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Eat your greens! Easy, super-healthy dressing
Having a delicious dressing in the fridge makes eating healthy veggies easy, which will help you stick to your cancer prevention or other healthy eating plan! Not to brag, but I often get compliments on my salad dressings! 🙂 I use it on all veggies, not just raw,...
Low back pain – the Chinese medicine view
Whenever there's back pain, there is some kind of disordered flow of “Qi” (energy) and “Blood” in the channels in the lower back region. The channels may be in spasm, or may not be adequated “nourished” with Qi and blood. This can happen for a few different...
Happy & Productive: Getting Things Done, including Self-Care
How do you stay relaxed and productive at the same time? How does your to-do list get checked off, without your body and mind getting crossed off? In wellness workshops and in the acupuncture clinic, addressing stress and anxiety is unavoidable. Chinese medicine has a...
5 Food Tips for Stress and Anxiety
1) It's not just WHAT we eat, but HOW. Â Many of us rush around trying to meet obligations and deadlines, and a strict diet can definitely become one more stressor, one more thing to be hard on ourselves for. Step One can be just scheduling in enough time to sit down...
Two Anti-Anxiety (vegan, gluten-free) recipes
I've chosen and adapted two vegan, gluten-free recipes below, for their anti-anxiety ingredients (based on the Traditional Chinese Medicine analysis of these foods). Mung Bean and Kale Soup (serves ~6) 1 tablespoon refined organic coconut oil 20-25 small crimini (or...
A Good Read – “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”
“As one of Pema Chodron's grateful students, I have been learning the most pressing and necessary lesson of all: how to keep opening wider my own heart.” - Alice Walker A generous friend once left me a copy of When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times...