
Illuminate Your Life: a chinese medicine blog
Summer Teacher Appreciation
This Summer, we want to celebrate, honor and thank teachers. As a way to support their health and well-being, we are offering 25% off Initial Acupuncture appointments scheduled through August 15th 2024.
Summer Hydration
Did you know that staying hydrated can boost your energy levels, keep your skin glowing, and help you stay focused and sharp? Staying well hydrated is one of the simplest forms of self-care, and it's especially important during the summer heat!
Tips For A Vibrant Summer
As the sun shines brighter and the days grow longer, it's the perfect time to embrace the wisdom of Chinese medicine to stay balanced, energized, and healthy all summer long.
Headache Relief with Chinese Medicine
Have you been struggling with headaches? Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine excel at helping to minimize headache and migraine symptoms, severity and frequency.
Acupuncture for Hormonal Balance
Struggling with hormone imbalances can be incredibly challenging. Whether you're dealing with irregular periods, PCOS, menopause symptoms, thyroid issues, or just feeling "off," balancing those hormones is crucial for your overall well-being. Acupuncture can help!
Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine offer a holistic and transformative approach to supporting your mental and emotional wellbeing, healing trauma and helping you understand how your physical and emotional symptoms are related.
Spring Stress + Your Liver
During Spring, we see more involvement of the Liver in health patterns. When the flow of the Liver is disrupted, one experiences stress, anger, frustration, irritability, jealousy and guilt.
Principles of a Spring Diet
This time of year, our wood element is most active, and its corresponding organ pair, Liver and Gallbladder, need extra love and care. To keep your liver and gallbladder clear, keep your diet light and include foods that emphasize the yang, ascending, and regenerative qualities of spring.
Fertility Support for Spring
Spring is the time of year for new activity and growth, fresh starts, rebirth, and renewal. It is also a wonderful time to put some extra focus on your fertility.
Infertility Awareness
National Infertility Awareness Week®, a movement founded in 1989 by @resolve, is dedicated to those who have been affected by infertility. The goal is to bring awareness to infertility, empower those affected and change the conversation around infertility.
Men’s Health Support
cupuncture and Chinese Medicine offer so many benefits for men’s health, including pain management, stress reduction, sleep disorders, digestive issues, high blood pressure, and headaches.
Springtime Allergy Support
From itchy eyes to asthma, acupuncture can help! Acupuncture decreases pain and inflammation, supports the immune system, and regulates the body's histamine response to its various offenders.
Spring Health Support
For some, spring brings allergies, migraines, and stress rather than sunshine and rainbows. Follow these tips in the early spring days to support the health and optimal functioning of your liver and gallbladder.
Endometriosis + Chinese Medicine
Endometriosis is a chronic condition where endometrial tissue grows in sites other than the uterus and sticks to various pelvic organs, but also in other parts of the body. Learn how acupuncture, herbs and Chinese Medicine can provide wonderful support to help relieve symptoms.
Menopause + Chinese Medicine
Similar to the menstrual years of women’s lives, many women do not realize that menopausal symptoms are indicative of a pattern of imbalance…this does not have to be your new “normal”! Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine provides excellent support with menopausal symptoms.
Setting Healthy Boundaries
Putting boundaries in place helps you become more self-aware, improve relationships, take better care of yourself, learn to say ‘no’, establish better work life balance, and feel more fulfilled and less stressed. In order for boundaries to be successful, you have to get really clear on what is important to you and why you are setting the boundary.
Hello Spring
In Chinese medicine, the organ associated with spring is the Liver. Spring is about new growth, movement, upward motion, all the same things the Liver controls and performs in the body.
Restore Your Postpartum Body
After giving birth, it is important to replenish your body. It has worked hard these past ten months and can use boosting to keep you healthy and strong.
Nurture Your Pregnancy
Our team provides acupuncture, bodywork, nutrition, resources and health tips to help you have a healthy pregnancy, connect with baby and feel your best.
Self-Care Reminder
It’s easy to stay busy all the time, jumping from one thing to the next without giving yourself any time for rest. Allowing yourself to pause on a daily basis, even just for 5 minutes, is important to reset and refresh your mind and body!