About Lacey Park

If you’d told me twenty years ago that I’d become an acupuncturist, I probably would have laughed.

Looking back, though, it’s hard to imagine ending up anywhere else.

I became a mom while I was still a teenager, and by my early twenties I had four kids. Those years were full of meaningful work that didn’t fit neatly onto a résumé. We eventually built an off-grid home in rural New Brunswick, homeschooled our children, grew food, heated with wood, and spent years creating a life that felt intentional rather than busy.

Along the way, I drove transport truck and helped run a trucking business. I worked as a birth and postpartum doula, eventually opening a doula agency of my own. It was during those years that I first stumbled into one of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s most fascinating corners.

For several years I specialized in placenta encapsulation for new mothers. That work introduced me to the Chinese tradition of Zi He Che—human placenta—which has been used medicinally for centuries. I found myself reading about postpartum care, Chinese medicine, herbs, and traditions simply because I wanted to understand where these ideas came from.

I didn’t know it then, but I had started down the rabbit hole.

Later, while growing my doula agency, I became fascinated by marketing and website design. Before long I was helping wellness professionals build websites and become easier to find online. Many of those clients were acupuncturists.

I wasn’t working inside their clinics, but I had a front-row seat to the profession. I spent years listening to practitioners talk about their work, learning how they served their communities, and helping them share that work with the world.

At the same time, I was also becoming a patient myself.

The more acupuncture became part of my own life, the more curious I became about the medicine behind it.

Eventually curiosity won.

I went back to school to study Traditional Chinese Medicine, and I haven’t looked back.

Today I’m completing my Diploma of Acupuncture while documenting everything I learn along the way. This website is less of a business website and more of a field journal—a place where I share the things that make me stop and think, “That’s incredible.”

One day you might find a story from student clinic. Another day it might be something I learned while studying in China, a fascinating herb, a strange historical treatment, or an explanation of why your acupuncturist asks to see your tongue.

I’m not interested in pretending I’ve reached the end of the journey.

The more I learn, the more I realize there is to learn.

That’s one of the things I love most about Chinese medicine.

After graduation, I’ll be returning to rural New Brunswick to practise acupuncture in the communities I already call home. Access to healthcare can be difficult in rural Canada, and I’m excited to bring another option to people who have been searching for one.

But this website has always been about more than opening a clinic.

My hope is to build a place where students, practitioners, curious patients, history lovers, plant nerds, and lifelong learners can all fall a little deeper into the world of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Because that’s really what this has always been for me.

One fascinating discovery leading to the next.