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.
This is the first part of a two part guest article by my friend and peer, Michael Givens. Michael is also a third year student of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR. He shares my fervor for the medicine and has been an inspiration to me as I [...]
Continue reading...There is something inherently fishy about “evaluating” myself when it comes to a program of personal development. While goal setting is an important activity, and awareness of my strengths and weaknesses is essential to many things, there seems to be some way in which self cultivation stands exempt from my every attempt to measure it. [...]
Continue reading...While I’ve been working on my January Year of Sagely Living goal, I’ve really had to increase my efficiency in a number of respects. I’m doing a fairly good job keeping to my basic commitment, but I’ve had to spend an unusual amount of time finding the holes in my various systems. It’s an interesting [...]
Continue reading...My Year of Sagely Living began in earnest with the start of classes yesterday at 8:30am. This week is going to be a little different than future weeks because I haven’t yet started ALL of my classes, thus have less to study. This is balanced by the fact that I have a lot of little [...]
Continue reading...I’ve been working on reviewing my Fall term notes. It’s been a fun process, one I haven’t done before. I can recommend it highly to any student. I find that it helps me consolidate the knowledge I internalized during the prior three months, making me feel much clearer and ready to receive the new influx. The [...]
Continue reading...I don’t have the answer to that question. But, I’ll do my best. To be honest, studying Western science can be pretty interesting. As an intellectual exercise, nothing beats having to go from learning to read and translate passages of the Shang Han Lun to attempting to comprehend the importance of Th1 and Th2 responses [...]
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