Tag: Health coach

  • Acupuncture & EDS: How to Find a Practitioner of Chinese Medicine When You’re a Zebra

    Acupuncture & EDS: How to Find a Practitioner of Chinese Medicine When You’re a Zebra

    ~~~~~             My first blog post about finding an acupuncturist was in 2019, so it’s been a while.  Besides, the original essay (linked here below) was for normies and I think we can all agree that there needs to be a version of this essay for people with complex conditions.  Whether it’s EDS, MCAS, POTS,

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  • Intuitive Eating vs. Mindful Eating–Which Is Better For You? (Some Tips For Folks With EDS, MCAS, &/or POTS)

    Intuitive Eating vs. Mindful Eating–Which Is Better For You? (Some Tips For Folks With EDS, MCAS, &/or POTS)

    Have you ever thought about the difference between mindful eating and intuitive eating?  They are not the same thing, but both can be helpful approaches to nutrition when a person lives with EDS, MCAS, and/or POTS. Especially when a person is limited in what they can eat, an intentional view can soften the hard edges

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  • What Causes Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome? (A Summary of Theories)

    What Causes Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome? (A Summary of Theories)

    What is going on with my body? … Why is this happening to me?  … Hypermobility?  Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome…what is that?  And what causes it? … People with dysfunctional connective tissue have a lot of questions, and rightfully so.  Without a diagnosis–or at the very least, a coherent narrative regarding their unique presentation–patients with

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  • Welcome to Holistic Health & hEDS

    Welcome to Holistic Health & hEDS

    A web site’s first blog post is fraught, indeed.  How might I introduce myself to you so that you will read to the end of it and, I hope, come back again and again for future installments?  This web site has lofty goals for you, esteemed reader.  My goal is to ask you to consider

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