Books

Books

I write for the same reason I practice: to name the mechanism and say plainly what holds up. One book is about the medicine itself. The other is about the work of building a practice around it. Both come out of the clinic, not around it.

Thinking in Chinese Medicine

A Patient's Guide to Acupuncture · with Peter Caron · Dymphna Publishing

A patient's guide that refuses to dumb the subject down. It bridges classical Chinese medicine and modern clinical reasoning so a reader can understand what acupuncture actually is, past the generic wellness framing.

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Realigning Medicine

Building an Authentic, Fulfilling, and Thriving Healthcare Practice · Dymphna Publishing · 2025

Part memoir, part field guide for practitioners who are tired of burnout and of coaches coaching coaches. It uses my own early failures to lay out a framework for a practice that is profitable, meaningful, and actually yours.

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Companion essays

Written in real time, alongside the book

The essays are companions to Realigning Medicine: practical, often blunt reflections on building an authentic practice, written as they happened rather than polished after the fact.

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