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November 5, 2019 Jacqueline

Healing gut issues with Acupuncture + Chinese Medicine

October 11, 2019 Jacqueline

The miracle of acupuncture + a few life updates

August 10, 2019August 10, 2019 Jacqueline

Adrenal Fatigue tips

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019 Jacqueline

Digestion, de stressing + detoxing

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Jacqueline

Becoming my own healer

July 31, 2019 Jacqueline

The times when I couldn’t brush my hair

July 27, 2019 Jacqueline

Finding Zen

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Meet Jacqueline

Hello, I’m Jacqueline or J for short. I live in Monterey, CA with my husband Mike & Jack Russell Bam.

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I absolutely LOVE the movie Up. The other day we walked into a shop on Pixar Pier and saw the most amazing sketches of Carl & Ellie. I was so drawn to them I started talking with Disney artist, Miguel who absolutely “got” my vision of telling their story of growing old together. This is fantastic because I’m not really good at communicating ideas like this. He’s creating it right now and I am like a kid on Christmas morning. I appreciate art, but have never bought anything like this before so it’s a little extra special. I’ve gone back to the shop 3 times and the artwork displayed are changed out to different movie characters every day, which makes me believe in the magic of meant to be. #up #dca #disneyland #art #artist #magic
You are my greatest adventure. 👩‍❤️‍👨🏠 #up #disneyland #dca @kcco_cowboy
Because adulting is for the birds. #disneyland #dca
There is absolutely no place like grandmas house and never enough minutes. Happy Thanksgiving!🍁
I practically have a new foot! {insert Thumper here} Since 2014, my right foot has never felt normal. It got a lot better over the years with physical therapy, but never back to normal. I’ll do my best to make this long story short, so🤞 I injured it running, was put in a boot for 9 weeks. It got worse, so I got a second opinion. Turns out my foot was shutting down due to poor circulation because I was staying off it & have Raynauds. My 2nd Podiatrist had me take the boot off & walk the halls of his office for awhile to get the circulation back. (Swipe R for pics) I spent 2 hours in PT that same day & felt immensely better. I continued PT for several months, but never made a full recovery. Later that year, I had hip surgery. Due to overcompensating post op, my foot flared up again. Since then, it’s definitely gotten a lot better, but has never been 100%. I learned to be okay with it, walking + hiking, (which I am still A OK with) but running was never in the cards. It just felt off. Until this week! This is where the magic totally happened! And by magic, I mean acupuncture. I’m seeing an acupuncturist for gut issues and one day last week I randomly asked her about treating my foot. She agreed and I felt tremendous relief of the stiff sore joint immediately. We did another session a few days later and it felt even better. You guys, I am SO shocked, but my acupuncturist is not.🤣 It took a bit to find the courage to try this running thing again, so here we are. Today I finally have hope my body can heal + will like running with the right support. If you made it this far, bless your little cotton headed ninny muggins.🙏🏻 Would you like me to share more about my experience with acupuncture + TCM? It’s cool if you say no.😌 Oh and please share your experiences in the comments. I genuinely want to read them!
2019 has been a year of miracles + misery and everything in between. I’ve learned a lot of life lessons this year. Some at my expense, some at others. Now that I’ve had some time off work, my mind finally has a chance to unwind and start to work through all that has happened. One of the biggest lessons learned, is that misery, happiness, pain, struggling and everything in between can all sit at the same table. And I find comfort in that. Oh and also that sick time is use it or lose it, so maybe don’t die before you use it all.

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