As parents in today's day and age how do we find balance for ourselves and for our children? For many of us who struggle with the greatest challenge of our lives – raising our children – this is the million dollar question. It can be helpful to answer this provocative question not with some cheap fifty cent sound bite but with deep wisdom with ancient roots. To that we turn to Chinese medicine, one of the oldest whole system theories advocating personal and inter-personal balance for health, harmony, and vitality. Apply this rich theory to the family and you encounter something wonderful and unexpected: insight and a helpful path towards a more cooperative and harmonious family system. Explore the concepts of Qi, Yin and Yang, and the Five Elements as they relate to each member of your family. Discover your own Five Element “constitution” and how this impacts how you parent. Along the way, you will see your children and your spouse from a totally new perspective, find strategies to rectify resentments and imbalanced emotions, and learn how to get out of the rut you and your family members likely fall into every time you find yourselves in conflict.
Ethan Borg, L.Ac. received his Masters in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the New England School of Acupuncture, the oldest acupuncture school in the United States. In Ethan's thriving upstate NY practice, he regularly teaches his patients how to apply Chinese medical theory to harmonize imbalances in their family systems. A father of two fantastic kids, he and his wife have joyfully embraced the Chinese medical concept of balance in their own parenting and wouldn't parent any other way. Other books you might enjoy by Ethan Borg include Fu Xi Wen: An Introduction To Open Source Medicine, The Secret Chamber, The Indispensable Book of Secrets, The Spiritual Path To Building Your Business (and its accompanying workbook) and more.