You Can Keep Your Socks on if You Want
When I first started learning Dr Tan’s Balance Method it was a huge adjustment from how I’d learned to use…
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It’s January.
Each year at this time we see an uptick in cultural pressure to start a diet or “fix” our bodies…
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How we use the sliding scale
We’ve welcomed quite a lot of new patients since our move, and with that comes questions about our sliding scale….
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Acupuncher
A conversation with my five-year old shortly after the latest photoshoot at GCA: K: “Mama, what’s that? Is that pictures…
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On Pain Scales and Attunement
I recently saw an xkcd comic about the pain scale. A doctor asks a patient “any pain?” When the patient…
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Thoughts on election day
I don’t know whether we live in increasingly polarized times, or if it just seems that way because of how…
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Beyond niceness: on pillows, blankets & nervous system overrides
It takes effort to get yourself to an acupuncture treatment. You have to carve out time for an appointment, make…
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While it’s true that most teens…
While it’s true that most teens take a minute to warm up to the idea of acupuncture, those who do…
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How often should I get acupuncture?
Sometimes people try acupuncture and are disappointed because it didn’t work for them. In many of these cases, they were…
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On distal needling, aka “Finding the switches”
People ask us all the time why we’re not putting needles into where it hurts. (“You know it’s my knee…
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What Should I Be Feeling During Acupuncture?
“What does it feel like?” That’s one of the most common questions we hear from people new to acupuncture. We …
