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Acupuncture for Stroke Recovery: Rebuilding the Brain

By admin | Published October 5, 2026

Acupuncture for Stroke Recovery: Rebuilding the Brain

When a stroke hits, life can change in an instant. One moment you’re preparing breakfast before work, and the next you’re on the kitchen floor unable to move one side of your body. The weeks that follow are then filled with hospital visits, rehabilitation appointments, and often frustration. Tasks once performed automatically like buttoning a shirt, lifting a coffee cup, or speaking clearly, become daily battles.

Months of physical therapy can then follow, but progress is often slow. Speech can remain slurred and fatigue can be relentless. Many are desperate for additional help and can look to acupuncture to help with recovery. While acupuncture is not a replacement for emergency medicine or rehabilitation therapy, growing clinical research suggests it may offer meaningful benefits for some patients recovering from stroke. continue reading »

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Migration & Knowing When to Leave: Surrender into Certainty

By Kathy Casey | Published October 2, 2026

migrating geese flying

Photo by Gary Bendig on Unsplash

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end.

Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters…

what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”
~~ Paulo Coelho

 

Greetings to all my precious people, my fellow travelers,

You’ve been standing at doorways for three weeks now. This week, we walk through one.

Overhead, the geese aren’t practicing formation anymore. They’re gone — or going. Nobody called a meeting. No committee reviewed the data on when, exactly, to leave. Something in them simply knew, the way it has known for longer than any of our calendars have existed, and they went.

I want to be honest about something most migration stories skip past: knowing when to leave and knowing where to go are not the same knowing. Geese have both, wired in together. We rarely get both at once. Usually we get the first — a restlessness, a door that’s suddenly, undeniably closed, a chapter that has plainly ended even if we can’t yet see the next one’s title. Coelho’s line isn’t really about destinations. It’s about having the courage to close the circle before you know what the next one looks like.  continue reading »

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The Equinox and Liminal Spaces: Surrender to Certainty

By Kathy Casey | Published September 25, 2026

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“You’re afraid of surrender

because you don’t want to lose control.

But you never had control;

all you had was anxiety.”

~~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Greetings to all my precious people!!

Right now, we are standing in a doorway.

Tuesday brought us the Autumn Equinox — the exact moment day and night stood equal, the cosmos balanced for one instant on a knife’s edge before tipping toward the dark half of the year. The Celts called places like this “thin places” — shorelines, riverbanks, the hush of dusk — locations and moments where the veil between worlds goes porous. What most of us haven’t considered is that a day can be a thin place too. This one was.

But a threshold isn’t a place you stand still in. It’s a place you either walk through, or resist. continue reading »

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From Tension to Relief: Rethinking Headaches with Acupuncture

By admin | Published September 21, 2026

From Tension to Relief: Rethinking Headaches with Acupuncture

For some, it comes after a long day at work. The symptoms come after a day sitting behind a desk. First, the dull ache creeps up from the base of the skull, wrapping slowly around the temples like a band tightening. By the end of the day, it’s blossomed into a full headache, paired with a stiff neck that makes even turning the head painful. Over-the-counter pain relievers, stretching, ergonomic pillows are all purchased with the hope they will make a difference. Some days are better than others, but the cycle always returns. continue reading »

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The Harvest and The Hinge: Surrender into Certainty

By Kathy Casey | Published September 18, 2026

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“Most experiences are unsayable; 

they come to fullness 

in a realm that words do not inhabit.”


 ~~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Greetings to all my precious people,

There are some things I’ve been sitting with lately that don’t really fit into words, which is, I think, exactly what Rilke meant. But I’m going to try anyway, because it’s been coming up again and again in conversations with my patients, and I don’t want to keep it to myself.

Before you were you, there was an errant sperm and egg, colliding. And then — with no coach yelling instructions, no manual, no one standing over the process telling it what to do — that collision replicated itself, over and over, in the most intricate and masterful sequence imaginable, until nearly ten months later, an entirely unique being took form and opened its eyes. That is happening right now, in bodies all over the world, and it has been happening since the beginning of everything. We almost never talk about it. We need to talk about it more.   continue reading »

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