Illuminate Your Life: a chinese medicine blog
Spring Health Support
For some, spring brings allergies, migraines, and stress rather than sunshine and rainbows. Follow these tips in the early spring days to support the health and optimal functioning of your liver and gallbladder.
Endometriosis + Chinese Medicine
Endometriosis is a chronic condition where endometrial tissue grows in sites other than the uterus and sticks to various pelvic organs, but also in other parts of the body. Learn how acupuncture, herbs and Chinese Medicine can provide wonderful support to help relieve symptoms.
Menopause + Chinese Medicine
Similar to the menstrual years of women’s lives, many women do not realize that menopausal symptoms are indicative of a pattern of imbalance…this does not have to be your new “normal”! Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine provides excellent support with menopausal symptoms.
Setting Healthy Boundaries
Putting boundaries in place helps you become more self-aware, improve relationships, take better care of yourself, learn to say ‘no’, establish better work life balance, and feel more fulfilled and less stressed. In order for boundaries to be successful, you have to get really clear on what is important to you and why you are setting the boundary.
Hello Spring
In Chinese medicine, the organ associated with spring is the Liver. Spring is about new growth, movement, upward motion, all the same things the Liver controls and performs in the body.
Restore Your Postpartum Body
After giving birth, it is important to replenish your body. It has worked hard these past ten months and can use boosting to keep you healthy and strong.
Nurture Your Pregnancy
Our team provides acupuncture, bodywork, nutrition, resources and health tips to help you have a healthy pregnancy, connect with baby and feel your best.
Self-Care Reminder
It’s easy to stay busy all the time, jumping from one thing to the next without giving yourself any time for rest. Allowing yourself to pause on a daily basis, even just for 5 minutes, is important to reset and refresh your mind and body!
Boost + Support Your Blood
Blood deficiency is a common occurrence in women, especially those who are menstruating or following a vegan/vegetarian diet. Check out our favorite ways to support and boost blood with lifestyle changes, herbal medicine and acupuncture treatments.
Nourish Your Fertility
Acupuncture is a restorative treatment that brings vitality to your reproductive organs, nourishes your blood and hormones, reduces stress, and calms and uplifts your spirit. Chinese Medicine significantly increases your likelihood of becoming pregnant and sustaining a healthy pregnancy.
Celebrating Women
March is Women’s History Month. We want to honor all the amazing women out there by sharing information, tips and resources to support women’s health and wellbeing through all stages of life.
10-Minute Meditations
When you slow down and change your focus, you find stillness and space to breathe. Check out a few of our favorite meditations and other mindfulness resources.
Why We Love Cupping
We love cupping, it is one of our favorite forms of bodywork! It involves momentarily placing fire into glass cups so that the heat creates suction when they are subsequently placed on the skin.
Boost Your Qi with Stomach 36
In today's society, people are constantly running themselves into the ground and usually need a little boost. Stomach 36 is a great point for that and is one reason why it is commonly used by most therapists.
Daily Mindful Habits
Mindfulness is something that we all naturally possess, but we need to practice it in order for it to work in our benefit. Check out these simple tips to rest, change your focus and find some peace in your day.
Replenish Your Jing
Now that we’re more than half way through winter, how are you? Winter is the most yin time of the year with its darker, colder and shorter days, and it is the most ideal time to lay low and nourish yourself.
Mental + Physical Health with TCM
Chinese Medicine offers an opportunity to improve your mental and physical health and to help you understand how your physical and emotional symptoms are related.
Year of the Wood Dragon
The year of the Wood Dragon began February 10th. While the past several years have had a heavy reflection of Water, representing introspection, depth and wisdom, the year of the Wood Dragon entices us to put these philosophies, desires, areas for growth and moments of healing into action!
Prepare for Restorative Sleep
Sleep is so important for your mental and physical health - it’s the time for your body and spirit to cleanse, heal and recharge. When we can return to a state of yin and stillness, we prepare ourselves for balanced vitality and strength during the yang of day.
UHC Coverage
Did you know that Sarah Welch accepts United Healthcare? If you would like use your benefits for acupuncture, please provide insurance information to determine eligibility before appointment.