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These articles do not reflect the official views of any institution other than my business, and do not substitute for professional healthcare.
This blog is here to provide my personal/clinical understandings on the matters of health and happiness, through a holistic lens. It doesn't take much to become strong!
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Self Care Tools: Deprogramming Behaviors
Emotions are not the enemy, like pain they are the teacher. Ignorance of where they are coming from and why we are experiencing them is...
Addison
Sep 14, 20242 min read
Simple Fitness: Easy Workouts and Easier Workout Partners
You build fitness out of small dependable habits. Start off with the closest friend you can find, and take the most doable workout.
Addison
Sep 13, 20244 min read
Empower Your Skin
Pasadena, Glendale, and Arcadia have been pounded intense heat waves these last few weeks and I’ve been turning to the wisdom of trailer...
Addison
Sep 9, 20243 min read
Simple Fitness Year-Round Motion
Pursuing a healthier vigor eventually requires getting off the couch. As an even-minded acupuncturist, my default is always to involve...
Addison
Aug 17, 20242 min read
Priorities Inventory
In order to make progress in any life endeavor, you need the right tools for your journey. If you wanted to go for a swim, you wouldn't...
Addison
Nov 5, 20222 min read
The Profound Benefits of Acupuncture
I provide some benefits for anyone asking the question: why acupuncture?
Addison
Oct 10, 20221 min read
What Is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture basics. What is it? What does it do? Is it for you?
Addison
Oct 6, 20223 min read
Why am I Not Getting Better? Chronic Illness
There are there three universal biological reasons prevents living tissue, and therefore human beings from repairing; these same three...
Addison
Aug 24, 20222 min read
Dietary Tools for Deficiency Health
These are dietary tools for people who have poor digestion and cannot get enough energy from their food.
Addison
Jul 26, 20223 min read
What is Health?
Simple question, nuanced answer. Google it... Define: Health "the state of being free from illness or injury" followed by "a person's...
Addison
Jul 12, 20223 min read
First steps: Getting Fit on a Full Life
My first advice for anyone trying to heal, or build on their health is to take stock of the things you are willing to trade away for a...
Addison
Jun 29, 20222 min read
What is TCM, and why should We should care?
An exploration of TCM and how it answers questions about health that make life much easier for the average person.
Addison
Jun 13, 20223 min read
Hello Pasadena!
I'm excited to announce after 2 years of looking for the right place to practice acupuncture and holistic medicine, I have a new office...
Addison
Jun 8, 20221 min read
Emotional Wellbeing
An exploration on how our health is impacted by emotional wellbeing.
Addison
May 18, 20223 min read
Pain as Teacher, Not Foe
If you're angry and are pushing through pain, you are likely borrowing from tomorrow to pay for today.
Addison
Nov 30, 20195 min read
To Meat, or not to eat...
Upfront, this is a case for why meat is needed in a healthy diet. But there's more to it than a one-line summary!
Addison
Oct 31, 20194 min read
Harnessing Silence. Meditation
No tool capable of calming us is more readily available to every human being than sitting down and breathing.
Addison
Sep 28, 20192 min read
Fear, Anger, and Guilt Will Eat You Alive
Our bodies and lives cannot thrive on fear, anger, and guilt. Yet we all know people who actually want to be swallowed by these...
Addison
Jul 22, 20194 min read
What is a Fear of Death?
From very early on in life, we learn that we are individuals: you are different from everything that is not you. This idea goes one step...
Addison
Jun 1, 20192 min read
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