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.
It’s significant to me that Deepest Health has been in full operation for five years, now. It was in September 2007 that I started blogging in earnest, though the site was technically begun long before that – in August 2006. On this day, five years ago, I wrote an article about the importance of qigong. [...]
Continue reading...With all the new content and other changes going on at Deepest Health, it seems prudent to remind everybody about how you can stay in touch. Aside from the changes here, there are also a lot of new readers coming all the time. Further, our community has a higher than average tendency to be less [...]
Continue reading...As many of you know, I teach the business course at NCNM. We just finished up with our first term together. It was quite an experience. We dug into our feelings about money, the global economic system, the realities of being in private practice and plenty more. Next term, we’re getting a little more acquainted [...]
Continue reading...Remember when we were talking about Chaihu 柴胡 and the principle of guiding out the old to generate the new? I talked about it in this article. Well, I can’t say I’ve figured that out, yet. But, I did do quite a bit of working with and thinking about Chaihu. This all happened at the same [...]
Continue reading...Not too long ago, I released a podcast I recorded in my car where I rambled about Evernote and various other Mac-based technology I use to study Chinese herbs. Ifollowed that up with a quick post about Evernote itself, and how I have set up my Evernote system when it comes to Chinese herbs. From [...]
Continue reading...Let me tell you a personal story – like in the good old days of Deepest Health. I’ve spent a lot of hours, a lot of late nights, a lot of spleen qi, crafting this site into what it is. While I’ve had a little help (and getting more all the time) mostly it’s just [...]
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