Balance Acupuncture & Wellness Center

11/14/2025

My office building is famous! 🤓😍

09/14/2023

Last year I had the opportunity to place a 🧱 at the newly renovated Common at the Park located at the Port of Excelsior. I’m grateful for all the support over the last six years. 🥹💜

07/07/2022

Hello! 👋🏻 It’s been a bit since we’ve chatted about food! 🥘 I get asked quite often how I can afford 💴 and have the time ⏰ to cook all the awesome 😎 meals I do.
I’ve had a passion for cooking 🧑🏻‍🍳 my whole life and when I met my husband and he was open to trying new foods with me, I ran with it! 😂
Grad 👩‍🎓 school gave me a ton more ways to use foods as medicine and I thought I’d share some of the basics on how I’m able to pull off some of the meals I do.
I stock my pantry (the smallest one ever 🤣) with a variety of pastas and rice. I also always keep the basics of beans 🫘, several varieties of tomatoes 🍅 and condensed soups (these are great in a pinch with chicken 🐔 and rice 🍚).
As far as the spice cabinet goes… ☺️ This has been 15 years in the making. The important thing to remember about spices is that it’s an investment in good/quality and healthy cooking. Real spices taste 👅😋 SO much better than prepackaged stuff. I started with one new meal a week and it bloomed into a catalog of more than 1000 recipes.
I still eat Mac & Cheese 🧀 and make brownies from mix 😂, but clean cooking can help you maintain health much longer than eating foods you cannot pronounce. 🤓😅
If you have questions about how to get started on setting up a basic pantry, let me know!

07/07/2022

Hello! 👋🏻 It’s been a bit since we’ve chatted about food! 🥘 I get asked quite often how I can afford 💴 and have the time ⏰ to cook all the awesome 😎 meals I do.
I’ve had a passion for cooking 🧑🏻‍🍳 my whole life and when I met my husband and he was open to trying new foods with me, I ran with it! 😂
Grad 👩‍🎓 school gave me a ton more ways to use foods as medicine and I thought I’d share some of the basics on how I’m able to pull off some of the meals I do.
I stock my pantry (the smallest one ever 🤣) with a variety of pastas and rice. I also always keep the basics of beans 🫘, several varieties of tomatoes 🍅 and condensed soups (these are great in a pinch with chicken 🐔 and rice 🍚).
As far as the spice cabinet goes… ☺️ This has been 15 years in the making. The important thing to remember about spices is that it’s an investment in good/quality and healthy cooking. Real spices taste 👅😋 SO much better than prepackaged stuff. I started with one new meal a week and it bloomed into a catalog of more than 500 recipes.
I still eat Mac & Cheese 🧀 and make brownies from mix 😂, but clean cooking can help you maintain health much longer than eating foods you cannot pronounce. 🤓😅
If you have questions about how to get started on setting up a basic pantry, let me know!

05/21/2022

Five years ago I met a dance 💃 instructor from one of the local studios while I ate lunch at Lagos Tacos 🌮.
We chatted about the difference between dry needling and acupuncture. 🤓
I gave her my business card and the ONE ☝️ interaction landed her as a patient as well as these beautiful ladies 💜and about FIFTY others. 😲🙃😁
In 2020 she purchased the studio only to turn around and essentially have it closed for two years.
I was given the honor to have MY small business featured in KMC Dance Studio’s spring 💐dance recital.
Im beyond grateful 🥲 to have been able to keep my business open, but to thrive and help another business celebrate being small! 🤩

05/19/2022

A beautiful double rainbow 🌈 just a block from my fantastic office in downtown Excelsior. 😍
I feel blessed to have stayed open during the last two years. 😷😵‍💫

05/04/2022

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04/14/2022

Big things in the works for Balance Acupuncture & Wellness Center in the coming weeks! 🥳

04/14/2022

I’m beyond grateful for my amazing patients. They are some of the most thoughtful people in the world and I’m so incredibly lucky 🍀 that I get to pursue my passion and help people each day. 💜

04/08/2022

I’m often asked where I find the recipes I make! 😃 I source recipes from all sorts of places and this delicious 😋 meal 🥘 can from non other than Hy-Vee Magazine! It comes in the mail each month (free! 🙃) and I usually find at least one ☝️ easy weeknight meal.

Jalapeño Havarti 🧀 Chicken 🐓 Hotdish came together in 30 minutes (with 35 minutes extra for baking) and it was amazing! 🤩
Let me know if you ever want to chat 💬 about how to even begin the journey of home 🏡 cooked meals each night without the high cost of meal prep kits! It’s easy! I promise! ☺️

04/04/2022

Maple 🍁 Syrup! I was gifted this fresh jar by a patient! 🥰
While they knew what they were gifting me was precious, what they didn’t know is that maple syrup is amazing to tonify (nourish) your spleen in Chinese Medicine!
1️⃣Excessive consumption of cold foods or beverages “damages” your spleen. Cold 🥶 foods dampens our bodies ability to digest and your system has to work that much harder to get things absorbed.
2️⃣Excessive consumption of dairy 🥛 🧀 🍕 🍦 creates a “damp” environment and your doesn’t do well 🥴🤢 with this.
To help strengthen your spleen you can use maple 🍁 syrup (always in moderation!) 🤣 as a substitute sweetener! Your spleen 💜 this!

Questions about how I can help clean up your diet to make better choices? Just ask!

04/03/2022

I had everything other than THREE ingredients for this recipe.
Lazy Sunday = Spaghetti 🍝 Ala Vodka 🍸
Not pictured… the vodka I will add while making it. 😂