Acupuncture
Can Acupuncture Bring Relief Between Multiple Sclerosis Relapses?
A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) can change life in an instant. One minute you’re seemingly fine and the next you find yourself in a neurologist’s office. Symptoms can creep in over a few months. Symptoms like tingling in the hands, unexplained fatigue that sleep doesn’t fix, and moments where your legs feel like they don’t belong to you.
MS is a chronic neurological condition where the immune system mistakenly attacks the protective covering of nerves, disrupting communication between the brain and body. Symptoms vary widely and include fatigue, pain, mobility issues, bladder dysfunction, and cognitive challenges, but what unites many patients is unpredictability.
Conventional treatments helped manage disease progression, but the day-to-day symptoms can remain. Many people with MS explore complementary therapies, not as replacements, but as support. And that’s where acupuncture comes in. continue reading
We Mother Each Other
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“I can promise you that women working together –
linked, informed, and educated –
can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”
~~ Isabel Allende
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve spent the month of June exploring:
June 5: Taking up space (reclaiming the belonging mother’s body first taught)
June 12: Finding your voice (speaking from the body mother gave you)
June 19: Healing the mother wound (breaking the lineage pattern)
And now, the final piece: We are the mothers now.
Not just to our children (if we have them). But to each other. continue reading
Acupuncture for Stress and Anxiety: A Research-Backed Guide to How and Why It Works
Stress and anxiety have become defining health concerns of modern life. Fast communication, demanding schedules, and constant stimulation keep many people in a near-continuous “fight-or-flight” state. Over time this activation can disrupt sleep, digestion, mood, immune function, and cardiovascular health.
While conventional treatments such as psychotherapy and medication can be highly effective, many individuals seek complementary approaches that regulate the body rather than simply suppress symptoms. One of the most studied integrative options is acupuncture, a traditional East Asian medical therapy practiced for thousands of years and increasingly validated by modern clinical research. continue reading
The Mother Wound
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“The mother wound isn’t about a mother’s love.
It’s about a mother’s capacity.
And healing it is how we honor her by
becoming what she couldn’t be –
not because she failed,
but because she was doing her best with what she had.”
~~ Adapted from Attachment Theory
Greetings to all my precious people,
I want to talk about something tender today.
Not with blame. Not with anger. With deep, fierce compassion.
Because I’ve been sitting with this: The relationship between you and your mother’s body is the relationship you have with your own body.
And if that relationship is wounded, it’s not because your mother didn’t love you. It’s because she couldn’t emotionally attune to you in the way your nervous system needed.
And that matters. Not as blame. As context for healing. continue reading
Finding Your Voice
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“There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story inside you.”
~~ Maya Angelou
Greetings to all my precious people!
Last month on Mother’s Day, I wrote about the first voice you ever heard: your mother’s voice.
Today, I’m writing about the voice she gave you. Not just the sound of your voice (though that’s part of it). But the POWER of your voice. The capacity to name what you see, speak what you know, call things by their true names, say NO and mean it, say YES and claim it, take up sonic space in the world.
Your mother gave you this. Through her body. Through her voice teaching you language. Through the vocal cords she grew inside you.
And then—over years of conditioning—you learned to silence it. continue reading
