by Dr Karen Fairfield Ashville sunset NCIMS conference June '26 A couple weeks ago, I attended a continuing education seminar focused on the latest developments in alternative medicine. A large portion of the lectures centered on peptides, which are gaining a lot of attention as a promising frontier in health and wellness. Peptides are short chains of amino acids that act as signaling molecules in the body. They can influence many biological functions, from hormone regulation

Have you ever pondered the beauty of feeling the earth beneath your feet as you walk? Well, get ready to step into a world where the...

Insights on Hip/Piriformis Pain By Charles Watts LMBT Recently, I have come across a structural pattern with clients who present with...

“Life itself hands us difficult things…As human beings we really not all that evolved yet so we are going to keep having difficult things to deal with” -Barbara Fairfield As our practice is mostly dealing with physical ailments, the mind body connection can sometimes get ignored in light of painful conditions. There has been much written about how much what you think is correlated to how you feel so if you have any kind of chronic pain, I urge you to look into the emotions th

Island Healing is proud to now offer Acupuncture services with Lynne Morgan, RN, L.AC. Modern research has shown that acupuncture is a...

You may have been hearing around our office lately about upper crossed syndrome... Upper crossed syndrome (UCS) occurs when the muscles...