Julia Carpenter, L.Ac.
When I was little, I always told people I was going to be a doctor. But by the time I finally made it to college, I knew that medical school would be an act of hitting my head against a brick wall. I was already far too outside the mainstream to practice what I thought western medicine was all about. I fell in love with Chinese medicine while I was studying philosophy at UC Santa Cruz. I was allergic to the redwood trees there and nothing seemed to help. A friend recommended acupuncture, which I had previously thought was only for pain, and I committed to 2 treatments a week for 6 weeks. I’ve never taken an allergy pill, herbal or otherwise, since! I also began to notice that my digestive issues were better, my periods were less painful, and my overall capacity to deal with stress had also improved. I am passionate about how acupuncture can help bring balance to people and how that alone can help so many things.
I feel like I’ve lived several lives in my nearly 50 years here. I enjoyed many various careers before I returned to school to finish my BA in my late 30′s, and I spent 5 years working on my PhD at Stanford before I realized that my true calling was...
