Top Toxic Ingredients to Avoid in Skin Care
Ever since I started offering Cosmetic and Facial Constitutional Acupuncture over a decade ago I have been researching and offering alternative skin care products in my practice. Up until then I was caught in the mainstream belief that good products have to be attached to big brand names, whether it was make-up, or creams and …
Facing Fears, Healing Divisions
Our recent 2 month road trip across the US in our little Honda Civic included too many beautiful highlights (and naturally a few challenges) to share in one post alone. But there are some moments that have really stayed with me, and hold a place of gratitude deep in my heart. So I’d like to …
Loving Kindness Practice
The meditation practice of ‘Loving Kindness’ is one that I’ve always loved, and I particularly love sharing it with my clients. It is easy, accessible and effective. It has its roots in Buddhism, yet is non-denominational. Loving kindness allows you to practice self-love regardless of how you currently feel about yourself, your life in general …
Moving From Survivor To Creator Mode
“Peace from agitation only comes after agitation.” Taoist saying When crisis or disorder overwhelms us we sometimes default into “survival” mode- doing whatever we can just to survive, looking for solutions to fix it. This of course is a perfectly valid approach. Yet it may not bring about the change we want to really move …
Your Truth about PMS
PMS (Pre-Menstrual Syndrome): An acronym standing for so much, three little letters so loaded in our culture, and open to interpretation in so many (in fact, too many!) ways. There aren’t many ‘disorders’ that are thrown around as much as this one, or used this often to stigmatise women,especially in the West. As women, we …
Taoism and Acupuncture Explained
MYTH: You don’t need sunscreen if you’re wearing makeup that has SPF. While studies show that…
Make a Difference with Meditation
Most women would agree that beauty is not just a matter of outer looks but also inner beauty. This is what is usually referred to as the holistic approach to looking at beauty. A lot of local or imported cosmetic brands may help women look younger, but recently there has been a growing trend of many women turning to traditional treatments that use less chemical materials. Chemical materials are often found to have longer-term destructive effects on the skin rather than making one’s face fresh.
On Intuition
Welcome to my latest blog post, this time on Intuition. I thought I’d elaborate a little on the subject, after I was interviewed about it on 89.7 East Side Radio last week. It’s such a broad subject and worthwhile exploring from so many different angles. So for today, I’d like to talk about just a …
On Pushing Through
Go looking for proof that a massage will improve your health, and you’ll have no trouble finding research to back you up. From…
Understanding Yin & Yang
They’re two of the oldest spa treatments around. They’re also both steam based, and were each designed to help you cleanse and purify your body. Sounding pretty similar so far, right? Yes, there’s no denying that saunas and Turkish baths have some major common ground; but while you’d be forgiven for thinking that they’re essentially the same, they actually have three pretty huge differences. Read on to learn what they are – you’ll be a bathing guru in no time.