as a herxheimer reaction (headache, itchy skin, join pain, flu like symptoms, nausea).
Why should I do a parasite cleanse?
Testing for parasites is difficult and more often than not inaccurate. The burden parasites can have on the body may lead to other health symptoms and diseases. Parasites do not only live in your bowels they can also live in your blood, tissues, joints, and organs.
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Often times parasites carry heavy metals, viruses, and bacteria. Parasites create waste products your body has to eliminate adding an additional burden on your body.
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Completing a OwnFullMoon Cleanse you can begin to eliminate parasites for your body allowing your body to come back into balance.
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Why do you recommend everyone be on an OwnFoundation Protocol?
Just like a house needs a rock solid foundation, so does our body!
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OwnFoundation Protocol provides your body with all of the vitamins, minerals, and fatty acids, it needs daily to function optimally and maintain homeostasis.
When using your OwnFoudnation Protocol along side your healing protocols, you may have more energy and faster results.
OwnFoundation Protocol is recommend for longterm use for optimal health.
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine is a systems biology–based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual’s illness.
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The precise manifestation of each cause depends on the individual’s genes, environment, and lifestyle, and only treatments that address the right cause will have lasting benefit beyond symptom suppression.
What is Ayurvedic Medicine?
Ayurvedic medicine is one of the world’s oldest medical systems and remains one of India’s traditional health care systems. Ayurvedic treatment combines products (mainly derived from plants, but may also include animal, metal, and mineral), diet, exercise, and lifestyle.
What is Bioregulatory Medicine?
Bioregulatory Medicine is about supporting and restoring the body’s bioregulating systems’ ability to regenerate, repair, and self-heal through the use of natural and energetic therapies.
Bioregulatory Medicine is a multifaceted, multidisciplinary medical model that is patient-, health-, performance-, ecology-, biology-, spiritually, physiology-, and curatively centered. Bioregulatory medicine focuses on individuality, taking into account each person’s unique biochemical, historical, energetic, structural, sociological, and psycho-emotional patterns.
The scope of Bioregulatory Medicine extends into disease prevention, optimizing performance, and chronic and degenerative illness treatment.
What is Orthomolecular Medicine?
Orthomolecular medicine is part of the foundation of integrative medicine. Â Orthomolecular medicine aims to restore the optimum environment of the body by correcting molecular imbalances, determined by a wide range of testing and physician experience, and based on individual biochemistry.
What is EMOTION CODE?
The EMOTION CODE is a form of energy medicine that finds and releases trapped emotions stored in the body. These trapped emotions are trapped energy in the body that can cause a wide variety of symptoms. Symptoms from sadness, anxiousness, inability to make decisions, frustration, and physical discomfort and imbalances.
What are trapped emotions?
A trapped emotion is an emotional energy that becomes stuck in the body because it was not processed and released at the time you expererienced it. We can feel this trapped energy riding just below the surface of our daily emotional experiences, causing us to experience these trapped emotions on a small scale all the time.
Who has trapped emotions?
Everyone has some trapped emotions because we live in the human experience. Emotions become trapped when we don't have the time, energy, or emotional intelligence to process and release the emotion at the time it occurred. Trapped emotions can be inherited from generation to generation, absorbed from another person, or shared with multiple people.
How do trapped emotions affect us?
Trapped emotions may negatively influence our thoughts and feelings due to the low vibration of these emotions. It is even possible to experience physical imbalances in the body because of trapped emotions such as sleep disturbances, mood imbalances, chronic disease, and more.
Who benefits from the EMOTION CODE?
In short, everyone can benefit from EMOTION CODE sessions. The EMOTION CODE can be used for everyday issues such as indecisiveness, anxiety, lack of clarity, sadness, blocked from moving forward and more. it can also be used in cases of physical discomfort, chronic imbalances, or acute imbalances.
What can I expect from a session?
Most people describe a lightness or calming feeling after a session. Their emotional backpack has been lightened and they have underlying sense of clam that wasn't there before. Physical discomforts can also be lessened after an EMOTION CODE session.