Rowan Everard, LAc

02/03/2026

New blog post!

Estrogen is a complex hormone with myriad effects on many systems throughout the body. Over centuries of medical research characterized by sexism, it has been cast as a hormone that governs cycles solely in the bodies of cisgender women, and also as a chemical that is “less strong” than testoste...

07/11/2025

T picnic info for this year!

07/10/2025

On September 1st 2025, Providence is outsourcing alternative healthcare claims and care decisions to a third-party company called ASH—putting profits over patients. This will limit access to acupuncture, chiropractic and naturopathic services, as well as massage therapy by underpaying providers, overloading them with red tape, taking over medical decision making and disallowing out of network providers from providing care to Providence members. Tell Providence to reverse this decision and protect access to care!

Providence Health Plan: Don’t Let ASH Block Our Access to Care

07/09/2025

New blog post dropped:

There really isn’t a rule book for how to do self-care as one’s country descends into fascism. There are great resources for how to think and fight back (On Tyranny for example), but what about the care of one’s own nervous system? It’s tempting to dissociate into television or video games, ...

11/07/2024

Our bodies have to process everything that happens to us, everything we witness, everything in the world that touches us. When we move Qi we process emotions, and we all certainly need some of that now. The door to my treatment room is always open.

03/27/2024

Our space just keeps getting cuter over here

02/23/2024

Vast reforestation a major reason for ‘warming hole’ across parts of US where temperatures have flatlined or cooled

02/22/2024

Great report on this issue!

A new report from q***r services providers in Portland shows the lack of resources for LGBTQ+ Portlanders experiencing homelessness. We'll hear more about the report as well as check-in with the Q***r Affinity Village.

02/21/2024

New, topical blog post:

Here in the Pacific Northwest we are still technically in Winter, toward the end of February as I write this. We can see and feel the movement toward spring though, as we tilt toward the Spring equinox in March, as the days get longer and the classic "fool's spring" days become more frequent. With t...

02/16/2024

Come join us for a completely trans-focused event at the Advice Bar!

02/15/2024

Hi hive mind, do you have favorite therapists who treat CPTSD and aren’t weird about trans stuff? Also IN with Regence?

01/28/2024

I have reached 100 followers! Thank you for your continued support. I could not have done it without each of you. 🙏🤗🎉