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Allergies, Trauma, Electro-acupuncture Anita Teigen Allergies, Trauma, Electro-acupuncture Anita Teigen

A year in review and what’s to come in 2025…

This year has been packed with a lot of education for me and new treatment options for you. I always enjoy learning and finding more healing solutions to add to my toolbox. The three new additions I learned about this past year are the Soliman Auricular Allergy Technique (SAAT), Electro-Acupuncture Medicine, and Auricular Trauma Release.

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Stress, Mental health, Trauma Anita Teigen Stress, Mental health, Trauma Anita Teigen

Humans are wired for resilience

The star of the astonishing 2020 documentary My Octopus Teacher was a creature who could shapeshift in an instant to protect herself from threat—changing color to disappear against a rock wall, swaying gently to blend in with a clump of kelp, or retreating into a crack to regenerate a lost limb. Most astonishing of all, however, was the close relationship that developed between the octopus and the filmmaker when she felt safe enough for connection after months of his quiet observation.

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Trauma, Auricular Acupuncture, Mental health, Stress Anita Teigen Trauma, Auricular Acupuncture, Mental health, Stress Anita Teigen

Treating traumas of the soul

One of the things that kept me busy during the pandemic shutdown was an online German auricular acupuncture course on identifying and treating soul trauma. Soul trauma refers to psychological wounds and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Most of us have experienced some form of shock, trauma, injury, or abuse in our lives. There may even be an event that we are not conscious of, such as birth trauma, that is still having an effect on our whole being.

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Acupuncture, Scalp Acupuncture, Trauma, Chronic pain Anita Teigen Acupuncture, Scalp Acupuncture, Trauma, Chronic pain Anita Teigen

Rediscovering scalp acupuncture

At the end of September, I had the opportunity to travel to Madison, Wisconsin, to attend a scalp acupuncture seminar taught by Suzanne Robidoux. I have occasionally used scalp acupuncture since learning the basics in acupuncture school over 10 years ago, but am now inspired to use it a whole lot more. I was aware of the effectiveness of the method, but needed the more in-depth instruction on how to understand it better and use it to achieve the best results possible. Over the past couple of weeks I have started to employ what I learned, and am pleased with the results so far.

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