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Spectrum Chinese Medicine

Spectrum Chinese Medicine offers joyful, gender-affirming care for LGBTQIA-2+ families and their kids at any age.

Offering integrative health consults, herbal medicine, and acu-phototherapy with a focus on fertility, postpartum, and pediatrics.

01/03/2023

Anxiety is trickier than it may seem. If you're not quite sure what to do next, consider that just like your kid isn't cookie-cutter, their care shouldn't be either.

In Chinese medicine there are LOTS of root causes for anxiety in children and teens. I saw one kid this morning whose anxiety manifests in what some might call "fixating" on a task, making sure to do it just right. Another one of my kiddo clients has violent outbursts -- hurting things and people and then feels terrible about themselves.

So doesn't it make sense that if two kids' anxiety presentation is so different, that their care would be too? 🤔

Follo the link in bio to explore what root-cause care for childhood or teenage anxiety looks like.

12/09/2022

Don't want to explain to your [insert institution or family member's name here] for the millionth time how to use your parental names? Want a resource to pre-share with your daycare or mom's group who fumbles about with pronouns? Or does Uncle Bob need a refresher before every visit home? No problem, I shared with the ironically-named the 101 on how to... ask pronouns, use our parental names, and generally... not get all weird about it SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO.

Love you, see you trans and enby parents.

11/26/2022

Your anxious kid or teen is not getting better. Even though you feel like you've tried everything. The things is... have you been using what I call "the smorgasbord approach?"

It can make you feel like you've tried everything. But is that true?

Could it really be that your kiddo is the one little who doesn't respond to anything? Probably not, worried parent

11/19/2022

If medicating your kid or teen with an ADHD brain is out of the cards for you because the long-term side effects include (taken from WebMD):
🫢Heart disease
🫢High blood pressure
🫢Seizure
🫢Irregular heartbeat
🫢Abuse and addiction
🫢Skin discolorations
.. I get you. Conservative estimates say that 15% of adolescents have ADHD. And that's just the ones with a diagnosis.

I happen to love working with kiddos (and adults) with ADHD. They are full of life, they're creative, interesting, and generally cheerful. They've also got some challenges like melting-down a fair bit, anxiety, trouble with transitions, impulsivity, a hard time sleeping, you know... I like working with y'all, because the challenging pieces of having an ADHD-wired brain respond super-well to safe herbal and patch strategies and don't dampen your superpowers

11/15/2022

You might love your regular pediatrician. There are a lot of kind, well-trained, client-centered (holistic) pediatricians – and I hope that you’re one of those lucky families that has one! Liking and trusting your pediatrician is wonderful, AND, it doesn’t mean that they have every single tool necessary to treat your child or teen. You may have already gone to specialists, done more imaging, tried OT, PT, or therapy and it's just not working.

Your pediatrician is stumped.

It's time to find a holistic pediatric practitioner with different tools than your pediatrician has. Check out the website for more.

11/12/2022

"I thought I'd tried everything, and then we found you." Still skeptical, with guarded optimism, but showing-up and ready to make powerful changes in their kid's life (and let's be honest, their life too...) These words were spoken to me by a parent just the other day.

Does that sound familiar? You may think you'd done everything you could for your little one. You talked to friends, asked in online forums, read so many blogs, gone to your pediatrician, specialists, done tests and .... nothing conclusive. And your kid is still struggling.

Then there are parents who know, right off the bat, that they want to try lower risk, holistic methods before starting steroid creams, another round of antibiotics, or even an SSRI.

Well, welcome home! Link in bio to learn more about my top 3 signs it's time to find holistic pediatric care. Or if you're ready, book a Curiosity Call to make some moves for your kid's mental or physical health.

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11/09/2022

A lot of otherwise savvy, awake parents like you are fooled by the idea that it's totally normal for your kids to be sick all the time. This dominant culture idea is not only incorrect, but it's harming a whole generation of kids.

It's the disease model that tells parents it's not an issue for kids to be constantly sick. Instead of taking preventive medicine seriously, mainstream pediatricians tout this myth. As a pediatric specialist working in an integrative way, this is alarming to me.

It's probably not your intention to let the disease model of "health"care dictate norms for your kids' health. Accepting this idea hook, line, and sinker means your kiddos:
🛑miss out on building relationships with peers and trusted adults
🛑lose time to explore their creativity through unstructured play
🛑experience increased stress and anxiety from missed schoolwork
🛑are at-risk for potentially more serious secondary infections

Your toddler, kiddo, or teen deserves to live their life (and so do you!) free of constant illness. If you're done letting dominant culture dictate the terms of "health" for your sweet one, book a free, 15 minute Curiosity Call today.

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11/03/2022

Why have we normalized having constantly sick kids? It's kind of disturbing, to be honest. Kids' bodies have the capacity to fight-off illness and recover quickly when they do get sick. ⁠
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IMHO it's because the Western disease model doesn't have much in the way of preventive tools to help your kid stay healthier. So if this disease-focused system, instead of saying "Hey, go see a Chinese medicine person or an herbalist" has normalized the idea that it's normal for your kids to be constantly sick.⁠
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THIS is really screwed up, y'all! There are so many ways to support our kids to stay health(ier) even during this extreme uptick in pediatric respiratory illnesses.⁠ Ways to keep them learning and involved in their little lives.
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If you don't want dominant culture to dictate the care your child or teen gets, book a free 15 minute Curiosity Call today. Link in bio.⁠

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10/29/2022

When 15 mins isn't cutting it. When meds aren't going to work for you. When the disease model isn't working. That moment you realize your kiddo deserves better.

Thank the whole universe that there's holistic pediatrics. (Outbreath).
But then....
You realize.
How the hell do I find someone?

I've been there. It can feel daunting. So I wrote a blog to help you find the care your kiddo needs to feel better and enjoy their life, instead of managing their symptoms ALL. the. Time.

Follow for Q***r and Trans health content. Always gender-affirming, always for you. 🌈

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10/08/2022

Reading about fertility herbs makes it seem like all that's important is your hormones, uterine lining, egg quality, cervical mucus, insemination timing. I'm not denying these are super important for folks of all gender wanting to get pregnant, but there's more to the story.

Link in bio. Follow for fertility content that sees you're a whole humyn.

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09/30/2022

I was so busy giving free acupuncture treatments at Pride that I forgot to take a picture of myself doing it! So here's a snapshot of my Pride aftercare. I had a hot shower and my honey sat me down for a big bowl of tofu, kimchi soup. It was delish and so warming.

What's your Pride aftercare like?🏳️‍🌈

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09/25/2022

Is it really so much to ask? Apparently it is, so I wrote my own article for you!

Learn about fertility herbs and feel affirmed. It wasn't THAT hard now. Let's do better.

Link in bio. Follow for more herbal nerdery + fertility + genderf**kery.

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Philadelphia, PA
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+12154027046

Website

https://www.spectrumchinesemedicine.com/

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