Acupuncture
The Neuroscience of Coming Home
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“Your brain doesn’t make you small to punish you.
It makes you small to protect you.
The question is: Are you still in danger?
Or is it time to come home?”
~~ Dr. Julia DiGangi
Greetings to all my precious people!
We’ve spent the month of May learning to come HOME:
To your body (Week 5 – body-mind is one).
To your Inner Mentor (Week 6 – listening deeply).
To coherence (Week 7 – interior alignment).
To living FROM home instead of searching for it (Week 8).
And you might be wondering:
“Okay, I understand this conceptually. I even FEEL it sometimes. But why is it so hard? Why do I keep shrinking back? Why does my voice still disappear? Why do I apologize for taking up space even when I know better?”
Here’s why:
Your BRAIN is still running old programming.
And until you understand what your brain is doing (and WHY), you’ll keep fighting yourself.
Living from Home: The Practice of Being Where We Are
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“Consider what your life would look like
if you lived more loyal to your dreams …
and less influenced by your fears.”
— Tara Mohr, Playing Big
Greetings to all my precious people!!
For two months we’ve been exploring homesickness.
The ache. The exile. The longing for something you can barely name but KNOW is real.
And now, after eight weeks of WAKING UP, REMEMBERING, RETURNING, I have the final truth to share:
You’re already home. You always were.
The work is not GETTING there. The work is REMEMBERING you never left.
The Benefits of Gua Sha: Ancient Technique, Modern Science
For centuries, practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have used Gua Sha to promote healing, circulation, and balance in the body. Think of it as a scraping therapy performed with a smooth-edged tool. Today, it has evolved from a full-body therapeutic practice into a global wellness and skincare ritual used by acupuncturists, massage therapists, estheticians, athletes, and everyday consumers.
But beyond the viral beauty videos and jade tools lies a growing body of research exploring what Gua Sha does physiologically. Surprisingly, many of its claimed benefits like pain relief, improved circulation, reduced inflammation, and lymphatic movement, now have measurable biological explanations. continue reading
Coherence is the Medicine
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“What would the world look like if
we were truly awakened
to the depths of our healing potential?
We would remember we’re wired to heal.”
~~ Dr. Shamini Jain
Greetings to all my precious people!
I’m going to tell you the truth about why your wellness routine isn’t working.
Not because you’re doing it wrong. Not because you need more discipline.
Because you’re missing the one ingredient that makes everything else work:
COHERENCE.
What You’ve Been Trying
Let me guess. You’ve done some version of this:
✅ Clean eating (organic, no sugar, no gluten)
✅ Supplements (hundreds of dollars worth)
✅ Exercise (yoga, Pilates, walking, strength training)
✅ Sleep hygiene (magnesium, blue blockers, perfect routine)
✅ Stress management (meditation apps, breathwork, therapy)
✅ Hormonal support (herbs, adaptogens, bio-identical)
And yet.
You still feel:
- Exhausted despite 8 hours sleep
- Anxious despite meditation
- Symptomatic despite supplements
- Off despite doing “all the right things”
Why?
Because sustained wellness doesn’t come from ADDING more interventions.
It comes from creating COHERENCE in the system you already have.
Listening Deeply: The Practice of Return
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“Deep within each of us is a space of perfection, beauty, innocence and light
that cannot be seen with the eyes but can only be FELT.”
~~ Dr. Seema Khaneja, “I am Pure Soul”
Greetings to all my precious people!
This Sunday celebrates Mother’s Day. And whether your relationship with your mother is beautiful, complicated, painful, or all of the above—there’s one thing undeniably true: Her voice was the first voice you ever heard.
Before you were born, you heard her speaking through the womb—singing, laughing, crying. Her voice taught you that voices MATTER. That sound carries meaning. That being heard is connection. And then over the years, you learned some voices get listened to while others get dismissed. You learned which voice to use to be safe, and which voice to silence.
But deep inside, you still remember the FIRST voice. The one that spoke before conditioning. That voice? That’s your Inner Mentor.
This Mother’s Day, we’re reclaiming her.
Two voices still live inside you.
One keeps you exiled from home. One guides you back.
The question is: Which one are you listening to?
