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Sunnie’s Open House in Bedminster

Jan 31, 2024 06:39PM ● By Jerome Bilaos

Everyone is welcome to Sunnie’s Open House from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on February 10. Sunnie Mortimer, owner of Natural Resilience, has decades of experience both treating and teaching her patients techniques in stress management. Her practice, located at New Jersey Natural Medicine in Bedminster, has had enormous success improving patient’s emotional and physical health by using the many tools in her belt, including HeartMath, a stress biofeedback program that works at relaxing the nervous system and helps manage stress.

Meet Sunnie

At the start of Sunnie’s career, she was a critical care and cardiac care nurse. She then became certified in cardiac rehabilitation, which allowed her to see the benefits of a holistic mind-body approach to health. She then began her path toward holistic nursing, which shaped her understanding that managing stress is fundamental to health and that mind-body tools help people build resilience and reach their full potential.

In addition to HeartMath, she has earned certifications in clinical hypnotherapy, Metronome Brain Training, optimal breathing guidance, holistic stress management, jin shin jyutsu acupressure, mind/body preparation for surgery and vagus nerve stimulation.

Come to the Open House, meet Sunnie and see first hand what all the buzz is about.

Location: New Jersey Natural Medicine, 2424 Lamington Rd., Bedminster. For information call 908-310-8070 and visit Natural-Resilience.com. See ad, page 27.

In-Print News Briefs February 2024
Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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