07/26/2024
We have a blog! The first two posts are up now and more to come. Visit https://autumnhealth.org/blog/ to see what we're up to.
Here's an excerpt of the first, "Why I Practice Acupuncture":
"In the beginning, I gave the kind of answer I had heard other practitioners answer. I had migraines. I was working as a copywriter, long days sitting hunched over a laptop, not particularly fulfilled, not particularly engaged. Every Friday afternoon, I got a headache that put me out until Saturday morning. My Taiji teacher offered to treat me in his clinic. I had never heard of acupuncture, but I trusted him. After a year of seeing him and becoming increasingly fascinated by what was happening there, I wanted to learn how to treat myself, and thought that maybe I could help others as well.
Many years later, as I started to understand it better, I saw how incomplete this story was. It is the obvious answer. It is the series of events that happened. But the truth of it is that my coming to this work was more like a string being tuned. A string makes an excellent sound within a narrow range. Too low and the string gets slack. Too high and it snaps. It has a range within which it will make some kind of sound, but there is a sweet spot where it sings. Human beings are like this too. Each person is capable of doing a lot of different things with their life, but there are a few pursuits that will really help a specific person thrive."
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