One Needle by Amanda Hanson Acupuncture

10/03/2017

I cannot say enough about how healing warm nourishing nutrition is to the body/mind- especially where there is childhood trauma including prepuberty s*xual abuse. Often accompanied by the classic quartet of insomnia, headaches, idiopathic digestive issues and avoidance (workaholic, business, etc).

As always, acupuncture is a powerful healing tool and not a substitute for mental health counseling in cases of childhood trauma.

    When you are young Imagine yourself as a small child and living in a household where the parents drink excessively, argue and at times lash out angrily and abusively towards you. Or …

09/20/2017

Did someone say better s*x?

Regular acupuncture treatment can make you feel more energetic and reduce the outward signs of aging. Here are seven ways acupuncture

08/23/2017

Just received this wonderful testimonial from a dear client.

"I usually hate myself in pictures but after working with Amanda on facial treatments I thought I looked awesome in pictures from my 40th birthday!" Anonymous, Tiburon CA

08/04/2017

New website in the works.
Www.oneneedle.weebly.com

08/03/2017

Consider the possibility of a link between inflammation and depression.

07/29/2017

07/12/2017

This is a wonderful read about balance in parenting relationships as our kids grow into teenagers.

http://community.today.com/parentingteam/post/how-to-ruin-your-relationship-with-your-teenager?cid=sm_fbn_pt

One evening my sons came home with the same exclamation, "It's amazing how many kids hate their parents!" We talked for an hour or so about why.

07/12/2017

Here in California, acupuncturists treat all the side effects of cancer treatment, helping you with energy, digestive health, nausea among other things. (We don't treat cancer itself.)

http://health.usnews.com/health-care/patient-advice/articles/2017-07-11/can-alternative-or-holistic-treatments-help-with-my-breast-cancer

Growing evidence supports use of acupuncture, meditation and yoga to help battle side effects of breast cancer treatment.

06/25/2017

Here is one beautiful and sense-making way to think about it when I ask you "Do you have a contemplative practice"?

When people start to meditate, or work with any kind of spiritual discipline, they often think that somehow they are going to improve, which is a sort of subtle aggression against who they really are. It's a bit like saying "if I jog I'll be a much better person.", "If I could only get a nice house, I'd be a better person", "If I could meditate and calm down I'd be a much better person"...but loving kindness - maitri - toward ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything.

Maitri means that we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is to not try to throw ourselves away and become something better, its about befriending who we are already.

The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That's the ground, thats what we study, thats what we come to know with tremendous clarity and interest.

~Pema Chodron

06/08/2017

By Emma Suttie, D.Ac, AP The Spleen is an extremely important organ in Chinese medicine and imbalances in the spleen system are some of the most common. It is sometimes confusing to refer to the sp…

05/26/2017

Acupuncture can help to support almost all of these suggestions including the missing one- for optimal health, sleep 8 or more uninterrupted hours a night.

After 40, our bodies don't bounce back from bad habits so quickly.

05/23/2017

By following these five accessible habits, it is possible to slow, and even reverse, the aging process.