Alethea Healing Acupuncture

06/18/2026

Moxibustion uses gentle, penetrating warmth to improve circulation, relax tight areas, and support healing from within.

It’s especially helpful for chronic back pain, joint stiffness, and fatigue-related tension.

🔥 If heat tends to help your pain, Moxibustion could be a great fit.

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06/16/2026

Mood swings, irritability, bloating, or feeling overwhelmed before your cycle isn’t random.

It’s your body communicating.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, these shifts often relate to how energy and circulation move through the body. When things feel stuck, emotions and physical symptoms can intensify.

Acupuncture helps regulate that movement, easing tension, supporting circulation, and helping your body move through each phase more smoothly.

Less intensity. More balance.

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06/16/2026

Have you heard of Arvigo Therapy?

It changed how AHA approach's healing.

Read on to discover how Alethea integrates Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy alongside Acupuncture and TCM.

There is a practice I have been wanting to tell you about for a long time — one that I came to not just as a practitioner, but as a patient.

You may not know this about me. I don't talk about it regularly.
I have a history of abdominal surgeries, since i was born. And as a result, I deal with regular scar tissue accumulation in my abdominal cavity — the kind that, left unaddressed, has a way of wrapping around the intestines and creating its own set of serious complications. Needless to say, I am motivated to avoid that twisting scenerio inside my digestion!

After having had a major surgery in 2007, I needed a hands-on approach that could gently break up the adhesions, restore circulation to the abdominal cavity, and help me avoid the operating room in the future.

That search led me to Arvigo Maya Abdominal Therapy®.
And it changed everything for myself and my practice of medicine and facilitator of another's wellbeing.

I have written a full blog post exploring Arvigo Therapy's origins, its deep resonance with TCM, and what you might expect in a session.

What Arvigo Maya Abdominal Therapy Treats

Reproductive Health — Women: uterine prolapse, painful or irregular menstruation, PMS, Hormone imbalance, fibroids, endometriosis, PCOS, Infertility, tubal blockages, Asherman Syndrome, peri-menopausal and menopausal symptoms, bladder infections, yeast infections, recovery from miscarriage

Reproductive Health — Men: Benign prostatic enlargement, Prostate inflammation and urinary difficulties, Low s***m count, poor motility, and morphology concerns, fertility, varicose veins in the pelvic region

Digestive Health: IBS, GERD & reflux, indigestion & heartburn, gastritis, Crohn's, SIBO, constipation & diarrhea, bloat & gas, nausea, sluggish digestion and poor nutrient absorption

Structural and Musculoskeletal: Low back pain, pelvic misalignment, sacral and lumbar dysfunction, abdominal and pelvic scar tissue (post-surgical adhesions, cesarean recovery), varicose veins in the lower extremities

And more.

Arvigo Therapy tends the center of our being directly. And because I believe so deeply in the power of daily self-care, every client leaves with the foundations of a home practice they can return to again and again.

In Service to your Wellbeing and Highest Self,
Alethea

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06/12/2026

We have arrived at the final part of the spring series, and in some ways it is the most personal one.

If the last several months — or the last several years — have asked a great deal of you, this is written with you in mind.

The depletion I'll describe isn't the kind that announces itself, but the quiet kind.

It's the tiredness that sleep does not fully touch, kind.
The anxiety that hums in the background, kind.
The feeling of being capable and competent while also being, somewhere underneath it all, running low, kind...

Change silently does this, sustained change especially.

As women we are always changing. Every week our hormones fluxuate. Our body changes in shape and contour weekly to monthly and especially throughout the decades. We change with not only our own rythm but with the rythm of our loved ones, our work demands, and the world around us.

And with this change — at work, in our families, in our health, in the world at large — the body eventually begins to show it. Not always loudly. Often its felt more in the small, easy-to-dismiss ways:

feeling colder than you should,
sleeping lightly,
cycles that are off,
muscles that cramp,
a sense of being stretched thin that no single weekend of rest can fix.

In TCM, this is liver blood deficiency — a depletion of the deep nourishing substance that the liver depends on to do its work. And it is one of the most common and most under-recognized patterns we see in practice.

Part III of our Spring Series on Tending to the Liver focuses on Liver Blood. And while directed toward women, men and childran also benefit from this wisdom. Nourishing Liver Blood is accessible with daily & routine food choices and knowing the basic symptoms. Fatigue, Anxiety, nervousness, paleness in complexion, and a diagnosiss of anemia are all components of liver blood deficiency.

This final post in the series is about rebuilding from these symptoms. Not pushing through, not stimulating what is already depleted, but genuinely restoring. Organ meats, cherries, plums, goji berries, and the rich spectrum of red and deeply nourishing foods that have been used across traditions for exactly this purpose.

Healing from depletion is slow and cumulative work. But it is some of the most meaningful work there is — because when the reserves are restored, everything else becomes more possible. Movement, joy, resilience, grace under pressure. All of it flows more easily from a body that is truly nourished.

Alethea Healing Acupuncture specializes in this kind of work. We have done this work ourselves.

If you recognize yourself in this pattern — or if you simply know that you have been giving more than you have been receiving for a while — come in. This is a good time to let someone tend to you.

Thank you for reading along this spring. It has been a pleasure to share this series with you.

With care and gratitude,
AHA Team

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06/12/2026

Sometimes your body isn’t asking you to push harder.
Sometimes it’s asking you to move differently 🌿

💚 If you’ve been feeling mentally or physically stuck, acupuncture may help support your body’s return to balance and flow.

Book a consultation to learn more.

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06/09/2026

Where Ancient wisdom & Modern science meet.

What if the secret to managing chronic pain, better sleep, or faster recovery was sitting in a 2,000-year-old medical tradition — refined by cutting-edge hospital technology?

Dr. Micheline Coley just got back from finding out first hand!

Dr Micheline recently completed an intensive 10-day training program at China Medical University Hospital in Taichung, Taiwan — one of the world's leading centers where modern medicine and traditional healing work side by side, every single day.

She didn't just learn new techniques. Micheline watched ancient wisdom and modern science shake hands — and brought that wisdom home to share with you.

Learn more and read about her full experience here. (https://www.aletheahealingacupuncture.com/blog/practitioner-spotlight-micheline-coley-studies-in-taiwan)

Helpful Discoveries from the other side of the world:

Dr Micheline had the very real sense of advanced healing for real conditions; observing specialists using acupuncture and integrative therapies for chronic pain, stroke recovery, and neurological challenges — seeing firsthand what's possible when these tools are used at the highest clinical level.

The Integration of Technology & Tradition; Digitized tongue and pulse imaging — tools that capture data your body is already communicating — are being used to make treatments more precise. The same tongue and pulse that we observe in office only with technological refinement...The body's story, told in remarkable detail.

Food as your first medicine was foundational as Micheline learned how everyday spices can be powerful therapeutic tools everyday. In the hospital lab, they made healing salves from raw herbs. This experience enunciated how your kitchen may already be a pharmacy, ready for you anytime.

Enjoy hearing about her explorations in Taiwan; Taiwan's Acupuncture Museum, ancient Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist temples, and historic herbal pharmacies on Dihua Old Street in Taipei.

With new techniques and a unique understanding of how modern and ancient medicines may be used together, it's no wonder that Dr Micheline has a renewed sense of the medicine she serves daily.

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06/09/2026

You stretch your neck. Roll your shoulders. Adjust your posture.

It feels better… for a moment. Then it comes back.

That’s because recurring pain isn’t just tight muscles. It’s often deeper patterns in circulation, tension, and how your body is recovering.

Acupuncture helps reset those patterns by improving blood flow and calming the nervous system. When paired with cupping or Tuina, it releases deeper layers of tension your body has been holding onto.

Real relief doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from supporting your body differently.

🌿 If you’ve been stuck in the same pain cycle, it might be time to break it.

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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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