Slow Paths Wellness

11/10/2025

Your body can recover. Start here.

You’ve tried resting, supplements, pacing… but your body still can’t reset.

There’s brain fog that won’t lift, dizziness that comes and goes, and a constant hum of fatigue.

At Slow Paths Wellness, I specialize in helping sensitive, resilient people whose systems have been through too much.

I take time to understand your story and use whole-body care to support balance from the inside out.

Because sometimes what heals us is more than just treatment—it’s being truly seen.

Message me today to start the path to feeling like yourself again.

10/17/2025

So glad fluoroquinolone toxicity is finally recognized as a "real" illness. I've dealt with it personally and in clinic. It can be devastating to health, but I've also seen improvement in myself and in those coming to my clinic using holistic care.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JBaApuwHk/

A Jacksonville resident used to live an active life as a mom and wife. She then got sick and didn’t know why.

Story: https://www.witn.com/2025/10/15/jacksonville-woman-says-common-antibiotic-changed-her-life-worse/

10/01/2025

Looking forward to presenting at Virginia Community Action Partnership 's Pathways from Poverty to Prosperity Summit tomorrow. I will be discussing mindfulness and how it can lead to a more abundant experience of life.

08/14/2025

Improving gut health is a central component of treatment at Slow Paths Wellness, using the knowledge from thousands of years of Asian medicine and the most recent information from functional health. Gut health affects everything else that happens in your body and mind. Here's an article on how it can impact recovery from brain injury.

Brain injury can affect gut health and slow recovery. Learn how the gut-brain connection works and what you can do to support healing.

08/14/2025

Starting to make some products to bring joy and beauty to life. These are designs based on photos I've taken over the years. Please take a lookyloo and see if you find anything you love.
Visit SlowPathsDesign's shop, for cool artwork on awesome products!

SlowPathsDesign is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

07/24/2025

My fellow acupuncturist at Raleigh Acupuncture Associates has written a nice post about functional health treatment and Asian medicine. They have the same philosophy. Functional health offers more lab testing and a greater reliance on supplements and a conventional view of herbal medicine; Asian medicine offers thousands of years of history, and a complex and immensely effective frameword for treating using herbal and lifestyle treatment. Both functional health consultation and Asian medicine treatments, including acupuncture and clinical herbal treatment, are available here.

Functional medicine comes from Chinese medicine. It seeks the root cause of disease, just as acupuncture has been doing for thousands of years.

07/21/2025

Plantar fasciitis is one of my favorite things to treat with Softwave. I typically have very positive results.
https://youtu.be/oeFdg9wOzxU?si=Y2nWaaItEVv8_l_O

07/17/2025

One of the reasons I first sought out Chinese medicine treatment as a patient was because of side effects and trouble withdrawing from SSRIs in the 90s. Just a few months in them caused problems for me that still affect me today, even though the acute symptoms are all resolved.

Medication for depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns can be literal life savers for some people. But there are also many many ways to address mental health that rebalance the nervous system instead of trying to force change in how a molecule here or aa molecule there is used or absorbed in the body--which then affects other bodily systems in ways that can cause lasting harm.

In so many cases, trying these more holistic therapies first--exercise, acupuncture, talk therapy, EMDR, functional health approaches, and others--can give as good or better results than a medication with side effects like better sleep, clearer thinking, improved blood pressure, improved digestion, and more hormonal balance.

Holistic health practices and therapies have almost completely healed my reactions to the different medications that have given me side effects in my life, and reduced my need for medication in day-to-day life. Whenever possible, I have alternatives to medication that I use myself and offer my patients. And when medication is necessary, I can help myself and my patients avoid side effects and address the ones that do happen.

The symptoms can include nerve pain, emotional numbness and sexual dysfunction and can last for years after stopping the drugs. Patients are pushing for recognition and more research.