I am a white, trans woman settler who came to holistic medicine after 8 years of work in activist communities. There I honed my collectivist values and observed a shared need to address our physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies alongside liberation work for the social body.
I studied Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) at Pacific Rim College starting in September 2017, completing a Diploma of Acupuncture in December 2020. Licensed in the so-called province of British Columbia since December 2021, I am interested in the ways that Daoist philosophy underpinning Chinese medicine makes space for identities, bodies, and hearts unrecognizable to Western culture.
As a practitioner I am especially curious how I can intervene in the world of often-inaccessible and expensive transgender medical care, a community that has overall lower earnings and less access to stable employment. I have focused my education on interrogating the unique ways Chinese medical modalities can be used to supplement many of the medical interventions trans people receive for gender-affirming care. I will continue to pursue this knowledge, as well as collaborating on tapping into the unique wisdom to which each of you have innate access.
