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Acupuncture clinic specializing in pain relief, holisitic skincare, fertility and women's health in Presidio Heights, San Francisco.

11/04/2026

Fall Into Flow State
Flow state (n.): being so fully immersed in the moment that time disappears, and everything feels effortless.
I’ll be leading … at the “Fall into Flow State” event hosted by ,
SF's newest, most authentic, and educational women's wellness social club. Expect…. some useful insights to work with the energetics and support your seasonal alignment, an optional acupuncture treatment, yoga flow and sound bath extravaganza.
On the schedule:
Yoga with
Meditation
Sound Bath from Founder, Simone
Acupuncture
Fall wellness talk with yours truly :)
Tea service

Sunday, November 15 | 11:30 AM – 2 PM
SF Zen Center, 300 Page St.
Only 13 spots. An intimate circle of 13 women. Come as you are, leave connected, encouraged, and grounded.
Use my code “TCM” for 10% off your ticket.
Tickets sold at womeonfwellnesssf.com
Restore. Rejuvenate. Reset.

11/03/2026

Somebody handed you a number and suddenly it became the most important thing in the whole emotional landscape. Not how you feel. Not anything else. The number. AMH. Follicle count. Motility. One measurement, delivered flatly, and now you're making enormous decisions around it.

Here's what doesn't get said enough: those numbers are a snapshot of a system, and systems respond to input. Egg quality is not fixed. Eggs take roughly 90 days to mature before release, and throughout that window they're affected by blood flow, inflammation, sleep, thyroid function and stress hormones — essentially, the entire environment they're developing in.

S***m regenerates on a similar timeline, about 74 days. This is the window. Three months is where the work happens, and it's the same three months for both partners.
Which brings up the thing I say in every fertility consult: this is not one person's project. Roughly 1/3 of fertility challenges involve a male factor, and s***m quality responds beautifully to treatment, often faster than egg quality does. Bring your partner in.

What we're actually doing: improving circulation to the ovaries and te**es, reducing
inflammation, regulating the cycle, supporting the luteal phase, and getting both nervous systems out of the state that's been suppressing all of it. This works alongside IVF and IUI, not instead of. I can coordinate with your clinic and time
treatments to your protocol — especially, pre-transfer and post-transfer.

Whether or not you're doing ART, everything improves along the way: sleep, energy, mood, cycles, etc. These improvements are not a consolation prize, they are signals that the mechanism is balancing.

If you are trying, or about to start, three months out is the right time to begin. Link in my bio to book a free 15 minute consultation.

11/01/2026

The bravest thing I watch patients do is not push through. We've built an entire culture around powering through. "Powering through" is a trait people list on
purpose. Rest gets framed as something you earn afterward, and since there is no afterward, nobody rests.

However, this is what I've noticed in my treatment room: the people who get better fastest aren't the most disciplined. They're the ones who can say out loud in their lives, "I need to stop for a minute," and then actually stop. They carve out time for themselves and they listen to the signals that their bodies are showing them. This takes more nerve than pushing does. Pushing is the easy one. Pushing means you never have to find out what happens when you're not producing or constantly in motion.

In Chinese Medicine, autumn is the season of the Lungs, and the Lungs are about taking in and letting out. Breath is the most basic rhythm you have, and it has a pause built into it. Inhale, exhale, pause. The pause isn't a gap in the rhythm. It is part of the rhythm.

A body that never pauses is a body that never fully exhales. This isn't a metaphor, it's shallow breathing... and it's what many people are doing all day long. So the ask this week is small, and it is not a productivity hack. Somewhere today, stop mid-thing, mid-task, mid-action- and not at a natural break. Exhale for one breath all the way out, longer than your inhale.

This is the whole practice. Your nervous system processes a complete exhale as evidence that nothing is currently chasing you.... And if you can't find the pause, or you find it and your body won't take it? Well, that's information in and of itself and it's exactly what I treat.

Book a free 15 minute consultation using the link in my bio

10/29/2026

You don't want to look twenty-five, but you do want to stop looking exhausted in photos when you feel fine. That's a completely different request, and almost nothing on the market is built for it.

Most cosmetic work adds something or freezes something. Filler adds volume. Neurotoxin stops movement. Both work, and both are a decision to change what your face does. Cosmetic acupuncture goes the other direction.

We increase circulation to the face, stimulate your own collagen, and release muscles that have been holding tension for years: the jaw, the brow, that spot between your eyes where you've been concentrating since 2009. What patients say afterward is almost never "I look younger." It's "I look amazing! I didn’t know I
could look this good." Or "I look BETTER than I did 10 years ago". That's the actual goal.
Your face still moves. Your expressions still belong to you. You just stop
looking like you're bracing. Here's what makes this different from a facial: it's a whole-body treatment. I'm needling your face and also treating your digestion, your sleep, your hormones — because those are what your skin is reporting on.

In Chinese Medicine, the face is where the whole system shows itself. So people come in for their skin and leave sleeping better. That happens constantly. A series is 12 treatments, monthly. You’ll start noticing the changes stay around the third or fourth treatment . And people will start asking you what’s different even before then.

If you're tired of looking tired, let's talk. Book a free 15 minute consultation using the link in my bio.

10/27/2026

You've had the same knot in the same spot for so long that it's basically “how your neck is”. You’ve lost hope for “normal neck” (Is there actually even such a thing? Yes, there is.) Massage helps for two days. The stretches help while you're doing them. You've bought the pillow, the desk riser, the little massage gun, but nothing holds.

Here's why nothing holds:
That muscle isn't tight because it's weak or because your posture is bad. It's tight because it's doing a job — holding your head up against a screen for nine hours, and holding your nervous system's tension on top of that. It does not get to clock out.
Release it without changing why it's contracting and it'll be back by Thursday.
What my patients describe:
- Worse by 3pm, every day
- Headaches that start at the base of the skull
- One specific spot you can find with your thumb, always the same one
- Numbness or tingling down the arm
- Shoulders living up near your ears, and you don't notice until someone mentions it.

Acupuncture releases the actual band of tissue, not just the surface, but we're also treating why it's gripping in the first place, which is usually a nervous system that's been in low-grade defense for years.
This is the difference between two days of relief and relief that stays.

If you've been managing the same knot for years, let's actually change it. Book a free 15 minute consult using the link in my bio.

10/26/2026

Flow state (n.): being so fully immersed in the moment that time disappears, and everything feels effortless.

I’ll be leading… at the “Fall into Flow State” event hosted by , SF’s newest, most authentic, and educational women’s wellness social club. You can expect… autumnal and winter seasonal support, lovely herbal tea tasting, movement, sound healing and an optional acupuncture treatment by me!

On the schedule:
Yoga with
Meditation
Sound Bath from Founder, Simone
Acupuncture by yours truly :)
Fall wellness talk
Tea

Sunday, November 15 | 11:30 am- 2:00 pm
SF Zen Center, 300 Page St.

Only 13 spots. An intimate circle of 13 women. Come as you are, leave connected, encouraged, and grounded. Use my code “TCM” for 10% off your ticket. Early bird ends 11/1

Tickets sold at womenofwellnesssf.com
�Restore. Rejuvenate. Reset.

10/25/2026

Your skin has changed and you can't point to when it happened. Not exactly wrinkles, but more in texture because it stopped bouncing back... and makeup sits differently. You look tired in photos when you don't feel tired.

Collagen production drops about 1% a year after twenty, and considerably faster after menopause. Nothing you put on top of your skin builds collagen, because topicals don't reach the layer where collagen is made.

Microneedling does. It creates thousands of controlled micro-injuries in the dermis, and your body answers by producing new collagen and elastin to repair them. You're not adding anything to your face. You're getting your own tissue to rebuild.

What changes: texture, firmness, pore size, fine lines, scarring, tone. It's gradual, and it looks like you — this isn't filler and it won't make you a different person. Here's why I do this in an acupuncture practice and not a med spa. Skin is an organ, and it
reports on what's happening underneath it. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, skin is governed by the lungs. If your digestion is off, or you are inflamed, or maybe you're feeling depleted, then your skin will tell on all of it. Everything is connected.

I treat the skin and the system at the same time, which is why the results hold.
A series is usually 3 to 6 sessions, four weeks apart. Curious what it could do for your skin? Book a free 15 minute consultation using the link in my bio.

10/24/2026

Food is medicine, and I don't mean that aspirationally. I mean these five things do specific physical work in a body during this season, and every one of them is cheap and available!
Ginger - The one I'd keep if I could only keep one. It warms digestion from the inside, moves things along when they're sluggish, and it's the first thing I reach for at the very first hint of a cold — fresh, sliced, in hot water, plus a lot of rest. Put it in everything.

Daikon radish. The most underrated vegetable in an American kitchen. It breaks up phlegm and congestion and helps you digest heavy food. Stuffy, coughing, feeling thick and sluggish? Eat daikon. Grate it raw into a salad or throw it in soup.

Pumpkin and winter squash. Sweet, orange, warming, gently strengthening to digestion without being heavy. This is the food equivalent of getting your feet back under you. Roast it, eat it in soup and consume more than once a week.

Cinnamon. Warming, aromatic, and it promotes circulation and prevents heart disease. In oatmeal, with chocolate, in coffee, in baked goods.

Real chicken broth. Actually simmered, not from a carton. This is the base of my entire fall. It builds you back up when you're depleted, it's the easiest thing in the world to digest when nothing appeals, and it's the first thing I recommend to anyone recovering from being sick.
If you can't find the time to make your own, bone broth from a box will make do.

Notice what these have in common. Warm. Cooked. Aromatic. Moving.
That's the whole principle of eating in fall — your digestion has less capacity as the weather turns, and raw, cold food asks it to work harder at exactly the wrong moment.

Put the salads and cold foods down until spring, your digestion will thank you.

What's in your fall rotation? Tell me in the comments, I'm always looking!
And if your digestion has been struggling no matter what you eat and food alone won't fix it, that's what I'm here for.

Link in my bio to book a free 15 minute consultation.

10/23/2026

Fall Into Flow State

Flow state (n.): being so fully immersed in the moment that time disappears, and everything feels effortless.

I’ll be leading… at the “Fall into Flow State” event hosted by , SF’s newest, most authentic, and educational women’s wellness social club. Expect… autumnal and winter wellness support, a delicious homemade tea blend, sound healing and movement flow with an optional acupuncture treatment by yours truly.

On the schedule:
Yoga with
Meditation
Sound Bath from Founder, Simone
Acupuncture by me! :)
Fall wellness talk
Tea

Sunday, November 15 | 11:30 am- 2:00 pm
SF Zen Center, 300 Page St.

Only 13 spots. An intimate circle of 13 women. Come as you are, leave connected, encouraged, and grounded. Use my code “TCM” for 10% off your ticket. Early bird ends 11/1

Tickets sold at womenofwellnesssf.com
�Restore. Rejuvenate. Reset.

10/22/2026

"Heavy" doesn't cover the actual description of what you're dealing with. Your period requires actual planning and logistics: doubling up, an extra pair of clothes, knowing where every bathroom is located, or the anemia somebody told you to take iron for without ever asking why. Fibroids are extremely common and extremely undertreated.

The options you've been offered are probably "wait and see", hormonal birth control, or surgery — which is an enormous gap between doing nothing and having a procedure. Most people are living in that gap. What Traditional Chinese Medicine works on is the environment. Fibroids grow where circulation is poor and things aren't moving. We call it blood stagnation. Improving that circulation is what changes
the bleeding, the clotting, the pressure and the pain.

Let me be straight about outcomes: acupuncture and herbs will not dissolve a large fibroid. What they reliably change is how much it runs your life. Lighter periods. Fewer clots. Less pressure. Better iron, because you're losing less.

For al ot of my patients, that's the difference between scheduling a surgery and not needing one. If your period has become a logistics problem, let's chat. Link in my bio to book a free 15 minute consultation.

Address

3638 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA
94118

Telephone

(415)6853866

Website

http://www.abaloneacupuncture.com/

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