Bio

I grew up in a small town in rural Maine where there were no streets, and my first school had one room and two stu­dents. I was taught from an early age the value of nour­ish­ment, and to ap­pre­ci­ate the source whether it came from the ground, the woods, or the gro­cery store.

In the early nineties, a sud­den life-chang­ing ill­ness brought this ap­pre­ci­a­tion to a whole new level. After years of at­tempt­ing to reach a di­ag­no­sis, I re­al­ized that to truly heal, I need­ed to be will­ing to take my health (phys­i­cal­ly, men­tal­ly, and spir­i­tu­al­ly) into my own hands.  This heal­ing pro­cess has taught me to live a full and vi­brant life, and is the very foun­da­tion of my prac­tice today.

I have ex­plored many heal­ing modal­i­ties, but some of the most pro­found changes have oc­curred in a dif­fer­ent kind of treat­ment room … my kitchen.  I spent sev­er­al years de­vot­ed to ex­plor­ing new ways of nour­ish­ing my­self. I read, I cooked, I tast­ed a whole new world of food, and I began to lis­ten more deeply to what my body was ask­ing for … and it told me.

Dur­ing this time, I also dis­cov­ered acupunc­ture and Chi­nese medicine, which fur­ther helped me find bal­ance in my life. It showed me the im­por­tance of liv­ing in ac­cor­dance with the sea­sons and my en­vi­ron­ment, and to lis­ten to my body’s own in­di­vid­u­al needs. Over a decade later, I now share these prin­ci­ples with oth­ers, in the class­room, treat­ment room, and my fa­vorite room … the kitchen.

Whether I am practicing acupuncture, or teach­ing some­one to cook with whole foods, my great­est in­ten­tion is to teach simple acts of self-care that can lead to a rich, ful­fill­ing, and nour­ish­ing life.