Reverie Acupuncture LLC

07/18/2025

If you're not into astrology you may not know that Mercury is retrograde. When Mercury is retrograde, it's a time to review, to return, and to revisit.

This retrograde brought back the practice of yoga nidra to me. I had completely forgotten about this practice of progressive relaxation and the way it lulled me into complete peace.

Are you finding your way back to any self care practices this week?

07/09/2025

It's been beautiful weather to study outside, watching the intern run in the grass and splash in the water as they "recue beetles" from a wading pool fate.

What beautiful yang weather to enjoy as I study the liminality that comes with our twilight years. We've already started that slow tumble towards the winter solstice though we won't feel that yin force for a few months yet.

Cycles are funny things, aren't they? We start in a place like providing comforting touch to hospice patients as a massage intern.

Then, the spring of acupuncture training and the expectation to continue that work with hospice and palliative care, of supporting those in pain and at end of life.

Followed by a summer full of birth and fertility, a whole new sort of liminality I had never considered.

And here I am, twelve years later, finding myself in that falling yin of autumn, sitting at the bed sides of those who are ready and waiting for their final winter.

It didn't make sense at that summer solstice of mine 7 years ago that I would find myself at the crossroads of both birth and death.

But here, now, I don't see how it could be any different.

This next turn around the wheel promises to be as beautiful and exhilarating as the past twelve years. It might change how this account looks or the superficial cosmetics of the website.

If I'm honest, though, it will change nothing of what I say. The cycles, the liminality -- it's all still there. The difference now is that we will be seeing the whole.

I am excited to see where we take this.

07/08/2025

Summer has a different pace for everyone.

Some people have relaxing camping trips, nights out by the fire, and days out in the garden.

For me, my days are full to bursting and if you asked me how I'm doing with my whole family home for the season, my answer would be the exact number of days until labor day as I stare off into the middle distance.

(It's 55, by the way.)

I've missed the start of the Minor Heat seasonal node because life must be lived and Instagram is not a necessity. But I wanted you to know I haven't forgotten, but rather that I am working my way through priorities.

06/30/2025

How does the first harvest of garlic leave the garden?

It e-scapes!

My garlic scapes are ready and I am ready for them. Scapes are the green, flowering body of garlic and like most green offshoots of alliums they are warm but not as hot as the bulb.

They're great at pushing cold and dampness out of the body, can help with colds and flus (just like green onions!), help with bloating and digestion, and move qi and blood.

I'm thinking noodles, for these 🍜 I'll be sharing the results in my stories tomorrow.

06/26/2025

Look at this amazing burdock leaf I found in my friend's yard!

I was over there, helping them out with something and couldn't pass up a picture.

This past week has been a lot of that: helping with friends, helping with family, adjusting to family being home for the summer.

So much going with the flow. It was nice to be able to pause and be in the moment with this ridiculously large leaf

06/14/2025

06/10/2025

So apparently one of my favorite authors has a translation of the Tao Te Ching?

Found that out a couple of weeks ago and very patiently waited until I could get my own copy.

To celebrate, here is part of Chapter 6:

The valley spirit never dies. Call it the mystery, the woman.

05/17/2025

04/23/2025

BE FLEXIBLE // The Earth teaches us to slow down, but she also teaches us to be flexible. We have to be able to roll with 70f to 40f temp swings as much as we do with life stresses. Sometimes it just isn't up to us.

04/22/2025

SLOW DOWN // My child (the intern) is pretty excited because this afternoon we're going to have an Earth Day conversation. But I figured I'd have a warm up with y'all.

Turns out that one of the best things for the environment is good for you and your wallet too: slow down.

In our Amazon Prime world we want next day delivery on everything from dinner to acupuncture treatments but that convenience often comes at a cost.

If the option is available to you, instead of buying a book on Amazon, browse a local used book store.

Maybe walk to a shop or take a bus instead of driving and catch up on an audiobook or podcast while you do.

The Earth takes time to do things and when we live according to her rhythms, we need to take time, too.

08/22/2024

We give so much of ourselves as new parents - we change ourselves to make way for this new person in our lives.

Once they're here, some of those changes stick around. Healthy habits we picked up for someone else but kept for ourselves. In the interest of healthy boundaries, it can be useful to own those habits. To fully claim them as our own.

✨ What healthy habit did you pick up during conception or pregnancy that you gave maintained just for you?✨ 👇