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Healthy Options for Life’s Challenges: 

There are a number of built-in challenges in our lives, which hopefully, with many levels of support, we not only endure, but may ultimately gain strength from, as well.

This month’s program is intended to highlight some alternatives for personal support that may be helpful as we face unprecedented changes in our country, and the larger world.

Featured will be: 

Heather Zwickey, a Ph.D, is a nationally recognized specialist in the fields of integrative medicine, the immune system, and natural therapies.

Christopher Perry is a licensed acupuncturist in a private practice who will speak about how treating a person holistically can marshal our bodies’ resources toward improved health.

Catharine Hojem, MSW, will discuss the merits of social connection and how storytelling may help us build community during stressful times.

Heather Zwickey, Ph.D., is recognized internationally in the fields of integrative medicine, natural therapies, and the immune system. Her doctorate is in immunology and microbiology, and she completed her postdoctoral studies at Yale School of Medicine. Heather currently teaches at the National University of Natural Medicine. She has a long history in these fields, as her family used natural medicine, even though, as a child, she was unaware of their practices. She followed their interests by initially becoming an immunologist.

Heather has published over 100 publications. Her federally funded grants have been used to study such subjects as dietary effects on Parkinson’s disease, nutrition, binge eating disorders, and mind-body interactions.

She is most proud of training and mentoring students and has won many awards for teaching. Heather is proud that her students have become recognized leaders.        

Christopher Perry is a licensed acupuncturist in private practice with a compelling personal journey behind his work.

An artist and father of four daughters, Christopher shares a creative life with his wife, who is also an artist. Years ago, he set out to build himself a studio—a labor of love that pushed his body beyond its limits and left him with debilitating chronic pain. When conventional treatments offered no lasting relief, it was acupuncture that finally helped him heal.

The experience was so transformative that Christopher committed the next ten years to studying Chinese Medicine, earning a Master’s degree and launching his own practice. For the past six years, he’s been helping others find deep, lasting relief through the same holistic approach that changed his life.

Christopher will speak about how treating the whole person—not just a set of symptoms—can unlock powerful healing, both physically and emotionally.

He is the founder of Acupuncture Reset, his clinic in Tigard, OR. 

Catharine Hojem has had the distinction of being the LOAAUW president during the Covid pandemic and saw, as we all did, the impact that isolation could have on people of all ages.

She will propose a new rebooting of the “Storytelling” group that met during that time offering, solace, sisterhood, and plenty of laughs, which fostered a greater sense of community.

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