How Acupuncture Can Help You Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions
3 Ways Acupuncture Can Give You a Leg Up on Your New Year’s Resolutions It is easy to get carried away with New Year’s resolutions. It is only natural to set goals at the start of a new year. About 45% of adults in the U.S. make resolutions and after about six months,...
Avoiding Stress this Holiday Season
With the holidays right around the corner, you may be feeling the crunch. Finding gifts, preparing meals, dealing with family and coworkers, going to holiday parties and on and on… It's enough to drive anyone's stress levels through the roof! The past few years you...
How to Enjoy Thanksgiving (without guilt!)
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! The national holiday of the 4-day weekend and eating way too much turkey is upon us. Although this is a blog about health and wellness, we all need to indulge every once in a while. And nothing creates the ties that bind like indulging...
Feeling Stressed? 3 Steps on How to Reduce It
How to Reduce Stress & Re-Focus Feeling stressed lately? You're not alone. In our practice, we've recently had more patients complain of stress-related pain, depression, anxiety and overall feeling of dread. When stress and other emotions start impacting your...
Delicious Calcium-Rich Smoothie Recipe
Healthy Fruit Smoothie - Vegan, Dairy-Free & Easy to Make Smoothies have grown hugely popular in the last few years. Living a life on the go,smoothies offer an easy way to get a couple of servings of fruits and vegetables in before lunch. Many of our patients love...
5 Natural Remedies for Seasonal Allergies
At-Home Tips to Help You Alleviate Seasonal Allergy Symptoms It's that time again. Allergy season. If you're feeling it already, there's a good reason. The pollen and mold count have been steadily climbing over the past few weeks and have reached a high level and...
Cupping Therapy: 10 Mind-Blowing Health Benefits
Cupping Is the Culprit Behind Those Purple Dots Cupping is the next big thing. It has entered our homes thanks to Olympians and professional athletes displaying its distinctive purple dots. Although it has gained recent popularity, cupping is an ancient technique that...
Pain Relief: 3 Tips to Try at Home
What an Acupuncturist Does to Relieve Pain Severe back pain woke me up last Thursday morning and I found myself all twisted up like a pretzel. Sheets wrapped around me like nacho cheese. When I went to get up, 10 out of 10 pain jolted me back down like a thunderbolt....
Mindfulness Meditation: How It Changed My Life & How It Can Change Yours
How Meditation and Mindfulness Can Impact Your Life for the Better It was 2007 and I was living in Springfield, Illinois. My parents had recently divorced. My grandma, who I was close to, had passed away. I was living 150 miles away from family and friends, had a...
Making Life Changes: Where to Start (Part 1)
Getting Started: The Hurdles to Clear As a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine an issue that many of my clients often run into is having a tough time just starting the process of change. I'm going to make a set of installments to help you overcome hurdles and...