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 [...]
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 [...]
I was an accident! My parents had my 2 brothers in their early twenties. So, when my mom found out she was pregnant at 41, she was in disbelief! Both my brothers were grown men. My mom was freaking out, because the doctors told her she was too old (this was the 60s, when any woman over [...]
My mom got her first period when she was 11 years old, so when I reached that age, she decided to give me THE talk! After she explained the whole why and what of a woman's cycle, I looked at her horrified and screamed: "Every month for the rest of my life?!" Because let me tell you, [...]
