Welcome to your healing journey! With a tailored, personalized approach, I help women navigate the mind-body connection using holistic and energetic approaches.
I'm Valerie Christina, a Board-Certified Licensed Acupuncturist and TCM Herbal Medicine Practitioner, Somatic Breathwork Facilitator, Sound Therapist, and Holistic Life Coach. From pain management, hormonal health, to a full body nervous system reset, I help you live your life with greater energy, calm, and well-being.
10/27/2025
When you’ve spent months—or years—caring for others, it’s easy to forget what it feels like to be grounded in your own center.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Earth element reminds us that true nourishment begins within. 🌾 If your energy has been scattered, your body tired, or your spirit stretched thin, this reflection is for you.
✨ The Earth Within: Reclaiming Center After Caregiving Depletion
In TCM, the Metal element governs breath + letting go. For caregivers, learning to exhale what’s not ours restores balance + calm. 🌬️
In this week’s article, I explore how caregivers can honor grief as a natural, purifying force and use a simple somatic breathing ritual to release emotional residue from the body.
Caregiving is a sacred act of love — yet the emotional and energetic weight of tending to others can quietly deplete our center. Through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine, we explore how the Earth element (Spleen and Stomach) governs nourishment, boundaries, and our capacity to stay grounded in service. Includes a somatic self-care ritual to help you “digest the day.”
Beneath your skin lives a living web — fascia — that carries light, sound, and information. ✨
When it’s fluid, energy flows; when it’s tense, signals stall. Discover how fascia bridges science + energy medicine in: Fascia, Qi, and the Microcurrents of Healing.
I help women unlock their innate somatic wisdom using holistic and energetic approaches to achieve greater health, wellbeing and life transformation. Click to read Valerie Christina Acupuncture & Holistic Wellness, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.
10/19/2025
Your exhale is medicine. 🌬️
Every slow breath signals safety through your vagus nerve — telling your body, “It’s safe to let go.”
Learn how breath restores balance and calm in my latest post:
✨ Exhale as Medicine: How Breath Signals Safety
Your body whispers before your mind speaks.
Every sensation — warmth, tightness, a held breath — is the body’s way of saying, “Listen.”
True healing begins not by fixing, but by feeling.
✨ Read more: The Language of the Body: Listening Beneath Thought
🌿 Discover how somatic awareness restores calm, balance, and inner safety.
Feeling sluggish? Quick detoxes often backfire, leaving you drained. True liver support means balancing both Phase I & Phase II detox pathways — and timing matters. The best window is just after your period, when your body is most resilient.
Learn how to align cleansing with your cycle for safe, lasting results.
Hormones shape everything from mood to fertility to energy. Stress, burnout, and modern pace can disrupt this delicate system. 🌿 Acupuncture, yoga, and qigong are proven to lower cortisol, ease PMS, support thyroid health, and calm menopausal symptoms. In TCM, Kidney, Liver, and Spleen form the foundation of women’s cycles and vitality.
When ancient rhythm meets modern science, true hormone harmony emerges.
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Haven Acupuncture & Wellness provides personalized holistic care approaches to our increasingly fast-paced lifestyles, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, aromatherapy, essential oils, and bodywork such as cupping and tuina.
This type of mind-body-spirit modality offers you a unique experience to treat physical symptoms such as pain and injury, while also working on the neurochemistry involved in mental health, sleep, and other stress responses. This lets your body do the work it has been designed to do through your own immune and neurological pathways in the body.
Acupuncture and herbal medicine can be used in conjunction with other forms of care to speed healing.
The World Health Organization recognizes acupuncture as an effective therapeutic approach, and has named over forty conditions which respond favorably to acupuncture, including:
Pain syndromes: migraines, headaches, sciatica, low back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and stiffness, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis, tendonitis, bursitis, fibromyalgia, automobile and sports injuries, joint pain, strains and sprains.
Supportive therapy: post-operative pain and rehab, adverse reactions to cancer treatments, stroke rehabilitation, infertility treatment, induction of labor, malposition of fetus.
