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Acupuncture for Pain: What Does the Research Say and What Can You Expect?
Considering acupuncture for back pain, neck pain, headaches or persistent discomfort? Here’s what the research tells us, how acupuncture may work, and why understanding the bigger picture matters. Pain has a way of slowly taking over parts of your life. Maybe it starts as a stiff neck after a long day at work. An aching…
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Why Does My Body Hurt? Understanding Pain Through Chinese Medicine
Headaches, tight shoulders, aching joints, persistent back pain or discomfort that seems to come and go? Understanding your pain involves looking at more than where it hurts. Have you ever noticed that your shoulders become tighter when you’re stressed? Or that an old injury seems to bother you more when you’re exhausted? Perhaps you wake…
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Irregular Periods and Ovulation: What Your Cycle Can Tell You About Your Health
Periods arriving early, late or not at all? Understanding your menstrual cycle can provide useful clues about your hormones, ovulation and overall health. Have you ever found yourself wondering when your next period is actually going to arrive? Perhaps your cycle is 28 days one month, 35 days the next, and then suddenly you go…
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What Is Your Period Telling You? Period Pain, Heavy Bleeding and PMS Through a Chinese Medicine Lens
Your period is more than a few days of bleeding each month. The pain, flow, mood changes and physical symptoms you experience can provide useful clues about your health. How often have you heard someone say that painful periods are just part of being a woman? Or that feeling irritable, bloated and exhausted before your…
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How Stress Affects Your Body: A Chinese Medicine Perspective
Stress doesn’t always look like anxiety or feeling overwhelmed. Sometimes it shows up as digestive problems, poor sleep, physical tension, fatigue or changes in your menstrual cycle. Have you ever noticed that your shoulders are permanently sitting somewhere near your ears? Or that your digestion seems to fall apart whenever life gets particularly busy? Maybe…
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Your Gut Is Connected to More Than Digestion: A Chinese Medicine Perspective
Bloating, constipation, an unsettled stomach or feeling exhausted after eating? Your digestion may be telling you more about your health than you realise. Have you ever noticed that your digestion changes when you’re stressed? Maybe you lose your appetite completely, or perhaps you find yourself reaching for food more often. You might get bloated before…
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Why Am I So Tired? Understanding Energy and Fatigue Through Chinese Medicine
Feeling exhausted, running on caffeine, or struggling to get through the afternoon? Your energy levels can be influenced by more than how much sleep you’re getting. You wake up tired, even though you’ve had a full night’s sleep. By mid-afternoon, you’re looking for another coffee or something sweet to get you through. And by the…
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Chinese Medicine Explained: How Everything Is Connected
Chinese Medicine in Plain English: How Everything in Your Body Is Connected What do your digestion, sleep, hormones, emotions and energy levels have in common? More than you might think. Have you ever noticed that when you’re stressed, your digestion changes? Or that a few nights of poor sleep leave you feeling more emotional, hungrier…
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Endometriosis Support: Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine and Online Care
Endometriosis is rarely as simple as having painful periods. Looking for endometriosis support that goes beyond a single appointment? At Nurturing Life, I work with women with endometriosis through acupuncture and Chinese medicine at my Tecoma clinic, along with online lifestyle support available worldwide. My approach to supporting women with endometriosis is broader than acupuncture…
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Natural PMOS/PCOS Management: Diet, Lifestyle and Acupuncture
If you have been diagnosed with PCOS, you may have recently started seeing another name appear: PMOS, or polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. In May 2026, PMOS became the new name for the condition previously known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). The change better reflects something women living with the condition have known for a long…
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Acupuncture for Perimenopause: What It May Help With and What Treatment Looks Like
Perimenopause is often described as a slow decline in oestrogen. For many women, it does not feel slow at all. Hormones can fluctuate quite dramatically through this stage. One month oestrogen may be relatively high, another month much lower. Cycles can shorten, lengthen, become heavier, lighter, or disappear for a while and then return. Symptoms…
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Acupuncture vs Pain Medication: Which Works Better?
If you have been dealing with pain for a while, you have probably already tried some form of medication. Sometimes it works well. Sometimes it takes the edge off. Sometimes it works for a few hours and then you are back where you started. That is often the point where people begin looking for another…
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When to Start Acupuncture for IVF: A Complete Timeline
If you are planning IVF, one of the most common questions is: When should I start acupuncture? There is no single acupuncture schedule that suits every IVF cycle. Your timeline will depend on whether you are having a fresh or frozen transfer, where you are in your cycle, your fertility history, how your body responds…
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Why Cold is Bad for Women’s Health — What Ice Bath Culture Gets Wrong
If you’ve spent more than five minutes on social media lately, you’ve seen it: the “biohacker” shivering in a tub of ice, claiming it’s the ultimate secret to health. Cold plunges, icy showers, and refrigerated tanks are the wellness world’s current darlings. But here is what the highlight reel glosses over: The vast majority of…
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Does Acupuncture Hurt?
A question I have been asked countless times over the course of my career is “Does acupuncture hurt?”. Really there are so many variables here that come into play! Let’s explore a few of the things that can influence your acupuncture experience and whether it will hurt or not! Acupuncture Style Used by Practitioner There…
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Improve Sleep Naturally
Are you struggling to get a good nights sleep and are searching for some easy changes that will help you improve sleep naturally without the use of medication? You are in the right place!! Skip the Caffeine I know! One of the simplist ways to improve sleep quality is to skip all caffeine, which when…
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Dry Needling Vs Acupuncture- Is there a Difference?
What is Dry Needling? The term Dry needling was first introduced in the early 1940s by Janet Travell and David Simons. The technique they introduced originally was the use of hypodermic needles to inject and/ or stimulate trigger points or myofascial trigger points with medcines- such as corticosteroids, analgesics, or saline solution. The analgesics/corticosteroids were being injected…
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Increase Fertility Naturally
When I have new patients coming in wanting some extra support to increase fertility, I always direct them to the following information- it is all lifestyle advice that is free to integrate into your life, and it can help to increase your chances of a successful conception! Ideally it would be wonderful for you to…
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Threatened Miscarriage- What to do
First of all take a big breath. Close your eyes, focus, and stop looking at Google. If you are starting to have cramping, or experiencing spotting it can be terrifying. Immediately you start to think the worst, you can see all of the hopes, dreams, and future you had imagined for your yet to be…
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Sex during Pregnancy, and Post Partum
I am going there- lets talk about sex during pregnancy and post pratum. If you haven’t figured it out by now, I don’t have any issues talking about the things that other people might not want to talk about. I have no problems being honest with people about my experiences, or sharing my knowledge. Something…
