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By mca_sarah|2023-03-01T17:31:29-05:00March 2nd, 2022|Categories: Parenting, Self-Care, Teens|Tags: parenting, Teens, Traditional Chinese Medicine|

Photo by NEOSiAM 2021 from Pexels Imagine how different your adolescent years could have been if you had a safe, warm and non-judgmental space to “ring out the sponge” of a busy brain and full heart. Today’s teenagers arguably are holding more than ever – with constant connectivity via social media and online access, yet isolated in these interrupted COVID years. Acupuncture can be a great non-verbal therapy for kids. We enjoy seeing teens and believe every teen can benefit from being introduced to acupuncture as an option at an early age. Think of acupuncture as a steam valve for stress [...]

At Surge Capacity and a Nation in Grief: Why It’s Time to Clean the House

By Sarah O'Leary|2022-11-15T14:06:22-05:00October 30th, 2020|Categories: coronavirus, Mood, Parenting, Seasonal Changes, Self-Care, Wellness|Tags: ambiguous loss, Chinese medicine, fall, five element, letting go, surge capacity, TCM|

Anyone noticing that just as our annual cultural prediction of “fall cleaning” arrives, that indeed you are inspired to tidy the house? Anyone else observing that in this week's climax of election angst and COVID cases rising nationally that you move between being frozen and then finding small comfort in seemingly insignificant completed tasks (like a clean bathroom or empty dishwasher)? And is your tolerance too for overstuffed drawers and piles of paperwork suddenly feeling unbearable? I think I have an explanation (with married concepts from modern psychology and the lens of Chinese Medicine).... In Eastern philosophy, we think of the Fall months [...]

The Dog Days of Mothering: Parenting Burnout

By mca_sarah|2022-11-15T14:06:40-05:00September 1st, 2020|Categories: coronavirus, Parenting, Seasonal Changes, Self-Care, Wellness|Tags: Chinese medicine, coronavirus, covid, damp, five element, Late Summer, parenting, seasonal changes, TCM|

It’s been 5 months since our kids came home from school and haven’t left. At the time, we thought it would be 2 weeks until routines returned to normal. Or maybe until the summer. Now many of us are collectively confronting that there’s no date for going back to the usual places our children go to. It feels like the longest snow day on record – at first a welcome break, an introspective pause, then the trappings of the “weather outside” taking on new gravity. A familiar feeling has surfaced, one that I recall from infant days and toddler [...]