Why care about the temperature of your food? In Chinese Medicine dietary theory, the temperature and food preparation are crucial and just as important as the food we eat.

Having a positive relationship with food was something that was never modeled for me growing up and something that I didn’t even know was in the realm of possibilities. It wasn’t until I started to learn about how food could nourish my body, heal my body, and make me feel good that I began to realize that my desire to break up with food was misguided.

The word “infertility” sounds so dark and hopeless to me. The truth is, I was never hopeless. And I’m never hopeless for my patients. Yes, I struggled with fertility. Yes, it was incredibly frustrating. But I shifted that — you can too.

Like most foods, coffee is neither good or bad. Different foods and drinks are right for different people, at different times. So let’s explore the energetics of coffee and whether or not it is right for you.

A large part of my practice is treating women trying to conceive and especially over this past year I’ve seen a lot of patients coming to me for help with fertility. While acupuncture, herbs, and dietary changes play a BIG part in fertility, I have a few “secrets” that I find to also be truly impactful. Tricks that you can do at home, every day.

I went through years of on and off taking Ambien. Quitting cold turkey and then getting hooked again when I anxiously felt like I needed a good night’s sleep. I was a sleep drug addict, except that I didn’t need an underground market for my drugs, I just needed a doctor — and doctors were easy to find. No one ever tried to address my sleep problem but rather covered it up with medication.

It wasn’t long after I started acupuncture that I saw the benefits and knew I wanted to heal people the way I was healed. I guess that’s also where my healing journey started – knowing that to heal others, I had to learn to heal myself first. Western medicine had failed me time and time again and I understood that my path would have to be different.

It can be very frustrating and emotional when you feel like you’re not making enough milk for your baby. You’re not alone. Having a newborn is tough and dealing with milk supply doesn’t make it any easier.

Something appearing on the outside of the body is a sign that something is out of balance internally. This is where Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine differs from the Western approach – acupuncture works to treat the root cause of the skin ailment. It offers a safe and effective way to treat eczema, not just cover it up.

Breastfeeding my first child, Ethan, was no walk in the park. It was a journey filled with hurdles and hard work, taking many months to find our rhythm.