Gentle Acupuncture San Diego

05/31/2025

Let’s talk about cortisol and muscles …

When stress creeps in and stays too long, the body pumps out cortisol, a “fight or flight” hormone. While that’s helpful in the short term, chronic stress means chronically elevated cortisol, and that’s when problems start.

⚠️ Elevated cortisol breaks down muscle tissue.
⚠️ It slows recovery from workouts or injury.
⚠️ It stores fat, especially around the belly.
⚠️ It can even lead to fatigue, tight muscles, and poor sleep.

So if I’m feeling tired, tense, or like my muscles 💪🏼 just aren’t bouncing back the way they used to … it can’t be my age, 🤣 it’s likely cortisol or other factors.

💜 That’s where CALM comes in.

This isn’t the average “relax and chill” product.

CALM is a powerhouse of natural ingredients, Ashwagandha, GABA, L-Theanine, and Lemon Balm, that help regulate cortisol levels without drowsiness.

💪 Support muscle recovery
😌 Reduce tension and stress
🧠 Improve focus
🌙 Promote deep, restful sleep

And the best part?

It’s a quick-dissolving, citrus-flavored stick you can take anytime, morning, mid-day reset, or wind-down at night.

✨ Less stress = less cortisol = more muscle support + better recovery.

It’s bodily support from the inside out, starting with CALM paired with favorite peptide products!

Ready to feel the difference? It’s among the favorites of many patients and clients who are taking these peptides.

I’m on a mission to help as many people as possible to feel their best, naturally. I don’t believe in silver bullets or a cure all. I share holistic health. We are healed in community. Small incremental changes make a difference.

05/31/2025

Let’s talk about cortisol and muscles …

When stress creeps in and stays too long, the body pumps out cortisol, a “fight or flight” hormone. While that’s helpful in the short term, chronic stress means chronically elevated cortisol, and that’s when problems start.

⚠️ Elevated cortisol breaks down muscle tissue.
⚠️ It slows recovery from workouts or injury.
⚠️ It stores fat, especially around the belly.
⚠️ It can even lead to fatigue, tight muscles, and poor sleep.

So if I’m feeling tired, tense, or like my muscles 💪🏼 just aren’t bouncing back the way they used to … it can’t be my age, 🤣 it’s likely cortisol or other factors.

💜 That’s where CALM comes in.

This isn’t the average “relax and chill” product.

CALM is a powerhouse of natural ingredients, Ashwagandha, GABA, L-Theanine, and Lemon Balm, that help regulate cortisol levels without drowsiness.

💪 Support muscle recovery
😌 Reduce tension and stress
🧠 Improve focus
🌙 Promote deep, restful sleep

And the best part?

It’s a quick-dissolving, citrus-flavored stick you can take anytime, morning, mid-day reset, or wind-down at night.

✨ Less stress = less cortisol = more muscle support + better recovery.

It’s bodily support from the inside out, starting with CALM paired with favorite peptide products!

Ready to feel the difference? It’s among the favorites of many patients and clients who are taking these peptides.

I’m on a mission to help as many people as possible to feel their best, naturally. I don’t believe in silver bullets or a cure all. I share holistic health. We are healed in community. Small incremental changes make a difference. 🌳💰💯❤️💪 🏃🏽‍♀️💪🏼👀 ‼️ 🚨🚨

05/26/2025

Grateful our Mother Earth. 🌎 In awe of Her power, beauty and Her ways of providing healing and renewal. 🔥

05/09/2025

Our last 🤩 Wine, Women and Wealth in Rancho Bernardo, was amazing! 💰 💵 The room was at capacity. We quickly found more chairs and tables. Susan McCormick, financial expert and Senior Vice President, led an interesting, interactive, discussion. As always, she cultivated a warm atmosphere, in which new friends were made. Each woman in the room inspired us, just by being their dynamic selves. Thank you, for coming ladies!! WWW Encinitas was a repeat encore with a room filled with happy women.

Come join me at our next Wine, Women and Wealth, May 28 in RB 6pm pacific!!

Anyone who would like to know how money works best for you or your children, please join us for dinner and friendly conversation. 🥗 🍝 🍕 at Money 101!

Money 101: May 13 (Tuesday) at 6:00 p.m at Old Spaghetti Factory in San Marcos or May 29 (Thursday) at Koi Zen Cellars at 6:00 p.m. RSVP so we can ensure enough space and food.

My most financially savvy friends have thanked me for sharing. They each learned something new. I share what has helped me and what I personally practice. Knowledge is Power!

Have a beautiful weekend! 🌟💜🤸🏻‍♀️

05/04/2025

Four year-olds laugh approximately 300 times per day . By the age of 6, this number can soar to around 400 laughs daily . Their laughter is often spontaneous and infectious (it increases around their peers). The average adult laughs between 15 to 20 times per day (also, most plentiful amongst their peers). Our nature is to be joy-filled, loving. playful. Meditation (quiet or guided), upbeat music, being present in nature, spending time with upbeat friends, watching animal videos, spending time in hobbies where we lose our sense of time, singing, dancing, acupuncture can re-connect us to joy. What are ways that you connect to joy? ❤️ ♥️ ❤️

03/26/2025

Money 101 💰 💵 was a full house! Susan McCormick shared secrets of the very rich to make the most of what you have and never lose money. She made it interesting and relatable to everyone there. 🌟 I’ve been attending for over 6 years. This time, I learned something new! My friends did, too!

Please join us for Wine, Women and Wealth tonight at 6:00! It’s complimentary. Susan creates a supportive, warm atmosphere. People leave with new friends, new pet sitters, a new healthy food chef, doctor, you name it…..PM me for the address and to RSVP. 🍀🥰 ً ♥️ ✨😍👌 🍷

03/16/2025

Wine, Women and Wealth was so special last month. Every month has an uplifting, warm, welcoming, nurturing feel to it. We all connect as a group. Supportive sisterhood energy rises up, each time. New friends are made. Interesting topics and ideas are discussed. Women share what is on their hearts and many in the group can relate. Each month, the women who are “supposed” to meet, do. If you’d like to attend this month (March 26 at 6:00). Money 101 (co-ed for adults, teens, older children) is this Wednesday, March 19 at 6:00 p.m. Meet-ups are complimentary, never boring, nothing to buy. They are about community, education (even the most sophisticated investors tell me they learned things they never heard about ) and people feeling comfortable around money (which can feel quite uncomfortable). ❤️ ❤️ 🙆‍♀️ 💞 🍷

03/07/2025

Take time for Self-Care 🦋. March 6 is a day to educate the World about lymphatic drainage and lymphatic dysfunction. Chronic swelling (edema) is not normal. Long standing edema becomes permanent when your body lays down fibrotic tissue. This traps the fluid in your tissues. At the first signs of swelling, get help from a lymphatic drainage specialist.
I have been helping people with this feather light skin stretch technique for 20 years. I took all of the trainings through the Upledger Institute by Dr. Bruno Chikly, MD and his Instructors. This scientific method teaches us to detect the flow of the lymph (composed of wastes, proteins, lipids, minerals, water, food coloring, food preservatives, etc). We re-reroute the lymph to flow to its proper lymph nodes. This helps the body to detox properly. My clients have improper drainage after surgeries (major and minor), accidents, falls, cancer treatment; some patients have improper drainage for unknown reasons. Most people feel relaxed, revitalized with an energetic body. One client remarked that she was super chill for two weeks after her treatment. Her husband asked her if everything were o.k. She wasn’t expressing her typical type A behavior. Call me for $50 off your first treatment in March (for new clients) ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 👍

03/06/2025

Today, March 6, is an opportunity to educate the World about lymphatic diseases. A person has an issue with their lymphatic drainage system when the lymphatic system is flowing the wrong way. Toxins, fats, minerals, colloids, proteins, excess water, white blood cells, macrophages, dead cells, cell fragments, debris, platelets, mast cells, enzymes, glucose, food preservatives, food coloring, dust, etc., are unable to drain from the body (toxins) or recirculate into the body (proteins, minerals).

Falls, bumps, accidents, surgeries (even minor surgeries), cancer treatments, the removal of lymph nodes can result in improper lymphatic flow. Some people have improper flow for unknown reasons (ideopathic).

You will see or feel swelling (edema) when your system isn’t properly draining. Many people are unaware when the system begins to drain improperly.

Lymphatic drainage (a skilled feather weight skin stretch technique) re-routes the lymphatic fluid to drain in the proper direction after the major sites of lymph nodes are first stimulated (in the collar bones, arm pits and inguinal crease. Most swelling (around 80-85%) is superficial. The rest is deep.

It’s essential to address improper flow by a skilled professional for your overall health. If we allow swelling to linger, our bodies lay down fibrotic tissue, which eventually traps the fluid in our tissues, permanently. This doesn’t have to happen. Over the last 20 years, I have helped thousands of individuals to restore proper lymphatic drainage (after elective and essential surgeries, accidents, cancer treatments and those who have poor drainage for unknown reasons). I took every offered course through the Upledger Institute, minus the bandaging course (for severe lymphedema, which I refer out). I was trained by Dr. Bruno Chikly, MD and his certified instructors. It’s a scientific method. I can feel the lymphatic flow under my fingers and re-route it to the proper lymph nodes. If nodes are removed, I re-route it to where healthy nodes remain.

Most people feel a sense of peace, calm, a revitalized body, a pleasant tingling after the session. Some feel very energized. One client told me her husband asked her if she were feeling o.k. after her session. She said she felt super chill for two weeks (unlike her normal type A behavior).

For the month of March, I’m happy to provide this therapy to new clients for $50 off. Call my office in Rancho Bernardo at ☎️ : 858-304-0247.

World Lymphedema Day is an annual celebratory event to educate the world about lymphatic diseases. We look forward to you joining advocates from around the world in planning a live or virtual event. Your event can be simple or elaborate. The important thing is you using your voice to express the c.....

01/31/2025

It was a full house of incredible women, fully engaged with life. The one empty chair is mine. We discussed goals, dreams, made vision boards, enjoyed great water and snacks, inspiring conversations and some enjoyed quality wine. Thank you for adding to our Women’s group, Wine, Women and Wealth. I appreciate your contribution of your beautiful presence and for sharing your interests and your dreams on your vision board with us. We meet the last Wednesday of every month at 6:00 p.m. at a Women owned business in Rancho Bernardo. We also meet the first Tuesday of every month in Encinitas at 6:00 p.m. Complimentary, nothing to buy. ❤️ ❤️ ✨🚀📈 ❤️

01/29/2025

You are invited to join a group of incredible women in a welcoming, warm, Zen like atmosphere. You will enjoy good food, great wine, water and conversation. We get to know each other’s interests, talents, passions, businesses and what makes each person unique. Led by an author and a professional who retired from Wall Street as a CEO and leader in the financial business. All complimentary. Nothing to purchase. ❤️ 😂 😂

11/24/2024

I went to the Poway Farmer’s Market this past weekend and happily came across a food vendor with tasty, fresh, healthy food. 🌿 🥗. I love tostadas but haven’t been able to find one that satisfies my craving for a tasty and nutritious meal. The tostada was light and delicious. Fresh veggies, black beans and pozole soup topped it off. My hunger was satisfied for hours. They have vegan and meat options. Their customer service was upbeat, kind and delightful. I just had to share and support our small businesses who have exceptional products. Where are your favorite places to find healthy food when you are out and about? 💪🏻❤️ 😉