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Life vs. Responsibility
I spent my formative years, all through my teens into my early 20s sickly swollen and heavily medicated to suppress the raging systemic lupus I struggled with since the age of 13. Instead of experiencing those rights of passage that most youth partook – drinking, drugs, partying late, dating, travelling. Looking back, I put on…
I have been a client of Christina’s for over a year now and it has been one of the best decisions that I have made.
I have been a client of Christina‘s for over a year now and it has been one of the best decisions that I have made. I was having some discomfort in my side and for the life of me could not figure out what it was. I was desperate in looking for some help to…
H&H story from M.L.
I have been receiving acupuncture treatment regularly since 1991, usually once a month. This was a result of very good advice from my “forward-thinking” medical doctor, as a last-ditch attempt to resolve long-standing digestive issues that could not be diagnosed by conventional medicine. Acupuncture was fairly new to Victoria at that time, and I hadn’t…
Community Acupuncture 101: A Guide for aspiring students & practitioners
This article was originally published in the TCMABC Summer 2013 Currents Newsletter, which is no longer in circulation. Information-filled, this is a wonderful and brief introduction to our bread and butter, Community Acupuncture, which can be many things, but primarily a practice and business model, but also a vehicle for positive social change by providing…
It takes great courage and requires incredible vulnerability to share personal history with someone you don’t know…
I luckily stumbled upon Heart & Hands via one of my close friends from school who shared how amazing it was. I have struggled with mental health issues, and therefore physical and physiological issues, for my entire adult life and at the time had been feeling particularly lost and incredibly exhausted. It takes great courage…
I feel welcome in the space, I feel taken care of while there
I came to Heart and Hands Health Collective, in a great deal of social, spiritual, emotional and physical pain – add in a huge dash of skepticism about acupuncture. Introduced by a friend, upon my first visit, I received many blessings as a result of my visits to H&H. A profound sense of my story…