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From Haiti, to Mexico, to California: Acupuncturists Without Borders

How AWB Provides Trauma-Informed Integrative Care in Migrating Communities By Carla Cassler, DAOM, LAc, Director of AWB Programs and Community Clinics Right now, more than 80,000,000 people in the world are displaced from the place they call home. The causes are multiple and deep: the pandemic, climate change, poverty, social injustice, disaster, violence, and systemic …

Trauma 2020: Where We Wear It and How We Treat It

Adapted with permission from Acupuncture Today By Shellie Goldstein, DACM, AP (FL), LAc (NY) As we round the corner into 2021, the consequences of 2020 still linger. Last year’s public health, political, and cultural incidents have left scars of trauma on many of our patients. A recent 2020 Global Wellness Institute poll stated that, for …