Three Golden Opportunities

Are you feeling overwhelmed by hormonal imbalances? Are irregular periods, PMS, or birth control challenges disrupting your life?

At our clinic, we believe that women's health needs personalized care. Acupuncture and Chinese medicine offer a holistic approach to supporting you through these challenges. Let's explore how these ancient practices can help restore balance, alleviate symptoms, and empower you to take control of your health.

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine are potent ways to support you through any hormonal transition. While we live in a Western, productivity focused culture there is a need for all of us to slow down to allow for Yin. When you come in to rest for acupuncture, this is Yin. When you receive care, this is Yin. When you are feeling frazzled or burnt out, you are in need of some Yin.

These are moments in time sometimes the body goes haywire. Connection is lost and disease sets in. These are also moments that you can slow down, to input as much nourishment as possible to help you reset or recharge for your next chapter.

Three Golden Opportunities to care deeply for yourself are -

• Menstruation

• Postpartum

• Perimenopause

The memo is always DON’T BURN OUT. Just as you would not spend your life savings all in one place. Do not “spend” all of your energy in one go. Know to be extra tender with yourself if you are in one of the phases listed above.

If you are tired, your body is talking to you.

If you are not feeling well, your body is talking to you.

If you need help, we are here for you.

Many of our beloved clients go through multiple life chapters with us. Sometimes they pop in and out. One of our favorite ways to support people is at home ritual.

Recommendations -

• Castor Oil Packs - to deepen your Yin. To support your body’s ability to move and cleanse. Talk to your acupuncturist about Liver or Pelvic packs and which is best for you.

• Herbal remedies - custom formulas available for you by your acupuncturist

• Learning - this course on Perimenopause and all the work by The Way Of Yin

If you need support on period health, pregnancy, postpartum, or perimenopause, we are here for you!

Pregnancy Acupuncture and Herbs: Help Prevent Gestational Diabetes

Help your body to prevent gestational diabetes. Acupuncture and herbs are incredibly customized ways to help your body be optimally healthy. This is especially important during pregnancy.

When you are pregnant your health impacts your future baby’s health. Supporting your body through this time is incredibly valuable to help support a child with a healthy life and to support you once you are in the intensive work of mothering.

In Chinese medicine the Spleen and Stomach, the organs most intertwined with metabolic health. With thousands of years of practice both needles of acupuncture and herbal medicine can support you.

Recent case studies in the clinic:

A patient in her second pregnancy was very near to a gestational diabetes diagnosis. Her blood glucose number was at the peak place before tipping into GD territory. She took this seriously and knew she had to pay close attention to her nutrition and movement. Additionally, she committed to weekly acupuncture. At home she used a glucometer to pay attention to how her sugars were after meals, if she needed an extra walk so should take it a the numbers would come down. Because she was using the biofeedback of the glucometer she saw that the day after acupuncture her numbers were always lower, her body was not on alert.

Another patient in her second pregnancy knew the drill. She got a gestational diabetes diagnosis in her first pregnancy, and was able to keep things at bay. We started our work together earlier in her first pregnancy, supporting the reduction of nausea throughout the first trimester. Then when the second trimester she told me she had GD in her first. We put her on a custom herbal formula to support her Spleen and Stomach. It also helped reduce the remaining cause and support her energy.

It is the greatest joy to support people to fell well AND test well. These diagnoses and conditions are not always preventable. In our medicine we are supporting your body towards its ability to heal optimally. No matter what the specific conditions we can alleviate symptomology and most often prevent things we don’t know are coming. It is always an incredible gift to prevent things we know there is risk for.

*This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.*

Resources:

Lily Nichols everything - Real Food for Pregnancy

Come home to your body: Acupuncture for Spring

Each season tells a different story. We are here to remind you: you are one with nature. You can learn about this connection through ancient wisdom like the Tao Te Ching, or hear about it from your acupuncturist. But the most natural and accessible way to reconnect is simply to step outside. Breathe the Spring air, feel the soft earth beneath your feet, and allow yourself to be present. This sounds cliché but one of the truest ways to connect is to bring your presence.

Don't be fooled by spring's sunshine and blossoming flowers - Spring does the enormity of the work that we love the Summer season for. It thaws winter. Spring is about movement, inspiration, transformation. It helps us to ground into our generous hearts and create fluidity in our body. It reminds us that, if we rested and nourished ourselves through the Winter that the stillness was beneficial. That now is the time to move forward.

The physical body may express dissatisfaction this time of year with symptoms like

• stress - acupuncture can help calm the central nervous system and provide grounded relaxation

• irritability - smoothing the Liver helps to ease irritability and promote presence and satisfaction, more energy and vitality

• eye symptoms - clearing heat and promoting Liver health, eye symptoms can be alleviated with acupuncture and herbs

• slow digestion - this is a time of year to detox! Our Livers are so burdened that this time of year slow digestion reigns, come get support with acupuncture and herbs.

• menstrual symptoms - the Liver organ system is one of the primary guides of the menstrual cycle. Things can get whacky, come get regulated with acupuncture and herbs

• insomnia - the spirit of the Liver, the Hun is said to leave the body when we sleep to dream. In order to dream and sleep restfully we must have enough Liver blood and stores for this to work well. Acupuncture, herbs and nutrition help bring this system into balance.

• tight tendons and sinews - the Liver (and Gallbladder) are the primary organs of the Spring season and control the tendons and sinews. This often means they tighten up. Release, let go, soften by nourishing your body with acupuncture.

We recommend you come in for acupuncture treatment at minimum once per season. Acupuncture is one of the most beneficial ways to reconnect yourself to nature. You can plug into the cosmos and let your body heal with the energies available to you. The herbs that are flying off the shelves right now help to improve quality of sleep, reduce tension in your body and improved menstrual cycles. Schedule an appointment today and let us help your body blossom this spring!