I have celebrated positive news, reductions in stress, relief of pain and resolved conditions along the way.
This year I saw we needed more care, presence and rest. As the world comes apart, you have come in with burnout, body pain, PMS, peri menopause, ongoing illness, trauma flare ups and acute disharmonies of various kinds.
Nothing new and still staggering.
The impacts of genocide for all involved is tremendous, be it Gaza, Sudan, Lebanon, right here on Turtle Island or the impacts of climate change on Earth's life forces across the globe.
To hope is revolution. When offering support as you come back to your body, get more sleep, decide on that leave from work or tend to the grief, I consider myself lucky to accompany you, treat you and collaborate with you on healing.
Thank you for receiving, for taking care. You, your world, myself, the Earth and the multiverse are all better for it. 💗
RESOURCE REVIEW
Qi flow exercises and seasonal nutrition -
preventative and responsive care.
Eat
Pungent, immune supportive foods
As we bundle up into winter, scallions, ginger, garlic, radish, turnip, cayenne, fennel, and cinnamon will add warmth to your being and enhance your immune system. Pungent herbs (think wasabi) can wake up your face, and open your nose so you can take more of life in.
Move & meditate
Accompany Lung Qi
Practice being with grief, sadness, control and clarity. Part movement, part meditation, all sitting!
Pursue
A question for you?
Times of change are unique opportunities to ask: If I want something to be different, what can I do inside me to make that change?
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I loved work even more this year!
I was made to dance... and to practice medicine. Pain is a part of life, suffering is not. To have some skills that can relieve, prevent and reduce suffering is incredible. My own suffering included (yep, I ask for help too!).
As you can imagine it can take literally decades to become a skilled professional. Leadership, guidance, reflecting back the skills I have learned all takes time, generative conditions and faith. Without clients I would grow nowhere because practicing Medicine requires humans, community and knowledge passed on and picked up.
✨So far, 213 clients have received 824 treatments in 2024✨
Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Cupping and Chinese Nutrition offer a scope of practice that treats physical, emotional, energetic and sociological health and wellbeing.
I appreciate you being one of those 213.
91% of clients return for a follow up appointment! This means more and more communities are getting the support they need to get well, stay well, feel well, rise up and lay down.
Time off - Jan and Feb
I am taking time off in Jan and Feb for Top surgery. While I am away please book in with Dr. Tania or Dr. Julie. They each practice Acupuncture and will be able to see the approach I take, as well as offer you their insights on your health.
As part of maintaining your care neither will charge a new intake fee and both will offer 45 and 60 minute follow up Acupuncture treatments.
I will schedule ahead the Jan, Feb and March PORTALS, and I will be online around week 3/4 for virtual consults (or later if need be).
PORTAL Blog coming in 2025
Next year I will send out shorter emails with a blog link to the content that supports your health and well being. You will also receive short hellos announcing workshops, Community Health Actions or who knows what else will flow!
"I wanna know what care is..."
Recently someone who bought Keeping Company With Grief asked if I would do an in person version and it got me thinking, I love knowing what people want. Love a yes, love a no... so tell me:
Are there workshops I have done you want me to bring back?
Ideas you have for communities to heal, resource and rise?
Another participant shared a remarkable part of their experience in Keeping Company With Grief:
"It is very accessible - the combo of words, practice, and reflection was easily integrated into my day. The materials and practices were not overwhelming or intense or took a lot of time - yet it was potent, powerful, meaningful, and worked on and with subtle bodies in unexpected and underground ways. i love those practices so much, they felt so good. The other thing that struck me is how you talked about the practices as a skill - I had never thought of it like that and it shifted something in me.
Shadi, from Aatash Intuitive Healing Arts, is an incredible resource (and human) for attuning to the stars and aligning for life on Earth. I encourage you to check out Shadi's Instagram.
Thank you for an incredible year, to hold grief, celebrate moments of Joy, witness your healing and build healthy community with you and through you is tremendous.
My own healing will take me out of the clinic for Jan and Feb, but I am setting you up with some solid supports on the Blog, AND please do see my colleagues for Acupuncture.
I plan on coming back on Mar 3, book now to get your favorite spot.
with care,
We individuals, are connected, collective power is.
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