Be Your Own Best Friend: Join New Wellness Series at WholeFamily MD

Feeling “off”? We want to help.

WholeFamily MD is here to help you make 2019 one of your best with a series of evening talks on a variety of self-care topics.

Our once-monthly series, hosted by WholeFamily MD acupuncturist Giulietta Octavio, together with our physicians and nurse practitioner, offers kind and do-able ways to help yourself feel great. We want to help you avoid cycles of promises and disappointment that can backfire when in search of self-satisfaction and health outcomes. We would like to suggest that your results will be better with kindness in self-care, just as you would be gentle and kind to your best friend.

Start the year off with a promise to be your own best friend, with guidance from our providers with our monthly series of talks incorporating practical whole-person ideas.

Series topics will include:

  1. Becoming Your Own Best Friend – Road Map & New Habits
    Thursday, January 10th, 5-6 pm
    Giulietta Octavio and Avril Swan
  2. Action: Best Friends Guide to Exercise
    Monday, February 11th 5-6 pm
    Giulietta Octavio and Christina Peretz
  3. Digestion: Best Friends Guide to Belly Health
    Monday March 11 5-6 pm
    Giulietta Octavio and Christina Peretz
  4. Breath: Best Friends Guide to Better Breathing
    Monday April 8 5-6 pm
    Giulietta Octavio and Avril Swan
  5. Rest: Best Friends Guide to Restorative Practices
    Monday May 13 5-6 pm
    Giulietta Octavio and Christina Peretz
  6. Creative Flow: Best Friends Guide to Women’s Health in all Stages
    Date TBD
    Giulietta Octavio and Sage Bearman
  7. Clarity: Best Friends Guide to Mood, Focus and Flow State
    Date TBD
    Giulietta Octavio and Alex Zaphiris
  8. Relief: Best Friends Guide to Pain Relief
    Date TBD
    Giulietta Octavio and Alex Zaphiris
  9. Caring: Best Friends Guide to Holistic Children’s Remedies
    Date TBD
    Giulietta Octavio and Avril Swan
  10. Sharing: Best Friends Guide to Creating Supportive Community
    Date TBD
    Giulietta Octavio and Alex Zaphiris

Each one-hour class will include information and research on the importance of this area of health in your overall wellness, Q&A, a simple action plan, and an exercise to develop motivation in being your own best friend.

SIGN UP TODAY and set the tone for your whole year!

Classes are:

  • Limited to 15 participants
  • Free for members of WFMD/$35 for non-members
  • Held at WholeFamily MD, 1286 Sanchez St. in Noe Valley

If you sign-up and need to cancel, please do us the courtesy of calling ahead with as much notice as possible so that we can offer the space to someone else.

Art Reception Featuring Works By Tachina Rudman-Young

At WholeFamily MD, we believe that nourishing your brain and spirit with beauty and community contributes to health and well-being. Please join us for some of this nourishment at an art reception in our office on Sunday, March 18, from 3-5pm. We are welcoming our newest waiting room gallery feature: beautiful pieces from local abstract painter Tachina Rudman-Young.

The event is free and all are welcome. Refreshments will be provided. Please let us know if you can join us!

Tachina Rudman-Young is an artist and creativity facilitator. She uses a playful, intuitive approach to create large, vibrant, abstract paintings. Drawing inspiration from nature, and informed by her background in ceramics, she infuses her canvases with super pumped-up, saturated color, over layers of interesting textural background. Anything from broken forks, bubble wrap, pencil shavings, to old toothbrushes might find their way onto her canvases.

Before painting, Tachina worked primarily with the figure in clay, and showed her work in various juried and group shows throughout the Bay Area. An exhibiting member of ACGA (Association of Clay and Glass Artist of California) since 2004, she received two degrees from San Francisco State University in Fine Arts (Ceramics) and Dance (Performance, Education, Ethnology). Tachina is committed to the use of art and movement as a means to joy, self-empowerment, and healing through self-expression.