A Healthy Curiosity
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A Healthy Curiosity
You know that health and happiness aren’t things you can outsource. You’ve also got a full plate, and making the time to take care of yourself can be challenging. A Healthy Curiosity is here to support you. The Mission: to explore what it takes to be well in a busy world, offer self-care strategies...
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Medicinal Mushrooms
Medicinal mushrooms have been revered in Chinese medicine for millennia and are gaining popularity for their ability to support immunity, energy, stre...
Evil Bone Water for Pain
You're probably aware of how powerful acupuncture is for treating pain. Chinese herbal Medicine has a role to play as well.
Fellow acupunctuist...
Chinese Medicine For Your Gut Microbiome
You know we need a healthy gut microbiome in order to digest and absorb nutrients from our food – without pain, gas, bloating, diarrhea or constipatio...
Lessons From 20 Years in Practice
In September 2023, my Chinese Medical practice turned 20 years old. This episode started off as a retrospective on lessons learned in these two decade...
The Hormone Balance Pyramid
Moving from overwhelm to a more healthy life is often about small steps. One such step can be embracing the philosophy of seeing how so many things ca...
Care and Feeding of Your Microbiome
Taking steps in the direction of better health is a multi-faceted process. Not only do we have to take care of ourselves, but we also have to take car...
Questions from the Treatment Room, Answered
This season of the podcast has focused a lot on demystifying different aspects of Chinese Medicine. From acupressure to qi gong, we've spoken with ex...
Self-healing with Acupressure: There’s an App for That
A consistent theme in this show is empowering you to embody self-respect through daily actions; to take small steps in the direction of better. The bo...
Immunity, Digestion, Focus and Relaxation Practices
Whether dealing with a COVID infection or just moving through life, a lot of us may be hitting energetic walls these days. In times like this, employi...
Why Acupuncture is the Best for Musculoskeletal Pain
What do you do when your back hurts, or when your neck and shoulders get tight and sore? Acupuncture is a potent medicine for joint pain, muscle pain,...
Move Your Stuck Qi with Breathwork
Chances are, if you're checking out this episode, you're looking for tools and techniques to help tune into yourself and be a better self-healer. You'...
Deep Listening, Gifts of Winter, Overcoming low motivation
Winter is cold, dark, slow time of year, and since we’re a part of nature, it’s easy for us to feel the same way: sluggish and more inclined to hibern...
The Shiny & Dark Sides of Habit Change: A Personal Story
What would you really like to make time for on a regular basis, that somehow keeps getting pushed to the back burner? Whether it's writing a book, sta...
Regaining Self-Trust: Advice from a Former Cult Member
From time to time, every one of us makes mistakes and bad decisions. Once we recognize what happened, it can often be hard to regain our self-trust.
TCM Nutrition tips for a Healthy Digestive Microbiome
Our digestive microbiome supports every other system in our bodies. Since we can't use what we can't digest and what we can't digest can cause problem...
Freeing Your Vagus Nerve: Self-Care Tutorial
Given the stress and restriction of the last year, a lot of us might be carrying around some neck pain or unproductive posture. In the spirit of allow...
From Surviving to Thriving - A Chinese Medicine Take
It's been a tough year. As we slowly begin to emerge from, hopefully, the worst of the pandemic, we're also entering the full on yang-mode of summer....
Dampness & Digestion Master Class
Almost everyone that comes through the clinic is dealing with some combination of two things: stress and dampness. This episode is a masterclass, or a...
Moving Through Trauma with Chinese Medicine
As the world slowly begins to emerge from the worst of the COVID era, there is a lot of collective trauma that we'll be working through for years. Whi...
Why Your Heart and Brain Like Estrogen
Maintaining a healthy alignment with our bodies so often comes back to keeping things balanced and our hormones are no different.
Dr. Felice Ger...
Momentum, Inertia, and Self-Kindness: Lessons from Winter
Chinese Medicine teaches us that winter is a time of quiet and stillness, a time for reflecting and conserving scarce resources.
As we reflect o...
Q+A - 5 Elements for Personal Growth & Getting out of the Way
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine have been used for centuries to treat a variety of ailments in the population.
In this episode, we'll explore h...
The Science of Energy Medicine
Having recently explored the biomedical aspects of acupuncture on the show, this conversation takes an interesting counterpoint to examine how this mo...
Breaking Free from Chronic Pain
Suffering from chronic pain is not a sign of brokenness, it's part of the human experience. If you're interested in exploring the idea of chronic pain...
Taking Off the Invisible Corset of Beauty Culture
In our journey of learning to embody self-respect, it's always important to include respecting our bodies. After centuries of propaganda from the beau...
Keeping Your Inner Adult in the Driver's Seat
A lot of us that are working toward personal growth and evolution are always looking for ways to avoid getting triggered and getting reactive. If you'...
Body-Centered Mental Health for Kids
As we're coming to the close of a particularly difficult year, we're all probably feeling pretty stressed. For kids who have been thrust into online s...
Embodiment as Conscious Path
What does it mean to be embodied?
To start cultivating embodiment, we can often begin by bringing more focus to what it's like to inhabit our bo...
Practical Qi Gong
As we continue to investigate ways we can use our bodies to affect our minds, we're taking a deeper look at qi gong and how we can use the practice to...
Healing Trauma by Letting Sensation Speak
The answers we get about trauma often depend on the questions we ask.
If you're feeling stuck in your healing process, sometimes the best way fo...
Healing with Your Heart
If you've been looking for a different approach to cultivating emotional wellness and wellbeing, you will definitely want to catch this conversation.<...
Tapping on the Body to Shift Your Mind and Emotions
Our responses to stress can often be habituated in ways we may not like. With practice, however, it's possible to hack our limiting beliefs and subcon...
Is Addiction a Disease?
In a time when a lot of us are dealing with strong, difficult emotions, it can be easy to slip into bad patterns to try and cope and these patterns ca...
Reactivity and Anger: Dialing it Down
In challenging times, taking the time to make sure we take care of ourselves can be especially difficult. As the changes brought on by COVID continue...
Finding Power in Hormonal Transitions
The hormonal shifts women experience later in life, namely perimenopause and menopause, aren't talked about very often. This lack of education and awa...
Chronic Pain, Migraines, Brain Injuries: Acupuncture & Functional Neurology
If you suffer from chronic pain, migraines, ongoing concussion symptoms, or really anything related to neurology, you'll definitely want to check out...
Chinese Herbal Medicine, Neurology, and the Gut-Brain axis
Seeing herbs in action is a powerful reminder of why we can find roots of herbal medicine in basically every culture. Through a couple different ventu...
Treating Fibromyalgia Naturally
Fibromyalgia is an incredibly complex syndrome that involves multiple, intertwined systems in the body. The collection of symptoms and expressions of...
How Acupuncture Works: The Science Behind the Healing
If you're curious about trying acupuncture or know someone who may benefit from it, it can be helpful to understand some of the background science for...
Breath: Unlocking Your Dormant Superpower
Whether you're feeling tight and stressed, listless and exhausted, or generally just not at your best, one of the most immediate levers we can pull to...