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.
Three excellent blogs, Urbanmonk.net, The Middle Way.net, and kentonwhitman.com have collaborated to create a group writing project around the topic of compassion. They have titled the project “Spread the love NOW,” an imperative statement for an imperative topic! It’s a great time of year to be thinking deeply about compassion and other related topics, so [...]
Continue reading...I’d like to publicly commit to my Scholarship practices for January 2008. Drumroll, anyone? I should note that because school doesn’t start until January 7, I will do something slightly different until then. I will be reviewing each of last term’s classes once per day and producing a blog article about each. I will move [...]
Continue reading...Be sure to check out the original introduction to the Year of Sagely Living. You can read other articles on the project by choosing the “Year of Sagely Living” category in the dropdown menu to your right. This is an important category for me, as I am in my third year of Classical Chinese medicine [...]
Continue reading...Just a few more thoughts on the categories and a few example practices. Be sure to check out the original introduction to the Year of Sagely Living. You can read other articles on the project by choosing the “Year of Sagely Living” category in the dropdown menu to your right. 1) January (GB) – Study/scholarship: [...]
Continue reading...On this blog I have discussed the ways in which Classical Chinese medicine has changed my life. Since the first day of classes at NCNM, I have been shaken to my core by this medicine. I’d like to discuss what that means to me, briefly, as a way of explaining the importance of the Year [...]
Continue reading...If you sift through all the posts here at Deepest Health, you will find that I have a passion for personal development. In particular, I have a deep and abiding interest in using principles taken from my study of Classical Chinese Medicine to develop myself into a high level Chinese medicine scholar and physician. Now, [...]
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