Eastern Healing Traditions - Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine

06/12/2026

Stress: The Unwanted Guest in your Body

Stress isn’t a personality trait, it’s a pattern. When your body stays in that pattern for too long, you stop feeling like yourself.

Here’s how stress can go beyond bad mood and irritability to affect your physical health:

• Fatigue, no matter how much you sleep
• Headaches
• Bloating
• Numbness and tingling
• Constipation or frequent stools
• A clenched feeling in your chest or gut

Schedule today with Dr. Vel to discuss your options! We can help you get back to feeling great so you can live your best life, symptom free!

Call us (224) 541-0022

06/08/2026

Bloating Isn’t Just Annoying-It’s Your Body Trying to Get Your Attention.

If you constantly feel gassy, bloated, or like your digestion is “off”, your body is telling you it needs support.

We help people with the following symptoms every day:

• Daily bloating or swelling after meals
• Irregular appetite
• Fatigue after eating
• Feeling “puffy” all over
• Gas, burping, or reflux
• Constipation
• Incomplete Bowel Movements
• Leaky Gut Syndrome
• IBS or IBD
• Food allergies and sensitivities
• Complications from Crohn’s or Celiac Disease

This is about restoring function so that your body can DIGEST effectively.

When your digestive system gets back into rhythm, everything improves-energy, mood, sleep, and focus. Did I mention mood?

Call to schedule with Dr. Vel! Start helping your digestion work the way it was meant to. Which means YOU feel better.

(224) 541-0022

06/03/2026

HOT FLASHES! Perimenopause is not a pathological condition, even though it certainly feels like one! It’s the backside of puberty, the time when your body is shifting and changing as it appropriately ages.

Chinese Medicine and acupuncture can help SMOOTH that ride of perimenopause by easing hot flashes, and regulating your temperature.

Hot flashes don’t just have one cause in Chinese Medicine-this isn’t a one size fits all approach. We tailor your treatment plan to exactly what YOUR body needs to bring it back into better balance, so that it isn’t screaming from the rooftops the THINGS ARE CHANGING.

Change doesn’t mean the world is ending. It just means-change. So let's have it be that easeful for YOU.

Curious about our holistic approach? Call today to schedule your consultation with Dr. Vel.

(224)541-0022

06/01/2026

When I was at dinner with friend and colleague Taylor Novak, he shared this deep insight about life. You may find it helpful.🙂

05/29/2026

What if your anxiety is just a pattern, not your personality?

Anxiety isn’t always about your mindset—it’s often about how your body is wired to respond to
the world around you.

Signs your system may be stuck in fight-or-flight:

●Restlessness or racing thoughts
●Sudden irritability or overwhelm
●Feeling wired but exhausted
●Trouble sleeping or slowing down
●A general sense of unease or dread
●Feeling ungrounded, disconnected from your body

Acupuncture helps your body shift out of survival mode, and into easeful presence.

Not just for a day—but with steady, ongoing changes that help you feel more grounded, clear, and calm.

You’re not broken. You’re just ready to feel better.

Start calming your system, while gathering your resources to feel more resilient and physically able to break the feedback loop of anxiety.

Call the office to schedule your appointment. (224)541-0022

05/06/2026

Look what’s back in stock! 🥳

Have you tried Evil Bone Water?

Evil Bone Water is commonly used for a wide range of everyday concerns.

• Sports injuries
• Joint and spinal pain
• Muscle and ligament discomfort
• Bruising
• Sprains
• Cuts
• Insect bites
• Skin conditions
• Minor infections

Spray top included!

Many people keep a bottle on hand for both injury support and general discomfort.

04/16/2026

Our beliefs about aging can determine *how* we age… are we fighting aging, or entering it with grace?

A 2026 study found that older adults with positive beliefs about aging actually improved in cognitive function and walking speed over time. Not slower decline. Actual improvement.

The researchers noted that the brain is deeply susceptible to the stories we tell about ourselves. When you believe you're fading, your biology listens.

But when you believe you're still becoming? Something remarkable happens.

I've watched 70-year-olds learn to paint. 65-year-olds start businesses. 80-year-olds become the emotional anchors of their entire families. They aren't fighting aging. They're expanding into it.

Society tells us aging means shrinking. Fewer responsibilities. Smaller circles. Quieter voices. But the science says the opposite is possible.

Your brain can grow new connections at any age. Your muscles respond to training at any age. Your capacity for wisdom, compassion, and purpose only deepens with time.

You're not the person you were at 30. Thank goodness. You're someone far more interesting.

The caterpillar doesn't disappear. It becomes.

What's something you're better at now than you were 10 years ago?

12/22/2025

11/21/2025

Long-lived cultures with low disease don't share identical diets/genetics. They do have:
- Low stress/approaches to simpler life
- Connection with others/community
- Purpose in life (family, hobbies, arts)
- Connection w/ their bodies and natural rhythms of life

"Listen to your body or one day, it will stop talking to you."