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.
Chinese medicine students have some of the same needs as other students – one of those needs is to stay organized and productive. It is perhaps even more critical in graduate/professional school because the academic demands are so much greater. I’ve also found that a fair number of Chinese medicine students (a self selected group) [...]
Continue reading...I sometimes suffer from a lack of sleep. In Chinese medicine, there are a lot of potential causes for insomnia. But all of them share one simple feature – they self perpetuate. Which is to say that insomnia begets insomnia. Simplistically speaking, the phrase “burning the midnight oil” has some truth to it – when [...]
Continue reading...I thought I would share with you a few pieces I’ve put together over the years – they won’t have the copywriting flair you’ve come to know and love from me, but I hope it will provoke some interesting discussion. Today and tomorrow we’ll look a little at the Triple Burner, one of my favorite [...]
Continue reading...In the sheet of announcements and farm stories included in my family’s weekly vegetable share from our local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share from Wintergreen Farm the author struggles to understand when she knows that Fall has arrived in the Willamette Valley. In the end, she was talking about the energy of the season. Which [...]
Continue reading...One of Deepest Health’s readers, Katrina, mentioned that she wonders about the benefits of meditation for students. There are a hundred and one articles out there showing simple meditation procedures, equally as many discussing the health benefits of this practice. So, I thought I’d take a slightly different angle and discuss the specific benefits I [...]
Continue reading...As you may know from my prior post about veganism and Chinese medicine, I have been vegan for several years. In that time, I’ve done a lot of tweaking of my diet trying to maintain balance and healthfulness. In the post referenced above, I list a few ways that a person could alter their diet [...]
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