When one thinks of acupuncture, peace and serenity may not be the first things to come to mind. They certainly were not with me. I was thinking more along the line of needles and pain. Boy, was I wrong!  One of the things I most look forward to is acupuncture, which I started around a year ago. I read that acupuncture can help with fertility and our RE didn’t recommend against it, so we went for it!

I went regularly for a couple of months and dropped out during The Depression.  I started back up again this May and am going twice a month. My acupuncturist is awesome!  His name is Chris and he is a calming presence in my life. His optimism carries over to me and his knowledge gives me comfort.

After a few small pokes of the needles, he covers me up, turns on some soothing ocean sounds, and turns the lights out.  For the 20-30 minutes that I am in there, I am at peace.  My mind isn’t racing, my phone isn’t ringing, my thoughts float around the room in a circular unfocused haze.  The stress drops away.

Meanwhile, I don’t even notice the needles poking out of my head, chest, stomach, arms, legs, and feet.  I just feel warmth.  I do have to laugh every time at what I call the “jumper cables.”  He hooks up some jumper cable type apparatus to the needles stimulating my ovaries and they buzz quietly around my abdomen.  I often wonder what I would look like to a random person who happened to walk into the room!

“Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.” (Anonymous) As long as my storm is raging, I am glad to have found my peace and serenity.