September 2024

Fall in love with your life. Wake up early, buy your favorite coffee,

Go for walks, eat good food, wear what makes you feel confident and listen to your favorite music.

Purposefully create these small moments that make you fall in love with your life!

-By Inspired Angels

Autumn is finding it’s way into our days and nights. Donna, Edwin, and the entire staff hope you all get to enjoy this season of change, color and letting go and wish you peace, joy and time together.

We would like to express our gratitude to all our patients and our appreciation for your support. Our hope is that all of us experience health and happiness. As always, we are here to help you in any way we can.

AWC is changing and growing! We are offering new ways to help you improve your health and well-being. Our products and new courses and offerings are coming. See below for more information.

Acupuncture & Wellness Center is committed to being a sacred space of healing where all are welcome. We share this newsletter to support you in your journey of fostering balance and peace of mind.

Organs Systems involved: Lung/Large Intestines

Element: Metal

Tissue or area of the Body: lung and breath, digestion and elimination

Emotion: Peace, loyalty, self-esteem, spiritual connection (grief, loneliness, sorrow)

Taste or Flavor: warm/spicy

Color: white/gold

Food: Warm, cooked foods such as soups and stews with root vegetables, Pears, apples, pumpkin, mushrooms, brussels sprouts, butternut squash, Cinnamon and nutmeg

We’ve moved through the Fire of Summer and grounded ourselves in the Earth of Late Summer and now move into the Season of Autumn. This is a season of change and preparation with Lung and Intestines in focus.

Already, we can feel the change in the air to coolness that invites deep, cleansing breaths. Late season produce appears with warmth, spice, vegetables from earth and autumn fruits. It is a season for inspiration – literally in the breath and lungs – and symbolically in the invitation to change, let go and prepare.

Aim to increase inspiration in your life. Inspiration comes in many ways. We all may have some moments of great, large inspiration once or twice in a lifetime. One that changes our whole lives. But most inspiration comes from the small things we choose to pay attention to in daily life. As Fall moves in, look for your inspirations. Find ways to let go by decluttering, enjoy the colors of the season, prepare for winter by finding good books, music, foods – warm and filling, and ways to exercise indoors when the weather is bad.

This season invites us to simply breathe deep. Breathe in through your nose for a count of 4 while allowing your abdomen to expand fully. Hold that breath for a count of 7 while the pressure massages your lungs and belly. Blow out slowly through the mouth for a count of 8. Repeat 5-6 ​times several times a day. This pressure stimulates the Parasympathetic Nervous system and improves lung function, blood flow to the stomach and intestines and improves digestion and elimination.

What is better than a great, warm soup with crusty bread to pamper ourselves as the nights get

colder throughout Fall and into Winter.

Soup is very easy to make – sautee onions and garlic with olive oil in a pot until it softens and

gets some color. Add any vegetables you want and heat through. Add stock (organic, low sodium

stocks are easy to buy) to cover and allow to simmer for 10-15 minutes. At this point, a regular

soup would add meat, noodles, rice, beans and seasoning, mix and enjoy. If you want a creamy

soup, add a ¼ cup of potato flakes to thicken, season and use a blender (hand blender/boat

blender) to create a smooth, creamy soup and enjoy!

If you can’t or don’t want to cook your own, here are a few options for purchase.

1. Amy’s: this brand is found in most grocery stores. Organic soups available in many

varieties from mushroom to chicken noodle, minestrone to tomato.

2. 18 Chestnuts: www.18chestnuts.com - has a great variety of soups that can be delivered.

3. Spoonful of Comfort: www.spoonfulofcomfort.com - these are sold as gift packages, but no reason you can’t buy it and pamper yourself!

Here at AWC we look forward to seeing you at your appointments for acupuncture, massage and nutrition. But we also want you to have things that you can utilize when you are home to help you maintain and improve your health and wellbeing. Take a look at our Seasonal Medicine Cabinet on the wall in the wait room for items you can stock up on for the coming cold and flu season. This section will offer ideas on things that you can do quickly and easily in your everyday life as well as offer some suggestions for products that can assist you.

This 30-minute vegan curry is the perfect quick hearty dinner. Pumpkin chunks are simmered in a rich curry cashew cream. Get recipe here.

At Acupuncture & Wellness Center we love taking care of our patients and wanted to make it easier for everyone to access high-quality products to stay healthy between treatments.  We recognize that it is not always easy to know how and where to source reliable companies and products which is why we decided to partner with Fullscript.

Keep an eye out for changes to our online dispensary. Fullscript has amazing products and soon, through Fullscript, you will be able to access different labs for at-home testing. To access our updated dispensary, you may click the link below. 

https://us.fullscript.com/welcome/acupuncture-wellness-center

Please feel free to call us if you have any questions.