Kristen Miracle L.Ac

New year, same us. We just get to be here, even if we're not new and improved versions of ourselves. We just get to be here. Happy 2024 to you all. I love you!

This week in clinic I’m reminded again and again the truth of Ocean Vuong’s words, “The body is the ultimate witness to love.”

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What’s going on in there? What can you begin to notice?

“Interoception is the capacity to feel one’s present body through emotions, sensations, and different body states.”
- Manuela Mischke Reeds, Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox

I love to sit with my acupuncture patients and TRE clients and ask them to notice what’s happening inside. It’s a whole universe in there full of resources.
By tracking our internal experience, we begin to anchor our attention into the layers of our body and return to a place of truth, of authenticity, and deeper knowing of who we really are. The body doesn’t lie. Sometimes who or what we *think* we are keeps us limited, small, and reduced to what we can be certain of, whereas using interoception, we get to discover who we are and what we are by *feeling* the truth of our experience directly.

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After sharing with a patient that one of my goals this year was to focus on getting more rest, she shared this super valuable article detailing the seven kinds of rest each person needs. Seven kinds of rest, here we go!

The 7 types of rest that every person needs Are you getting your seven or eight hours of sleep a night — yet you still feel exhausted? Here’s why that could be happening, according to physician Saundra Dalton-Smith.