Julia Farquhar Osteopathy

08/25/2026

08/18/2026

29 years ago today was my first day on the job as a newly-registered Massage Therapist. Every year on this day I remember my classmates and I being told that 60-80% of us would last only three to five years in practice (conveniently, *after* the College we attended had safely deposited our tuition). On this first day of my 30th year in independent business, I'm delighted to be an outlier.

07/30/2026

I'm off on a week's holiday, beginning tomorrow (Friday, July 31)! I'll be spending my time reading, playing board games, and trying to teach my friends' dog how to swim. (Related: 1) How does a black lab *not* know how to swim? 2) How, exactly, do you teach a dog to swim?)

I'll be back in the clinic on Monday, August 10th, refreshed and ready to see clients.

06/16/2026

This is how the magic happens!

06/15/2026

Summer starts next week, and so do my summer hours! I'll be open Monday through Thursday from 9:00 and 6:00, all summer long. (Friday availability will be back in September.) Come on in for a tune-up! 😎☀️

06/12/2026

Ugh, ticks are up there in the worst of my nightmares! I'll be doing this when I come in from gardening.

06/12/2026

Have you ever wondered what's happening under my hands? This article may help to explain.

How does manual therapy influence the body beyond muscles and joints? This research article explores how manual therapy may affect the body's physiological communication systems—including neurological, vascular, lymphatic, endocrine, and fluidic networks.

These concepts align closely with the principles of Barral Manual Therapies, particularly Visceral Manipulation® and Neural Manipulation®, which recognize the interconnected relationships between tissues, organs, nerves, fluids, and overall function.

The article offers an intriguing perspective on how gentle, precise touch may support the body's ability to adapt, communicate, and self-regulate.

Read:https://www.iahe.com/storage/docs/articles/The-Osteopath-s-Imprint-Osteopathic-Medicine-1.pdf or Barralinsstitute.com Searchable Article database

06/10/2026

Preach! Exercise and movement should bring contentment and joy, not pain and sorrow.

Forget "no pain, no gain." If standard exercise or physical therapy isn't working for you, there are other ways to help your body move without flaring up your pain or fatigue. It's time to start finding ease and joy in movement. Regardless of your level of function, you can learn to start mobilizing your tissues, muscles, joints, and nerves.

If you want to learn more science-based information about things you can do to help reduce pain, improve energy, elevate your mood to feel better, and live better, then you're invited to join my email community.

Here is the link to it: www.drshillerlearn.com

And if you want to help people who are suffering, please share this.

06/08/2026

(Full disclosure: I am the "Jules" of Jules and Regulations.) This was so. much. fun. and I can't wait to be back with Tri-City Roller Derby for Put Up Your Toques in 2027 to reveal next year's winner! (I'll post nomination and bursary links here.)

06/06/2026

"You can't go back to how things were. You build a new normal your biology can live with: protein, resistance training to protect muscle, steady daily movement, protected sleep."

A physicist took a job at the NIH to model weight loss. His specialty was simple systems: energy in, energy out, adjust the math and the body should follow.

For a while it worked. People lost weight, just as predicted.

Then the weight came back. Some people regained more than they lost, eating the same food, doing the same workouts. The math was right. Their bodies didn't care.

What he spent two decades uncovering is this: when you lose weight, your body doesn't reset. It remembers, and it fights to get the weight back.

The moment the weight starts dropping, your body quietly turns down the thermostat. Your muscles become more efficient, burning less energy for the same movement. You fidget less without noticing. Your thyroid eases off. The result is that someone who lost weight can burn hundreds of calories less per day than someone the same size who was never heavier.

At the same time, your appetite climbs. Leptin, the hormone that says "I'm full," falls. Ghrelin, the one that says "eat now," rises and sharpens cravings. Your brain even makes food look more rewarding while weakening your ability to resist it.

So you eat a little more, burn a little less, and the weight returns. Then you blame yourself, when your body never once let its guard down.

You can't go back to how things were. You build a new normal your biology can live with: protein, resistance training to protect muscle, steady daily movement, protected sleep.

This is part two of a four-part series on why weight comes back.

Read it below 👇️

Share this with someone who eats the same as always and can't understand why the weight is creeping back.