Roberta Weber Traditional Acupuncture

I do what is commonly known as alternative therapies. I do these therapies because I have a need to understand how we work as human beings - indeed what it means to be a human being. What is it that makes one person thrive under horrid conditions but another buckle under what seems to be very little strain?

Why do some folks get stuck in a cycle of abuse or depression when others with the same resources slide free of those bonds? Is it Nature? Nurture? Genetics? Luck? Energy? Something else? From a young age I needed to understand how all this worked. I also had a tremendous sense of fairness that I just couldn't align with what I saw around me. I wanted to understand so I could make a difference.

The way I prefer to explore the human condition, in all of its glorious messiness, is by understanding health from all the various angles I could find. I know we don't know everything about this world. I also know that there are many ways of understanding the world! I have let this knowledge guide me when studying human health and have found some pretty cool tools to help me understand how to affect changes in my own health and in the health of my clients. The specific tools I use are listed below.