Most people think of going to massage for pain relief and acupuncture for more chronic or internal conditions. This isn’t wrong, it’s just not the whole picture. Let’s take a deeper look into the training required for both scopes of healing as well as where each modality excels. Training required for Acupuncture License In order…
When you’re feeling taxed by the demands of your life, you need to adjust expectations for how you can show up for yourself and others. Then, it’s time to do an inventory of energy leaks– places in your life where your energy is being drained unnecessarily. Next, take action and make space! This free up…
Your expectations for yourself need to change based on the demands of your life. I’ve spoken with several clients and friends recently who were beating themselves up for missing deadlines, workouts, canceling plans, bingeing netflix, etc. In every case, the human needed a break because of increased demand on them emotionally, physically, or spiritually. It…
Most of us imagine what our lives would be like if only we didn’t have the stress of money, our high-pressure job, our marriage, our kids, our sick parents, or whatever the BIG thing is in any given moment. But we spend much less time fantasizing about what our lives would be like if our…
How Acupuncture Reduces the Negative Impact of Chronic Stress Cortisol is a hormone that our body makes in response to stress. It’s a helpful and necessary response to acute stressors in our life like running from the police or tackling other shoppers on Black Friday. But, as you’ve likely read, we operate in a state…
The most profound thing I or anyone can do for your health is to help you experience a state of relaxation, care, and love, and then support you in recreating that experience more often in whatever ways work for your life. My chosen tool happens to be acupuncture, and it’s incredibly effective. There are…
Do you have a healthy relationship to exercise? Boulder, your exercise addiction is showing. We don’t talk about this enough. Exercise is assumed to be healthy at any frequency and intensity and with any underlying motive. But, like anything, too much can be dangerous and the motivation for working out is revealing! Feeling anxiety if you…
Healing through joy instead of effort I’ve felt stuck, or even like I was backsliding at many points in my healing journey over the last 15 years. Oftentimes, I would throw more herbs, supplements, diet adjustments, or testing at the problem. And sometimes it would work, and sometimes it would not. When it didn’t work,…
There are dozens of acupuncture points for anxiety. Anxiety can be treated with a huge range of acupuncture point combinations based on the underlying pattern, which is unique to each person. However, these five acupuncture points for anxiety represent the ones I use most in my clinic. Depending on your specific symptoms and experiences as…
I find one of my greatest challenges, is helping my patients understand all that acupuncture can do! It isn’t just for pain. Although, it does a fantastic job of relieving pain. Here is a list of some of the things acupuncture can do for you: heal injuries relieve pain improve digestion improve sleep reduce stress…