READ THE BLOG
not your typical acupuncturist’s blog
Prior to becoming an acupuncturist, I was ravenous for information on the medicine.
I scoured the early aughts internet for anything I could find, but there were too many missing pieces. Tragedy struck the psychology lab I worked in, and I made the decision to switch from helping people through a western lens to helping people through an eastern lens.
Now, I get to write some of that content that I had hoped to find…
…and it turns out that a decade into practice, what I write about is not at all what I would have expected from myself back then… and that’s ok. I think some of it is better, because rather than being an encyclopedia of acupuncture knowledge, this blog views life through the lens of Chinese medicine, which helps you understand better how it can help you in your everyday life.
xo, Chryssa
Boosting Immunity
As an acupuncturist, I’m going to break down the spirit of what “boosting” immunity means. No, it doesn’t mean making your immune system so robust that it starts attacking itself: it means looking at your living self as the system that you are, acknowledging the interconnectedness, and using those facts as basic tenets of living in your body before reading any further.
I’ll wait.
Breathwork
Breathwork at Well Collab Acupuncture is not:
Easy, lol. Because it is work, and I don’t want you to think that you’re breathing softly and mindfully for 10-15 minutes and that’s it. There are meditations like that; this just isn’t one of them.
Using acupuncture to increase your capacity to hold two opposing views at the same time.
Western medicine consistently questions or is ignorant of the basic principles of Eastern medicine, and yet insists on studying from its own perspective.
When people say “I don’t believe in acupuncture,” I often respond with, “That’s ok, because it’s not a faith based medicine.”
Microdosing on Presence.
So even the ways we ground ourselves — cultivating yin, which is the flip side of yang — are actually, pretty ironically, still very yang in the framework of their nature.
Hour long meditations. Using relaxing melody apps on your phone. Hour long relaxing melody apps on your phone… while you get acupuncture.
"Wellness"
Like anything where you learn, acupuncture treatments have a layering effect.
Treatment one is lesson one with a teacher.
Treatment ten is lesson ten.
You are much smarter after ten lessons than you were after one, believe me.
Signed, your teacher.
That Time We Almost Adopted a Costa Rican Dog... Together.
In 2016, Well Collab Acupuncture started as Acupuncture of Tarrytown: a collaborative project between two best friends who had weathered living together in a railroad apartment in Brooklyn and figured… we could do pretty much anything together, after that experience.