https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-01-29 https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/politicized-somatics-a-soft-pitch monthly 0.5 2026-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da2ffc2e169a5c4576878c/6249ef6a-db3f-4eb7-948e-042438c517c3/Jo+V+formation+like+Geese.jpg Blog - Politicized Somatics: A Soft Pitch - Politicized somatics is a methodology and set of experiential practices that builds our potential to be more connected with ourselves and our environment, our awareness and capacity for more choice, and clarity around our purpose and the actions we want to be taking in our lives. Photo of Monica leading the jo kata (an aikido form created for this somatics lineage) in geese flock formation. https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/why-feel monthly 0.5 2024-02-17 https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/ceasefire-now-resource-list monthly 0.5 2023-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da2ffc2e169a5c4576878c/3ab0dcb1-1d62-4845-9657-28b3c2f802dd/Palestine+will+be+free-Christine+Irvine-18x24.jpg Blog - Ceasefire Now Resource List - Resources for Care and Connection: Generative Somatics is offering free 1:1 politicized healing support for organizers, activists and therapeutic practitioners with shared anti-zionist politics and who are committed to a free Palestine. Connect with a practitioner here for support. ☼ Buddhist Peace Fellowship is offering multiple opportunities for grounding with group meditation and then taking collective action by calling your reps. These are 30 min calls that happen over zoom. Find info for upcoming calls here. ☼ adreinne maree brown and others are offered a free zoom event called Practices for Care and Endurance on Monday 11/13. Watch the replay here. ☼ https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/the-benefits-of-classical-chinese-herbal-medicine monthly 0.5 2023-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da2ffc2e169a5c4576878c/97d5f39b-e989-446e-9522-0fe02e43a04c/tempImageQGf5IB.jpg Blog - The Benefits of Classical Chinese Herbal Medicine - Herbal medicine is a potent intervention. Unlike coming in for an acupuncture treatment, herbs are a medicine that get to be with you as support throughout the week, everyday. I love practicing herbal medicine just as much as I love offering acupuncture treatments. I first started my journey of studying and practicing medicine as a Western herbalist. I spent a lot of time in the mountains of Southern Appalachia deepening my relationship to plants in their wild, native (and also invasive) environments. While I studied them academically, I was also tending to them in gardens, ethically wildcrafting them in the forest, and actively making medicine to share with my clients and community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da2ffc2e169a5c4576878c/6f5317f5-6d8f-4e3e-a90d-941d11bcfa0f/IMG_9677.JPG Blog - The Benefits of Classical Chinese Herbal Medicine - The medicine of plants has held my attention for the last 20 years. Prior to practicing medicine, I thought my life’s work might involve farming, community gardens, permaculture, and botany. 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We take them until we see the shift that our body is taking over in doing what the herbs were helping to do (we track this with symptom changes, your pulse, etc.). Sometimes then, we shift to another formula. Sometimes then, we don't need the herbal support anymore. https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/practicing-qigong monthly 0.5 2023-08-12 https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/inherently-interconnected monthly 0.5 2023-05-18 https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/you-are-nature monthly 0.5 2023-02-14 https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/what-to-expect-at-an-acupuncture-appointment monthly 0.5 2025-05-09 https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/something-other-than-the-typical-response monthly 0.5 2022-11-28 https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/notes-from-the-treatment-table-no-1-you-are-not-alone monthly 0.5 2022-09-22 https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/lineage-and-the-heart-mind monthly 0.5 2022-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da2ffc2e169a5c4576878c/f925806d-b200-4c99-8a5e-63aad7cbeac4/pulse.jpg Blog - Lineage & the Heart-Mind - Classical Chinese medicine is a lineage-based medicine. I am so grateful that the school I attended to study acupuncture tries the best it can to preserve the heart of this lineage-based medicine and to center the teacher-student relationship inside of the bureaucracy of an educational institution. https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/my-meandering-path-to-medicine monthly 0.5 2022-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da2ffc2e169a5c4576878c/971cda92-d2a0-4710-88d8-c1dd34786981/MacPhee_OrganizeGraphic.jpg Blog - My Meandering Path to Acupuncture I wouldn’t be practicing acupuncture today if it weren’t for the workers and communities in the coalfields of Southern Appalachia organizing against mountaintop removal -and- the Black women organizing their Memphis neighborhoods against environmental racism and injustice. Like many white acupuncturists in the United States, I didn’t grow up knowing acupuncture existed or that it was something I could do when I grew up. In my early twenties, as I was trying to answer the (rather unfortunate) question of “what I wanted to do with my life,” the only thing that moved me was being involved in activism and organizing work. https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/abolition-and-east-asian-medicine monthly 0.5 2022-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da2ffc2e169a5c4576878c/a81d43d9-973e-4837-b91f-1df51dac0039/IMG-5928.jpg Blog - Abolition and East Asian Medicine I’m very excited to be able to share my doctoral capstone with y’all. The capstone is titled “Jailbreak of the Imagination: Abolitionist Praxis in Classical East Asian Medicine.” For the field of acupuncture, our educational institutions, and the abolitionist movement, I hope it serves as a resource and sparks dialogue, development of theory, and praxis (so much praxis!). I attempted to write it in a way that is educational and open to folks who aren’t steeped in prison abolitionist theory or classical East Asian medicine. And, I still had to write it for the big university… https://www.kindredcurrents.com/blog/wearekindredcurrents monthly 0.5 2022-01-25 https://www.kindredcurrents.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da2ffc2e169a5c4576878c/2a4e3e77-75ec-4c7d-b22c-e740a2d80c2e/IMG_7942.JPG the medicine - Healthcare that gets you https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61da2ffc2e169a5c4576878c/d6586119-9ba8-4402-98d9-3a7c8007005c/tempImageikrqwg.jpg the medicine - Hi, I’m Monica (they/them). I’m an acupuncturist, herbalist, and practitioner of classical East Asian medicine. My role is to support you and your body reconnect and remember your innate ability to heal. I’m a Southern queer human born in the Piedmont of North Carolina and raised along the banks of the Mississippi in Memphis. I began my study of medicine in the mountains of Southern Appalachia and deepened it in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. 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