Keweenaw Acupuncture

Keweenaw Acupuncture Amy Bachhuber, Licensed Acupuncturist (Michigan)

East Asian medicine and acupuncture for people who’ve tried everything else.

Holistic, individualized care that works at the nervous system and root-pattern level to support lasting change. Acupuncture, shiatsu, herbal therapy, nutrition and lifestyle counseling

01/13/2026

Are you making this mistake without realizing it? A regulated nervous system doesn’t always feel calm or pleasant at first. Sometimes it feels like discomfort. Sometimes it feels like emotion surfacing after a long time underground. And that’s not a problem. That’s your system finally feeling safe enough to let things move. Many people assume healing should feel immediately soothing. But when the body comes out of survival mode, sensation returns. Feelings return. Signals return. That can feel confusing if no one told you what to expect. If you’re noticing more emotion, more sensation, or more internal movement after slowing down, nothing is going wrong. Your nervous system may be doing exactly what it’s designed to do when safety is present. I created a short Safety Environment practice to help your system orient to safety gently, without forcing calm or bypassing what’s real. You can download it for free through the link in my bio.

01/12/2026

One of the most overlooked secrets to lasting healing isn’t willpower, insight, or doing more work. It’s safety. Not the kind you convince yourself of. Not the kind you perform. But the kind your nervous system can actually feel. If your body doesn’t register safety, it will keep bracing, even when your mind understands what needs to change. Healing can stall not because you’re doing it wrong, but because your system is still protecting you. This is why creating an internal sense of safety is foundational, not optional. I created a short Safety Environment Audio to help you gently cue safety in the body… without forcing calm, bypassing emotions, or pushing through.

01/11/2026

If you’re stuck in your healing, it doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong. Often it means your body is protecting something that hasn’t felt safe to move yet. From a Chinese medicine lens, holding isn’t resistance, it’s intelligence. The system organizes around survival first. When the nervous system is overloaded, insight doesn’t integrate. It just circles. Progress resumes when safety increases. Stabilization isn’t a delay. It’s part of the work. If this resonates, you’re not behind. You’re listening. Save this if you want to come back to it. Grab my free safety embodiment audio for a different way to start.

01/10/2026

Chinese medicine has always understood what modern somatics is now naming. The body remembers. Not as a story, but as sensation, rhythm, and holding. I see it in the pulse. In the breath. In the way tissue resists or guards. That resistance isn’t a failure. It’s evidence. It tells a story of survival, adaptation, and intelligence under pressure. The body organized itself to keep going. When we treat that holding as something to override or fix, the system pushes back. When we recognize it as wisdom, change becomes possible. Healing begins when the body feels safe enough to reorganize. If this way of understanding the body resonates, follow along.

01/10/2026

Healing rarely falls apart all at once. It usually gets derailed quietly. It happens when effort replaces attunement. When commitment turns into pressure. When “staying with it” means overriding the body’s signals. I see this most often in people who are sincere, capable, and deeply invested in their growth. They don’t quit because healing doesn’t work. They get exhausted because they stop listening to their capacity. Healing that requires self-abandonment isn’t sustainable. Stabilization isn’t a pause in the process. It is the process. If this lands, save it. If your system needs a softer place to begin, there’s a free safety embodiment audio linked in my bio.

Cold doesn’t just make things uncomfortable, it changes physiology.In Chinese medicine, cold contracts. It slows circula...
01/10/2026

Cold doesn’t just make things uncomfortable, it changes physiology.

In Chinese medicine, cold contracts. It slows circulation, tightens muscles, stiffens joints, and makes pain more likely to linger.

This is why winter often brings flare-ups in old injuries, low back pain, headaches, and digestive sluggishness.

Acupuncture and related therapies help by warming the channels, improving circulation, and helping Qi move where it’s gotten stuck.

Warmth is treatment this time of year.

01/09/2026

I agree with you about the danger of using these concepts to justify or excuse the harm done by the systems you are talking about. 100 percent And… those are all systems that are human made and do not follow natural law. Using the principles to justify anything is unethical.

01/09/2026

I get what you’re saying and… winter looks different in different places. The point is noticing the earth cycles in nature and how humans also evolved to be cyclical beings in response. In the west, we have created the conditions for eternal summer and ignore the wisdom of responding seasonally. What I am suggesting in the original video is that ignoring natural law and the earth cycles we live with can create pattern interrupts that look like pathology. This is a core idea in understanding the body from an East Asian Medical perspective.

01/09/2026

Here’s something nobody’s told you about burnout. Most people think burnout means they’re doing too much, managing time poorly, or lacking discipline. What I see, over and over, is something else entirely. Burnout often comes from living in a body that hasn’t felt safe for a long time. When your nervous system is constantly bracing, rest doesn’t restore you. It just pauses the strain. This isn’t a personal failure. It’s physiology. And until the body experiences safety, insight and productivity tools don’t stick. If this resonates, I created a free safety embodiment audio to help your system settle before you try to fix anything. It’s linked in my bio. Save this if you want to come back to it.

Today is my birthday, and instead of asking for anything, I want to offer something.One of the most important things I’v...
01/09/2026

Today is my birthday, and instead of asking for anything, I want to offer something.

One of the most important things I’ve learned, both personally and professionally, is that healing begins with safety. Not mindset. Not effort. Not pushing through.

Safety in the body changes everything.

As my gift to you, I’m offering a free Safety Embodiment audio. It is a short, grounding practice you can return to whenever your system feels overwhelmed, scattered, or on edge.

I’ve also created a free Skool community where I share education, reflections, and practices rooted in Chinese medicine, nervous system care, and seasonal living.

No pressure. No performance. Just support.

Click the Stan Store link in my bio to get all the details.

01/09/2026

I once knew someone who lived in eternal summer. Chasing warmth across hemispheres. Never letting the body rest. In Chinese medicine, winter belongs to the Kidneys… the place where we store essence, endurance, and the capacity to age well. Summer belongs to the Heart… expansion, activity, fire. When there’s no winter, the fire burns without being kept in check. For a while, it looks like vitality. Until it doesn’t. The body keeps score. Seasonality matters. Rest is not optional physiology… it’s part of staying alive. We are rhythmic beings. This is why I talk about slowing down. This is why safety comes before insight. If this lands, save it. If your system is tired, I have a free safety embodiment audio linked in my bio.

Your body doesn’t know it’s January.It knows cold.It knows stress.It knows whether it feels safe enough to rest or still...
01/08/2026

Your body doesn’t know it’s January.

It knows cold.
It knows stress.
It knows whether it feels safe enough to rest or still needs to brace.

In Chinese medicine, healing happens according to biological timing, not social deadlines. Winter healing is subtle... quieter sleep shifts, steadier energy, fewer spikes - not dramatic transformations.

Acupuncture works with this natural rhythm, meeting your system where it is instead of pushing it where it “should” be.

You’re not behind.
You’re in season.

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Hancock, MI
49930

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