Author Archives: Amy

Amy is a holistic health care practitioner with a passion for helping others heal their digestion and their hormones naturally.

Inner and Outer Knowledge

By Amy | Published November 18, 2015

I am a learner. Learning fuels me, keeps me going. I’d be dead if I wasn’t always learning. While I’m most interested in health topics, I also care about world affairs and cultures, animals, nature, physics, chemistry, and more. But I’m not interested in knowledge for knowing’s sake. I want to seek information that I can apply to help myself,

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An Obsession or a Preoccupation?

By Amy | Published November 9, 2015

You may have noticed from my posts that I love to cook. I love to eat. I love to share my passion for healthy eating! I know how daunting it can be to change the way you eat. Trust me, I’ve been through it all. Over the years of changing my habits and striving for better health, I’ve learned a

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Auriculotherapy – Takeaways from Rockville

By Amy | Published October 19, 2015

I just returned from a 3-day seminar in the Washington DC metro area taught by Dr. Raphael Nogier. He is the son of the famous creator of Auriculotherapy, Dr. Paul Nogier of Lyons, France. What a weekend! I was humbled to learn from one of the greats of the past half century. Auriculotherapy is not Chinese acupuncture, but a system

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The Art of Limin’

By Amy | Published October 8, 2015

A few years ago we went on vacation to Anguilla, a desert island in the Caribbean. It was the most middle of nowhere place I’d been, with not much going on. We had to fly into another island and take a little speedboat over which they called a ferry. It was beautiful in a desolate way as far as the

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My Personal Journey

By Amy | Published October 4, 2015

I’m often asked, what made you decide to go into this field?

I usually say “It was a process of elimination. I could not imagine myself doing anything else, but I could imagine myself doing this.” That’s part of it. But there’s more.

When I was a freshman in high school, I got pretty sick. Bad abdominal pain, exhaustion, weight