Hi, I’m Margaret (she/they), and I practice acupuncture with commitment, compassion and gratitude.

Commitment

I provide inclusive trauma-aware acupuncture care for Atlanta’s communities.  I embrace people of any age, race, gender, culture, sexual orientation, legal status, ability, faith, shape and size, and validate all embodied experiences.

I practice abolitionist acupuncture, which means I am aligned with people and movements that believe systemic change is a vital companion to personal transformation and healing.  I strive to help people feel better in daily ways, and ways that get to the root, so that we can all engage in making a more equitable and loving society.  

Please hold me accountable to ways you would like to see inclusivity and abolition more alive in Pointing To The Moon. This acupuncture practice is a challenge to myself to embody love and truth, starting where I am and how I can, today, with you. Please reach out for conversations around health and liberation, whether you are seeking treatment or you just feel called to connect and share.

Compassion

I studied compassion with Dr. Gabor Maté, who believes healers must reach beyond ordinary compassion, i.e. feeling connected to someone’s suffering.  It begins there, and expands through curiosity — curiosity about a client’s true nature and self-expression; curiosity about a client’s symptoms and what they are communicating; curiosity about the healing process a client is already engaged in; and curiosity about what aspects of a client’s being are asking for reinvigoration or reintegration.  I practice a compassion that is brimming with possibility. 

I also don’t believe in what some medical practitioners call ‘compassion fatigue.’  Compassion is an ever-flowing part of human nature; it only wears us out when we don’t extend equal compassion to ourselves.  Through prioritizing self-compassion, I offer care from an authentic source.  In the treatment room, I will be “moving in the direction of freedom, and the function of freedom is to free someone else.” -Toni Morrison

Gratitude

The anatomy of qi that grounds the practice of acupuncture restores me to sanity.  Through qi, I experience the unity of all living beings, and everyone’s profound capacity for transformation.   Through qi, I can better understand suffering: why physical pain interacts with the mind and the spirit, why emotional and mental struggles affect disease processes in the body, and why it is essential to treat the whole person.

I believe that when someone’s suffering is fully acknowledged, it can more easily transform.  I love practicing acupuncture because it deepens my faith in life’s coherence and goodness.  Each client’s qi transforms uniquely, and teaches me something new about life.  It is always a profound honor.