The acupuncture channels act like an internal teachers. As an acupuncturist, not only do I work with the channels to adjust and strengthen the body’s physiology. I also stimulate the channels to excite and awaken “the internal teacher” within my patients. I attended a class over...
Many physical problems have a mental-emotional component to them. The reverse can also be true. As an acupuncturist I try to see both aspects to a person’s conditions, so we can treat both the root and manifestation of the issue. It’s not always clear what causes...
How do we restore a sense of normalcy to our lives? To our mind and bodies? After being in an altered reality for several months? For many of us, the pandemic altered our lives in major ways. As life begins to return to normal, albeit...
Last week a patient visited with neck, shoulder and jaw pain. As we’d playfully say, he’d come to me so I could “dismantle the bomb” threatening to go off in his body. We’d brought him back several times from debilitating pain, tension and inflammatory crisis....
Trauma can leave its remnants throughout the body and mind. For example, physical trauma due to injury, if it fails to fully heal can result in periodic rheumatism (joint pain). Emotional trauma that fails to fully heal can also leave remnants. Such remnants can periodically...
