“Your bone marrow suppression is benign,” my primary care physician said after a hematologist gave me the diagnosis. “How can bone marrow suppression be benign?” I thought. In… Read More »My Journey with Lupus Led Me to Naturopathic Medicine
I would like to share a case with you that exemplifies why a holistic approach is important. In a specialized system of medicine, we still… Read More »Importance of Naturopathic Medicine: A Holistic Case Study
“Sometimes you have to ride the wave,” my doctor said while I was going through perimenopause. In my practice of over 20 years, I… Read More »Navigating Menopause and Perimenopause through Naturopathic Medicine
“Grief is the hardest work we do on earth” a therapist told me years ago. Saturday I received the call most of us dread. … Read More »Acupuncture and Grief
The frequent and common subluxations of living with hypermobility can be a source of chronic pain, depression and anxiety for Ehler Danlos Syndrome sufferers. Frustrated… Read More »Acupuncture and Ehler Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility Type
Anxiety is a condition of many multiple causes. A common cause and trigger of it is trauma. Trauma can leave the autonomic nervous system in… Read More »Trauma, Anxiety and Acupuncture
I have never seen longer dying timelines on earth than neurodegenerative disorders. You don’t see my mother’s face here because she is not able to… Read More »My Mother’s Late Stage Alzheimer’s
Perhaps you think you have come so far along in your healing process and then there you are right back where you started: an autoimmune… Read More »Patience in the Chronic Illness Process
One of the reasons I studied naturopathic and Chinese medicine is that I had many side effects to medications. I was premed in undergrad and overly… Read More »Naturopathic Medicine for the Highly Sensitive Person
Through years of practicing I have often seen people who are chronically unwell despite the best medications in conventional medicine. What I see at times… Read More »My Vision for Portland Holistic Medicine