Our Healing Mission
We all know you can get powerful healing results at Very Well. Let’s talk about why that’s important.
Vibroacoustic Therapy Is Here!
Our latest service offering is here! Vibroacoustic therapy is a game changer for creating any desirable state of mind, from relaxation to focus to inspiration… and more. Find out about it here!
Introducing the OPTIMAL LIVING COMMUNITY
Our most versatile and accessible membership can help you get well… then help you get even better than that. It’s time for optimal living!
Introducing VERY WELL QoL!
Our most exciting announcement yet. This new subscription is how we can leverage the resources of the new Very Well expansion to directly benefit your Quality of Life!
Very Well at the Village of Cross Keys
How to find our new location in the Village of Cross Keys.
A Sneak Peek at our New Services: PEMF, Red Light Therapy, Halotherapy, and More!
Now that the cat’s out of the bag, you’ll find much more about Very Well: Optimal Living’s new services in the coming days: in this blog and across our website. But we thought you’d like this sneak peek at our new services and how they might help you live more fully.
The Big Announcement … Very Well: Optimal Living Is Coming Soon!
I've hinted, teased, and mused out loud about it for most of a year.
If you've been following our Instagram, Facebook page, blog, and email newsletter, you've seen logo changes, site redesigns, new employees, cryptic photos of paint chips, and other signs of something in the works.
Now what could that madcap acupuncturist be up to? you may have wondered. And what does it have to do with me?
Today it's time to open up the curtains and let the light shine in on the next phase of Very Well.
Wellness and Destiny: The Nature of Ming
There is a concept in ancient Chinese cosmology – and therefore in Chinese medicine, as the two are closely interrelated – called Ming, which roughly translates as destiny.
Notably, this doesn't quite align with our Western idea of destiny, which was has more to do with what happens to us in life overall, or in certain cases, whether or not we are meant to kill an evil wizard.
Wellness in the 2020s
When I was in graduate school, my dear friend and mentor, the infamous Bob Duggan, talked about wellness as distinct from health. Health, he proposed in the electrifying tones of a revolutionary in a beret, does not exist.
Something Completely Different
I feel I have been in an extended conversation with the universe in which we are both speaking different languages. I am using English, the dialect of Hollywood and Madison Avenue and the absurdities induced by their mesmerizing transmissions; she, the universe, communicates in a brogue of wind and nebulae and minor coincidences with earth-shattering ramifications.
What’s Going on at Very Well? (Part 2)
Mysterious photographs have turned up in our blog. What’s going on?!
What’s Going on at Very Well?
A logo refresh, with new typefaces and… an element missing? An entirely new website design? A new Instagram feed? A new acupuncture associate? Cryptic messages on our blog?
BEST OF BALTIMORE 2021
Thank you so much to everyone who voted for Very Well Acupuncture (Dr. David Buscher, D.Ac.) for “Best Acupuncturist” in the 2021 Baltimore Sun Baltimore’s Best Reader’s Poll.
"When Will I Feel The Effects Of Acupuncture?"
Our series of detailed answers to common questions continues!
Of course "how long does it take for acupuncture to start working" would be a big one, but it requires some parsing.
“Is Acupuncture Covered by Health Insurance?”
Continuing my series of answers to common questions about acupuncture treatment is the one my assistants get daily: Is acupuncture therapy covered by my health insurance?
“How Long Do the Effects of Acupuncture Last?”
Acupuncture does not quite line up with the paradigms of other medicine that Americans are more familiar with.
The needles are solid stainless steel and don't inject you with medicine like a hypodermic needle. (In fact, about twenty acupuncture needles can fit into the hole of one hypodermic needle, so even if they could inject something, it wouldn't be very much.) So the effects are not as predictable as a chemical reaction in the body.