Being an Acupuncturist is a unique career choice & my days are spent carefully listening to many, often painful & very personal, stories. This is an honour I cherish & hold with reverence, your sacred story.
I am often asked to share my story, one of loss, despair & an eventual paradigm shift that guided me to practice acupuncture.
At 26 years old I was a peace loving, rollerblading vegetarian 🌈✌️I had a massage & Reiki business in the City & I was fit, happy & healthy. By then I was married & I had been on the contraceptive pill for 12 years straight. My conscience began to suggest that, while we didn’t want babies, a break from the pill was probably a fantastic idea.
So, I stopped taking it.
18 months later my period had not returned. Due to the aforementioned rollerblading vegetarianism I hadn’t been too concerned, however now I was really beginning to worry, especially for my baby making future.
I went to the GP to see what was going on.
I had blood tests & a scan, each revealing no hidden clues. The doctor was perplexed & requested I see a specialist. I found myself in the gynaecologists office, listening with wide eyed curiosity while he suggested that I go on the pill.
Me : But i’ve just been on the pill, for a very long time.
Him : Yes and if you go back on the pill your period will return.
Me : (disillusioned) There isn’t something else? Surely there is something else. A herb or a supplement or something?
Him : no, no I’m afraid there isn’t.
This was astounding to me. At the time I knew *VERY LITTLE* about natural medicine, herbal medicine or alternative medicines, yet something about this advice caused me to feel quite disturbed. In hindsight I was asking the wrong expert the wrong question, nonetheless it confounded me that the only remedy offered was to go back on the pill. It was essential I have my period return. I spent a lot of time digesting this news.
C U E : P A R A D I G M ⎥ S H I F T
A paradigm shift is a fundamental change that occurs when one’s thinking is challenged & replaced by a new & different way.
Around this time, my friend Amanda was quite sick and asked would I drive her to her acupuncture appointment. I sat in the waiting room feeling as though I had entered a foreign land. Strange charts of the body were on each of the walls. The clinic smelled of incense, tree bark and forest floor. What was actually happening behind that closed treatment door? Could acupuncture be the medicine that would return my period? I asked Amanda all about her experience & a week later, bravely returned to have my own.
I had 6 fortnightly acupuncture sessions with my Acupuncturist, Samantha & took the powdered Chinese herbal medicine promoting Qi & Blood replenishment she prescribed. My period returned with ease, grace & flow. Better than it had ever been. No fuss. No pain. Just a return to an innate natural rhythm without the requirement of synthetic substances forcing it to occur. My lights turned ON.
On Samantha’s wall was her Bachelor Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture & Moxibustion from Victoria University.
I now have one too. In fact next year, my Degree turns 20.
A C U P U N C T U R E ⎥ H E A L I N G
Telling my story helps young women just like me become brave in trying new experiences which are especially important when it comes to health.
My dear, you have gathered many stories. Precious narratives that define who you are, how you feel & the things you hold dear. The consistent cycle of death & rebirth, potentiating who we are becoming & what parts of ourselves are to be gracefully left behind.
Breathe & share your stories.
You can never truely know how profoundly your story can reach somebody’s heart, exactly when they might need it the most.
Love 📿 Becky