In a society where the ‘work hard, play hard’ mentality is put on a pedestal, where long hours are the norm, burnout has become an epidemic. Burnout tends to affect more women than men, probably due to the numerous plates we are supposed to keep up in the air. Our roles as a mother,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Anxiety
5 Steps To Live Anxiety Free
If you struggle with anxiety, if it’s getting in the way of your everyday life, stopping you from enjoying the things around you, then you are not alone. Our modern life is full of stresses. From random acts of violence, politics or the impact of the environment on ourselves and our health to the… Read more »
Coping with anxiety the natural way
Anxiety is perfectly normal emotion to feel, especially if you’re under a lot of stress. However if you find yourself feeling anxious more of the time than not, and feel like it’s beginning to affect your day-to-day life then this is when anxiety can become a problem. Symptoms Some people suffer from anxiety following a… Read more »
A simple way to beat Tiredness
Do you remember your gran telling you as a child ‘What you really need now is a nice chicken soup. That will perk you up.’? Well she might have been right. In Chinese medicine, tiredness can be due to different factors. One of those is what we call ‘Blood deficiency’. Symptoms of Blood deficiency can… Read more »
IBS: 5 Tips to Ease the Discomfort
A few weeks ago, some news caught my eye. The Royal College of Obstetricians had released an opinion paper which supports the use of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment chronic pelvic pain, so for conditions such as dysmenorrhoea, endometriosis, IBS and pelvic inflammatory disease. IBS AND CHINESE MEDICINE Patients regularly come to see… Read more »
Feeling depressed? Can Acupuncture help?
Depression is a mood disorder characterized by both physical and psychological symptoms that can be detrimental to one’s normal daily functioning. Depressed individuals often suffer from poor sleeping habits, crying spells, anxiety, worry, poor memory, inability to concentrate, body aches, stomach disturbances and a lack of interest in activities previously enjoyed. In most cases, the… Read more »