Keri Krieger

13/02/2025

Leo’s AmIright?! 🦁 😂
I couldn’t find an “acupuncture and chill” era 🎵

A little re-introduction here as this landscape is ever evolving and there are a-lot of new faces here!
Hi 👋🏻 and welcome I hope you take the time to have a look around in my Bio 👆
I’m an acupuncturist and Dr of TCM  (Traditional Chinese Medicine) with (over) two decades of experience.
At the dawn of the Wellness era, I forged a practice in some of the world’s leading health retreats integrating traditional health care and spa therapies.
Now a writer, clinic owner on the Gold coast and educator focusing on women’s health and perimenopause.
I also mentor health practitioners most recently with my exciting new project STAB CLUB!

Stab Club is a competition free space for Acupuncturists to support each other and be mentored for a fraction of the price of one on one support.
In there you will have access to regularly updated resources and mentoring with me.
Monthly classes on a diverse range of topics and access to my courses.
Monthly and Annual subscriptions available.
First class is 28th of Feb.

If you’re a women in or approaching your 40’s, don’t worry you’re in the right place too!
Courses for my millennial sisters are in the works.
I believe this generation of women will become the wildest and healthiest elders of our future and I am determined to play my part in this; supporting women and other health practitioners through my own Metal Years.

Tag your acupuncture bestie or sister approaching her 40’s. It’s time for their pretty girl era 😉
There’s a lot of fun in our future. Ask your Q’s below or jump into my DMs.

x
Keri (& Freya)

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26/02/2024

For all the Peri-menopausal ladies Alexx and I had the best chat. I explore perimenopause as the opportunity of a lifetime to prune away all that doesn’t serve us, tune into our truth to our core, and support this period of great change with good humour, vulnerability and open dialogue as we explore it through the Traditional Chinese Medicine lens: One of the 3 Golden Opportunities (that is a waaaay more inviting description than the “medical problem” framing - while also not discounting in anyway any choices anyone makes on their way to supporting themselves.

Curious? We go everywhere - the estrogen rollercoaster, nervous system, acupressure points, food, herbs, self-judgement, communication, dating in the middle age and beyond, workplace challenges and more.

I hope you find it uplifting and soothing, as we both did while recording it. Not in this stage of life yet or supporting someone who is - it will be an excellent way to understand the people in your life on this journey or what might lie ahead for you and not to panic.

20/07/2023

Hey loves! I would love for you to head over and subscribe to my Substack.
This is where all my writing and focus is these days.
It's been many years since I've spent time on dear old Facey. :)
Intentional connection and zero scrolling. See you there xx

I know this is upside down to what we usually hear but there is magic to be found.

27/09/2022

My thoughts on community, creation and online content.
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“As course creators, creatives, and businesses we get to bring as much of what we love from the past (technology) with us as we move forward into this age of AI and digital realities.
As users and creators of this new space we do actually have a say.

At the beginning of the year I sent out an email to my small newsletter community.

Many of these people have been with me for a decade or more as I too have grown and changed in direction from my Rockupucnture Roadshow days to online course offerings and coaching.
They are health practitioners, business owners, creatives, and seekers of wellbeing knowledge.

I asked them, “Where to now?” I wanted to continue to have real, sometimes long conversations, I rebelled at the idea of having to shrink my ideas, and creations down to 15sec, not because I don’t know how or am against any thing new! Far from it.
Sharing on instagram whilst free is guiding our choices in creation and the much maligned algorithm rewards fast creation of short videos. Long form it has been proclaimed is dead!
Well I have news for you it’s absolutely not.
I mean when was the last time you read a book? I read two on a weekend away three weeks ago.

In response to that email and across the last few weeks here on Sub*tack those responding in my dms have been sharing that they too are feeling lost, frustrated, confused about the state of play.
Do they continue sharing their health practices on instagram when more and more it feels fake and forced?
What the hell do we do about the wellness washing of genuine health care that I mentioned in one of my most recent articles?
So what do we do?

Well of course I think we can do both!
And I want to share here what that practically looks like for me and that I’m creating this Community so you might too.


For the rest head to zee links.
I’d love to hear your thoughts 👇🏻

15/09/2022

My most recent article has really done the rounds. Thank you all so much. The conversations I’ve had have been 🤌🏻
Integrity Values Community 👏🏻
AND I think you just might like some of the things I have planned.
Things that I’ve been working on for a while actually and it just occurred to me that there’s an easier funner way to get these words to you.
I have tens of 1000’s of (not entirely shabby) words forming for a book that I’m back working on.

Words on womens health, midlife and wellness in my memoir style universally themed dark humour infused often very bloody helpful manner.
My email next week on Substack will tell you all about it and how to sign up for it. (with the bonus article I had already scheduled for next week)

It will be a paid subscription. And for the first time in a long time I am so excited about a creative project and to have you in there with me as I write, re write, ponder and share on so many topics.
If you’ve read my recent Substack you’ll know I don’t pull any punches and I am all in with the big questions.
Come play with me?
Away from the scrolling and the shouty shouty-ness.
Fabulous!
Sign up to my free Substack (which will continue) and you’ll hear about it first next week.
Link in my bio and up in my stories.

And yes. This was a real conversation. 🙅🏻‍♀️
Share with your bestie for a giggle.

12/09/2022

There are so many kinds of darkness.
Welcoming darkness.
Bewildering darkness.
Comforting darkness.
Painful darkness.
Darkness we have sought.
Darkness that has sought us. Darkness in which life takes root. Darkness in which life lets go.
Darkness that shelters.
Darkness that stifles.
Darkness that enfolds us to tend and to bless.
Dark- ness that looms, that longs, that grieves.
Menacing dark, medicine dark, dark that blossoms, dark that bleeds.
Darkness in which the mystery begins, ends, begins again.

Darkness requires discernment.
It requires that we be aware, that we pay attention even when we cannot see the way ahead.
It requires remembering to ask whether “God” is calling us deeper into the darkness or calling us out of it.

This day
this night
may there be light in the house
of your heart.

Jan Richardson.

May words like this, that speak directly to the places in you (and I) that have been with the darkness give you solace.
And pay respect to all your heart has seen and the discernment you have had to cultivate in the face of culture that loudly rewards those that seek false light.
Listen to your heart more closely dear seeker. Can you feel the loving darkness in those who would guide you? Can you feel their warmth?
Or does standing beside them leave you cold and questioning?
Discernment my loves. Discernment.

01/09/2022

A personal over share photo dump kinda post

I have never been so excited to see the first of September
Spring is finally here.
The hard things in life have been loud.
It take focus to remember the magic. And there hasn’t much of that.
I’m not even sure how I made it out of June an alive and functioning adult.
Let it be known a lot of people are looking a lot more together than they really are. Check on your humans.
I know I’m not alone and I know a lot of people don’t want to make a scene.
So let me be over the top for you. It’s been a time.
(a deeper dive coming in my sub stack)
Loss of community, identity, questioning and doubting myself at every turn.
I think it’s important that we normalise sharing these moments in life. As you know I share after I’ve done the dealing and the feeling.
No-one has it all together all the time and s**t things happen to lovely humans for absolutely no reason far too regularly.
Don’t over think it.
So as the light takes charge once more , thank you to those you checked in on me.
I’m so grateful and there was even some cool things that got planted in the dark.
I recorded two podcasts yet to come out on Peri-menopause
I created a bunch of cool things for the internet.
I have been held in the most magical new clinic.
There were two very special birthdays, one was mine.
There was a cake that broke the internet
I fell in love with some chickens.
Leo Szn 👯‍♀️& my little girl turned one 🐾
I have been showered with so many spontaneous gifts!
(because that also needs no reason)
Magic Pants! Photoshoots! Dinners! Love!
And there is one special human who held my hand through it all.
I’ve never been seen in all my raw mess and loved so completely anyway.

Gush.
See-ya Winter don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Let’s never mention the last few months again.
Back to normal programming now I promise.

30/08/2022

A little magic info for your day.
Did you know that in a Chinese Medicine or Acupuncture consult we take your pulses? Not only the regular pulse that you might know of, seeing how fast or regular your pulse is but the 12 organ pulses.
Yep when I’m holding your wrists staring into the middle distance I’m feeling and listening with all my senses to 12 of your organs.
True story.
And there is very little you can hide!

I’m feeling for the quality of your pulse, and feedback that tells me so much about -

💚Your Qi and Blood (if your tired or overworked or eating well or running on empty)
💚Your Shen (your spirit and how you’re feeling)
💚Your Digestion - This is in your Earth element pulses of Stomach and Spleen
💚Your Kidney and Heart - if you’re anxious, stressed or sleeping like a baby
💚If you’re due for your period or maybe even pregnant - Full sometime slippery pulses
And so much more.

And from this and our conversation and so many other subtle noticings points are chosen and your treatment evolves.

💚Your nervous system regulates, 💚your tight muscles relax,
💚your breathing becomes deep and diaphragmatic.

Acu Naps are the final frontier!

Its fluid, and subtle, and magical and full of repeatable sciencey outcomes.

💚Science and Art
💚Nature and Nurture
💚Physics and Philosophy
💚Yin and Yang

The future ancient place of health care.
Got questions? Drop them below or come see me at x

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Stunt body

16/08/2022

What if we told little girls the truth, that their grandmothers were valkyries and shamans, and firebrands?
What if we told them stories of their lives as priestesses and creatrixes.
Told them of the rites of passage they had undergone to navigate the “old” world, during war and the times that came after.
(And the times we are in now)
What if we told little girls of the resilience, discernment and passion; weaned them on Wonder Tales to learn by heart.
To give them strength they will need.
What if we showed little girls that under their rinse set and pearls there was the heart of a lioness capable of tearing out throats as well as they darned socks.

What if we told little girls stories about mothers that were wise and bold and embodied, how in a time both before and after they came into the world they laughed and cried and failed and tried again and again.
How they loved and how that looked and felt in their bodies and in the homes they created.
What if we told little girls stories about young heroines that were sassy and sensual and discovered the magic of their blood before it could be used as poison against them.
Stories of smart wily young women that respected their fledging power and had access to language to name their longings.

What if we told little girls not that they could BE anything but that they ARE everything.
Already
That the mystery and magic of the natural world was embedded in them, more complex than any new software.

That as they aged the seasons ADDED to their power not wore it away.

That they too one day could be Valkyries or Priestesses or Mothers with hips that swayed or Wise Women running business’s where their innate nature was honoured and valued with meaningful wealth.

What if we told little girls the truth.
And what if as their elders we showed them?
My thoughts on ageing on the stories I intend to share with all the years I get to have. X

02/08/2022

And just like that, Imbolc is here.
Imbolc is a seasonal festival that celebrates the first hint of spring even while winter continues.
It translates as the return of the light and is when the first lambs of the season might begin to be born. (I remember this from Ireland with great joy)
Even when we might still experience some cold frosty nights, the season IS turning and there is for me anyway, a sense of hopefulness in this that I have been dearly longing for.

I’ve bored you all already with my rants on Winter (& my hatred of it that is now bordering on pathological :) so no more of that I promise.
Just a little Spring wistfulness.
That feeling of new beginnings can be contagious I think and a sense of renewal is something a lot of us are craving. The endings we experienced in the last year weren’t all of our own choosing but the fresh start can be.
What new foundations are being gently laid in your life?
I invite you to take your time, and create with care.
How might be do that with regard to our internal seasons?

Today in stories I mentioned the transition from our Inner Winter to Spring of our menstrual cycle.
This is our internal monthly “Imbolc”
However in Peri-menopause there is no longer a guaranteed ovulation and this transition from our period to what would have been a regular healthy ovulation is often a very different experience.
Ovulation might be delayed or come early or skip altogether.
That lovely steady incline in energy, mood and libido that we might have come to know and love based on the steady cycle of our hormones is no longer reliable.
(this is the gift and the challenge of peri menopause as it’s giving us a chance to transition in small doses)
We might be feeling flat, anxious, melancholy. Our to do list feels overwhelming, the more we push the more frantic it can feel.
So what helps?
Wearing pink is helping me ;)
Supporting your adrenals with decreased caffeine & sugar
At least 8 hours sleep
Personalised health support via your acupuncturist, integrative GP or herbalist.
I’d love to hear how your experiencing these subtle changes.
Ritual to honour our inner and outer seasonal transitions offers us space for integration x

13/07/2022

Cynicism is so easy to wear,
It goes with everything.
It layers so well,
Blocking the wind and keeping you cool from the sun.

You don’t realise it’s a shield when it feels like a weapon,
against an uncertain world.
A world that offer no guarantees
and takes what you believe to be yours without a minutes notice.

But cynicism isn’t keeping your heart safe.
It is merely blocking the pain
(a valid option for sure)
A hopeful heart gives those who would hurt you a map of where exactly to target.
Who in their right mind would proudly display their Achilles heel?

But that map is also giving those in your life, (and those not YET in your life) directions of where they should knock.
A map to the doorway of where they hope to be longed for.
A perfect fit for the key they are holding.

Hoping that someone somewhere out there has the door to the world they are looking for;

The teacher
The mentor
The lover
The best friend
The partner.

And so we oil the hinges with discernment and we sweep the cynicism aside the door way.
And we draw maps with our actions and thoughts and beliefs and we have the first aid kit ready.

There will always be bloodshed.
But what else is our heart built for but to pump it clear again.

Be Brave
Have Courage
Build doors and maps for those with the keys that seek you.

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My higher self knows I only listen when she sends prose and familiars 🙄

20/06/2022

It’s so funny when I’m travelling that I literally “forget” my home.
For someone who loves so very much being at home this is quite the polarity.

If I’m writing I might wish for a particular book to reference or a favourite cardigan,but for the time I’m away it’s all suspended.
It’s a beautiful reminder of how little is really needed.
How easily things can be sourced or shared.
And it makes sense of how hard I find it to just buy things.
(This is not a virtue signal but a genuine meh at the fact that I still only have 4 k-mart bowls since I moved)
It’s also handy that the back of my car now contains all three of my coats, and all 4 pairs of shoes (bar the wedges and a pair of heels)

Space from tethering brings curiosity and fresh perspective.
A lightness and awareness of dimension.

This midlife audit that is upon me has me walking away - not always of my own choosing- from so many of the goals that I have literally spent my whole life chasing.
And with it many of the ‘things’ I once thought I might need.

Not resigning not giving up but recalibrating my compass.
East is the new North apparently.

With this recalibration comes a redesign of identity
of seeing
of being with
those things in life I hold dear.

People Feelings Time

In midlife your heart will no longer take a back seat.
This is energetic as much as physical.
This will burn you to the ground or light you up like never before.
And we have a whole lotta ‘choice’ in this one.
It will look different for every woman.

A wordy excuse for a photo dump of “people feeling and time”
Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
As always I have so much more to say on these topics 📣 💚