There are two things I cannot stand when it comes to acupuncture:

when acupuncturists say that their patient is a “complicated case” & when acupuncturists refer to the complement channels as a complicated treatment.

You just need to work with someone who understands the whole picture.

I’m not interested in seeing you for the rest of your life, and my business model is not designed for endless visits; I work in a very high touch way—hour long appointments with lots of educating & coaching—with a goal of you getting fully well and becoming a stranger.

I’ve done treatments with practitioners and non-practitioners, those experienced with acupuncture and inexperienced alike, in Australia, England, Washington, Indiana, South Carolina, Maine, and Louisiana, and everyone has said the same thing; they all reported a variety of sensations in the channel I was treating.

Classical Chinese medicine offers a drastically different approach than even modern acupuncture (TCM), so if you’ve tried everything to no avail, it’s time for a more comprehensive approach to migraine treatment.

The word is that TCM has been practiced for thousands of years, but history tells us something different. TCM--or Traditional Chinese Medicine--was developed in the 1950's in order to create an easy-to-deliver system of healthcare across China.

While it has helped many, what was left out of TCM is critical to treating chronic, degenerative diseases that often involve far deeper channels than TCM.

This post is about why coffee is likely making your migraine and autoimmune conditions worse, as well as my suggestions to kick the daily coffee habit.

While everyone in the health and wellness space is talking about how to deal with the influx of highly processed sugar via trick or treating, I want to both educate about sugar from the Chinese medicine model, as well as share how we deal with Halloween candy at our house. (Read on to learn about the Switch Witch).

In six weeks of weekly treatments, you could be in a drastically different place with your health.

Advanced Acupuncture is the complete system of acupuncture, which treats the person, not the disease, as opposed to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which is a modern form of Chinese medicine that is the primary system taught in schools around the world.

In general, we tend to think of exercise as a positive thing; however, there are times where we may be exercising too much or doing a type of exercise that is actually making our health worse. Moving our bodies is important to prevent qi stagnation, to build strength, and related to qi stagnation, elevating our mood & mental wellness; however, when we struggle with migraines, we need slow, gentle exercise not high intensity-type workouts.

If you’re not in the habit of eating a stew, soup, or cooked whole grain at least once a week, try to make it a goal to start there and then progress to once per day.

I want to practice patient-centered medicine, and I refuse to allow my treatments to be dictated by anything other than good medicine. It’s more important to me to offer good treatment and a space for people to take a deep breath than it is to try and think about how to bill a certain amount of units.