Hi, I'm Jacki
My passion has always been health. I went to nursing school thinking that I would be a part of the healthcare of people. I quickly realized I was in the sick care and while western medicine has made some amazing advances, it is not really in the business of helping people to get and stay well with out pharmaceuticals.
I have suffered from depression and several medical issues as well. The first thing doctors wanted to do was to put me on medication to help “manage symptoms” with out looking at what was causing the medical or mental issue. I wanted more for myself and my health. I wanted solutions and tools to help me end the cycle of my suffering.
Auriculotherapist • Health & well-being Coach • Certified Functional Medicine Coach • Registered Nurse • Certified Qigong Coach & Instructor
Learning about the mind body emotion connection, I embarked upon a path to help myself and others heal from the emotional turmoil that can lead to disease. Practicing Qigong for over 20 years, it has helped me quiet my mind, open my heart and listen to my body.
My passion lies in seeing each person as an individual with individual ideas of what health means to them. I want to help you be your best self. I don’t work on a one size fits all model. Each person has their own individual and unique needs and I help each person individually.
I help people who suffer with anxiety, stress, or pain find relief without medications. Earseeds are just one of the tools I use to help my clients put their health into their own hands.
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The first mentioning of stimulating points on your ear to treat conditions elsewhere in the body was found in the text Huang-Di-Nei-Jing known as The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine and contains information that is over 4000 years old. Documentation of ear stimulation to treat varying issues was documented in Egypt, Greece as well a little later. Multiple references were made through out China all the way up to 1888. In a book on Chinese Medicine, Zhang Zhen wrote that stimulating the ear can have a therapeutic effect on the heart, lungs and kidneys. It is also known to treat symptoms of the common cold, back pain and headaches. In the 1950’s however, Dr. Paul Nogier after seeing a patient with a cauterized ear for back pain, dedicated his life to the research and study of Auriculotherapy. After a few years he made a profound discovery; the external ear is an outward projection of an upside down fetus where the corresponding body parts are super imposed on the ear. This information spread throughout Europe and China where they confirmed his findings and he became known as the Father of Auriculotherapy. At about the same time Dr. Lichen Huang was also studying Auriculotherapy and came up with the same results. She became known as the Mother of Auriculotherapy.
The history of earseeds
The ear is a microsystem of the entire body. There are over 200 points on the ear that correspond to a different part of the body. When you stimulate a point on the ear, it has a therapeutic effect on the corresponding body part.
When a point on the ear is stimulated it sends a signal to the brain. The brain takes that signal in and sends it to the part of the body being treated. Every point on the ear is connected to the nervous system through the nerve branches that are densely distributed through out the ear. When the nerve branches just under the surface of the ear are stimulated they release neurons. The neurons send an electrical signal to the brain. The brain then transports that signal to the corresponding body part that was stimulated on the ear.
Studies have shown this stimulation and electrical nerve sign activate the Homeostasis Regulating Mechanism, which in laymen’s terms means Auriculotherapy helps bring a balancing effect on the mind and body.
