Four years into acupuncture school, here’s what changed in how I see healing and patterns, and what it means for your dog’s timeline.
The Approach
How Language Shapes Reality (and How You See Illness)
Russian has two blues. The Aymara keep the past in front of them. Lera Boroditsky’s research shows words decide what we notice, and Chinese Medicine hands you better words for your own body.
Dog Longevity Supplements: The Velvet Antler Shell Game
A new dog longevity chew says spaying stripped 90 percent of your dog’s hormones, then sells velvet antler and IGF-1 to put them back. Here is the misdirection, and why the longest-lived dogs run that growth signal low.
The Court of One’s Own Logic: Judgment and Dog Care
Food, vaccines, acupuncture, a longevity drug. Every choice about a dog’s body is an intervention. On feeding tribes, judgment, and the standing to judge.
Watch Your Dog Breathe, Not Your Phone
I limit myself to two minutes of Facebook and seven of Instagram a day. What I gained back wasn’t just time, it was the quiet to think and see clearly aga
Vet Conversation Cheat Sheets: Questions About Food + Lab Work
You trust your vet. You’ve spent years building that relationship, and when they hand you a prescription for Hills Science Diet, Royal Canin, or Purina …
When Your Dog’s Symptoms Don’t Improve: A TCVM Nutritionist’s Guide to Moving Forward
You’re trying so hard. You’ve switched your dog’s diet, maybe even worked with a nutritionist like me, but the itching, lethargy, or other symptoms just …
Why I Stopped Feeding My Dogs Raw Food (A Nutritionist’s Journey)
A canine nutritionist on what the teeth say, what the interstitium research changed, and what happened to her dogs’ kidney and liver values on cooked food.
The History of Dog Food Is Actually About Marketing, Not Dogs
The kibble origin story skips the marketing playbook, the same one that convinced women cooking was drudgery, then convinced dog owners they couldn’t feed their own dogs.
Your Birthright
Your own healing is part of the same energy your dog lives inside. What my own three dogs have taught me about healing both at once.
Safe Practices When Handling Your Dog’s Food
Approach your dog’s food the same way you would for a baby, toddler, mother, grandmother, member of your family, and yourself. Make Sure It’s Fresh …
List Of Dog Nutrition Websites and Groups
There’s more than one perspective when it comes to food and so I’m compiled a shortlist of other online communities you can explore (other than …