Welcome to everyone who just found me through Ran Prieur’s site, as well as my regular readers.
I’m an acupuncturist. More than that, I have a particular passion and interest in the narrative of your physiology, your energy, your symptoms, and your history, and your life path, hokey as that last might sound. It’s diagnosis writ large.
I have a soft spot for primitivists, rewilders, back-to-the-landers, etc. Especially to those trying to carve out something different in this rapacious world. I’m also keenly aware that you all are the least likely to have funds to afford the amounts of money I’m forced to charge my regular patients in order to remain solvent as a business.
So I’m making this offer, just to you primitive types. Based on my time, energy, and health, and your motivation and attitude, I’m willing to have a consultation with you about your health problems. An hour or so, up to two hours. A treatment might be included. Mostly, I’d sit down and talk to you about your issues, and I’d spend some time taking your pulse, one of my specialties. The cost is nothing; it’s all free. Donations are welcome, but definitely not an obligation.
So here are the limits. I won’t travel, you’d have to come to me. I won’t put you up at my house. And I will veto anything or anybody I don’t feel good about. If I feel any sort of games being played, you’re out. My empathy only goes so far.
I’m not going to trumpet this offer anywhere. It’s definitely not designed to market my business—as you might be able to tell, I keep my last name and business name off this blog in the distant hope that random people can’t Google me and find me that way.
And I’m definitely not saying I’m some great health care god, because I’m not in the best shape myself, and because I still have a lot to learn about all aspects of medicine. So let’s dispel that right there. Nor am I saying that I’m the only or the best option. In fact, one of my friends and former teachers, up in Portland, runs his whole practice on a gift economy basis. He’s been in the business longer and has a more suitable model for long-term care.
I’m just putting this out there because it’s what I would’ve wanted, back when I was an aspiring primitivist with health problems; because I’m tired of the business side of my business and want to work with worthy people; and because I want to support a movement I currently don’t have the energy to participate in much.
If you’re interested, and you’re in Oregon, or will be, contact me. Let me know who you are and what you’re all about. Include a picture, if at all possible.
Of course, I reserve the right to discontinue it if I get too overwhelmed. But as long as this post is up and still says the offer’s good, then the offer’s still good.
You can’t do it alone. The society we live in is so sick at the core that the damaged number in the millions.
Lean those pushed by the North Wind up against those pushed by the South. Tie the shy to the eternally talkative. Encourage the hyperactive to sit and the narcoleptic to dance.
I’m probably wrong about all of this. My spirit was deeply damaged and many years of Tai Chi practice undone by despair. Still a core holds.
May your foolish enterprise thrive.
I wish you were over here in NC—I’d so take you up on that offer! I’m enjoying your blog, BTW!
Well Africa’s a bit far away but hey, next time I’m in the US and more specifically your corner of the woods I’ll be sure to give you a bell.