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How To Own Your Shit When You Lose Your Shit
You’ve gone and done it. You lost your cool. Life, a person, dreaded event, trigger, or circumstance has become too much, and you’ve just lost your shit. D-R-A-M-A has ensued, and maybe there were a few broken glasses thrown at the wall, choice words were hurled, and doors have been slammed. And you may have […]
How Forgiving Yourself Is The Ultimate Form Of Self-Love (And How To Do It)
I hear people brag about how hard they are on themselves. Like it’s a badge. While it is important to hold a certain standard of what we want to achieve, it does very little for our physical, mental, and spiritual health to berate ourselves for not being better. For not keeping up with the Joneses. […]
How To Energetically Declutter Your Life So You Can Bring In The Good Juju
Many of you may be familiar with Spring Cleaning. You may also know about the kind of cleaning that you do when you’re up at 1:30am with nothing better to do than sit uncomfortably with your nervous thoughts about the next day’s big meeting/performance/date/event, and you might as well scrub that entire stove that’s been crusting over for a month, along […]
Margarita’s Turmeric Face Mask Recipe On Long Island Pulse Magazine
Sometime last year, Sharon Feiereisen of Long Island Pulse Magazine asked me to contribute a DIY face mask recipe for her upcoming article, which she just published! It’s called, “4 DIY Spa Recipes From the Pros“. Check it out! I jumped at the chance to talk about turmeric and honey, both of which I love […]
Why Epsom Salt Baths Are The Highly Sensitive Person’s BFF
Epsom salt baths have been used for centuries for detoxification and relaxation. However, epsom salt baths are much more powerful than the occasional soothing soak! For the everyday Warrior God/dess, there comes a time when we need to replenish ourselves – on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. And epsom salt baths are part of […]
5 Ways To Renew Your Goddess Energy (Yes, Even If You’re A Man, And It’s NOT What You Think!)
Goddess Energy resides in us all. Chinese Medicine recognizes that we all have Yin (feminine) and Yang (masculine) components to our being: Yin = internal, soft, cold, heavy, delicate, containing, female Yang = external, upward and outward, hard, hot, loud, dispersing, male To be balanced individuals, it is important to hone, and honor, both aspects, to live […]
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Are You Cleansing Your Crystals The Right Way? A Guide To Crystal Clearing
What do brown rice, salt, and white sage have in common? Aside from being borne of the Earth, they are also cleansing agents for crystals! There are so many ways to cleanse healing stones. Or, as I sometimes call them, allies from Mother Gaia! What I’m referring to is not the physical debris that can gather […]
Top 5 Ways To Nourish Your Spleen In Chinese Medicine
In Chinese Medicine, the Spleen is responsible for the transformation of the food we eat, and transporting the nutrients to the rest of the body. This is an important function, because the Spleen is the source of the formation of Qi and Blood. And, considering that Qi travels with Blood, and Blood is needed to nourish all systems […]
3 Easy And Nourishing Slow Cooker Recipes That Heal (Gluten-Free And Dairy-Free)
I have always been a crafty gal at heart. So, when I had the chance to buy the heavy, old-school Corningware Crockpot for $19 from a young woman who was moving out of her Manhattan apartment 10 years ago, I jumped at the chance to get my crockpot-ery on! I envisioned creating many stews and culinary masterpieces in […]
Welcome to the Alcantara Acupuncture & Healing Arts! Here you will find the most recent updates on my adventures as an urban Licensed Acupuncturist Reiki Master/Teacher, and Medicine Woman in New York City, as well as wellness tips to soothe the soul, live more vibrantly, and cultivate wholeness and balance. Enjoy the blog, and please say hello!
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