In school, I wrote several articles about treating the common cold with Chinese medicine. This has always been one of my passions – since I find a lot of more complicated illnesses have their root in an untreated or mistreated common cold or flu. This is the perspective of my teachers, as well, and the [...]
Continue reading...You might wonder why you haven’t yet seen a post from me about March’s Year of Sagely Living goal. Fittingly enough, I was at a Qigong retreat all weekend in one of the most beautiful places I have ever been with some of the greatest people I know. It was a good way to start [...]
Continue reading...Well February has simply FLOWN by. While I haven’t posted much about what I’m learning, it isn’t because I’m not learning. It’s because I’m learning so much and enjoying it so thoroughly that I simply don’t have much time to write. I feel that my overall education has accelerated a lot in the last 60 [...]
Continue reading...I’m part of the student government association at NCNM in Portland, OR and I am currently working on creating a scholarship for Classical Chinese Medicine students at our institution. The SGA funded the scholarship and now I’m just working on logistics. Part of the scholarship application will involve students answering a question – with the [...]
Continue reading...I must confess that the issue of accreditation of programs, levels of education within the acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine profession(s) and all related issues sometimes evade my understanding. While the degree that I will get at the end of my training is a Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine, I will obtain a certification [...]
Continue reading...As part of my February Year of Sagely Living commitment, I am listening to Steven Covey’s Principle Centred Leadership on audiobook. It’s a wonderful theory Mr. Covey has put forward and I look forward to discussing it in more detail here on the blog. There’s something else I’ve been doing that I didn’t announce as [...]
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