a favorite bumper sticker. I was just telling a friend, I am not an exceptional writer, but I am a singular thinker. The writing is just the vehicle to get my notions accessible. I challenged myself over the years to not get invested in the thinking, to not let my ego be attached to the words on the paper or how people interpret the information. I was talking to an artist the other night and asking her specifically how she handles the response to her work. This was because there were some people at her show  that evening, saying that her work “wasn’t really art” ( straight from the Witch of the Waste’s mouth). The artist herself yelled “making work is for the artist and not for the viewer or the critic. You put your work out for yourself and not for anyone else.”  The luxury of making something and…

Whilst we experience, the decolonization of normalcy. Stop selling me shit and pretending you have the key to satisfaction. Idiot happiness is not a real thing. Living a joyful life, is an everyday and attainable goal. This is the time of change, but more importantly it is really a time of transformation. You might say they are the same phenomena, but transformation is an alchemical process. Where you change into something different, not a shift from one form of energy to another. This is a big difference between the elements in Chinese medicine and the Spirits. The Spirits are concerned with the ephemeral, the not concrete stuff. This is the year of the Wood Snake, shed the skin and become something new. I think there are many elements and stages to transformation, as I see it, you know yourself and be yourself first. Then you can move towards a…

The Summer is winding down, the weather is a little cooler at night. We hear the cicadas singing in the evening. Goldenrod will make it’s appearance shortly. We shift from Yang Fire time to Earth time, the season of harvest. Now is when we traditionally start to talk about mother energy, Earth medicine. The sacred mother. The one great mother. AS we war out the ego of patriarchy, in this gruesome battle for power, filled with violence and dominance, I cannot help thinking that the sacred feminine inside me and inside you, is the heart of true power. Love itself, nourishing and accepting, but make no mistake, crazy fucking powerful. Hag energy: I know myself, I love myself, I trust myself. I am a powerhouse and I will love and protect my children fiercely. The ego wants to dominate and destroy because it is afraid, it lacks the inner structure,…

“ Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth.” Naomi Nye The size of the cloth, a behemoth, one can’t see the edges any longer, as it unravels on one end and is stitched together hastily on the other side. A temporary solution, that does not have any vision or long term planning involved. We are going break neck speed, to quickly meet a wall. Is our country such a mess because we can’t feel the pain? Are the people in politics verging on mental illness because they are unable to grief? If we allow the sorrow into our lives, and process it in bits, will that alter our trajectory as a nation?…

Menopause is not a problem, it doesn’t have to be fixed. It is a process that needs support. Menopause is called the Second Spring in Chinese Medicine. Because it is another cycle of blossoming for women , a renewal of wisdom. A time to embody and own your feminine power. There are sometimes disconcerting symptomology that accompany the perimenopause and menopausal cycles, they need support from herbs, acupuncture, lifestyle adjustments, and emotional/psychological/spiritual counseling. But nothing is wrong with this process. We need to reframe how we think about biological functioning for women. Once, we label menopause as bad or wrong we have to rush to fix it. Instead of embracing the process and taking time to address imbalances and let change happen. If we think of this process as un-natural then we are saying that being a woman and everything that happens in her lifecycle is also wrong. This erroneous…

I am building my Substack presence @transpersonalhealthproject. The content is not related to my acupuncture persona, this is taking health and sanity to a new level of conversation in these dark times. And as many of you have asked,I will finally allow myself to get a little more personal. I plan to stop posting on IG, though I still check my account because I am linked into so many important voices and I want to hear them right now. Times are a changing, I have been studying the patterns for years and talking about them to anyone who wants to listen. A recent shift for me would be my commitment level has increased and my fear to express myself has decreased. My services and my perspective are needed. For so long, I was waiting for people to acknowledge this, now I realize that I just need to start operating the…

This information should not be free, It is not free to just take and idly ponder over. It is not free. Do I have to say that again?  No need to be lazy. It takes a lifetime to figure this out and the cost..If you see this and do not use it, then you are missing an incredible opportunity. If you take this, practice it and use it for your community. Give something back, don’t just take. My thought is this if as person you choose not to feel the pain of living, a soul incarnated into mass on a physical plane. If you do not feel this in your body. The pain that you do not feel goes somewhere. It goes to someone else in your family. It goes to a population of people that are not like you and therefore a lesser species. It fuels the criticism and…

In the New Year. 2024. May it be so, may we at least be on our way towards some harmony in the world.

It is so dark out these days, it feels as if we are under a blanket. Even in the early afternoon, the sun is threatening to leave us behind and go somewhere more pleasant. This is that Season. The Silly Season as one of my client’s grandfathers would call it. WE are so busy running around shopping, cooking, cleaning and working. Have the festive spirit for the holidays. Muster up the joy and dig into the credit cards to buy those gifts. I sometimes like to stop and ground the energy in my body and just appreciate the cold, the dark the many things to do. I think “oh yah this is what happens this time of year”. And it goes so fast, this season, before I know it will be the New Year. I love the lights. The candles, the stars, the lights on the trees, the lights on…