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Holistic Health Coaching + Chinese Medicine: Two Great Approaches That Go Great Together

            Are you thinking about your health goals and asking yourself if a health coach could be in your future?  What about specializations?  You might be wondering about holistic health coaching and how Chinese medicine could factor into the equation.  If so, you have come to the right blog post for some answers and maybe … Continue reading Holistic Health Coaching + Chinese Medicine: Two Great Approaches That Go Great Together

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Your Lungs, East and West (Two Perspectives on This Vital Organ)

            “Breathe in… and breathe out… at your own comfortable breath pace.  Allow your shoulders to soften and feel your rib cage rise and fall.  [Pause] Breathing in and breathing out at your own comfortable breath pace, notice the sensation of your body against the mat. Feel your lungs expand.  Follow the sensation of your … Continue reading Your Lungs, East and West (Two Perspectives on This Vital Organ)

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Health Coaching for New Beginnings (Change is Good)

            Doing the same thing over and over generally tends to result in the same outcome over and over.  That’s common sense.  But when we are so immersed in our usual same-old, same-old, a couple things happen.  One is that we lose our confidence and our ability to make meaningful change diminishes.  Another is that … Continue reading Health Coaching for New Beginnings (Change is Good)

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A Short Dictionary of Terms: The Language of Chinese Medicine

            Chinese medicine landed on American soil in the 1970s and a language to narrate it, in response, developed and took root.  Fifty, going on sixty, years later, though, things are not the same and the words that once made one kind of sense either no longer do so, or they communicate something that may … Continue reading A Short Dictionary of Terms: The Language of Chinese Medicine

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A Cure Within: An Acupuncturist’s Thoughts on Mind-Body Medicine

            Back when I was writing my book, Chinese Medicine and the Management of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Singing Dragon, 2023), I read voraciously… Well, even more voraciously than usual.  One area included the review of mind-body wellness narratives from a range of sources, including historical reviews and investigations produced by anthropologists.  Medicine, whether allopathic or … Continue reading A Cure Within: An Acupuncturist’s Thoughts on Mind-Body Medicine

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Magnet Therapy: How It Works, What It Can Do For You (It’s Amazing)

            The foundation of Chinese medicine is balance.  Everything we do seeks to achieve equilibrium in mind, body, and spirit.  To achieve this outcome, your practitioner may opt for acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutritional guidance, manual therapy, and/or breath and movement  practices in the form of tai chi or qigong.  A lesser-known option in this project … Continue reading Magnet Therapy: How It Works, What It Can Do For You (It’s Amazing)

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Liver, East and West (Two Perspectives on This Vital Organ)

            What do you think about your liver?  Do you know how hard-working and interesting this organ is?  Well.  If you do not, you will by the time you finish reading this blog post.  From both the Western and the Eastern perspectives, this is an organ with a story.              The Western viewpoint is not … Continue reading Liver, East and West (Two Perspectives on This Vital Organ)