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How Functional Medicine Found Me…

Everything would check out ok with my doc, but I still wasn’t feeling better.   ✅Crazy insomnia ✅Mind racing ✅Palpitations ✅Sweats ✅Sudden feelings of overwhelm that made me want to scream ✅Etc, etc etc…   Can anybody else relate?    I was tired of being told to go on meds (NOT med shaming here.. there […]

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Acupuncture for Diabetes

More than 34 million Americans have diabetes, and approximately 90 percent of them have type 2 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Type 2 diabetes, while its exact cause is unknown, develops when the body becomes resistant to insulin or the pancreas doesn’t produce enough insulin. Because of this, treatment often […]

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Seasonal Affective Disorder and Anxiety

5 Scandinavian secrets to a happier, healthier life Scandinavian winters are dark, cold, and long. Depending on the city, a typical day could have little to no sunshine, freezing temperatures, and lots of snow. Some people might see those conditions as a recipe for seasonal depression. But despite their harsh winters, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, […]

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5 Acupoints for Anxiety You Can Administer Yourself

“At a time when people are so conscious of maintaining their physical health by controlling their diets, exercising, and so forth, it makes sense to try to cultivate the corresponding mental attitudes too.” – HH the Dalai Lama, 1963 It can be easy to forget how much our mental state can affect our physical well-being. […]

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Anxiety – Gut Health Connection

Don’t understand what you’re looking at? ⁠ ⁠ Don’t worry.. thats my job.⁠ ⁠ Don’t understand WTH this has to do with anxiety?⁠ ⁠ Don’t worry.. I’ll break it down.⁠ ⁠ What we are looking at here my friends is the amazing friend in our colon called Butyrate. Butyrate belongs to the families of short […]

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Radical Accountability for Anxiety Management

What is this concept of radical accountability?⁠ ⁠ At its core is communication. Especially those conversations you have with yourself. It can be a slippery one because there are so many enemies of accountability- most of them we don’t even realize we are doing because they become habitual:⁠ ⁠   ✅ Blaming⁠ ✅ “I’m sorry”⁠ […]

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Acupuncture Wrapped: An overview of some of the most exciting discoveries in 2020

As we enter a new year, it is natural to want to look back on the last one. As humans, we have the gift and the hurdle of marking time, so it can feel helpful to recall memories we want to hold on to or look for lessons we can take with us.   To that […]

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The Anxiety and Clutter Connection

Often times when it comes to clutter, we don’t even know where to start.   If you feel this way I PROMISE there is nothing wrong with you!  Most of us and myself included, lead full and busy lives.  We have well-made plans and timelines and we want to feel as if we are in […]

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Why I Ditched New Year’s Resolutions

I used to make resolutions, get excited and then be down on myself because they never turned out. Like most people I would abandon them by February only to go back to my old habits. Not only did I feel down on myself after this but it was a major contributor to my anxiety. The […]

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Intention setting in the new year

It’s that time of year again: the time when many of us engage in the practice of setting a new year’s resolution. It seems, though, that hand-in-hand with new year’s resolutions is the prediction of inevitable failure. That as soon as you pick a resolution, you won’t actually make it through the whole year sticking […]