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I am super excited to once again be participating in the Holistic Health Expo at Unity on Greenville

– the beautiful, historic church building on Greenville Avenue at McCommas Ave.in Dallas.

It is happening this Saturday, October 5^th, from 11:00am to 6:00pm. I will be there from 11:00am until 2:00pm.

Their exact address is

Their website for more info is www.dallasunity.org

For those of you who attended one of my workshops when I led it in Dallas

: “Power and Passion: Cradling Our
Anger, Transforming Destructive Energy into Creative Power – a One Day
Retreat,” this is where it was
held. You may remember pictures of the
building on some of my flyers, or in the short intro video I made for the event.
It is an absolutely stunning space and worth going to the expo if only to see
it.

There will be a wide range of vendors there: from
acupuncture (me) to organic pet food! Come and see what your community has to
offer.

This year I will be offering free stress-relief group
acupuncture treatments at certain points during the day. The building is
currently being renovated, so all the health practitioners will be practicing
in the same room. Last year we had private rooms to work in at the event, and
hopefully next year we will be back to that.

One of my
favorite things about having a booth at a Health Expo is having the opportunity
to relax and just engage in conversation with a variety of people. Those of you
who have come to me in my acupuncture and Chinese medicine clinic in Dallas
know that during the course of a treatment, we spend a lot of time talking:
discussing your main reason for coming and any other concerns you might have,
and unearthing nitty gritty details about all your mind, body, and spirit
systems and symptoms. But during that conversation I am also thinking hard and
asking very specific questions that help lead me to the best way to treat you
from a Traditional Chinese medical perspective. Being at a health fair couldn’t
be more different. At a health expo I get to just hang out and socialize. Sure,
I talk a lot about acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine – I love how
fascinated people are with it. But I also get to meet other health care
professionals, some makers, and scores of people who are interested in learning
ways that they can be healthier and closer to the life they want. The last fair
I did I had really nice talks with a candle maker and a body-balm maker!

Last year at Unity’s Health Expo someone was there giving
out samples of kombucha to drink. I sure hope she’ll be back this year
(speaking of kombucha, a patient was surprised to hear that I had been brewing
my own kombucha since the mid-nineties. “Leave it to the weird kid who grew up
to be an herbalist,” I quipped).

In any case, this is all to say that if you’ve been a
patient of mine, I’d love for you to stop in and say “Hi.” If I haven’t met you
yet, please stop by and introduce yourself.

It’s Saturday, October 5^th, and I hope to see you
there.