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Federal Adoption Tax Credit – Get Reimbursed For Adoption Expenses by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine For some families, children arrive biologically and for others they arrive through adoption. Either way the joy of holding a child is equally thrilling and overwhelmingly ... Read on »

10 Tips To Get Your Inner Glow Going (Because Researchers Declare Today the Most Depressing Day of... by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Researchers – who, exactly, I can’t tell you, but they exist, I promise – declare the 3rd Monday in January as the most depressing day of the year. The buzz of the holiday ... Read on »

This New Years – Don’t Try So Hard by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine This is my resolution. It seems cultural to me that New Years is all about starting over, making rules and being strict with ourselves. One thing I have discovered for mys ... Read on »

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Happy Winter Solstice 2012! Not the End of the World…The Beginning! by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Winter Solstice 2012 – Not the End of the World! I hope everyone has a beautiful day and night today and that we all make room for a few moments of quiet to mark th ... Read on »

Take Care Of your Body, But Don’t Forget To Care For The Spirit Too by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine I love planting my spring garden and then going with my children every day to see if that first seedling is sprouting – still wearing the hard dry broken shell on its head ... Read on »

Fertility Treatment Costs are Tax Deductible by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine I don’t know why I have not heard this before in all the time I’ve been doing fertility acupuncture, but last night a fertility client told me her accountant informed her ... Read on »

Eating Pineapple to Help Make a Baby by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine A Pineapple a day….actually, current belief is a fifth of a pineapple core a day can help with implantation. Sound funny? Maybe not. The Chinese have long taught that eat ... Read on »

Attracting Wealth with Feng Shui by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Here’s a good and fun exercise to start off the new year – arrange your home or office to attract wealth. Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of arranging objects and ... Read on »

Bye Bye Headaches! by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine I have a friend whose New Year’s resolution is to finally start getting treatment for the chronic headaches she’s suffered from for years. That gave me the idea to post on ... Read on »

Welcome 2012! by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine New Year’s Day! A great time for new beginnings. Of course Chinese New Year isn’t until the first new moon of the year, which usually falls around early February, but here ... Read on »

Mid-Winter Stillness by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Happy Solstice – or a little bit after solstice by the time I post this. Winter solstice is one of my favorite nights of the year. It is the darkest, shortest night of the ... Read on »

Chinese Food Therapy – Eat Foods That Heal Your Type by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” - Hippocrates To the Chinese, food is medicine. We Americans rarely think of our food this way. We kn ... Read on »

Father’s Day Treat(ment) – Best Points and Herbs for Men by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Happy Fathers Day! To all the men out there, you don’t have to have kids to be a father figure/mentor/role model and that’s what counts! In Chinese medicine, the male i ... Read on »

Summer Solstice! Longest Day of the Year! by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine It’s the longest day of the year. The Chinese celebrate Li, the Goddess of Light, on this day. This is one of my favorite nights of the year. It is considered a sacred tim ... Read on »

Home Herbalist – How To Make Your Own Tinctures by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Tinctures are wonderful natural health remedies that have been used for centuries. The Chinese use them frequently as they are an easy way to get the medicinal qualities o ... Read on »

Study Shows How Acupuncture Relieves Pain, Improves Fertility by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Ground-breaking research has identified the link between specific acupuncture practices and effective treatment of severe and chronic pain conditions. The research con ... Read on »

Moms’ Garden by Heather@newleafhealing Posted in: Blog Posts in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Hi all. It’s another sweltering day in CT – 95 and humid, in June! I have a very sad looking little garden this year as I was focusing on fixing up our old house this ... Read on »

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