well, it's been over a month since i took the last dose of my latest remedy, and except for the first week or so, there's been no positive change in my emotional state. on the contrary, i feel like i'm sliding into the grey grey grey of apathy. so i phoned my homeopath today. she's on vacation. i'm not going to call her replacement, because she ( Read more... )

1. anyone out there with repetitive strain injury (RSI) and/or thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) who is willing to let me practice therapeutic massage on them? last weekend i completed a two-day advanced course aimed at treating these issues, and now i need to practice in order to cement the session sequence and techniques into my memory. ideally, ( Read more... )

...but in the meantime, this is all i've got ( Read more... )

so, as it turns out, i won't be completing the last few weekends of the school year at the homeopathy school, including the finals weekend. instead i will be taking a series of massage classes that i've been putting off the entire school year because they always conflict with my homeopathy class schedule in some significant way (or vice versa). i ( Read more... )

i've been thinking a lot about what i want to make happen in my life. especially now that i don't have a job, and it's looking more and more like i'll be able to support myself by liquidating some (a lot!) of my current (non-college/non-retirement) assets, i feel like i have the opportunity to make some things happen a lot sooner than i would have ( Read more... )

very early in his medical career samuel hahnemann realized that the practice of medicine was actually very dangerous, even life-threatening, for the patient -- oftentimes a patient was made worse from a physician's treatment. of course, this was back in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when blood-letting was common practice, and ( Read more... )