Illuminate Your Life: a chinese medicine blog

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Ghost Treatments

There are times when something comes over you - a veil between you and the rest of the world. It may feel that suddenly you just aren’t yourself. In this case, you may benefit from a ghost treatment!

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Support Your Earth Element

During this earthy time of year, we focus on the digestive system, nourishment, and stability. Learn how you can support the vitality of your Earth element and the well-being of your mind, body, and spirit.

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Mental Health for Summer

The heart of summer is here, bringing long sunny days and vibrant energy. But did you know that this season can also be challenging for our mental health? When your fire element is out of balance, you may feel lack of joy or excess joy, anxiety, insomnia, and struggle with poor memory and concentration.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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Winter Blues + TCM

In Chinese Medicine, we pay close attention to the way the seasons impact our health, as our bodies and minds reflect the world around us. If you tend to feel down this time of year, we can help! Check out our top tips to beat the winter blues.

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Protect Your Mental Health over the Holidays

While the holidays can be a time filled with love and joy, for many people it can also be bittersweet, bringing up a host of emotions including a renewed sense of isolation, loneliness, longing and grief.

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Self-Care for Mental Health

In today’s world, it can be difficult to make your mental health a priority, but it requires the same attention as other aspects of your life. With the everything that is going on in the world, it’s more important than ever!

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Acupuncture for Mental + Emotional Health

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine offer a holistic and transformative approach to supporting your mental and emotional wellbeing.

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