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Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness (There’s Always Something New to Learn)
It probably sounds trite and obvious but it is a lesson that many do not seem to take to heart. To wit: there is always something new to learn when it comes to hypermobility, HSD, and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. It does not matter if you live with the condition or you are a famous…
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Looking Ahead: New Season, Same Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Or Is It?)
A new season is upon us and with it comes an inspiration to review our life practices. What summer or fall or winter or spring mean at one stage of life is not going to be the same as the years pass and the decades accumulate. Especially when we live with complex conditions, the…
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hEDS and Letting Go: A Meditation
When we are hypermobile our physical attachments march to their own beat. Whether a person is a stiff bendy or a complete rubber band, each of us has our story surrounding our attachments. Physical ones, anyway, at least in the context of hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome. But what about our mental or psychological attachments? …
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Is it Really “Alternative Medicine”? (Chinese Medicine Today)
In a recent Two Hearts Wellness blog post I wrote a companion piece to this one. Titled “A Short Dictionary of Terms: The Language of Chinese Medicine,” I shared thoughts on the changing meanings of English-language vocabulary related to Chinese medicine. I’ll link a section of it below, but the full essay considered these…
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Exercise With hEDS? Gentle Movement is The Way
We all know this, but there is a wide range of exercise ability within the hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome community. Some people are able to exercise and participate in various sporting activities. Others, and I would venture that this describes many of us, have a harder time creating and sustaining a movement practice. To this…
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Magnet Therapy for Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Gentle, Effective, and … Amazing
Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos folks are, each and every one, unique. It’s never a surprise to have a patient with HSD/hEDS plus MCAS and/or POTS or other manifestations of dysautonomia. As a practitioner of Chinese medicine who has been treating such patients for over a decade now, I am constantly on the lookout for non-invasive treatments…
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Holistic Health and hEDS 