Way of the Tao…

April 12, 2018

As we all try to negotiate the hussle of modern life, I know personally there has always been a little voice in my heart asking why, what is beneath and around all this striving and playing the game? I can’t help feeling that what we are searching for is ourselves and a spiritual path that makes sense to our deepest cells of intuition.

In direct opposition to our modern culture where we look outward for validation and guidance and we care for our appearance in order to be accepted, in Taoism the exact opposite is true. We look inside ourselves and we strive for a greater understanding of ourselves in order to understand the world and our place in it; the outer world is only known in relation to our inner point of view.

Self cultivation is the basis for knowing the Tao… Acupuncture, and the healing it enables, is a perfect place to begin this journey. It is only by being in harmony with ourselves that our body can heal itself, which this is the basis of acupuncture. The needles connect to our spirit opening up pathways to access our own well of understanding, knowing and healing. When we truly connected to our spirit we are truly connected to the Tao…

Welcome back…me!

March 8, 2018

I have been off line for a while. I went through a few life changing events; marriage, baby, moving out of the city and somehow I needed all my energy focused towards my life and my patients, anything else was relegated, such as my blog and social media activity.

I found it a challenge to disapear from the hussle and bustle of online life, and it challenged my ‘fomo’ hugely. It challenged me to focus on what mattered for my personal growth and building up my sense of self worth without the affirmation of ‘likes’ and comments that can lift you on social media. I feared being left behind while I saw so many other mothers continuing life online posting pics of their happy families, while keeping their toe in the ‘working’ world, however, I knew I needed silence and peace in order to grow and learn from this time.

18 months on and I am so happy now to be back seeing my patients and starting to treat children having finished my Paediatrics Acupuncture. What better time to come back to life than at the beginning of spring!?

Keep dreaming & save our Kidneys from our Smart Phones!

April 4, 2016

In Chinese Medicine our Kidneys are the powerhouses of our system and their proper functioning is fundamental to our overall wellbeing. During the winter they can take a bit of a battering from the cold and over stretching ourselves during this supposedly peaceful hibernation season. The winter is traditionally a time to hunker down, eat less, meditate, reflect on what is going on in our lives and restore our bodies in preparation for the rebirth of the spring.

Kidney Supporting Black Sesame Tea

April 4, 2016

As my all patients know because I don’t stop banging on about it, the health of our kidneys is incredibly important for our overall wellbeing. They give us the motivation and stamina to keep going when times are tough, they give us the will to finish projects, keep on the path and not give in to external pressures and most importantly they are essential for healthy fertility; for the boys and the girls.

Is HOW we eat is just as important as WHAT we eat?

March 26, 2015

We are bombarded by messages in this world: “Don’t eat sugar, don’t eat soy, steer clear of gluten and dairy at all costs, do drink green juice, go vegan…oh no go paelo, don’t eat fat, oh actually eat LOADS of fat; why not just survive on nuts, avocado and kale… don’t touch caffeine, oh actually do drink caffeine, but only in the guise of an exhaustively expensive matcha latte made with an unsweetened nut milk… the list goes on and on and can be incredibly confusing, not to mention punishing and simply unloving if not done from a place of real love for yourself.

Freedom from Migraines with acupuncture!

January 19, 2015

This is an unabashed plug for the power of Acupuncture in the face of headaches and migraines, I just couldn’t help myself!

How many people are suffering out there with constant chronic headaches? Do you have a dull, foggy headache that won’t shift, won’t let you concentrate? Or maybe a feeling that your head is empty, you can’t focus and by the end of the day you genuinely wonder if there still is a brain in the cavity of your skull?! Or are you the most unfortunate migraine sufferer; enduring migraines that rob you of several days a month causing excruciating pain and exhaustion? If so read on…

Winter and the Water Element – a time for silence & stillness

January 5, 2015

If I were to sum up last year it would be “busy…busy…busy”, and for some reason I feel very ashamed saying that – I left no time to simply ‘be’, I felt a constant need to ‘do’. In hind sight there was a perverse buzz from being so busy in which my ego relished – it was as if all this rushing around and being busy made me somehow important and relevant to the world… What a trap!

After an equally un-relaxing Christmas and countless messages from obscure sources urging me to calm down, I am finally acting and consciously listening to my knowledge of Chinese Medicine and meditation in terms of honoring the tides of the seasons, which prompted me to write this post as I know I am not alone in getting caught up in the whirlwind that surrounds us.

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