What Is Your Period Pain Trying to Tell You? Understanding Menstrual Pain from a Chinese Medicine Perspective
In Chinese Medicine, period pain is not simply something to suppress. It can give us valuable information about how Qi and Blood are moving through the body. By understanding the pattern behind the pain, we can begin to address why it is happening in the first place.
You Are More Than Your Diagnosis: Acupuncture Support for Endometriosis, Adenomyosis and PCOS
Living with endometriosis, adenomyosis or PCOS can affect far more than your menstrual cycle. In this blog, I explore how acupuncture may offer complementary support for pain, irregular cycles, fatigue, stress and overall wellbeing.
How “Normal” is Your Period?
Most of us were never taught what a "normal" period should look like. In this post, we break down healthy cycle benchmarks, what it means when yours falls outside them and how acupuncture can help bring things back into balance.
Why I Always Ask: "What Day Are You in Your Cycle?"
Did you know your acupuncture treatment changes depending on where you are in your cycle? Discover why cycle-informed care could be the missing piece in your wellbeing.
Two Maps of the Same Body
Western medicine excels at finding what's broken. What it struggles with is the in-between — the women with real symptoms, unremarkable results and years of being told everything looks fine. Traditional Chinese Medicine offers a different approach: one built around assessing cycles & patterns to understand the whole picture of a woman's health.