Today we’d like to introduce you to Emma Malone
Hi Emma, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I grew up in and around Carroll County, Maryland. As an only child, traveling back and forth between parents’ homes each week, and also moving homes a lot along the way, I experienced a need to feel self-sufficient, to resist the unease of the ground constantly moving under my feet. This was perhaps my first great teacher, an invitation to plant my roots in something unseen, in the unified source of energy all around us. I grew to rely on the Earth, to pretend the trees outside were family, to cultivate a relationship with, and find a sense of stability in, that invisible friend that travels with us wherever we go.
Like many healers, I carry the badge of the wounded healer. From a young age I sought wisdom from great thinkers, writers, and mystical traditions to help me through my own turbulence. I found solace in being of service to others. When asked why I decided to become an acupuncturist, I think back to playing with sticks, leaves, and dried pecan shells, pretending to concoct herbal medicine before I had any idea of what that was. I also knew that we could be healed through intention, through the empathy and care of others and nothing more than the ritual of medicine.
After graduating from Towson University studying Psychology and Sociology, I worked for Dr. Lance Loomis as a chiropractic assistant until I found my niche at the Maryland University of Integrative Health studying acupuncture. That was the beginning of my journey in the healing arts. I have now been in private practice for 5 years, and in January 2024 my husband and I opened Healing House, our Integrative medical center in Westminster, MD.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
First, as someone who coaches others to lean into their struggles, I preach that every obstacle and challenge is an opportunity for healing. In ways, my journey has been paved for me. I have followed my heart and that has led the way, but still, it has not always been a smooth road.
My mind immediately goes to when I was a teenager struggling hard with eating disorder, competitive to be the top of my class/straight A student, and hardly sleeping at night. Call it shadow work, or what I had an astrology reading call an affinity for “long-suffering.” I have a pattern of embracing the deep dive into unpleasant emotions, allowing me to hopefully come out the other end stronger and more grounded in who I am and what I believe in. I smile at the term long-suffering – because nothing is inherently good or bad, just what we make of it, and some of my most treasured aha moments were during these tumultuous times.
Case in point, months after I started my business, I also became pregnant with my first child, under a challenging set of circumstances. She was born a month into the Covid-19 pandemic which also came with its own unique set of challenges. She is, of course, a light, a blessing, and a force of nature. Since 2020, I have also had my son, grown my business, and done a lot of inner work to become the mother and person I want to be. I am still recovering my sense of who I am and what my purpose is. This has perhaps been one of the most challenging tasks so far, but for me the harder path is the only way to discover who I am meant to be.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I practice in the healing arts. In my business that translates to acupuncture, herbal medicine, and bodywork. The art form is the fluidity to work with ancient healing concepts and thousands of years of different interpretations of how to use the tools and apply them to the modern world. To see each patient as unique and customize treatments for them to support their highest good, to listen to their needs and also plan for what their evolution could look like with a little support. I embrace some of the more esoteric treatment methods and leave room for intuitive decisions in the treatment room.
I pride myself in my ability to hold my patients in unconditional positive regard, to see their struggles as beautiful and to support them in co-creating the life they want, however that may look. The future of medicine is turning toward the heart-based and spirit-centered, and that is what we strive to offer. Whether through sound healing, group meditations, guided Qi Gong, essential oils, or life coaching, we return our work to the spiritual side of life. Some of my greatest success stories deal with healing from addiction, healing from surgical trauma and pain, as well as slow consistent work through emotional trauma until physical symptoms melt away and treatment moves more toward preventative health. Healing is a rebirth – embracing the pain to leave your symptoms behind and emerge renewed and changed for good.
I also work with shamanic journeying, Akashic records readings, Reiki, meditation, I Ching divination, and crystals to support my own learning. In the future, I plan to expand my services to some of these offerings, as well as to continue my education in Medical Qi Gong to help patients take responsibility for their healing with movement therapy that can be done at home.
Is there something surprising that you feel even people who know you might not know about?
For 13 years, since I was 21 years old, I have been knocking an idea around for a series of novels. It is still my dream to be a writer and put these novels to paper. For now, they rest on the backburner.
Pricing:
- $85 per follow up visit
- Insurance covers acupuncture, check your plan. I’m in network with Carefirst, UHC, Aetna, and Cigna
- $125 herbal consultation and acupuncture treatment
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.healinghousecarroll.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lustforlifeacupuncture
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@EmmaatHealingHouse
- Other: www.lustforlifeacupuncture.weebly.com
