About
The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is. -
Giacometti
Slate and Shell was started in 2008 as a place for Becky Groebner to develop a greater understanding of herself and maybe even some Classical Chinese Medicine. As the years have gone by, it’s become a hodgepodge of topics. Posting is sporadic, as it should be – because as everyone knows, life is unpredictable.
Becky is an L.Ac., originally from Olympia, WA and who currently lives in Portland, OR. She is terribly obsessed with learning Classical Chinese language. She loves Joseph Campbell as well and has a long list of Classics from many cultural backgrounds for which she hopes to accomplish reading.
Before coming to this medicine, she attended the Evergreen State College and then finished a BS in Physics at Portland State University. She earned a Masters of Acupuncture from the National College of Natural Medicine. Nine years of pre-Chinese medicine school time were spent as a professional cook in Olympia, Kaua’i (with Roy Yamaguchi and John Sikhattana), San Francisco (with Yoshi Kojima) and Portland. She also worked for many years in Vancouver, WA as a legal advocate and case worker for victims of domestic violence through the SafeChoice program. She came into this medicine with the belief that herbal practitioners should make their own medicines, resulting in a few botched pills and salves here and there but an overall desire to use the amazing pharmacopeia of the Pacific Northwest.
Each day, she falls more and more in love with her 6 year old son and is planning on raising some Peace Silk Worms with him this summer as well as building a monumentally artistic chicken coop in their tiny back yard, all the while, knitting and knitting and knitting…
Currently, Becky runs a home practice in Portland, OR and enjoys working with men, women, families, pregnancy, childbirth, children and everything in the spaces between.
