Welcome to my home website where I tie it all together - my practice of acupuncture, Chinese and functional medicine (natural, herbal and nutritional) with mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and Somatic Experiencing (SE) trauma support. Health in our Own Hands: www.healthinourownhands.info is my web resource site for staying (or getting) healthy in this challenging, rapidly changing world.
It contains the best self-care information I've gathered in my 28 years of practice. I specialize in treating thyroid issues, especially autoimmune thyroid problems like Hashimoto's thyroiditis. This is a major focus of my practice because autoimmune diseases and thyroid problems are currently at 'epidemic' levels and also because I have this condition myself, so I know it inside and out.
One of the most important things I've learned is that many of us with autoimmune issues, hypothyroid and adrenal exhaustion have had long-term stress and we've been dealing with a tendency to quickly go into hyper-vigilance, fight or flight (or freeze).
It contains the best self-care information I've gathered in my 28 years of practice. I specialize in treating thyroid issues, especially autoimmune thyroid problems like Hashimoto's thyroiditis. This is a major focus of my practice because autoimmune diseases and thyroid problems are currently at 'epidemic' levels and also because I have this condition myself, so I know it inside and out.
One of the most important things I've learned is that many of us with autoimmune issues, hypothyroid and adrenal exhaustion have had long-term stress and we've been dealing with a tendency to quickly go into hyper-vigilance, fight or flight (or freeze).
Services
For the emotional component of any disease condition, I use MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction), SE (Somatic Experiencing for trauma taught by Peter Levine and Steven Hoskinson) and clinical hypnotherapy.
Additional understanding of trauma treatment with acupuncture is provided through study with Joe C. Chang, Integrative Care for Acute Combat-induced PTSD at the Ft.
Bliss Restoration & Resilience Center.
Meditation, plus mindful movement and breath exercises like yoga, tai chi (tai qi) and qi gong are very helpful for working with the stress aspect of any chronic disease - especially those of the endocrine system and immune system.
Additional understanding of trauma treatment with acupuncture is provided through study with Joe C. Chang, Integrative Care for Acute Combat-induced PTSD at the Ft.
Bliss Restoration & Resilience Center.
Meditation, plus mindful movement and breath exercises like yoga, tai chi (tai qi) and qi gong are very helpful for working with the stress aspect of any chronic disease - especially those of the endocrine system and immune system.
Psychotherapy and Meditation 1:47:01 In this talk, Dr. Epstein addresses the overlap between psychotherapy and meditation from the perspective of a Western psychiatrist whose introduction to the study of the mind came through Buddhist meditation.
Drawn from his studies of both D.W. Winnicott and the Buddha, he uses the Buddha's own inner struggle as a model for our own.
Epstein, a Harvard trained psychiatrist with a private practice in New York City, is the author of a number of works about the overlap of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Psychotherapy without the Self, and The Trauma of Everyday Life.
Drawn from his studies of both D.W. Winnicott and the Buddha, he uses the Buddha's own inner struggle as a model for our own.
Epstein, a Harvard trained psychiatrist with a private practice in New York City, is the author of a number of works about the overlap of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Psychotherapy without the Self, and The Trauma of Everyday Life.
As an acupuncturist, it has long been clear to me that relationship difficulties are very often major factors contributing to my clients' suffering, from "Binding Entanglement of Liver Qi", to "Heart and Kidney Losing Communication", and "Heart Spirit Disruption".
In my own healing process, it took many years to discover the ways my particular relationship issues stem from my mother's year long absences to recuperate from TB when I was a year old and again in first grade.
I remember the electrifying hope I felt when I first heard the term "attachment repair".
In my own healing process, it took many years to discover the ways my particular relationship issues stem from my mother's year long absences to recuperate from TB when I was a year old and again in first grade.
I remember the electrifying hope I felt when I first heard the term "attachment repair".
I use all of the modalities on this website as well as functional medicine, acupuncture, herbs and dietary therapy to support my clients when they are faced with the additional challenge of cancer.
On dealing with chemotherapy and radiation: Healing into Life and Death, Chapter 14 by Stephen Levine: By converting mechanical unconscious pill swallowing (or resisting chemotherapy, radiation) to a momentary ritual of awareness, it becomes a sacred act.
Then taking medication is not an act of distancing from our illness but a means of opening the channels to healing, of taking the medicine deep within, of letting the healing enter.
On dealing with chemotherapy and radiation: Healing into Life and Death, Chapter 14 by Stephen Levine: By converting mechanical unconscious pill swallowing (or resisting chemotherapy, radiation) to a momentary ritual of awareness, it becomes a sacred act.
Then taking medication is not an act of distancing from our illness but a means of opening the channels to healing, of taking the medicine deep within, of letting the healing enter.
Excellent panel discussion among several child trauma experts sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation: what childhood trauma is, how it can be treated and prevented, and its effects on the health of adults.
Family therapist Robin Karr-Morse, author of Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease, opened the discussion by talking about the effects of both emotional and physical trauma on children's brains.
Both trigger the fight-or-flight response, she explained, meaning that fear enters the brain, affecting a variety of functions including the pituitary and adrenal systems that regulate important hormones.
Family therapist Robin Karr-Morse, author of Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease, opened the discussion by talking about the effects of both emotional and physical trauma on children's brains.
Both trigger the fight-or-flight response, she explained, meaning that fear enters the brain, affecting a variety of functions including the pituitary and adrenal systems that regulate important hormones.
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