Amy O'Dell Wilson

Welcome to the blog. Currently, you will find some posts from the past.  They will help you get to know me.  From now on, I will be writing about Chinese medicine and what I am learning along the way. Check back from time to time or leave your email; you will get a notification from me when I write something new.

A Nettle Revolution

By Amy O'Dell Wilson / December 10, 2015

A few years back my sister began to drink a nettle infusion everyday to get through the hot flashes of menopause.  She was hooked.  I tried it off and on, but the taste didn’t grab me, and I wasn’t good about drinking it everyday as a tonic.  Some herbs, like Nettle, Urtica dioica,  are meant to […]

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This I Believe…

By Amy O'Dell Wilson / December 7, 2015

I enjoy this exercise and use to use it in my classroom to get the students thinking.  I love to think back on how my beliefs have evolved over the years as new people, information, technologies and experiences have influenced my life. This I Believe… That people only change if they are uncomfortable enough The […]

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What I know to be true in my life about healing

By Amy O'Dell Wilson / December 7, 2015

Sitting down to write this morning, with a hot mug of dandelion tea in hand and NPR in the background, I heard the announcement for the morning program, Functional Medicine. First I laughed, shouldn’t all medicine be functional? Yes it should, but it is not. As I listened, the program talked of healing chronic disease […]

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How to listen so your kids will talk

By Amy O'Dell Wilson / December 5, 2015

The training ground for this doesn’t start when your child is older and can talk on subjects that interest you, nor does it happen when it is convenient for you. Children talk about what interests them and what they are passionate about and they do not have a sense of time nor timing. I believe […]

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Out of my head and into the world

By Amy O'Dell Wilson / December 4, 2015

Today I start writing to get out of my head and into the world. I believe in my heart that my next 50 years is to be spent helping people improve their health, helping kids find confidence and independence and helping parents raise their kids from a center of confidence and respect, not fear.

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