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How Much Does a Chiropractor Cost in the Bay Area?
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Black Lives Matter
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5 Love Languages
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Use Your Flex Spending Before the Year Ends!
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Grounding For Health
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Did Beer Lead to Civilization?
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Sunscreen Safety
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Stretch, Stabilize, and Strengthen During Pregnancy
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BrainTime Review
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New Year, New Habits!
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Self-Care for the Holiday Season
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Self Care during your Summer Adventures
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photo by Trey Ratcliff
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3 Tips for Stretching
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Caring for your Wrists
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Acorn Celebrates International Women’s Day
Today is International Women's Day and we are honored to support the ...
Safe Space for You
Acorn is a safe space for you.
Whatever your racial identity, ...
Underwater Healer
There are so many beautiful ways to heal our body and our connection with ...
The Arduous Medicine of Loneliness
This is #6 in our Guest Blogger series by Athena Grace.
The masterfully ...
Parenthood vs. the Hungry Beast Called Time
This is #5 in our Guest Blogger series by Athena Grace:
Five months into ...
Motherhood ~ The Disappearance of Self
This is #4 in our Guest Blogger series by Athena Grace:
Recently, I ...
The Power of Mother Love
This is #3 in our Guest Blogger series by Athena Grace:
Be honest… If you ...
Postpartum Body Image: My Naked Truth
This is #2 in our Guest Blogger series by Athena Grace:
Remember the good ...
Guest blog – Why I Choose To Be A Single Mama
We are proud to feature Athena Grace, a local mom, writer, and friend, who ...
Empowering Birth Blogs
I’d like to share a list of blogs that all support the idea of empowering ...
Naturally Dyed Easter Eggs
The tradition of dyeing bird eggs and hiding them at the beginning ...
Microbiome and Health
What Is the Microbiome?
The existence of micro-organisms has been known ...
Blood Test for Disease
I’m frequently pointing out that we’ve been mislead to believe that ...
Streamline Your Space & Simplify Your Life
Is your home feeling more stressful than soothing? My patient, Shira Gill, ...
Benefits of Rapid Release
I have been a chiropractor for 14 years, and have believed that addressing ...
Napa Quake Shakes Bay
Did you feel last week's 6.0 earthquake? Many of my patients said they ...
Happy Father’s Day
In honor of Father's Day, I want to share about the amazing contributions ...
Savin’ Lives with “Stayin’ Alive”
Most people are familiar with the idea of CPR (CardioPulmonary ...
Eating Fat Doesn’t Make You Fat
If you have watched a TV commercial for any food product, or set foot in ...
What If I Don’t Need Chiropractic Care?
Over the years, I can’t count the number of times I heard someone say that ...
Who’s Your Favorite Chiropractor?
Every year the folks at CityVoter tally the votes for local businesses in ...
{510}families
Our patient, Meri Maceacheron, is working for 510families, a site ...
What Goes Into Your Food?
Two new books about processed foods can give us insight into what goes ...
Natural Paints Are the Only Way to Go
Everyone already knows that paint contains chemicals that we "shouldn't" ...
Why Breast Thermography?
Acorn Wellness Center is proud to be getting the word out about breast ...
Why Breast Thermography?
Acorn Wellness Center is proud to be getting the word out about breast ...
Are You Prepared for the Upcoming Big Earthquake?
The next BIG earthquake is coming soon. Those of us who live in the Bay ...
Ideal Stretching Technique
Probably the single-most often repeated instructions I give are about ...
Pumpkin Pie Cake
This is a recipe that, I am proud to say, was inspired by a favorite from ...
New Family Nutrition
One of my patients, Cary Berkley, is a Certified Nutrition Educator and ...
Mashed Cauliflower (Faux Mashed Potatoes)
It seems as though I've been hearing about mashed cauliflower for years, ...
“Maximize” Your Video Presence
Our website has two videos created by our incredibly talented patient, Max ...
Top Tips to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay
"You wouldn't knowingly eat spoiled food or jump into a river that was ...
Winter Insurance?
I wish there was a way to insure against all the aspects of winter that ...
Icing Instructions
One of the most effective ways to treat pain in the body is with ice, also ...
You Eat What?!
Michael Pollan is starting to become a household name. Not only has he ...
When to Stretch?
My whole life I’ve heard people warn me to stretch before exercising as a ...