Dr. Ashley Heintz

06/08/2024

My Instagram was hacked.

03/01/2023

Buckle the heck up for a wild ride back through ancient history to the time of the Wu Shamans.

“My goal is to restore women to cultural memory, to restore awareness of the full range of female experience and contributions, power and oppressions, all that have been omitted and edited out from textbooks and mass media. I use images to teach realities that are rarely if ever shown, to remedy the induced amnesia about women, on a global scale.” ~ Historian Max Dashu

If you just must know more about the Wu hit me up.

02/15/2023

01/16/2023

The difficult patient

Who comes in hysterical, already angry at you because you represent every doctor she has already seen that was useless to her.

Talks in circles, red faced and teary-eyed, already frustrated by the dismissiveness she is sure is coming.

My body tightens in protest of the patient who is not overwhelmed with anticipatory joy and reverence for the opportunity to get repeatedly punctured by me. I force my body to soften as I begin the intake process.

After one intake process, not even the treatment, just the intake, the patient is gracious, indebted, butter in my hands.

A thorough Traditional Chinese Medical intake process requires so much intel about who a patient is and what they’re going through that it is impossible for the patient to feel unheard or unseen. To even choose the first acupuncture point requires an amount of intimacy that is seemingly unfelt within many types of medicine.

And this alone could be the catalyst for healing. Did the creators of this medicine know this?

and shame on me for the times I am less thorough with my easy patients.

Nine years into private practice and I am in awe of this medicine over and over again.

Another love letter to Chinese medicine.

and if you read this whole thing then I owe you a love letter too. 😘

10/26/2022

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10/18/2022

I have to re-share this testimonial from one of my fiercest patients.

In my experience there’s a group of people that go hard against big Pharma that get scrutinized and eyes rolled at them.

But if you have been told over and over again that whatever ails you is incurable, and you’ll be dependent on medication for the rest of your life, and then you find that none of that was true and a few dietary and lifestyle changes are the cure, wouldn’t you want to scream it from the mountaintop? Wouldn’t you want to lead others to the truth?

The word quackery gets thrown around so much in the face of people that are curing diseases that Western medicine says are incurable. In my opinion a negative prognosis is witchcraft.

10/04/2022

It’s only October 4th but I couldn’t wait to post my favorite meme of all time. I wish I knew the original creator.

09/09/2022

When an Acupuncturist checks your pulse they are not checking beats per minute. This picture shows what is felt at a superficial level, the energetic and acute health of each organ. Then you press a little harder and you feel what’s going on at what we call the blood level and then a little harder to feel what’s going on at the organ level.

If a woman is pregnant you can feel two pulses.

09/05/2022

Reposting an old bo***ir photoshoot.

08/18/2022