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Managing Wellness and Beauty: The Holiday Hurdle

  Every year, I see a pattern in my clinic: patients return with added weight after some breaks or holidays from routine maintenance/ treatments. who've been maintaining steady weight and wellness suddenly return after the holiday season with added weight and disrupted routines. The holiday season is a joyful whirlwind, but it often feels more like a marathon than a celebration. If you find yourself battling holiday stress , perpetual fatigue, and the dreaded 'sugar slump,' you’re certainly not alone. The key to successfully Managing Wellness and Beauty: The Holiday Hurdle isn't about strict deprivation—it's about finding fundamental balance. From a holistic wellness and TCM perspective, we’ll dive into the ancient wisdom of the Five Elements to reveal exactly how the holiday traps impact your body’s core systems. You'll learn simple, effective solutions to strengthen your digestive Earth , keep your emotions flowing with Wood , and preserve the vital ener...

An Acupuncturist's Perspective on the Connection Between Health and Beauty

An old saying states that losing money is equivalent to losing a little, losing honor is like losing half, and losing health is equivalent to losing everything.  Healthy What does it mean to be healthy? While Western medicine defines health as a state of being free from disease or injury, traditional Oriental medicine determines it as a state of being in harmony with nature and humans, body and mind, Qi and blood, etc. A healthy appearance is one that exudes vitality and reflects good physical health. In other words, when you're healthy, you have more energy for your activities, you feel more self-assured, and your physical appearance radiates energetic beauty. This is one of main objectives in traditional Oriental/ Chinese medicine. Beauty  In this discussion of beauty, I don't mean the glamorized representations of beauty that the media markets as a product. These commodified representations of beauty make each person's distinctive and heterogenous beauty into something t...