Insomnia, or sleeplessness, can describe anyone who has trouble falling or staying asleep. It is more prevalent than ever with more demands on our time.

But as you know (if you’re reading this at 3am) sleep is incredibly important and not getting enough of it is no fun at all.

There are more and more studies that show the effects of poor, or lack of, sleep:

• Loss of Focus and Memory
• Slower Metabolism (weight gain)
• Higher Stress
• Increased Inflammation (i.e. pain, especially joints)
• Tendency Towards Depression
• Fatigue

Thankfully, insomnia is easily treated with acupuncture and herbal medicine. Add some lifestyle adjustments and we can put insomnia – and YOU – to rest.

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Headaches aren’t just in your head. Your whole body is involved.

With acupuncture and treatment of the body’s innate stress response, both headaches and migraines can be significantly reduced or eliminated.

While conventional approaches to headaches look for a single mechanism to treat the pain, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) takes a holistic approach.

According to TCM, energy, or Qi (“chee”) activates life in the body through pathways called meridians. When this free movement of energy is disrupted, pain and ‘dis-ease’ result.

Acupuncture is the first level of treatment and can treat and relieve headache and migraine pain by itself.  However, in order to get to the root of the problem, it is important to treat the body’s stress response.

This is where Somatic Acupuncture comes in.

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Imagine, you wake up and you’re 40. Wow. Here we are in the middle.

Time for something new. I think I’ll have a child, start a business, and prepare to start taking care of my parents. Yes, fun! Great idea.

There is certainly a new flavor to this impending decade. The time is more urgently now. I’m more aware of this Now than ever before.

To stay present, healthy, and awake, I am rededicating myself to regular treatments with acupuncture and natural medicine, yoga, meditation, nature, friends, family, and fun … not necessarily in that order.

My guess is the second half will be even more exciting than the first.

Stay tuned.