Episode 124: Rediscover Your Dao and Reclaim Your Beauty Through Face Readings With Dr Tamsin Lee

Tamsin Lee, DAOM, AEMP is an East Asian medicine doctor, community-based researcher and a Daoist face reader. She is the founder of Influential Point, an online social venture organization leveraging digital media to amplify BIPOC voices in the health and wellness space. She also offers personalized face reading consultations through Elemental Archetypes where she weaves her family lineage of Korean face reading, and the Five seasonal phases of Daoism to guide womxn to rediscover their Dao and reclaim their beauty.  

In This Episode, We Talk About:

1. Our stories of how we were both introduced to acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
2. Tamsin shares her story of how she healed her body with acupuncture. 
3. How acupuncture came to the US and how it became capitalized.
4. The history of acupuncture also has ties to healing justice; the Black Panthers and the Young Lords in NYC. 
5. The appropriation of Eastern Medicine.
6. Gwansang in Korean is the ancient practice of face reading in Daoist medicine. 
7. How your face is a visual record of your story from your time in the womb to the present.
8. How Tamsin’s side hustle of face reading became a tool for empowerment and social justice. 
9. How our facial features determine our Dao, our destiny.
10. How she is bringing awareness to these ancient practices and incorporating social justice and change into her work.

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