Alethea Healing Acupuncture

06/04/2026

You wake up tired, push through the day, and crash at night. Then do it all over again.

It’s easy to think this is just life. But often, it’s your body running on empty.

When stress builds up, your nervous system stays “on,” making it harder for your body to regulate hormones, energy, and even your cycle.

Acupuncture helps your body shift out of survival mode and into a state where it can rest, regulate, and restore balance.

If you’ve been pushing through exhaustion, it might be time to support your body differently.

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06/02/2026

How are you holding up?

I mean that genuinely.

There is a lot happening right now — for so many people, this season of change is touching multiple areas of life at once (and it feels un-ending). Work is shifting. Home life is shifting. The news cycles through uncertainty like weather that refuses to settle.

You may be navigating something that feels manageable most days and genuinely hard on others. And you're not alone. Every week we hear clients sharing thier experiences about shift and the demand it places on thier emotions and energy. Believe me, You are not alone if you're feeling stretched to the max; scattered and in uphievel.

Part II of our spring series is live now, and it speaks directly to this: the emotional and physical weight that lingers when we have been asked to hold too much for too long. Adn how our daily routine of foods help to regain balance.

In TCM, the sensation of feeling stuck is a signature sign of liver qi stagnation — when the energy of the liver, which is meant to move freely and adapt, becomes stuck under pressure. The mood flattens. Motivation is elusive. The body feels tight and congested in ways that are hard to name. Small frustrations feel disproportionate and potentially volcanic.

This blog post (https://www.aletheahealingacupuncture.com/blog/series-introduction-tending-the-liver-in-spring) is about the foods that move things — that gently restore the liver's natural ability to course qi through the body, so that forward movement feels possible again. Kohlrabi, leeks, radish, celery, plums. Simple, seasonal, and genuinely therapeutic. We also talk about what to pull back on — the things that feel like relief but quietly deepen the stagnation.

Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do in uncertain times is tend to the physical foundation underneath everything else.

A body that moves well carries the weight of change so much more gracefully. We hope this blog helps bring you closer to fluidity and movement forward.

If you are feeling the strain of this season — in your body, your mood, or your sense of ease — Alethea Healing Acupuncture is here.

This is exactly the kind of thing we work with, and you do not have to wait until things are worse to come in.

With warmth,
AHA Team

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06/02/2026

Thank you for sharing your experience. 💙 We’re so glad you felt comfortable and cared for during your first visit. Alethea truly appreciates your trust and looks forward to seeing you again soon!

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05/30/2026

Have you ever wondered why spring, for all its beauty and promise, can feel so physically hard?

The sneezing, the itchy eyes, the fatigue that lingers even as the days grow longer and warmer. The irritability that seems to come from nowhere. The heaviness that should have lifted by now but hasn't quite.

Most of us attribute these things to pollen, to the weather, to the busyness of the season picking back up. And while those things are real, there is something deeper worth understanding — something that connects your spring allergies, your energy levels, your mood, and your hormones to a single organ that is working harder right now than at any other time of year.

Your liver.

And we break it down for you in this spring's series on Tending to the Liver.

In the Intro of Tending to the Liver (https://www.aletheahealingacupuncture.com/blog/series-introduction-tending-the-liver-in-spring) we share various aspects of health thru both Modern Western and TCM perspectives. It's live on the blog now, and it opens with something that tends to surprise people: the liver is one of the body's primary sites for breaking down histamine.

In Part I: Tending the the Liver with Herbal Teas (https://www.aletheahealingacupuncture.com/blog/tending-the-liver-in-spring-herbal-teas) we share our favorite herbs for liver health. When it is sluggish or overburdened coming out of winter, its ability to clear histamine is reduced — and the result is exactly the allergy symptom picture that sends so many people reaching for antihistamines every spring.

Supporting the liver doesn't just help digestion or detoxification. It directly affects how your body handles the pollen season. And this season, with a long spring and lack of winter - pollen season is extended!

Part 1 delves into our 4 favorite liver herbs — dandelion, nettle, bupleurum, and milk thistle — each working on the liver from a different angle.

Dandelion stimulates bile flow and clears congestion. Nettle rebuilds the mineral reserves the liver depends on and has well-documented antihistamine properties of its own. Bupleurum moves stuck liver qi — addressing the emotional and physical tightness that so many people feel this time of year. Milk thistle protects and regenerates liver cells at the deepest level.

We cover the science of what each herb actually does in the body, the traditional wisdom behind their use, and practical guidance for weaving them into a simple daily tea practice that fits into real life.

Be on the lookout for the other half of this Springs Series on Tending the LIver!

Next week in Part II we turn to food — specifically the seasonal vegetables and fruits that move stuck liver qi and lift the particular weight that winter tends to leave behind. If you have been feeling flat, unmotivated, or more irritable than you'd like to be, that one is for you. We will also talk honestly about what to pull back on and why two very common daily habits may be quietly deepening that stuck feeling you're trying to move through.

A new Blog will be released each week as we wrap up the Spring and transition into Summer! The work we do now on Tending to the Liver sets the stage for how our body handles the heat of the Summer. More to come!

As always, if what you are reading resonates in your body — if you recognize your own experience in these patterns — we would love to see you in the office.

This is exactly the kind of work we do at Alethea Healing Acupuncture, and spring is the right time to do it.

With warmth,
AHA Team

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05/29/2026

Stress doesn’t just affect your mood. It impacts sleep, digestion, and hormone balance. When your body stays in a constant state of tension, it becomes harder to regulate cycles, energy, and overall well-being.

Acupuncture helps calm the nervous system and shift your body into a state of rest and repair. This allows hormones to regulate more naturally and consistently.

If stress feels like it’s running the show, it may be time to support your body differently. Book a session to restore balance.

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05/26/2026

In a world of quick fixes, more people are choosing a different approach to skincare. 🌿

Facial acupuncture supports your skin by improving circulation, stimulating collagen, and reducing tension in the face. At the same time, it works with your body to support digestion, stress levels, sleep, and hormonal balance.

Because in Traditional Chinese Medicine, your skin reflects what’s happening internally. When your body is supported, your skin follows. ✨

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05/21/2026

Moxibustion uses gentle heat to stimulate circulation, relax tight muscles, and support your body’s natural healing process. The warmth penetrates deeply, helping reduce discomfort and improve mobility over time.

It’s especially helpful for chronic tension, fatigue-related pain, or areas that don’t seem to fully recover. Many patients describe it as both therapeutic and deeply calming.

💚 If your pain feels stubborn or slow to heal, Moxibustion may be the support your body needs!

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05/20/2026

Spring is nearing its finale — those last bites of cold rain and the final hum of the season's transitions are upon us.

How are your transitions going?
Do you feel activated and fluid yet?
Have you tasted the sweetness of the season?

Whatever your answer, there is still time — and we have something to aid you.

Through the remainder of spring, AHA invites you to learn ways to support and love on your liver.

This series will delve into the value of your liver's function, its work at easing and smoothing qi flow and enhancing vitality as we move into Summer.

Be on the look out each week and join us in your inbox.
Here's a peak at whats to come!

As spring weans into summer's long and toasty days, I invite you to celebrate these last days of springtime with a series focused entirely on the liver.

Spring, as a season of transition and change is ruled by the liver; an organ designed for discipline and routine. When healthy, the liver and it's meridian, finds a steady pace regardless of fluxuation and adversity. When the Liver Qi flows with ease, the world is more harmonious.

The last few weeks have brought the kind of days that can't quite make up their mind: cold mornings giving way to warm afternoons, sudden wind, unexpected rain, and then a stretch of quiet sunshine that makes you forget all of it. The season is in flux, and in many ways, so is the world around us.

There is a lot of uncertainty in the air right now — not only in the fluxuating weather oscillating from cold to hot (were those days of 90 degrees a prelude to the summer ahead?) — Also in the news, in the economy, in the rhythms of daily life that so many of us took for granted. Things that felt settled are shifting. Plans are being revised at a collective level. The ground underfoot feels a little less predictable than it did. These are the winds of change — and while change can bring difficulty and disorientation, it also provides a chance to reset, realign, and to move forward with more intention than prior.

But let's be real — transitions are hard on the body, even when they are beneficial. Regardless of whether the changes in your life right now are happening at home, at work, in your relationships, in your health, or simply in the quiet interior of how you are feeling day to day — change itself is a stressor. Your body, your whole being, is asked to stretch and work to keep up.

What most people don't realize is how much of that stretching falls on the liver.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, spring is the season of the liver — the organ system responsible for the smooth flow of qi through everything we do, feel, and experience.

The energetics of the liver is not just a TCM concept.

Western medicine recognizes it as one of the hardest-working organs in the body:

🌳 filtering every drop of blood from the digestive tract,
🌳 breaking down histamine (yes — your spring allergies have a liver connection),
🌳 producing bile for fat digestion and toxin elimination,
🌳 clearing used hormones from circulation,
🌳 and regulating blood sugar and energy between meals.

Over five hundred functions!
Continuously calibrating your body for optimal performance.

When the liver is supported, we move through change with a certain grace. We bend without breaking. We adapt. We find our footing. When it is overburdened or depleted, even small transitions can feel like too much — the irritability, the fatigue, the tightness, the sense of being stuck that so many people chalk up to personality or circumstance.

This is why I am launching a four-part blog series this spring dedicated entirely to tending the liver

This series will delve into Liver Health through the lens of both Western physiology and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and through the practical medicine of herbs, seasonal foods, and deeper nourishment.

The Introduction is live now on the website, and it is where I would start. It lays the foundation — the science of what the liver is doing, the TCM understanding of the Wood element and spring, and what it actually means for your body and your experience of this season.

Parts 1 through 3 follow with specific herbal teas, foods to move stagnation and lift the weight of winter, and nourishment for those who feel quietly under-resourced beneath the surface (think of anemic and blood deficient people). Those will come out each week as we finish the spring season. So be on the look out and learn to love your liver!

First, Start with learning more about the liver (https://www.aletheahealingacupuncture.com/blog/series-introduction-tending-the-liver-in-spring) ; its function in our biology and its role in TCM, Blood and Qi movement.

Supporting you through whatever season of life you are in is exactly what we are here for.

If the changes of this time are feeling like a lot — if your body and nervous system are carrying more than they should — come in. Let's work on this together.

With warmth and care,
AHA Team

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05/19/2026

You may have noticed things got quiet around here.

That's because spring got loud.

Hello!
I've been quieter than usual lately, and I wanted to reach out, say hello, and share a little of where I've been.

This spring has been extraordinary. Unseasonably warm temps arrived early, and I took every opportunity to get outside — to walk, to breathe, to let the natural world do what it does best: restore me.

In April I celebrated Earth Day on a stretch of the Green River running from Wyoming through Colorado and into Dinosaur National Park, Utah. The trip threw everything at us — punishing winds that stopped us cold, a surprise snowstorm that blanketed the canyon overnight, even low water that had us dragging the boat over gravel bars.
And yet, somewhere in the middle of a snow-quiet morning, watching the snowfall melt into red rock walls while the geese finally slept in, I found a still pool tucked beneath a cliff that stopped me in my tracks. Clear, calm, and completely untouched. It was exactly what my spirit needed.

These moments in nature — whether they happen on a river in Utah or in your own backyard — are not luxuries. They are medicine.

From this experience I am inspired to offer you this tip for the remainder of the spring season.

💚 Try a 5-minute "sit spot" practice.
Here's what it looks like:

Find one place outside — a bench, a patch of grass, a step by the back door — and commit to sitting there quietly for just five minutes, at the same time each day. No phone. No agenda. Just arrive and observe. Notice what changes day to day: the light, the sounds, the temperature on your skin.

This simple, ancient practice is one of the most powerful tools I know for calming the nervous system, reducing cortisol, and reconnecting you with the present moment.

Nature has been nourishing me this spring so that I can show up fully for you. When I allow myself to be held by the natural world, I bring that stillness and energy into every session.

And while nature has been our medicine here at home, Dr. Micheline Coley has been exploring healing from the other side of the world...

Stay Tuned for more!

I'm so glad to be back in your inbox.
As always, the AHA Team is here if you need anything (https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16700028&appointmentType=category:Acupuncture) .

-Alethea

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05/19/2026

Digestion plays a huge role in women’s health. When your body struggles to properly process food, it can affect energy, hormones, and even mood.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, digestion is key to building the energy your body needs to function well. When supported, many women notice less bloating, more stable energy, and improved cycle health.

Acupuncture helps regulate digestion while supporting the systems connected to hormonal balance.

If your digestion feels off or inconsistent, it may be time to look deeper. Book a consultation to explore what your body is trying to tell you. 📅

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