Acu Wellness - Katie Musicco (2025)

18/11/2023

What’s our “why” when it’s comes to caring for ourself? Sometimes it’s difficult to do it for ourselves but when it’s for our kids, our family or a bigger why.. it’s easier and more heart felt to take care of us and stay committed. What’s your why? Love to hear them below

17/11/2023

Sharing a modern take on ancient traditions. Simple powerful ways to take care of you so you can take care of your to do list.

07/05/2023

As we say in Traditional Chinese Medicine "where there is pain there is no circulation. Where there is circulation there is no pain."
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For example, lets talk about endometriosis is one of the most common causes of infertility and about 10-20% of women have it. In endometriosis, the lining of the uterus grows outside of the uterus. This tissue still acts like normal uterine lining and builds and sheds each month where it's not suppose to. Ouch....
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Endo symptoms may include painful periods or cramps, heavy periods, pain at ovulation, and spotting before the period begins. It can also be associated with painful in*******se, bowel movements during menstruation and ovarian cysts.
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A hallmark symptoms is chronic pelvic pain and lower back pain. Chinese Medicine attributes endometriosis to blood stagnation and dampness blocking. So when there is lack of normal movement of circulation there is pain.
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Much of what we do to tame endometriosis is aimed at reducing exposure to excess estrogen, supporting the liver (as it breaks down estrogen) and improving circulation.
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Using the 5 Pillars of TCM:
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▫️Acupuncture can clear inflammation and improve blood flow in the pelvic area.
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▫️There are some herbs that can help improve circulation and break up blood stasis.
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▫️Tailor nutrition and include omega-3 fatty acids in the diet to flight inflammation and improve blood flow.
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▫️Take evening primrose oil, eat fruits rich in vitamin C and bioflavonoids, and avoid hydrogenated fats to combat inflammation.
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▫️Improve blood flow by avoiding strenuous exercise during your period, inversion and using pads instead of tampons, which can interfere with the free flow of blood.
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Pain is just a symptom. You can be free of it, it might take some work but it's worth it!

06/05/2023

✨Hustle + Busy Culture has to End.✨The long term physical and metal consequences are too great! Stress causes 99% of all illnesses and leaves us feeling depleted, burnt out and exhausted 😩

Women who run on stress hormones (cortisol/adrenaline) may deal with some or most of these symptoms:

• Headaches and migraines
• Depression and anxiety
• Autoimmunity conditions
• Weight gain or weight loss
• Problems getting pregnant
• Menstrual cycle problems
• Acne or skin rashes
• Digestive issues

The Hustle Culture is burning us out and is not a sustainable way to grow & thrive as women. I've been on that train and it isn't for me. There is a way of being that allows us to feel good in our life and body while still getting things done. One of boundaries, peace and sustainable energy.

You can take steps to help handle stress in a positive way and creating healthy hustle habits:

• Understanding your cycle
• Getting enough sleep
• Meditating
• Saying "no"
• Eating nourishing food
• Creating sustainable schedules
• Moving your body in ways that feel good.
• Drinking water
• Journaling your thoughts

Yes you will have stressful and long days ahead, that is a given in life. But there are tools and self care ways that help you get a handle of your stress, reset your health and care for your body for life! It's my passion to help you create that!

Remember, a candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long. If you want a feel good again you need to create sustainable healthy habits and become your bodies bff for life!

Do you have something in your life that helps you combat stress in your life? If not it’s worth having a conversation. Message me today and let’s talk✨

04/05/2023

Chinese Medicine can help you feel your best not only in clinic but when aided in your every day life 👉🏼It is very effective for many conditions including pain, headaches, stress, hormones, digestive issues and many others. Let’s talk about it👇🏼
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TCM has been in development for over 3000 years and is still practiced extensively in China and increasingly in other parts of the world, including here in Canada. In a modern setting, acupuncture can be practiced alone but it is actually just one of several modalities that make up TCM. They are:
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1. Acupuncture📌
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This involves regulating the body using fine sterile needles, but also encompasses practices such as moxibustion (heating specific acupoints by burning mugwort herb).
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2. Herbal Medicine🍄
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Using specific combinations of herbs to heal ailments is the original basis of internal medicine. Chinese Herbal Medicine literature is extensive, detailed and has been refined over the centuries as the most effective formulas were recognised.
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3. Cupping, Gua Sha & Massage💆🏼‍♀️
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Cupping therapy (using suction to regulate blood circulation), gua sha using jade stone to improve lymph drainage & blood flow. Tui Na (to push and squeeze), is the practice specific to Chinese medicine, and uses the same meridian theory as acupuncture.
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4. Dietary therapy & Nutrition🫐
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Understanding the properties of food as well as how and when to eat has a huge impact on our health. Food is medicine if we have the know-how.
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5. Exercise🧘🏼‍♀️
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For centuries TCM has promoted the importance of exercise for our body to maintain its normal function or restore mental and physical health.
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Have you tried any of these? Share your experience below👇🏼🌱

15/11/2021

Despite what you learnt in high school… there is only a certain short window when you CAN get pregnant. This is called your fertile window and your body, when in balance, tells you when this is fertile.
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Learning how to hear what your body is telling you is really quite simple. Time to get personal with yourself, start listening, journalling and after a few cycles you’ll know exactly when your are most fertile and most likely conceive.
Have you tried this? Share your questions below👇🏼

03/11/2021

✨Hustle + Busy Culture has to End.✨The long term physical and metal consequences are too great! Stress causes 99% of all illnesses and leaves us feeling depleted, burnout and exhausted. This has a huge impact on our hormones, fertility & health.

Women who run on stress hormones (cortisol/adrenaline) may deal with some or most of these symptoms:

• Headaches and migraines
• Depression and anxiety
• Autoimmunity conditions
• Weight gain or weight loss
• Problems getting pregnant
• Menstrual cycle problems
• Acne or skin rashes
• Digestive issues

Hustle Culture is burning us out and is not a sustainable way to grow & thrive in your body and life. I've been on that train and it isn't for me. Trying to get pregnant is stressful enough because you want it so bad but there are so many things out of our control. But there is another way. One of boundaries, peace and ease.

You can take steps to help handle stress in a positive way and creating healthy hustle habits:

• Understanding your cycle
• Getting enough sleep
• Meditating
• Saying "no"
• Eating nourishing food
• Creating sustainable schedules
• Moving your body in ways that feel good.
• Drinking water
• Journaling your thoughts

Yes you will have stressful and long days ahead, that is a given when you’re on a ttc journey. But there are tools and self care that help you get a handle of your stress, reset your health and care for your body for life! and it's my passion to help you create that!

Think about it, a candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long. If you want to get pregnant and have a healthy baby you need to create sustainable healthy habits and become your bodies bff for life! There are so many factors that are out of our control when trying to conceive, but how you take care of you is in your control.

Healthy You = Healthy Pregnancy = Healthy baby

What are your thoughts on this?

Katie

01/11/2021

👉🏼There’s no such thing as infertility.😳 I know… hold the phone, if you’re struggling to get pregnant…. it feels so real but hear me out. Infertility is a symptom… not a disease.
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As long as you don’t have an anatomical (physical) abnormality, meaning your uterus and ovaries are physically intact, but you are struggling to conceive this is a symptom, not a disease.
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Western medicine misleads women (and men too) into thinking and labeling them as infertile or somehow “broken”. But you are not infertile, just imbalanced.
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We need to heal our imbalances and open our mind to other ways of thinking based on a concept of wellness rather than disease.
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We need to look at our body as an ally rather than an enemy, as something that needs nurturing and healing in order to support the growth of a child inside it.
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This is neither a small nor an isolated problem. Fertility issues affect at least 1:6 couples in the United States and 1:8 in Canada. This means that every month more than 7 million U.S. couple experience pain and disappointment of failing to conceive.
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As a medical practitioner involved in fertility issues, I know firsthand the desperate hunger of couples who want to have children.
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And as a woman, I know personally the pain of wanting to conceive and failing. I, too, have suffered through multiple miscarriages and “unexplained infertility” diagnosis. I know your journey and your pain, and your desire to grow a family.
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But this journey showed me how to heal myself, my imbalances and ultimately be free of the thought that I was broken. If you will walk with me, I will show you a path that may lead you to both healing and hope.

28/10/2021

Ditch coffee or cut back… ☕️😳😱🤯 I know this probably isn't what you want to hear so let's chat.

27/10/2021

Hopeful mama, I see you.

I know your silently holding your lips when your friends are talking about the hardships of quarantined life with kids.

They say how lovely it must be to be able to sleep in and have YOU time. You hold your words back even though you long for a home full of little feet and dirty dishes.

You hold your lips because it’s easier to say nothing then repeat your story again. Or maybe, just maybe you’ve convinced yourself that you don’t even want kids anymore because it’s just somehow seems easier that way.

For so long you hoped and prayed... anyways stayed positive each month but life went on and the years passed. Yes you are happy and enjoy the fullness of your fur mama life... somethings still missing.

Oh hopeful mama, I see you.

And sister, I’m with you.

But while another month has come and gone, and your wishes hasn’t yet been answered, I hope you know that because it hasn’t happened doesn’t mean it won’t.

I hope you know, you’re not alone.

And I hope, that next time, even when “you KNOW it’ll be negative”, you hope and pray anyways, because one day... it might surprise you. 💛

30/12/2020

Raise your hand if you deal with habitual PMS, bloating, cold hands & feet, gruelling menstrual cramps, irregular periods, foggy head, fatigue or unwanted weight gain.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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These might be very common these days but the are not normal. Symptoms are just notes from your body tips one way or the other.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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They may be annoying or downright unpleasant, but consider them notes to yourself, messages from your body about where you need to restore balance in order to restore optimal health.

28/12/2020

Organs, glands, and cells oh my! These tiny hormones play an integrate part in all of our bodies functions. Your body's organs, glands and cells make these powerful messengers day in and day out from building blocks like cholesterol, amino acids found in protein amor components of fats in your diet.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In women, the endocrine glands that most influence hormone balance are the adrenals, the pituitary, the hypothalamus, the thyroid and the ovaries. Although they are not part of the endocrine system, the liver and the large intestine also play major roles in hormone health.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The liver is the key organ for clearing excess hormones. It also manufactures cholesterol, the starting material for all steroid hormones, The liver decided if a hormone is going to convert to one hormone or another. A healthy liver is the key to hormone balance.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The intestines are involved in hormone balance and detoxification. Together, these many glands and organs can be thought of as an orchestra playing a complex, beautiful, and ever-changing musical work, a "hormonic" symphony.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The pituitary regulates so many hormones that it can be considered the "concert master" of the hormone orchestra, taking instructors from the conductor, the hypothalamus. These two are the master control system of our hormones and through their role and proper functioning they create beautiful hormonal harmony in our body.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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But in our over stressed society and "busier is better" mentality, our liver gets stressed, our digestions slows and our master control system aka pituitary/hypothalamus gets lazy or confused. This is a perfect storm for hormonal issues to arise and can lead to many unpleasant symptoms.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

17/11/2020

Your menstrual cycle is a vital sign, just like your pulse, temperature, respiratory rate, and blood pressure - and it provides you with essential information about your health.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In Chinese Medicine we've been using the menstrual cycle as an assessment of health for centuries and we deep dive into during our intakes. Most women just think about their period as the 'main event', but actually ovulation is the true main event of the month. Each week there is a different phase and shift of hormones and when something is off you'll see different symptoms arise.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Best way to understand how your body is doing is by tuning into and tracking the signs of your cycle. Let's call it your period report card. I'm curious do you track your cycle? .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

17/11/2020

7 weeks left in 2020... a perfect time to reset and restore yourself. It's been a crazy year and most of us have been stuck in fight or flight mode... this can wreak havoc on your health, happiness and hormones.

Acupucnture has an amazing way of resetting your body into the rest & digest mode. Bringing calmness & energy back to your body and leaving you with a sense of calm and relaxation you are craving these days.

Book your reset Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine treatment with me at Peninsula Naturopathic Clinic leave those 2020 worries behind.

** don't forget your Extended Medicial Benefits will reset in January. Now is a perfect time to use up this years benefits before they are gone.

Comment below or call (250) 665-1660 to book

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