Slow Paths Wellness

10/01/2025

Looking forward to presenting at Virginia Community Action Partnership 's Pathways from Poverty to Prosperity Summit tomorrow. I will be discussing mindfulness and how it can lead to a more abundant experience of life.

08/14/2025

Improving gut health is a central component of treatment at Slow Paths Wellness, using the knowledge from thousands of years of Asian medicine and the most recent information from functional health. Gut health affects everything else that happens in your body and mind. Here's an article on how it can impact recovery from brain injury.

Brain injury can affect gut health and slow recovery. Learn how the gut-brain connection works and what you can do to support healing.

08/14/2025

Starting to make some products to bring joy and beauty to life. These are designs based on photos I've taken over the years. Please take a lookyloo and see if you find anything you love.
Visit SlowPathsDesign's shop, for cool artwork on awesome products!

SlowPathsDesign is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

07/24/2025

My fellow acupuncturist at Raleigh Acupuncture Associates has written a nice post about functional health treatment and Asian medicine. They have the same philosophy. Functional health offers more lab testing and a greater reliance on supplements and a conventional view of herbal medicine; Asian medicine offers thousands of years of history, and a complex and immensely effective frameword for treating using herbal and lifestyle treatment. Both functional health consultation and Asian medicine treatments, including acupuncture and clinical herbal treatment, are available here.

Functional medicine comes from Chinese medicine. It seeks the root cause of disease, just as acupuncture has been doing for thousands of years.

07/21/2025

Plantar fasciitis is one of my favorite things to treat with Softwave. I typically have very positive results.
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07/17/2025

One of the reasons I first sought out Chinese medicine treatment as a patient was because of side effects and trouble withdrawing from SSRIs in the 90s. Just a few months in them caused problems for me that still affect me today, even though the acute symptoms are all resolved.

Medication for depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns can be literal life savers for some people. But there are also many many ways to address mental health that rebalance the nervous system instead of trying to force change in how a molecule here or aa molecule there is used or absorbed in the body--which then affects other bodily systems in ways that can cause lasting harm.

In so many cases, trying these more holistic therapies first--exercise, acupuncture, talk therapy, EMDR, functional health approaches, and others--can give as good or better results than a medication with side effects like better sleep, clearer thinking, improved blood pressure, improved digestion, and more hormonal balance.

Holistic health practices and therapies have almost completely healed my reactions to the different medications that have given me side effects in my life, and reduced my need for medication in day-to-day life. Whenever possible, I have alternatives to medication that I use myself and offer my patients. And when medication is necessary, I can help myself and my patients avoid side effects and address the ones that do happen.

The symptoms can include nerve pain, emotional numbness and sexual dysfunction and can last for years after stopping the drugs. Patients are pushing for recognition and more research.

07/01/2025

I love the way my fellow acupuncturist expressed this.

06/24/2025

Learning to live in a "normal" life after a crisis can be challenging. Here are a few tips for creating your own personal "normal" that serves your goals and joy.

I am finding after surviving cancer and making changes to my own life that have drastically improved my health that I now have to shift my focus from "surviv...

06/22/2025

Joys of a fruit salad in the summer.

06/17/2025

Dr. Greger is a leader in preventative health and plants-based eating. You do not need to eliminate meat or animal products to benefit from this checklist for the most researched and most beneficial foods to include in your daily diet. This is a free app from Dr. Greger.

06/15/2025

Anticancer Lifestyle has generously shared an ebook on using herbs, which have chemical constituents that help your body prevent and fight cancer.

Anticancer Lifestyle Thank You: The Power of Herbs and Spices eBook. A lifestyle transformation program for people diagnosed with cancer.

06/09/2025

A Slow Paths perspective for sure.

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