41 - Taking Care of Herself First

 Overview:
She came to Acubalance to help have a second child with her husband.  On first consultation she looked tired, seemed a bit irritable, and had fairly deep frown wrinkles at the inner corners of her eyebrows.  We talked about acupuncture’s ability to relax the body, by turning off the body’s fight or flight mechanism and bringing focus and blood flow to the body’s inner organs of reproduction and digestion.
 Treatment:
She had what I would consider to be a good reaction to her first acupuncture treatment – she was able to relax, said she felt “tingly sensations” in her body during the twenty-five minutes or so that her acupuncture treatment lasted.
 Outcome:
On her second visit, she told me that after she left her first appointment she just sat in her car and cried for about ten minutes, as she felt a wave of release flow through her.  To me, that helped explain how she looked like such a different woman.  She was more relaxed, calmer, and with more light than shadow in her eyes.  She had let go of some built up emotional tension.  During the following weeks and months of treatment, she still has moments of feeling overwhelmed in her life, and those forehead wrinkles come and go, but overall she is able to relax more, and nourishes herself with diet, exercise, lifestyle, and acupuncture.  Anna continues to try to conceive a second child with her husband, while taking care of herself at the same time.

Erin Flynn