Saving the Acupuncture Profession While Helping Millions
For more than forty years, I have worked inside the U.S. acupuncture profession, as a full-time practitioner, educator, writer, and advocate. I have watched the field grow, stall, and now struggle in ways that are finally making people look for innovative solutions.
In 2014, I founded the Acupuncture Now Foundation, a U.S. based, international non-profit, with the goal of “making the benefits of acupuncture known and available to all”. Gaining this international perspective has helped inform my understanding of the struggles of the U.S. acupuncture profession.
This Substack series exists for one clear purpose:
to confront the imbalance that is weakening the profession - not enough public demand to support the supply of practitioners - and to outline practical ways forward.
The challenges facing acupuncture today are real. Practitioners are leaving the field. Schools are closing. Leadership conversations are happening, but too often without broad engagement from the profession itself.
This series is an attempt to change that.
Here, I will share:
Lessons from some four decades inside the profession
Evidence of acupuncture’s vast, underused potential
Practical proposals to build public demand and strengthen the field
Clear explanations of how we arrived at this point
Reflections meant to invite serious discussion, not quick complaints
These articles are free and published weekly. While the focus is on the U.S., many of the issues discussed apply internationally.
If you care about the future of acupuncture, as a practitioner, educator, organizer, student, or patient, you are invited into this conversation.
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