Awaken Integrative Wellness Clinic

10/14/2024

My first podcast of many. Enjoy!

https://ppn-worldwide.simplecast.com/episodes/10393-carmen-call-10-09-24-wellness-clinic-matt

Where Brilliance Meets Business

04/21/2024

PSA—-Cold plunges - please be careful! I had another new patient who mentioned doing cold plunges. In my practice I have yet to see it turn out well. People typically do it to calm inflammation (which is the body trying to heal itself!). Chronic inflammation causes disease - ideally you would notice early on and come see me to figure out the root cause and fix it. The root is never cold plunge deficiency 😉.

Back to the story - The lightbulb moment happened for him about an hour into the appointment. He said all of his issues started as soon as he started doing cold plunges 8 months ago. It resulted in 20 allergist-diagnosed food sensitivities. He had no allergies 9 months ago. He also has eczema now. He had not had eczema since he was a child. He isn’t digesting his food (loose 💩). These are the results of the immune system (gut/digestion) being too cold. He is headed toward autoimmune disease. Cold digestion or being stressed - which changes the heart rate and digestive function (fight or flight/sympathetic nervous system on overdrive) are the root causes of autoimmunity. (Stress can also be a virus/bacteria/chemical, etc, not just emotional, but I digress.) Now that there are so many layers we can’t just warm him up with herbal formulas and moxa and send him on his way. His immune system would freak out. We have to peel back the layers one at a time. I have lived this immune system dysfunction nightmare - It took me 20 years to figure it out. I’m grateful to help so early in his search but I’d like to prevent my friends/family/ patients from going down this path. Sending love and health to all 🙌💕✨

03/10/2024

Xiao Yao San. One of the most popular herbal formulas out there. Too good not to share ☺️

Xiao Yao San is a classic Chinese herbal blend formulated during the Taiping Era (1107 AD). Your acupuncturist will prescribe Xiao Yao San for liver qi stagn...

12/28/2023

2023 has been one for the record books. My friend Jessica from Chinese Medicine school captured it so beautifully. Hopefully this helps you find deeper meaning in what many, including me, have called the saddest and happiest year of their lives. Gotta shake it up to move it out. Mission accomplished. Still we RISE. 💕🙌✨✨✨

Year in Review: 2023, byeee! 🎊

Because this year has been a lot.

I think it would be safe to say it’s been a lot for us all.

There is so much happening in the collective. I don’t think I have to name all the ways in which the intensity of the world is turned up right now.

We’re on the precipice of something but I think it’s going to be a long road. So we all feel it, it reverberates through our lives often unconsciously.

I personally felt like I was being broken down this year in a refinement process.

Broken open to receive the medicine more deeply.

It was a Metal Rabbit year in the Chinese zodiac. Metal is all about refining. The metal organs, the lungs and the large intestine are always working to extract only what is needed.

The refinement or purification process looks like being stripped down in order to find what’s really there at the core.

It’s going through with a detailed eye, picking things apart, seeing all the ways in which that piece, that story, that pattern, that behavior doesn’t belong anymore in order to create deeper truth and integrity.

I would say for me, it was a refining, shadow work year. Hbu?

But all of this has prepared me for the next step.

One of which I feel is coming together so beautifully now over the past two months. And without all of that prep work I wouldn’t have been able to meet this next chapter in the new way that’s necessary.

This year has led me to trust and open more deeply to myself so I could take this next big leap.

And I have watched so many of the people that I support make a similar journey.

Like a phoenix, we rise.

What’s been the flavor of your year? I’d love to know, tell me in the comments: was it a phoenix year for you too?

Love this image from .bylari 💗✨🙏🏼