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 thought I would make a list of the five things I’m most looking forward to doing after I graduate. This does not include the usual suspects : getting more sleep, spending more time with family and friends, taking fewer tests, etc… It also doesn’t include the very exciting new developments of running a business [...]
Continue reading...Update : I passed! :) As I said before, I’ve been spending a significant amount of time studying for and taking my NCCAOM acupuncture board exams. As I said in my last post… “…I’ve successfully completed the foundations and biomedicine exams already. I found them to be much different from what I was expecting. I [...]
Continue reading...So, I passed my thesis defense! I have a few revisions to make – when I’m done with those and have final approval I will (a) breathe a big sigh of relief, (b) begin posting portions of my thesis for discussion on the blog. The thesis process was a good one, overall. I know that [...]
Continue reading...It’s been almost four years, now, that I’ve been doing focused and formal study of Chinese medicine. Over that time, I’ve tried many study methods. Some of them were only useful during some specific part of my education, and still others were rejected because they didn’t work for me over the long haul. Others did [...]
Continue reading...I’ve been thinking about writing for about two weeks – I looked back at a couple of posts I wrote recently and realized that I had resolved to write more frequently. The idea was to just put out there what I was learning. A noble goal – and one to which I am still committed. [...]
Continue reading...This is a guest post from my friend and colleague, Michael Givens. It’s been a while since I’ve submitted an article for this blog, but I recently read something both inspiring and provocative, which has moved me to writing; this, and that I am in the thick of writing my classical Chinese Medicine thesis for [...]
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