Welcome to the Slow Medicine Circle

I created Slow Medicine Circle because I needed it to exist.

I have been in clinical practice since 1998, working across Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), naturopathy, homeopathy, and dietary therapy. I am the daughter of Argentine immigrants, raised between cultures and between cities, and eventually deposited by life into the American South, which nobody saw coming, least of all me. I have spent my entire existence translating between worlds. Buenos Aires to the Bible Belt. Ancient medicine to biomedicine. I learned to say y'all with complete sincerity and I stand by it. A Gen Xer who has been using Apple products since the 1990s and has never once considered that a contradiction with also believing in Yin and Yang. Long enough in practice now to have seen trends arrive and depart, to know what holds and what does not, and to have stopped being surprised when the oldest answer turns out to be the right one.

Why this, why now

After years working at the intersection of Traditional Chinese Medicine, naturopathy, nutrition, biomedicine, and homeopathy, I kept coming back to the same uncomfortable observation: the reductionist lens is not wrong, exactly. It is just working with about half the map. And half a map is a very confident way to get lost.

The deep human medicine is old, far older than any of our named traditions. It has been carried forward by thousands of practitioners across thousands of years, each tending a flame they received and passed on. No venture capital. No brand refresh every three years. Just the slow, serious work of keeping something true alive.

The tools arriving at the door of medicine right now are genuinely powerful and I am not here to be the person shaking a fist at the technology. I am here to hold a simpler line: that the humanity at the center of medicine is not a bug to be patched out. The Five Elements are not historical curiosities. Yin and Yang are not fortune cookie philosophy. They are a living diagnostic grammar, and once you learn to see through them, you cannot unsee. I have been seeing through them since 1998 and I am still finding new things.

The waiting room for ideas that never fit in the appointment

You will find me here thinking out loud about what I see in the clinic, in culture, in the particular exhaustion of the modern nervous system when you read it through a classical lens. Spoiler: the classics had a lot to say about exactly this moment. They just didn’t call it doomscrolling.

You will find the questions that got asked in the corridor after seminars, in late night messages from colleagues who were not sure who else to ask. The ones that refused to be answered quickly and turned out to be the most important ones.

You will find concepts I love to teach, things that took me years to truly inhabit, offered in the same spirit they were given to me: openly, without gatekeeping, and with the long view.

Underneath all of it is one argument I will be making in a hundred different ways. This medicine is not old in the way that things become obsolete. It is old in the way that the ocean is old. Ancient and immediate. Unchanged in its principles. Wildly alive in its application.

It does not need updating. It needs carrying. Into clinics, into conversations, into a technological future that will either flatten it or be deepened by it.

I hope you will join me by the fire.

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