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Marisa Fanelli, M.Ac.: Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:22 AM
I'm very excited to announce that Healing Point Therapeutics will soon be incorporating hypnotherapy into the mix. Aside from packing an extra punch into treatments designed to help clients lose weight and quit smoking, it will be a wonderful addition to treatments for phobias, depression, PTSD...and that is just the beginning. Since I've always harbored an interest in the mind-body connection, I've spent a good amount of time reading about how hypnosis works. |
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Marisa Fanelli, M.Ac.: Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:57 AM
I'm the type of person who thrives on forward momentum. I always need to be working toward some sort of goal, and once I reach it, I immediately create another one. When I don't have something to work toward, I start to get antsy and depressed. This trait comes in handy in this profession, since there is just so much to learn. Now that I have settled into a routine at the clinic, I've found myself getting excited about adding new things into the mix. |
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Marisa Fanelli, M.Ac.: Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:02 AM
Before I was an acupuncturist, I had a brief and unhappy stint as an English teacher. From the first day, I knew that it wasn't right for me. I had ideal visions of myself as the Michelle Pfieffer of New Haven; the woman who would change countless lives with her selfless idealism and creativity. Instead, I was cursed at and threatened so often that it became a regular part of my day. I hated everything about my job, and it began to manifest into physical symptoms like migraines and laryngitis. |
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Marisa Fanelli, M.Ac.: Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 8:16 AM
Several years ago I was sitting in a bar alone, nursing a drink. My future was shadowy and uncertain, and I was stressing out over a major decision: should I move to Boston, or to California? I had firmly decided that a change was in order, and I was on my way to a new career path...but where would I go? I had been accepted into two graduate programs, one in each state. I had been driving myself crazy for weeks trying to decide which state I wanted to spend the next four years in. |
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Marisa Fanelli, M.Ac.: Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 7:45 AM
I've been doing lots of Ranchi ho on my poor stagnant patients lately, and I've seen a few of them sneaking peeks at my equipment while it is going on. I know what they're thinking. As soon as they see a few drops of blood, the fear of contamination strikes. They are wondering what happens to the cups afterward, whether they are cleaned before being used, and if someone who is not a medical doctor commits to the same standards of sterility that a physician would. |
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Marisa Fanelli, M.Ac.: Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:37 AM
Do you ever stop and wonder what your various aches, pains, and dysfunctions are telling you? More often than not, the physical is linked to the emotional. In this society, we tend to separate the physical from the emotional; so much so that, even when confronted with obvious links between the two, my patients never seem to put it together until I bring it up. I can't tell you how many times I have seen patients whose sciatic pain began six years ago. |
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Marisa Fanelli, M.Ac.: Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:12 PM
Last Tuesday, I really freaked myself out. I was looking in my bathroom mirror, when I saw a fleeting glimpse of something, out of the corner of my eye. It was just a dark shapeless mass, and it looked as if it was behind me. When I turned around, there was nothing there. Later that day, I was in my clinic when I saw it again. I was sitting at my desk, and the door was slightly ajar. Looking up from my computer, I saw something dark moving behind the crack of the door. |
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Marisa Fanelli, M.Ac.: Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:11 AM
I've begun to notice that a lot of my single clients tend to meet people after beginning treatment with me. At first I thought I was some sort of magical sex goddess, whose needles wielded the power to bring kindred souls together, much like Cupid's arrow. I began to fantasize about starting an acupuncture/dating service for those out there looking for love. How incredible, I thought, to have the power to both heal someone, and to help them get some! After talking to a good friend of mine, I was brought back down to earth. |
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Marisa Fanelli, M.Ac.: Posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 8:51 AM
When I was an acupuncture student, I was repeatedly told about the 80/20 rule. According to this rule, 80% of the population is responsive to acupuncture, and the other 20% is unaffected by it. As I went on with my studies, I simply took this as a given, and assumed that, one day, 20% of my patients would end up coming in to try it out, and never coming back. As graduation grew close, I mentioned this old theory to several of my instructors, with varying feedback. |
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Marisa Fanelli, M.Ac.: Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2012 6:06 AM
I am completely, deliriously, unabashedly in love with Anthony Bourdain, and have read the famous "Kitchen Confidential" more times than I can count. Having spent a good portion of my life working in restaurants, I particularly enjoy the chapter on the secret language of the kitchen. Although I suppose every career has its own internal language, there are few professions which have quite so much odd terminology, familiar only to those who work there. Here are the most common terms that might be thrown around in a restaurant throughout the course of the night: |
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