For many families, the next two months are likely to add up to a potent cocktail of high emotion, stress, elation (hopefully), disappointment (maybe) and loss. As I write this, we are around a fortnight away from this year’s crop of ...
It’s not all that long ago that the health treatment choices available to us were more or less binary: you either opted to go the conventional clinical medicine route, or you took the road less travelled and decided on alternative or ...
Get winter-fit with acupuncture Now, bear with me here – I know no-one is ready to talk about winter yet. We’ve barely experienced a summer and we definitely had a spring stolen away from us – but I want us all to be prepared. With ...
Acupuncture for Anger With the world in its current flux many people have found themselves struggling with feelings of anger. To deal with anger, it’s important to know how it manifests itself, where it comes from and how we can remove ...
Our clinic is reopening – and we’ll be working hard to keep you safe It is with genuine joy that I sit down to write this. Finally, we have a re-opening date – our doors will be open again from the 22nd June, initially only ...
Whilst we continue to make our way through some of the most unusual times of our lives, nationally our mental health is under pressure. Calls to helplines like The Samaritans, Childline, Refuge have all gone up, while the number of ...
This is a difficult time for anyone who has been used to receiving regular therapy to manage their long-term health and now finds themselves unable to benefit from the ongoing care they’ve been used to. It’s also hard for us as ...
It’s widely accepted that the quality of our mental health can have a visible effect on us physically. As an acupuncturist, I have seen this a lot in my patients over the years, and stress and anxiety are often the culprits, as worry ...
The one thing that most of us have in abundance right now is the space and time to think and to reflect on what’s happened over the last few weeks, and especially the last fortnight. I’ve found myself wondering what the world will look ...
One of the most common reasons I hear as to why people have never considered acupuncture treatment is that they’re nervous around needles and worried that their treatment will be painful. And those people don’t always seem to be very ...
