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Evening Self-Care Rituals: Build peace and ease of body, mind, and spirit
By Dr. Jennifer L. Yocum, Licensed Acupuncturist & Nicole Maisel, Licensed Massage Therapist Self-care is the practice of taking an active role in your health, well-being, and happiness. Anything that benefits your body, mind, or spirit can be considered...
Why New Year’s Resolutions Matter
Here we are, at the start of a brand-new year. You may be tired of the adage, “New Year, New You,” but it doesn’t mean we have to throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. Traditional New Year’s resolutions may leave a lot to be desired, whether it’s losing...
Winter Wellness: Cultivating Yin Energy
In Chinese Medicine, the fall marks the beginning of the “yin” time of the year. The qualities of yin energy are feminine, dark, restorative, inward-focusing, cold, passive, quiet, and receptive. The peak of yin energy is reached at the winter solstice on December...
Be Here Now: Finding Acceptance
Sometimes in life, things don’t go the way we planned. While we cannot always control what happens to us, we can control our reactions to those events and circumstances. How we react in times of stress, crisis, unknowing, or loss affects our mental and physical...
Got the Sunday Scaries?
October may be the peak of spooky season, but many people get scared year-round every time Sunday rolls around and the thought of having to go into work on Monday morning arises. Commonly called the “Sunday Scaries,” it refers to the sense of dread or fear that comes...
Tending Ourselves: Body, Mind, and Spirit
The Late Summer in Chinese Medicine is the season that deals with how well we tend and “mother” ourselves. At 45 years old, I am in the stage of life where I have younger children, but also aging parents. I am tasked with balancing the needs of my kids, my parents,...
The Benefits of Vitamin D
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that can be ingested through food or supplements or produced when ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun hit your skin. It’s important to get enough Vitamin D because it plays a role in your musculoskeletal system (including bone...
Healing the Gallbladder and Liver with Chinese Medicine
Spring is the season of the wood element in Chinese Medicine, and the associated organs are the gallbladder and liver. Many people struggle with physical conditions affecting those organs, including gallstones, fatty liver disease, and cirrhosis. Thankfully, Chinese...
Practicing Self-Love This Valentine’s Day
Each New Year, many of us promise ourselves that this year will be different than the last; that this year we will lose the weight, find the partner, start exercising regularly, get that promotion, or reach whatever goal our heart is set on. By February, the vast...
Honoring the Winter Solstice
In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs on December 21st and marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. Chinese Medicine holds that the winter solstice is not the beginning of winter, but rather the peak of the winter season and the most yin...