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12/14/2025

My last post I was “🥴tense”. I decided to get away from it all. Having a family vacation and I gotta say. ‘Latitude can fix an attitude’😎 see you in the new year. All the best from us to you. 🌲

12/08/2025

It's the holidays and I have written a few posts about keeping it together. Have a read and remember it all goes so fast. Enjoy🎄🎄https://www.allbodycare.com/?s=christmas

12/02/2025

Tai Chi is a great addition to a healthy life. It is low impact aerobic and meditative movements. Helps balance and strength, open to all levels of physical condition and it's cheap, and they often have tea!

We have new Beginner Tai Chi classes coming in 2026!

11/30/2025

Ah. My yearly instructions for a new gizmo at work. It’s all Korean to me. But luckily I know how to use it. The joys of practicing an East Asian medical system.

11/22/2025

Longer post than normal but... Here is a concept I talk about alllllllllll the time at work. WE all have some Hedonistic pursuits. IE. I want a nice steak 🐂, and you get one. Cool 👍. You want another better steak, OK you found a better Chef👨‍🍳 and you got it. And another and... How long until you can never really get a better steak? Not long. Then what? You eat one on the top of a hot air-balloon over the Alps with a movie star. OK, then what? You see it all the time in the news. Some rich person who has everything and their lives blow up.
There is another way. Eudaimonic relating to deep human flourishing—living well through meaning, purpose, and virtue (not just pleasure). I think of it as skill building. No matter how good I get at Acupuncture, guitar, tai chi.... I can always get better. It gives me an unlimited runway to work on for the rest of my life. Which brings me a pleasure also. A lot of frustration as it is hard for me to get better at guitar, and my progress at Acupuncture and Tai Chi is very slow. But it never gets old.
I saw this quote from James Clear. It is not exactly comparing Eudaimonic to Hedonic but the concept is similar. As some point Hedonic pleasures become hollow. I think that leads to what he is talking about. But, some people have a harder time to be happy and can work on that through pursuits that 'enliven the soul'.
It is tough to answer deep questions in a post but I just wanted to introduce Eudaimonic pursuits as at Christmas you can focus on the presents or you can be present with the people.
"If your past achievements didn't make you meaningfully happier, don't expect your future achievements to make you happier.
Remember that thing you so badly wanted? If getting it didn't meaningfully change your long-term happiness, then you shouldn't expect the thing you want right now to change your long-term happiness either.
You are roughly as happy as you decide to be today. And some day, years from now, after you accomplish the thing you've been striving for, you'll have to decide to be happy on that day too."

10/31/2025

My herbal teacher flew in today to showed me her newest batch of potions. Gotta luv Halloween 🎃

10/31/2025

Couple of eggs and a side of bacon at work today. Drive safe tonight, Go Blue Jays Go! 🎃

10/14/2025

Went camping and read a book! made notes!! Super popular book, Oakland was not impressed🤣, you can read the notes here: https://www.allbodycare.com/2025/10/let-them-from-mel-robins/

09/21/2025

At a tuī shǒu class and read this, below. It’s true for so many things. Give it a try. Have a zoom with a person and notice. Then go see them and notice. What did you notice?
The photo of your child on your desk is not your child.......a photo of a tree is not a tree even if it is in high definition. Communication through text is not real communication, it is only a splinter, a shred of actual connection. Having a live-stream session with your beloved is nothing like holding them in your arms and kissing them deeply. Text is for data, not love. Poetry is the highest form of text to feed the heart, but even a poet’s depiction of a kiss, is still not a kiss. ~Max Strom

09/15/2025

My least favourite season to work is fall time. I wrote a blog about it here: https://www.allbodycare.com/2025/09/fall-in-to-health-by-changing-gears/

09/13/2025

I've decided to go to my true calling. Replacing mower👨‍🔧 engines. Yup only had one piece left over🏅and the thing just roared to life. 🙃we were shocked. But enough fun, I'll be back to the clinic on Monday.🥷

09/12/2025

Who fixed Ward? Around 30 years ago I was 5&1/2 years in from being hit by a drunk driver. I still fell, stuttered and hurt 25 hours a day. Then I went to a course run by Cindy and she just "fixed me up". She was passing through Kelowna on her way to a course and stopped in. It's a sign of someone who was really good 30 years ago, still taking courses! Still interested and still "fixing people up." She's one of my rabbits I chase to get better to do the same for the folks that come to All Body Care. Luv Cindy❤️