I have compiled this resources list for a ceasefire now. It includes ways to get care and connect with others during this time of immense grief and fear. It includes ways to take action from home and in the streets. It includes educational resources. And it even includes a compilation of songs for grief and protest. I hope that you find it helpful and supportive. I will try my best to keep it actively updated.

*Artwork by Christine Irvine.

Herbal medicine is a potent intervention. Unlike coming in for an acupuncture treatment, herbs are a medicine that get to be with you as support throughout the week, everyday. 

I think of self-cultivation as knowing yourself and knowing the world. It means knowing your patterns whether those be present-moment physical holding and pain patterns or how you react in stressful situations, and then, doing your best to tend to and take care of those patterns…

This multi-layered experience is always a part of the context being held in your acupuncture treatments.

This is the sentiment that led me back to nature and the sentiment that eventually led me to classical Chinese medicine.

Knowing what to expect is one of the most helpful things for those of us who have sensitive nervous systems and histories of trauma.

Dr. Leon Hammer has anointed practitioners with the call of meeting our patients with something other than the typical response. This is the call because this is healing.

I have a very special seat as an acupuncture practitioner. By getting to work with individuals, I get a sacred peek into our collective experience, some commonalities and threads that we all share. The insight is something that sustains and comforts me. It’s also information that at many times in my life, presently and in the past, I have longed for some other human to let me on to. So, I’m compelled to share a few tidbits every now and then, and we’ll see how they land. 

Your ability to know with the heart-mind never goes away and it's always trying to reveal itself to you.

I’m very excited to be able to share my doctoral capstone with y’all. The capstone is titled “Jailbreak of the Imagination: Abolitionist Praxis in Classical East Asian Medicine.”

“When you are born into this life, it's like you're born into a moving stream or a moving river of energies and where you enter that stream will then influence what you encounter during your stay on this planet.” - Dr. Brenda Hood