About Sue:

The Gateway to Fun: Can we slow down time?

Life is fun – even if it’s tough. You need to feel good to have fun! Are you working and caring so hard you have forgotten?

My greatest gift has always been to truly ‘see’ and accept people for who they are, and where they are at, with a calm smile and a sense of humour. It always surprises me that people seldom see their own strengths; I LOVE asking the questions that let you peel back the layers and see yourself with fewer limitations – with YOU in charge of decisions.

With the wisdom of working with emotionally vulnerable people for 25 years, Sue is delighted to add acupuncture as a skill that, by integrating better awareness of your body and mind, can shortcut illness and pain – mental and emotional. That pain in your knee might be attached to problems elsewhere! With a lifelong habit of curiosity and researching answers, be assured you will get a committed problem-solving partner in Sue to support your health.

My mission is to help to restore you or prevent you from being hijacked by poor health – there can be simple answers if we catch you before you get burnt out or live with chronic stress and illness. In 500+ hours of yoga teacher training, and over 2200 hours of acupuncture from the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective, Sue became amazed at the stunning complexity of our body, brain and nervous system, and yet the profound influence of the simplest, cheapest inputs – breath, movement, rubber balls, and tiny little needles – to calm and feel things in our bodies. Whether your pain comes from a new injury, or a long-standing chronic condition, let’s get started with a conversation or read a blog or two first…

Sue is excited to have found what she believes is the ‘missing link’ – acupuncture, breath and simple movements can link the body and mind to create calm, and even slow down time – in times of high emotional stress and overwhelm – like divorce, job stress, and emotional losses.

Sue has had supervised clinical acupuncture experience with a wide variety of conditions, acute and chronic, helping her feel confident in treating a wide range of conditions – physical and emotional. Just ask!

As a collaborative family divorce lawyer, Children’s Lawyer and mediator, Sue didn’t realize she was absorbing and holding everyone else’s tension in her body. (No one taught lawyers about stress and its impacts on the body).

Helping everyone else was her priority – and because chronic stress sneaks up on you one hour at a time, she didn’t think she was unhealthy, until she asked for a prescription for dynamite to help get her out of bed in the morning. She was numb, and her muscles were so stiff and tight she could barely move in the mornings. She felt like there was never enough time or energy to help everyone that asked for her help. Luckily, her husband sent her to to yoga, and she met her body. Then, she got a mind-blowing acupuncture treatment, making her realize her body had a lot to tell her she didn’t know how to hear, and her passion for learning about the body and mind was born. She hopes to keep her ‘beginner’s mind’ forever, and she knows how pain can sneak up on your while you are too busy helping others!

Outside of the clinic, Sue has an intuitive love for slow, breath-connected movement practices like yoga and qi gong, busting moves randomly in the house startling her talented chef, marketing guru and favourite human. She loves her heartfelt connection to nature. Sue has named all the squirrels and birds in the neighbourhood, is always playing outside and she will fight you if you try to steal her kayak, her tent, bike or hiking shoes!…. Yes, she talks to her plants, and the ferns even steal her hair… and she wants to share how spending time calm and in nature does indeed expand time (there will be a blog about this, truly).

Sue and her spouse acknowledge with gratitude their privilege of enjoying life and practice in Barrie, Ontario, on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg people, which include the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Pottawatomi Nations collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy, as well as the Wendat Nation (Huron) who occupied these lands prior to the middle of the 17th century. We aspire to be good neighbours to all living and non-living beings with heartful actions and words. Sue also acknowledges her white privilege, along with a plethora of accompanying privileges, and commits to learning to make the world a more equitable place so that we can all create a kind, hopeful and healthy world for ourselves and each other.