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Original Post Date: June 12, 2012 by Faith The Office Blog is a place where our office staff, practitioners and clients can all share delicious vegan and vegetarian recipes, ideas on healthy living and inspirational stories. Feel free to add any comments or ideas that you might have on our posts to add to the fun!
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Doing a Food-Mood Journal: Cultivating Awareness

Original Post Date: April 23, 2013 by Jordan Hoffman Food is the first to hurt and the first to help. Fundamental to most everything I treat is how my patients care for themselves. In fact, the longer I am in clinical practice the more convinced I am that lifestyle will always offset even the best medical intervention. And what is often most within my patients’ control to change is how they choose to nourish their bodies. Unfortunately, there is so much conditioning and misinformation these days about food that a big part of my role in working with patients is to get back to basics and help them rediscover a deeper understanding and connection with their food. And the very first step in that process is doing a 7-day Food-Mood Journal to see where they are at with their choices and help them make connections between those choices and how they feel in their bodies. Here is how it works. For 7 days, you write down: • What you ate; • When you ate; • How you felt after you ate...
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Depression and Traditional Chinese Medicine: Treating the Mind and Body as One by Jordan Hoffman, L.Ac., Dipl. OM

Original Post Date: June 23, 2016 by Jordan Hoffman Case 1:  A 35 year old female presents with frequent colds and flus, allergies, has had asthma since she was 16 years of age, around the time there was a death in her immediate family, and depression. Case 2:  A 21 year old female college student complains of indigestion, recurrent yeast infections, long hours of studying, poor eating habits, and depression. Case 3:  A 43 year old male complains of high blood pressure, Hepatitis C, stress, 2:30am wake ups every night, anger and frustration over his career, and depression. Three completely different presentations, yet all three patients complain of depression.  In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), we see the body and mind as inseparable; the health of one affects and reflects the health of the other.  We look at the patient’s collection of signs and symptoms, be they physical, mental or emotional, as indicators of organ system imbalance, and we ...
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