Life-changing book or movie: Well maybe not life changing, but “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “The House of Spirits” are a couple of old favorites. I love to get lost in a good story!
Favorite food: A decadent 30 course meal or standing on the sidewalk eating amazing street food, preferably in another country trying something new!
Go-to feel-good song: Harvest Moon by Neil Young
Dream adventure: There are many dream adventures, but the next one just might be Portugal, Spain and Morocco…to eat great food, drink good wine and experience a different rhythm of life.
Favorite quote: “An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break. May you be open to each thread that comes into your life- the golden ones and the coarse ones - and may you weave them into a brilliant and beautiful life.”
Spirit animal: Elephant
When I’m not at work, you can find me: Hiking, skiing or dabbling in various creative
endeavors. Mastering none, but loving the experience and process of all
Molly grew up in New England and attended the University of Vermont where she received her B.A. inpsychology. After spending many years traveling in other parts of the world, including a year in China,she found that she was far more interested in traditional healing methods and herbal medicine than herpsychology studies. Ultimately, her course changed from healing the mind to healing the whole body.
On completion of an intensive 4-year master’s program, Molly graduated from the Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the spring of 2015 with her Master of Science in TCM. After a few months of travel, she and her husband settled into their home in the mountains of Durango where Molly started her practice as an acupuncturist and Chinese Herbalist.
Wellness is truly Molly’s passion and her love for this medicine is genuinely reflected in her delight to help her patients live fully and vibrantly. She specializes in whole body care rather than a specific system of the body or set of symptoms. A diverse palette of differing symptomology keeps her engaged and focused. Traditional Chinese Medicine was regarded for thousands of years as a primary medicine and within that paradigm, is appropriate for treating most health conditions from all systems of the body. What is distinctive to this medicine is that the individual person and the individual pattern of that person is treated, rarely only the symptoms. One formula or set of acupuncture points can treat several different
diseases while the same disease may be treated with many different formulas or acupuncture points. For example, someone with dizziness and someone with heart palpitations could potentially be treated with the same formula or set of acupuncture points. On the other side of that, it would be unlikely that every cough would be treated with the same acupuncture points or herbs because a cough can present in so many ways. The pattern is established, the root is treated which effectually heals the whole body. This is the authentic beauty of the medicine she practices. The perpetual riddle of assessing and reassessing each patient to discover the basis of their current health concern. This is what inspires and excites Molly in her work each day.
She feels undeniably inspired too by the rugged beauty of the craggy mountains and the brilliant blueskies of her North Durango home. She and her husband have a young son, 2 dogs, countless pairs of skis, mountain bikes and boots to hike. As such to thoroughly enjoy this special corner of Colorado.
