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We (meaning me through Kuna Kung Fu) have been BUSY recently! First getting ready for as part of Boise's 4th of July p...
07/11/2026

We (meaning me through Kuna Kung Fu) have been BUSY recently! First getting ready for as part of Boise's 4th of July parade, then today we were the opening performance for the Vietnamese culture festival in Julius kleiner Park! I give a lot of credit to my students, who worked hard and stepped up to make these performances look amazing! The crowd ate it up, we had a great time, and we had many people come find us after to say how great we did... Awesome!

And now that you've had a glimpse of the other skills I bring to the table, let's get back to talking about health topics again 😉

06/09/2026

When I was an intern, I had a patient with severe low back pain following a car accident. This wasn't a straightforward case. His mobility was low, his pain was high, and I was an intern — I didn't have decades of clinical experience to draw on. What I had was the medicine. And the medicine, it turns out, has a lot to work with.

This is something people don't always appreciate about Chinese Medicine until they've experienced it: the toolkit is enormous. Acupuncture point selection alone offers hundreds of combinations depending on the pattern you're treating. Add in needling technique, adjunct therapies like cupping or moxibustion, dietary recommendations, therapeutic exercise — and you have a system that can approach the same problem from multiple directions until you find the one that unlocks it for that specific person. We often hand-wave it and say it's Holistic, but that's such an underwhelming term and it does so little justice to what the medicine is capable of.

What made it possible for him to get better wasn't just the medicine. It was him. He kept showing up. He trusted the process even when progress was slower than either of us wanted. He was willing to work with an intern who was still building his clinical toolkit, and his patience made it possible for the treatment to do what it needed to do.

That story has stayed with me because it illustrates something I try to communicate to every patient I see: the same patience and consistency that builds your health through self-care is the same patience and consistency that allows acupuncture to fully do its job. The medicine works — but it works over time, and it sometimes takes a few attempts to find precisely the right approach for your body.

If you've tried acupuncture before and stopped before things fully shifted — I'd gently encourage you to consider that the process may not have been finished yet.

Free 15-minute consultation — call or text (208) 962-1849, or use the link in bio.

06/08/2026

Got a patient win this week and I have to share it — because this is exactly why I do this work.

Two things I want to highlight from this case that I think matter for anyone considering acupuncture — or anyone who's tried it before and didn't get the results they hoped for.

First: I genuinely care whether you get better. That probably sounds like something every practitioner says, but I mean it in a specific way. Your outcome matters to me beyond the appointment. I'm thinking about your case between sessions. When something isn't working the way I expected, I'm not moving on — I'm reassessing. Your progress is not something I track passively.

Second: treatment is not a fixed protocol. This is something that separates good acupuncture from mediocre acupuncture, good medicine from bad medicine, and it's worth saying plainly. If what we're doing isn't producing the results I expect in the timeframe I expect them, I change the approach. Different points, different techniques, different adjunct therapies, different self-care recommendations. Chinese Medicine gives me an enormous toolkit — there is almost always another angle to try. I will not keep doing the same thing and hope for different results.

These two things together — genuine investment in your outcome, and willingness to adapt until we find what works for your specific body — are what I'd want from any practitioner treating me. It's what I try to bring to every patient I see.

If you've been on the fence, or if you've tried acupuncture before and it didn't quite land — come in. Let's figure out what your body actually needs.

Free 15-minute consultation — call or text (208) 962-1849, or use the link in bio.

06/05/2026

Here's one of my favorite exercises for shoulder pain — I call it Teacups, and yes, the camera angle is a little awkward. Bear with me.

The movement is simple, but what makes this useful is what it does underneath the surface. The palm-up position engages the shoulder in a way that most daily movements don't, recruiting the stabilizing muscles around the rotator cuff and encouraging circulation through structures that tend to get compressed and stagnant when a shoulder is hurting. Moving through your available range — rather than bracing around the painful arc — also gives your nervous system new information about what's safe. That matters more than most people realize.

Try it right now if your shoulder has been bothering you. Do it slowly. What you notice is actually useful clinically — it tells me something about what's going on before you even sit down.

This is the kind of thing I teach patients to do between appointments. Acupuncture does the deeper work of reducing inflammation, improving circulation, and addressing the root pattern — but what you do between sessions determines how quickly and how completely you recover. Self-care isn't an afterthought here. It's part of the treatment plan.

If you try this and notice some relief, that's not a coincidence — and it's also not the whole solution. Come in and let's address what's actually driving the problem.

Free 15-minute consultation — call or text (208) 962-1849, or use the link in bio.

06/04/2026

People sometimes find out I run a Kung Fu school and aren't quite sure what to make of that.

But it makes perfect sense to me! The two practices are not as separate as they look from the outside.

Hung Ga Kung Fu is rooted in the same tradition as Chinese Medicine — the same understanding of Qi, of how the body generates and circulates energy, of what it means to build a human being rather than just train one. When I was deep in my Kung Fu training, I kept running into concepts that pointed me toward acupuncture. The meridian system wasn't abstract theory — I could feel it in my own body during practice. The connection between emotional states and physical function wasn't philosophical — I watched it play out in the school every week. When I finally admitted to myself that it was real, the logical next step was to study it formally.

So Kung Fu led me to this medicine-but it also made me better at practicing it.

Understanding how the body actually moves — how force is generated, where tension accumulates, how compensation patterns develop over time — gives me a clinical perspective that's hard to get from a textbook. When a patient comes in with shoulder pain, I'm not just thinking about meridians and points. I'm thinking about the mechanics of how that shoulder has been used and misused, what the surrounding structures are doing, how the whole kinetic chain is involved. That combination of frameworks gives me more to work with.

I also think the Kung Fu training made me a more patient clinician. You don't get good at either of these things quickly. Both require you to stay humble, keep learning, and trust the process.

I didn't plan for the two practices to inform each other this deeply. But I'm glad they do — and I think my patients benefit from it.

If you're curious about what care looks like here, start with a free 15-minute consultation.
📞 (208) 962-1849 | Link in bio to book.

06/03/2026

If you've been told you have sciatica, there's something worth knowing.

"Sciatica" has become a catch-all diagnosis for pain that radiates down the back of the leg — and while that description fits a lot of people, it doesn't mean they all have the same thing. True sciatica involves compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve itself, usually from a disc or spinal issue. But a significant number of people walking around with a sciatica diagnosis are actually dealing with something else entirely — piriformis syndrome, SI joint dysfunction, referred pain from deep gluteal muscles, or other conditions that produce nearly identical symptoms through completely different mechanisms.

This matters because the treatment that works for one doesn't necessarily work for the other.
It also explains why some people do everything right — physical therapy, rest, injections, anti-inflammatories — and still don't get better. They're treating the label, not the actual pattern.

This is where acupuncture has a real advantage. I'm not working from the diagnosis on your paperwork. I'm assessing what's actually happening in your body — where the tension is, where circulation is compromised, what's referring where and why — and treating that. Whether your pain is coming from your spine, your piriformis, your SI joint, or somewhere else entirely, the treatment is built around your specific presentation.

I see this pattern regularly, and it responds well.
If you've been managing pain that hasn't fully resolved — especially if you've already tried other approaches — it's worth a conversation.

Free 15-minute consultation — call or text (208) 962-1849, or use the link in bio.

05/16/2026

This one is specifically for my fellow disabled veterans.

I know what it's like to carry a body that was changed by service. The chronic pain that became background noise because you got tired of mentioning it. The sleep that hasn't been right in years. The nervous system that still hasn't gotten the memo that you're not downrange anymore. The way you've learned to just push through, because that's what you were trained to do, and because the alternative — navigating the VA — sometimes feels harder than the problem itself.
I get it. I'm not saying that as a practitioner who treats veterans. I'm saying it as one of you.
Here's what I want you to know:

The VA covers acupuncture for eligible disabled veterans. That means you may be able to receive care at no out-of-pocket cost. I will work with your VA benefits, and if we need to sort out the paperwork together to make that happen — and I'll be honest, paperwork is my least favorite part of this job — I'll do it. Because getting you the care that actually makes a difference matters more than the administrative headache of getting there.

I also specialize in Battlefield Acupuncture — an ear acupuncture protocol developed specifically for military use and pain management. It's fast, effective, and something I've invested in specifically because of who I want to serve.
You've done enough hard things. This part I can help make easier.

Reach out directly — call or text (208) 962-1849, or use the link in bio. If you're not sure where to start with your VA benefits, contact me anyway and we'll figure it out together.

05/15/2026

Let's talk about cost, because it's the question people don't always ask but are almost always thinking about.

Insurance: I accept select insurance plans for acupuncture. If you have coverage, we'll work with it — you'll just want to reach out about a week in advance so I can verify your benefits before your first appointment. Coverage varies a lot by plan, so it's worth a quick check.

Without insurance: A 90-minute initial appointment is $140. Follow-ups are $100. If you're comparing that to what you've been spending on co-pays, imaging, medications, or procedures that haven't resolved the underlying problem — most of my patients find it compares pretty favorably.

Here's the framing I'd offer: Acupuncture isn't a luxury expense. It's a clinical intervention that addresses root causes rather than managing symptoms indefinitely. A treatment plan that actually resolves something is less expensive than a lifetime of managing it.

I keep my prices straightforward and accessible on purpose. This community is my community — I live and practice here, and I want people to be able to afford real care.

If cost is a genuine barrier, reach out anyway. I'd rather have a conversation than have someone go without care they need.

Free 15-minute consultation to start — no commitment, no pressure.

📞 (208) 962-1849 | Link in bio to book.

05/14/2026

Most people come to me because something hurts, or isn't working, or has stopped responding to whatever they've been trying.That's fine, it's what I'm here for.

But the thing I actually love most about this work is what happens after the acute stuff settles — when we start talking about how you take care of yourself between appointments. Because that's where the real leverage is.

Your body is sending you information constantly. Fatigue that shows up at the same time every day. Cravings that spike when you're stressed. Sleep that falls apart when you skip breakfast. Tension that lives in the same spot in your right shoulder no matter what you do. Most people have learned to ignore these signals, or interpret them as normal, or manage them with caffeine and ibuprofen and willpower.

They're not noise. They're data.

Part of what I do in treatment is help you read that data — and then build a small, specific set of self-care practices around what your body is actually telling you. Not a generic wellness routine you found online. Yours. Based on your constitution, your patterns, your life.
Sometimes that's an acupressure point you can hit at your desk when the afternoon crash comes. Sometimes it's a dietary adjustment that addresses the root of something you thought was just your personality. Sometimes it's understanding that the thing you've been pushing through for three years is a pattern with a name and a solution.

I treated someone today and we spent as much time talking about their self-care framework as we did on the table. That's a normal appointment here.

You don't have to be in crisis to benefit from this. And you don't have to figure it out alone.

Free 15-minute consultation — link in bio, or call/text (208) 962-1849.

05/13/2026

Migraines are a difficult condition to treat in conventional medicine — not because they're mysterious, but because they're different for everyone.
One person's migraine is a pounding temple and nausea that puts them in a dark room for two days. Another person's is a visual aura with no headache at all. Another is relentless pressure behind one eye that antidepressants somehow help. The mechanisms overlap but they aren't the same, which is why the same medication works brilliantly for one patient and does nothing for the next.

This is actually where Chinese Medicine has an advantage.

We don't treat "migraines." We treat YOU — the specific pattern showing up in your body. Is this a Liver Qi stagnation pattern that flares with stress and anger? A blood deficiency pattern that worsens around your cycle? A cold-damp pattern that responds to weather changes? Each one looks different, and each one gets a different treatment.

I've seen acupuncture change migraine patterns more consistently than almost any other condition I treat - migraine treatments, specifically, were what convinced my family this stuff works! The research backs that up too.

If you've been white-knuckling through them, or cycling through medications that half-work, it's worth a conversation.

Free 15-minute consultation — link in bio, or call/text (208) 962-1849.

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190 W Main Street
Kuna, ID
83634

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