When my TCM Liver gets stressed, my LV Yang rises easily! Yoga, and exercising outdoors makes me feel better, and having acupuncture weekly keeps me in check. After all, my main personality in the 5 Element is the Liver type: achiever, goal oriented, stubborn and always wanting to be right! You'll find everything you wanted to know [...]
I have a love/hate relationship with the TCM Spleen system. I love damp foods! But I also need my Spleen to be functioning optimally for teaching, focusing on my patients, exercising, and to keep things from going down. At my age, believe me, things ARE starting to get affected by gravity! You'll find everything you wanted to [...]
Are you happy with your acupuncture practice? Are you thriving, successful and fulfilled? If not, read on! Do you believe in the law of attraction? In Karma? What goes around comes around... Simply put, the law of attraction (which has been written about for centuries) states that our thoughts dictate our lives. What we think becomes reality. [...]
One of my best friends was the fittest woman I had ever met. She ate a clean, wholesome diet and had tons of friends who thought she was amazing. Because she truly was! What most people didn't know was, that she had been sexually abused as a child by her older brother and father. Her own mother [...]
Over the years in my acupuncture practice, I have heard the funniest things. Some made me laugh, some took me by surprise and some have taught me valuable lessons. Today, I wanted to share them, for you to enjoy as well. Funny quotes from my patients - "You're not Chinese! How can you practice Chinese medicine?" I [...]
Why establishing yourself as an expert will lead to a busy practice. Some practitioners are worried that if they choose to focus their practice on one particular specialty, they will loose potential patients. This is absolutely not true. If you choose to know everything about one subject, you will become the expert patients will seek. My favourite [...]
