As a Culture, we in the United States have had many breakthroughs and due to our thirst for money and power, have both lead and trampled over others on the globe. Medicine is a great example where we’ve made huge discoveries; hygienic practices, antibiotics, vaccines, organ transplants, to name a few. These life-saving tools have […]
3 Foundational Keys to Recovering from Chronic Illness
Any number of educated Health Practitioners may organize key aspects of health into various arrangements and they could be right. I’m going to share my view of this subject and explain it in such a way that I hope leaves you understanding both why it is true, and how it affects the time-frame in which […]
Patient Fatigue in the Chronically-Ill
There are a number of challenges for both Patient and Clinician when entering a healing relationship. Creating rapport, respecting boundaries, proper education, honest reporting, when to reassess, when to shift strategies, etc. But one of the most common issues that plague both Patient and Practitioner is that of Patient Fatigue. Patient Fatigue is when a […]
Don’t Become Your Diagnosis
I have treated thousands of people over 23 years, add in thousands more if you include my work on the other side of the fence. In that time, I have seen many people invest in themselves, muster up the discipline to follow a treatment plan, and get well. On the flip-side, I have seen a […]
The Importance of Solitude, Forming Intention and Creating
We live in a rapidly changing tech-age where it is hard to keep up with all the changes going on around us. Add to that that there are more people in business for themselves, or in other words, more people trying to get our attention and our money. I will be transparent and say that […]
Discover a More Caring Approach to Health and Wellness
Discover a More Caring Approach to Health and Wellness Much of what goes on in our Society is about identifying problems and creating businesses around the solutions that one is able to offer. Some of these businesses or solutions are short-term while others exist over Eons. I happen to Practice from BOTH ends of this […]
Sifting Through All the Garbage: Information Overload and What to do About it.
Our brains are amazing…well, most of our brains are amazing. Probably a bit too soon for humor, but truly, I can’t get through life without it, so please indulge me. As I was saying, our brains are amazing. They are about 15 petabytes of stored information from all our sensory experiences, many that we don’t […]
How Acupuncture Helps to Ease the Fear, Anger and Hopelessness
We live in a time of unrest; political, social, financial and resultant personal and interpersonal issues. And whether we want to admit it or recognize it, we are connected to others. This connection may be invisible, like threads of energy from our minds, which is a bit ethereal for my tastes, or a more tangible […]
Opposites, Spectrums and Our Desire to Control
Because life is made up of opposing forces, or what the Chinese refer to as Yin and Yang, it may be broken down into an endless series of spectrums. Each spectrum has one opposing force on one end and the other opposing force on the other end. This makes us look at life from a […]