healHER blog My recent battle with depression taught me very important things. It also instilled in me the desire to share what those lessons are in an attempt to help others along the way. I will be using this blog to do just that. There are several aspects that differentiate Chinese medicine from Allopathic or western medicine. These range from the way each approach the body, its ailments, its emotions, to how they reach diagnoses and most importantly how we manage differe

The Second Episode of my healHER blog That Sunday it took every ounce of my will power to drag myself to Church. My whole body was hurting and on fire. For months I had been battling what I had finally self diagnosed as clinical depression, only to have it finally corroborated by two close friends who are psychiatrists. My training in Chinese medicine, which calls attention to the importance our emotions play on our overall health, helped me understand that the excruciating p