General health conditions

28/02/2025

Anxiety with headaches or migraines: how acupuncture can help

If you’re struggling with anxiety-related headaches, acupuncture can offer relief by addressing both the physical and emotional sources of your pain. At Village Healing Centre in Curl Curl, we’re here to help you manage your anxiety and find lasting relief from headaches. If you’re in the Northern Beaches of Sydney and you'd like to explore acupuncture for headaches or migraines, we’d love to help you. Let's get you feeling better.
24/02/2025

Anxiety and heart palpitations: how acupuncture can help

If you're struggling with heart palpitations related to anxiety, acupuncture can help restore balance and calm your nervous system. At Village Healing Centre in Curl Curl, we can support your heart and mind through gentle, effective treatments. If you’re in the Northern Beaches of Sydney and you’re curious about acupuncture for anxiety and heart palpitations, we’d love to help you.
18/02/2025

Anxiety and jaw tension: How can acupuncture help?

If jaw tension is making you feel uncomfortable, anxious, or restless, acupuncture can help free those physical, mental or emotional blockages. At Village Healing Centre in Curl Curl, we’re here to help restore balance to your mind and body, so you can feel relaxed and free from unnecessary tension. If you’re in the Northern Beaches of Sydney and you’re curious about acupuncture for anxiety and jaw tension, we’d love to help you. You don’t have to figure this out alone.
12/02/2025

Anxiety and shortness of breath: how acupuncture can help

If anxiety is making it hard to breathe deeply, acupuncture can help your breath flow naturally again—relaxing both your body and mind. At Village Healing Centre in Curl Curl, we work with your body’s natural rhythms to help you breathe easier, feel calmer, and move through life with more ease. If you’re in the Northern Beaches of Sydney and you’re curious about acupuncture for anxiety, we’d love to help you. 
09/02/2025

Anxiety and insomnia: how acupuncture can help

If anxiety is keeping you awake, acupuncture can help gently regulate your sleep cycle naturally—without the grogginess of sleeping pills. At Village Healing Centre in Curl Curl, we help you find deep, restful sleep by treating both the mind and body. If you’re in the Northern Beaches of Sydney and you’re curious about acupuncture for anxiety, we’d love to meet you. You don’t have to figure this out alone.
06/02/2025

Anxiety and digestion: Can acupuncture help?

Anxiety and digestion are deeply connected—so much so that the gut is often called the "second brain." If you’ve ever felt nauseous before a big event or had stomach cramps during a stressful time, you’ve experienced this firsthand. But for some, digestive discomfort isn’t just an occasional issue—it’s a chronic part of their anxiety experience. Let’s explore why anxiety affects digestion, how Chinese Medicine explains it, and how acupuncture can help restore balance to your gut and mind.
17/07/2024

Overactive bladder? Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) and acupuncture

For people with overactive bladder, acupuncture can offer a wholistic way forward. Doctors may offer Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) as a treatment - this actually comes from acupuncture, following the Bladder and Kidney meridians. But with acupuncture, your whole unique health "fingerprint" is assessed and treated, offering a wholistic approach that seeks to relieve symptoms and address causes at the same time.
30/06/2020

Winter Wellbeing: Chinese Medicine Secrets for Self-Care and Home Medicine

A comprehensive guide for home treatment of winter bugs. Learn about strengthening "Defensive Energy" to help immunity. Includes a range of home therapies.
06/04/2019

Managing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

IBS has unknown cause and is separated according to symptoms in the Western approach. In Chinese medicine, people with IBS may be assessed according to whether their symptoms are worsened with stress or whether their IBS began with a gastro infection.
04/04/2019

The Chinese medicine view of sinusitis

Chronic sinus congestion can have many different causes and symptoms. Diagnosis and treatment is not always clear. Chinese medicine ideas have developed over thousands of years and offer a different way of seeing the human and their environment.
31/03/2019

Acupuncture for migraine – treatment and prevention

A recent high-level review investigating acupuncture for migraine treatment suggests that adding acupuncture to symptomatic treatment of attacks reduces the frequency of headaches, and that the effect of acupuncture may be similar to migraine prophylaxis (prevention) drugs, but with fewer adverse effects.
31/03/2019

Acupuncture for tension headaches – treatment and prevention

A recent high-level review of clinical trials has concluded that acupuncture is effective for treating frequent episodic or chronic tension-type headaches. Every person is different, and all headaches should be checked by your doctor. Contact us to discuss whether acupuncture may be suitable for you.
15/01/2019

MEDITATION COURSE – Open for all levels of experience

This workshop series includes meditation and relaxation techniques designed to help you take time out, recuperate your energy; and reconnect with yourself. A great way to honour yourself as you start the new year.
17/10/2018

Caring for your wellbeing in pregnancy

Pregnancy can be very physically taxing. When you feel tired, this is a sign from your body's intelligence to stop investing energy "out there" and to slow down, close your eyes and allow energy to flow within. A regular acupuncture session during pregnancy can help you to connect to your Centre within, encouraging restoration and a state of calm.
16/10/2018

Acupuncture for cancer-related pain

  “Acupuncture is effective in relieving cancer-related pain, particularly malignancy-related and surgery-induced pain. Our findings suggest that acupuncture can be adopted as part of a multimodal […]
31/08/2018

Acupuncture for cancer-related fatigue

Acupuncture is a promising intervention to help people with cancer-related fatigue. Acupuncture may also help with other distressing symptoms and improve overall wellbeing and quality of life.