Posts Tagged children

Changing Practitioners

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Yael2 Comments

I have no idea where time goes.
Having a life is not as simple as not having one, and I must admit- I find myself running around crazy, trying to fit everything in. Something always slips away, and lately it seems that CMNotes has been suffering more than anything else.
I’m sorry CMNotes, you’re not a bad blog or anything, and I don’t mean to hurt your feelings. It just happens, and I’m trying my best to be better.
Hopefully this will be a good beginning to mending our realtionship….

One good thing that happened is that we have a new practitioner for my boy.
I told you a while ago about the doubts I have with the practitioner we had. It’s not that I don’t trust the practitioner, as I think he is a very good practitioner. I think it was more a clash between what I needed as a parent of a child (first child, I guess that always makes a difference), and what the practitioner could offer me. There were times I really thought that the practitioner was a bit too odd, but for about 95% of the time, I felt he was helping Shahar a lot, and that was the main thing. Our personal disagreements on how a practitioner of children should be was minor compared to the help he was giving my boy.
But that changed.

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Family Memebers & Acupuncture

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Yael6 Comments

When I first started studying Chinese Medicine, I hated the thought of using needles.
“I will use only acupressure” was my constant thought.
The 2nd year came rather quickly after the 1st year (it’s only natural I guess), and I quickly understood that there’s no way I will not use acupuncture.
Two things helped me to understand this:
1. The power of the most delicate touch on the right point at the right time.
2. The acupuncture sessions I started to take with a healer, who quickly became my mentor.
So my fear- if you can call it a fear- of needles vanished and never returned.
It didn’t return when I started to have friends as patients. It didn’t return even when family members were forced to become needle-cushions on my 3rd year (”dad, it’s for a good cause!”).
And it didn’t return when I finished my 4 years and had my clinic growing steadily.

Recently I told you about my son being ill.
One of my biggest frustrations is that when it comes to my husband, my ability to diagnose is blurry, but I manage. When it comes to my son- I am completely clueless and have no re-collection what so ever about Chinese Medicine and it’s ability to help people.
Strange isn’t it?

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