Awaken Wellness

11/13/2025

🍎 Does “an apple a day keeps the doctor away"?

Although its origins are not from Chinese medicine, it lines up perfectly with how TCM sees digestion this time of year.

Warm, simple, easy-to-digest foods support the Spleen and Stomach… and your mood, sleep, and energy follow.

This boiled-apple ritual is just one small thing that helps your body settle into the colder season instead of fighting it.

Credit to for inspiring this post — his content is fantastic if you want to learn more about fall + winter nourishment.

And if your digestion has been feeling “off,” or you’re noticing bloating, heaviness, cravings, or stress showing up in your gut… acupuncture and herbal medicine can support the deeper layers your food rituals can’t reach on their own.

If your gut’s been trying to get your attention, we’re here. 🌿

Give us a call at 410-312-9922 ☎️

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Massage • Acupuncture • Nutrition • Herbal Medicine

11/06/2025

10/28/2025

Halloween doesn’t have to derail you.

You don’t have to choose between “being good” or “giving in.”

You can do both — enjoy what’s fun and feed your body what helps it stay steady.

These are a few simple things that support energy, mood, and digestion when sugar’s everywhere.

No rules. No plans. Just remembering what real food feels like in your hand. 🍎

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Massage • Acupuncture • Nutrition • Herbal Medicine

10/21/2025

There are a lot of people walking around in pain — and most of the time, they don’t really know why.

Sometimes they do, but they keep pushing through it anyway.

A client asked me recently about a relative who has gout. She’s older.

And sure, acupuncture can help with the pain — it can quiet it down — but it’s not going to fix what’s underneath if nothing else changes.

So I told him, honestly, if I just treated the pain, I’d be masking the signal.

And when you do that, you make the body think it’s fine when it’s not.

Then it has to find another way to get your attention — usually louder.

Pain isn’t bad.

It’s trying to tell you something.

Same with fear.

Both are just information.

Signals asking for awareness.

So instead of trying to get rid of it,
maybe just ask, “What are you trying to tell me?”

And if you’re not sure what it’s saying,
that’s okay.

That’s what we help people with here — listening to the body and translating what it’s trying to say.

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Massage • Acupuncture • Nutrition • Herbal Medicine