An Introductory Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine
When the name of a practice includes the word “traditional,” one cannot be faulted into thinking that it’s entrenched in the past. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as practiced today, however,...
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Navigating the Integrative Healthcare Start-Up
Julie Luzarraga LICSW, DCSW, has been practicing integrative medicine for most of her career as a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist. She says she fell in love with the...
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Integrative Healthcare Policy: A Year in Review (2018)
The healthcare industry—and the laws and policies that regulate the system—has been changing rapidly over the past few years. At the demand of both consumers and practitioners who advocate for...
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Integrative Approaches to Pain Management
Pain is one of the leading reasons why Americans turn to complementary and alternative therapies and practices, and the integrative healthcare community has been a tremendous player in ensuring non-pharmacologic...
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The Basic Principles of Lifestyle Coaching
Lifestyle coaching is an emergent profession that has been a long time coming. By design, the current sick-care model is meant to address illness when it happens, not before. There...
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An Introductory Nutrition Guide for Integrative Practitioners
Nutrition is the backbone of integrative medicine. A patient’s diet can affect not only weight and body composition but, as a growing body of research shows, it can play a...
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Burnout Syndrome and Compassion Fatigue: A Self-Care Guide for Integrative Practitioners
The U.S. healthcare system is evolving toward a person-centered, whole-person approach. The physician, however, is focused outward, and not on the fact that he or she is also a patient...
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Marketing Workbook for Integrative Healthcare Professionals
Marketing can be a controversial subject in the integrative healthcare community. Inherently, practitioners may bristle at the very notion that practicing integrative medicine requires a marketing strategy, seeing integrative practice...
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