Flu season brings more than just a sniffle or mild cold. Right now, a classic wind heat flu is circulating, marked by sudden fever, chills, body aches, sore throat, and a hot dry cough. Acting quickly when symptoms appear can shorten the illness and reduce discomfort. This post explains practical steps to take at the first sign of flu, focusing on natural methods and supportive care that help your body fight the virus effectively. Creating a warm, comfortable space to support

When I treat pain with acupuncture and tui na, I can move what’s stuck — but real healing comes from understanding why Qi keeps getting stuck in the first place. This piece is about learning to listen when the body speaks.

Learn how acupuncture works to restore balance, relieve pain, and regulate the body’s natural energy flow using time-tested techniques from traditional Chinese medicine.

There’s a kind of care that grips too tightly—well-intentioned, but still controlling. This piece explores what it means to release that grip… to trust the timing, the detours, and the flight of someone else’s becoming. Especially when your instinct is to protect the progress you helped make possible.

The Complexity of Chronic Pain Chronic pain can be perplexing. It often seems to arise from a specific injury or condition. However, the truth is more nuanced. Pain may not originate where we feel it. Instead, it can be a manifestation of deeper emotional or energetic imbalances. One of my patients came in with persistent neck pain radiating through her shoulder and along the inside edge of her scapula. Structurally, everything lined up. But the tenderness around BL 42—the ou

Western medicine is designed to treat disease. And for a lot of things, that’s exactly what you want. You want the antibiotics. The...

Part of healing is learning how to see without the old war still coloring the lens. What if the clarity you trust is actually another reaction?

What if your lungs are carrying what you never said goodbye to?

Delusion feels like insight when we’re only seeing ourselves through the lens of our longing. Without distortion checks, the mirror can...

When it feels like everything is tangled, it might not be the world—it might be what your body is still trying to untangle inside....

The body remembers even when the story changes. This is what healing can look like—part survival, part renewal, entirely real. We don’t...

When you contort yourself into a shape that doesn’t fit… just to belong somewhere you were never meant to be. Discipline is often praised...

How many versions of you are still performing? This blog unpacks the subtle pressure to mask—and the relief of releasing the roles.

A lone figure sits quietly on a dock beneath a massive full moon, its reflection cast across the water. The scene hums with stillness—not...

A long, leaf-strewn forest path in early winter, flanked by bare trees and fading light. The atmosphere is thick with quiet, as if the...

You’ve tried to make it work. To adapt, negotiate, or reshape the space you’re in. But what if it was never meant to fit you in the first place?

A sluggish Spleen can impact your digestion, energy, mood, and even how clearly you think. This post breaks down what it does—and how you can support it with daily choices rooted in Chinese medicine.

What if your dizziness isn’t just physical? When the mind holds too much and the body can’t keep up, symptoms like vertigo may be your soul asking for recalibration. Here’s how Chinese medicine interprets the spin.

Bracing isn’t always conscious. Sometimes the body holds what the mind can’t process—until inflammation speaks for it. In this post, I share how I recognize the quiet signs of stored emotion and how acupuncture helps the body release the story it’s been holding.

GLP-1 medications may quiet the hunger, but they don’t erase the need beneath it. This post explores the body’s deeper cry for safety—and why healing starts with listening.