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8 Benefits of Practicing Regular Meditation
Meditation has a reputation for several health benefits but here are the top eight reasons establishing a regular meditation routine can improve your overall health and wellbeing. But first, what is meditation? It is defined as the regular process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts.
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Acupuncture for Treating Addiction
People seeking treatment for addiction typically have a complex road to recovery. Everyone’s story is different, and people have different needs and respond to treatment in their own time and in their own way. What many people might not be familiar with are the supplemental therapies that can be used to help promote healing and recovery. One of those
Posted in Acupuncture, Addiction, Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Avoid Side Effects of Anti-Depressants with Natural Alternatives
Anxiety and Depression are at all time highs over the last few years. Mental health has become a crucial focus in health care and many folks have newly sought out relief with anti-depressant medications.
However, many do not enjoy the unwanted side effects of anti-depressants. Whether it’s weight gain, fatigue, a completely flat affect (never feeling “big emotions” of anger,
Posted in Acupuncture, Acupuncure, Anxiety, Depression, Health, Men's Health, Mental Health, PTSD, Stress, Stress & Anxiety, Women's Health
Also tagged acupuncture, anxiety, black sheep acupuncture, depression, dry needling, edgewater acupuncture, mend acupuncture, mental health, ptsd, resilient health acupuncture, women's health
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Becoming Resilient to Stress
I once had to write an essay on the book, “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers” by Robert Sapolsky and I can summarize it to this day… The sympathetic nervous system elicits the “fight or flight” response. A third response is to freeze in place.
Modern humans often freeze in place, stall. Usually, we do not fight others or run (flight)
Posted in Acupuncture, Anxiety, Autoimmune Disease, Blood Pressure, Chinese Medicine, Digestive Disorders, Fibromyalgia, Headaches/Migraines, Health, Hypertension, Inflammation, Insomnia, Mental Health, Migraines & Headaches, PTSD, Stress & Anxiety, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Women's Health
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What’s Our Medical Director Been Up To?
Have you heard? Our Medical Director, Laura Parks, M.Ac., L.Ac. went back to school and will be graduating at the end of April 2023 with her Doctorate in Acupuncture. 13 years after graduating with her Masters degree in Acupuncture, we’ll be calling “Dr. Laura” to the clinic with all her new wisdom on how to help patients.
Here’s what she
Posted in Acupuncture, Acupuncture Studies, Acupuncure, Arthritis, Autoimmune Disease, Chinese Medicine, Digestive Disorders, Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Headaches/Migraines, Health, Immune System, infertility, Men's Health, Menopause, Migraines & Headaches, Neuropathy, Pain, Post-Herpetic Neuralgia, Shingles, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Women's Health
Also tagged acupuncture, allergies, arthritis, autoimmune, back pain, chronic pain, diet, digestion, fertility, fibromyalgia, headaches, immune system, infertility, migraines, neuropathy, pain, tcm, unexplained infertility, women's health
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