Uptown Integrative Health

10/13/2026

🍂 WINTER WELLNESS STARTS IN OCTOBER! ❄️
When we think about winter wellness, we often wait until cold and flu season is in full swing before focusing on our health. But October is the perfect time to start preparing your body for the colder months ahead!
At Uptown Integrative Health, we believe in taking a proactive approach to your health rather than waiting until symptoms appear.
🌿 5 Ways to Support Your Health This Fall:
☀️ 1. Check Your Vitamin D Levels
With shorter days and less sunlight, vitamin D production decreases. Testing your levels can help determine whether supplementation is appropriate and what dose is right for you.
🥗 2. Nourish Your Gut
Your digestive system plays an important role in immune function. Focus on fibre-rich foods, colourful vegetables, adequate protein, and supporting a healthy gut microbiome.
😴 3. Prioritize Restorative Sleep
Sleep is essential for immune regulation, hormone balance, and recovery. Aim for consistent sleep routines and 7–9 hours of quality rest.
💪 4. Stay Active
Don’t let the cooler weather slow you down! Regular movement supports metabolic health, circulation, mood, and immune function.
🧘 5. Manage Stress Before the Holiday Rush
Chronic stress can affect sleep, digestion, and immune regulation. Build healthy stress-management habits now, before the busy holiday season begins.
✨ Your winter wellness plan doesn’t need to be complicated — it just needs to be intentional.
Whether you’re struggling with low energy, frequent infections, digestive concerns, or simply want to take a proactive approach to your health, our naturopathic doctors can help you identify areas that may benefit from additional support.
🍁 Don’t wait until you’re feeling run down to prioritize your health. Start in October!
📍 Uptown Integrative Health | Winnipeg
🔗 Book an appointment or a complimentary 15-minute exploratory consultation through the link in our bio.
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10/07/2026

Sometimes we understand why we feel anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck—but insight alone doesn’t always change how our nervous system responds.

Jennifer Saner Harvey offers Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) as part of her psychotherapy practice at UIH.

Often referred to as “tapping,” Clinical EFT combines elements of psychotherapy with gentle tapping on specific acupressure points while focusing on emotions, thoughts, memories, or physical sensations.

Clinical EFT may be used to support individuals experiencing:

• Anxiety, stress and overwhelm
• Trauma and difficult past experiences
• Emotional triggers and persistent thought patterns
• Nervous system dysregulation
• Life transitions, grief or relationship challenges
• Feeling “stuck” despite understanding the problem intellectually

Jennifer’s approach is compassionate and individualized, creating space to explore both the emotional and physiological responses that can contribute to how we feel.

At Uptown Integrative Health, we believe mental and physical health are deeply connected. Psychotherapy approaches such as Clinical EFT can be another tool for helping people build greater emotional regulation, resilience and wellbeing.

🌿 Curious whether Clinical EFT might be a good fit for you?
Jennifer is currently accepting clients at Uptown Integrative Health.

Book with Jennifer or learn more through the link in our bio.

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10/06/2026

10/02/2026

🧠 Feeling foggy, forgetful, or just not as sharp as you used to be?

Join Dr. Melanie Leppelmann, ND from Uptown Integrative Health for our next Wellness Walk at Pineridge Hollow as we explore brain fog—and what may be contributing to it.

We’ll chat about some of the common factors that can affect memory, focus and mental clarity, including:

✨ Hormonal changes & perimenopause
✨ Thyroid function
✨ Iron, B12 & other nutrient deficiencies
✨ Blood sugar regulation
✨ Gut health
✨ Stress, sleep & inflammation

📅 Saturday, October 10
⏰ 9:00 AM
📍 Pineridge Hollow

Come for an informative, relaxed conversation followed by a walk on the beautiful trails at Pineridge Homloe. Enjoy some fresh air, good conversation and learn more about what may be behind that “Why did I walk into this room again?” feeling.

🥾 Bring your walking shoes and your questions!

Registration is required through the Pineridge Hollow Website — reserve your spot and join us!

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09/28/2026

You started thyroid medication… but you’re still tired, foggy, cold, constipated, struggling with your weight, or just not feeling like yourself.

Sometimes, thyroid hormone replacement is an important part of treatment — but persistent symptoms may be a reason to look at the bigger picture.

When symptoms continue despite treatment, there may be other contributing factors worth exploring, such as:

🦋 Iron or B12 deficiency
🦋 Vitamin D or other nutrient insufficiencies
🦋 Blood sugar dysregulation
🦋 Sleep quality and chronic stress
🦋 Perimenopause or other hormonal changes
🦋 Digestive health and nutrient absorption
🦋 Inflammation or autoimmune thyroid disease
🦋 Whether thyroid levels and medication dosing have been appropriately reassessed

The goal isn’t to replace your thyroid medication — it’s to ask: What else might be contributing to how you feel?

At Uptown Integrative Health, our naturopathic doctors take a whole-person approach to thyroid health, looking at your symptoms, health history, nutrition and relevant laboratory findings to help identify factors that may be affecting your overall health.

If your thyroid numbers have improved but you haven’t, it may be time to investigate further.

Book a naturopathic consultation or a 15-minute exploratory consult to learn more.

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09/24/2026

Mental health support isn’t one-size-fits-all. 💛

At Uptown Integrative Health, our psychotherapists draw from a variety of evidence-informed therapeutic approaches, allowing care to be tailored to each person’s experiences, needs and goals.

Our team offers modalities including:

✨ EMDR – helping process distressing or traumatic experiences
✨ Brainspotting– exploring and processing experiences that may be held in the body and nervous system
✨ *Internal Family Systems (IFS)– helping you better understand different “parts” of yourself and the patterns that may be keeping you stuck
✨ Nervous system regulation strategies– building tools to support greater calm, resilience and emotional regulation

Psychotherapy may provide support for concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic stress, burnout, grief, relationship challenges, life transitions, emotional overwhelm, self-esteem, parenting challenges and difficulty regulating emotions.

Whether you’re working through something from the past, navigating a difficult season, or simply wanting to understand yourself and your patterns more deeply, our psychotherapy team is here to support you.

📍 Psychotherapy appointments available at Uptown Integrative Health in Winnipeg.

Visit our website to meet our psychotherapists and find the practitioner and approach that feels right for you.

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09/23/2026

At UIH, we believe in looking at the bigger picture — your hormones, gut health, nutrition, stress, sleep, mental health, lifestyle and medical history — and helping you understand how those pieces may be connected.

Our collaborative team brings together naturopathic medicine, nurse practitioner, psychotherapy, massage therapy and integrative services under one roof, with care designed around you.

Whether you’re navigating:

✨ Hormonal changes & perimenopause
✨ Digestive concerns
✨ Fatigue & brain fog
✨ Stress, anxiety & burnout
✨ Thyroid or metabolic health
✨ Chronic or complex health concerns
✨ Cancer treatment or survivorship
✨ Or simply want to feel better and be more proactive about your health

Our goal is to listen, investigate and create an individualized plan that works alongside your existing medical care.

From functional testing and nutrition to nutrient injections, IV therapy, HRT, massage and psychotherapy, we offer multiple ways to support both body and mind.

Come see what integrative care can look like. 🤍

📍 Uptown Integrative Health | Winnipeg
🌿 Naturopathic Medicine • Psychotherapy • Massage Therapy • Integrative Care

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08/26/2026

Massage therapy can be about so much more than relaxing tight muscles. 🌿

At Uptown Integrative Health, Melody Titus, RMT takes an integrative, whole-body approach to treatment, incorporating techniques from craniosacral therapy, myofascial release and osteopathy into her massage therapy sessions.

Her treatments may be a great fit if you’re dealing with:

✨ Headaches or persistent neck tension
✨ Back, hip or joint pain
✨ Sports or everyday injuries
✨ Post-concussion symptoms and lingering tension
✨ Restricted mobility or stiffness
✨ Chronic muscle and fascial tension
✨ A body that simply feels like it’s not moving the way it should

Rather than focusing only on where it hurts, Melody looks at how different areas of the body may be contributing to the problem—using gentle, hands-on techniques to help improve mobility, reduce tension and support recovery.

If traditional massage hasn’t quite addressed what’s bothering you, Melody’s unique treatment style may be worth exploring.

📅 Appointments with Melody are available at Uptown Integrative Health.
Book your massage and give your body some dedicated attention.

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08/04/2026

**Your gut isn’t just responsible for digestion. It may be influencing how you feel from head to toe.**

When the lining of the gut becomes irritated or more permeable than it should be (often called **”leaky gut”** or increased intestinal permeability), substances that normally stay inside the digestive tract can interact more directly with the immune system. This may contribute to ongoing inflammation and immune activation in some people.

Research continues to explore the role of gut barrier health in a wide range of conditions, including:
🌿 Digestive concerns (IBS, bloating, food sensitivities)
🦋 Autoimmune conditions
✨ Skin concerns such as eczema and acne
🧠 Brain fog and fatigue
🌸 Hormonal and metabolic health
💪 Joint discomfort and inflammation

Addressing the underlying factors that affect gut health—such as diet, stress, infections, medications, sleep, and the gut microbiome—can be an important part of a comprehensive treatment plan.

At Uptown Integrative Health, we take the time to look beyond symptom management and investigate potential root contributors to your health concerns.

If you’ve been struggling with ongoing digestive issues or symptoms that don’t seem to have clear answers, we’d love to help.

📞 Contact our office or book an appointment online to learn more about our personalized, evidence-informed approach to gut health.