Hi - I'm the founder of Deepest Health. When I'm not writing here, you can find me reaching out to the Chinese Medicine community across the web and in my own backyard. I currently teach Chinese herbs at my alma mater, the National College of Natural Medicine. Additionally, I'm the founder of Watershed Community Wellness, a thriving local clinic in Southeast Portland in Oregon. No matter where I'm working, you'll find my focus on the Classical approach to Chinese medicine laced throughout everything I do.
I love the classical texts of Chinese medicine. Whenever I get a chance, I read through the translations I have on hand. When I run into a sticky clinical issue, and a mentor isn’t available for conversation, I go to the texts. This love was cultivated in me during my years at NCNM, of course. [...]
Continue reading...We learn and practice a holistic, integrated medicine. Yet, when we try to learn how we should manage our Chinese medicine clinics, we find fragmented knowledge and rubrics that don’t really resonate. It’s tough out there, and I find a lot of my colleagues end up overwhelmed, unhappy and uninspired. While there are other business [...]
Continue reading...I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I’m a huge dork. I geek out about Chinese medicine – herbs in particular – yes. But, maybe even more frequently – and certainly for a longer period of time – I’ve been geeking out about a field of interrelated skills and knowledge-bases that I [...]
Continue reading...As discussed in my prior article introducing the way I look at Chinese herbs, there is a dizzying array of information available about any given Chinese herb. Each bit of data is a doorway through which one can walk into an entire universe of understanding. Appreciating each of these universes for what they offer, and [...]
Continue reading...Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:30 — 49.9MB) Can you observe time? Not directly, I suppose. But you can observe the patterns of time as they influence the world around you. You can watch the periodic nature of birth and death, sprouting and flourishing, patient symptoms, business changes and everything else. As [...]
Continue reading...What a way to kick off a weekend – peruse the fine work of fellow Chinese medicine students and practitioners! As you know, I teach Chinese herbs both here at Deepest Health and also at my alma mater, NCNM. I teach differently at both places, but in each scenario I try to drive three things [...]
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