Dr. Tedi Fisher Chinese Medicine & Yoga

05/29/2021

Opening the nest doors to two new practitioners to help us support YOU! 🧡Are you ready to find out what have coming your way?! So excited for the nest/next evolution. ALSO as things start to open up.... we have some magic ✨workshops and small gatherings in mind.

05/28/2021

Something hot is coming to the website tomorrow 💚

05/14/2021

Made some magic moments to showcase our little healing space. Thanks to my (famous) friend for putting this together.
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03/05/2021

Spring is on it’s way! Ari came home the other day, brought this to me and said. “Mommy I got you a gift! You like eating these!” And then he proceeded to shove it into my mouth 🤔Spruce tip season is almost here 🌲 Spruce tips are a great source of of Vitamin C and can be eaten right off the tree or added to salads and soups. It’s important to respect Mother Earth and only take what you need, not stripping these beautiful trees of all their offerings. It’s also important not to take all the tips from one tree, just a few from a variety of trees 🌲

05/29/2020

1 for you. 4 for me. 🤍
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“...when there’s evidence suggesting that something might help, it’s generally safe when used as recommended, and has the added plus of affordability, I do think it’s worth exploring further – and in this case, adopting as a preventative health measure.⁠
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We already know that Vitamin D plays an enormous role in both healthy immunity and inflammation control. Vitamin D is essential for our innate immunity and boosts immune function against viral diseases. The evidence is now becoming quite compelling that vitamin D’s immune-modulating effects, including reducing inflammation, may be relevant to the risk of developing COVID-19, COVID-19 respiratory response and cytokine storm, and disease severity.⁠”

05/23/2020

Please ignore my quarantine hair... can’t let it stop the Gua Sha tutorials 😝

04/15/2020

Looking forward to chatting with my workout guru Taren 🧡


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Mark your calendars. Thursday, April 16th pm tune in on IG live as I chat with Dr. TCM on the topic:⁠
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"Self-assessment tips to observe how your nervous system is helping or hindering you."⁠
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If you have any questions for her please leave them in the comments below or DM me. I am so excited about this. ⁠Also, tag a friend if you know someone that may benefit from this conversation. Lets spread the love. ⁠
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04/07/2020

"And then there's that survival aspect —we realize we're not masters of this earth, there's this little virus that can take us all down, and how do we reconnect with being part of natural living systems? Cooking [is] one of those things that connects us to natural living systems. Food is one of those things that connects us to the earth."

And unlike a virus, which requires a host to survive, she notes that yeast is very much a living thing.

"It's that comfort of connecting to heritage or connecting to a living thing, a microorganism like yeast," she said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/here-s-why-everyone-you-know-is-baking-bread-in-quarantine-1.5518248

You've seen the tweets and the loaves. So why has a global pandemic turned everyone into an amateur baker?

02/11/2020

Who else has been doing the 5 minute journal? Just got mine thanks to the recommendation of my sister It’s based on the research that shifting your focus to the positive can dramatically increase your happiness. Have you done this? What has your experience been? 🧡 “never got to sleep without a request to your subconscious” Thomas Edison

01/20/2020

Typically what I have found in clinic is, if a condition is excess in nature, the patient responds better to acupuncture and if it’s a condition of deficiency (deficient Qi, blood or body fluids) the patient needs to supplement with herbs as well. It actually takes energy for your body to respond to acupuncture, so if you’re already depleted and don’t add herbs to help nourish, the process is slower and potentially ineffective. Excess conditions can include: heat, pain, rapid heart rate and stress. Deficient conditions can include: irregular mentruation, dizziness, slow pulse, pale and itchy rashes and night sweats. There’s often a combination of deficiency and excess and finding the correct diagnoses is complicated but this can give you an general understanding of when herbal medicine can be useful.

01/13/2020

🧡Making space for pulse taking at toddler bday parties 🧡When I apologized to for not being able to properly formulate a sentence when interpreting her pulse she instilled some beautiful words of wisdom. She told me mom brain is a term we should leave behind. Our brain waves change to attune to our newborn baby. Our brains are designed to support our baby and do nothing else for the time being. Areas of the brain responsible for emotional regulation and parental motivation increase in volume. So moms stop apologizing for baby brain, it’s a beautiful shift to help sync you with your offspring. Ps. Hoping this paragraph makes sense ;)

12/06/2019

My patients call ear seeds “acupuncture to go” I have found great success in using them for insomnia, anxiety and weight loss!

“According to research published in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the mechanisms of ear acupuncture have a close relationship with the autonomic nervous system and neuroendocrine system. Its efficacy is based on the stimulation of neural reflexes, which makes it possible to relieve pain, anxiety and sleep issues by triggering ear acupoints.”

Ear seeds are an ancient Chinese practice used to help with anxiety, pain, weight loss and addiction, but do they actually work? Find out here.

11/25/2019

Love these oils for hair growth! I especially recommend rosemary which has studies showing that it’s as effective as minoxidil (rogaine) for hair growth (in androgenic alopecia).

Do you have dry, thin or dull hair but have never used essential oils for your hair? Here's your guide.

10/13/2019

here's some interesting research (and points for practitioners) for traumatic brain injury patients.

https://www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/1983-acupuncture-found-effective-for-traumatic-brain-injury?fbclid=IwAR1N8y-3kdef7ie9k3d3v882riUvpkW6JvdvcnqXQ80gNVLy2ch-7UbK-3I

Inflammatory biomarker and symptomatic improvements with acupuncture for brain injury patients.

10/04/2019

Doctors at the Mayo Clinic examined samples of lung tissue from 17 patients, all of which looked as if the people had been exposed to toxic chemicals, the researchers said.

08/15/2019

The long road of formal education is finally over!! *big sigh* ❤️

💫 We are so very proud and excited for our newest Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine and superstars 💫 Dr. Julie Nelson and Dr. Tedi Fisher. Years of hard work and dedication have paid off. ✨CONGRATULATIONS! ✨

07/28/2019

A fertility patient recently asked- “why aren’t you putting the acupuncture points in my stomach?” There are many ways acupuncture works, but often we use points on the body that seem totally unrelated to your issue. The meridians work like nerves, you can stimulate one site to affect a distant location. So, sometimes I do put the points in local areas ie: over the ovaries, at an injury site or in the forehead for anxiety. However a lot of the time the points are in parts of the body that seem completely unrelated. On my website I’ve linked a study using functional MRI to show how specific acu points on the foot light up the area of vision in the brain. Check it out under the “traditional Chinese medicine” tab on www.tedifisher.com
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