Meet Mandi Trimas

 

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Mandi Trimas. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Mandi below.

Hi Mandi, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?

Work ethic has always been an extension of a part of my personal being, my word and what I say I’m going to do. It was something important to me since my first earliest jobs as a teen and until now. Do as you say and say as you do. If you can’t, ask questions, learn or ask for help to figure it out. I’m sure my own work ethic came from my own personal pressures I placed on myself from examples around me growing up of what I didn’t want to be. Sometimes it can be seen as perfectionism and needs to find balance, but I would rather walk through life and my current work with integrity than the opposite.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

My name is Mandi Trimas, L.Ac. and my story may look a little different. I grew up always knowing that I’ve been sensitive, intuitive and empathetic but not applying it beyond my own personal world. Messages I received growing up were that these were not qualities of strength. Once I began my schooling for Traditional Chinese Medicine by the encouragement of my Acupuncturist, things started to unfold and these became gifts rather than weaknesses. After completing my schooling, my father’s health took a decline after a fall. I was blessed to be able to have the opportunity to care for him for 2.5 years while also studying and taking my medical board exams. My integrative training of Western & Eastern Medicine allowed me to have input that was heard with his medical team, and I was able to have a keen and open eye while also caring for him as his Hopsice Nurse during the Covid Pandemic. While the loss was deep after he passed and I still work through that, it left me with confirming the skills I acquired from school training and taking care of him.

My work ethics caring for patients now are just as high, and my abilities to listen with an even more open ear to patients’ concerns has heightened not only by what they say verbally but also what their body speaks when they are on the table. Those sensitivities and intuitiveness I may have heard as being weak, now show themselves as strengths. When I allow myself to get caught up and second guess what I pick up on or ignore it, I kick myself! In school, my InfiniChi teacher (similar to Reiki) who taught one of my favorite skills, told me “you’ll be teaching this one day” while I was not understanding it yet and questioning when will I feel something. I still chuckle at that, but it shows how right he was that I was going to pick it up fast. I use this energetic tool as part of my investigation process with patients. It’s an energetic practice that utilizes the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine and we can inquire and treat a patient with it, even through a distance healing while not in the same room.

After my father passed, I was licensed in the state of Oregon in 2021. After a few experiences of working for others and learning what was important to me for quality care for patients, it appeared I needed to open my own practice. In the late summer of 2023, Blue Horizon Acupuncture began. I have since been a one woman practice wearing all the hats and learning all the lessons of running a business. My dad is by my side daily through my time in practice and life. I’m reminded and chuckle a bit when I used to roll my eyes at my dad’s advice to take business classes many years ago, prior to going to school. I am honored to have used the experience of taking care of him and using my several abilities, as well as out of the box thinking, to bring care to my patients. I always look forward to learning about them and who they are walking through life, aside from what ailments may bring them in seeking care.

My current work focuses on muscular and skeletal body pain, internal medicine ranging from headaches / migraines to digestion, women’s menstrual issues, peri & menopause, and emotional /mental health. I’m currently also offering cosmetic acupuncture & microneedling to allow patients to gain access to a natural way of slowing down aging of the skin. As time goes by, I’m excited to see where my interests will continue to grow and if I will be drawn towards focusing on any one particular area. For now, I enjoy being able to help a wide range of patients and symptoms.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Resilience, Empathy, Open Minded. It took a lot of resilience getting through school, but that felt like a drop in the bucket compared to taking care of the person I was closest to and being with them as they passed. It has taken resilience to keep moving forward and having purpose to help others. I continue to show up, be myself and know that I cannot be anyone else. Being empathetic, especially in a time when the world is hurting so much, is a gift in itself. Just be present and listen with an open ear. Be empathetic and willing to be available to help your fellow person nearby. Be open minded. Sometimes we are not perfect, and even times I am not perfect. When someone has feedback, listen. Keep an open mind to think outside the box. Our medicine takes time to learn, our practice takes time to craft and develop. An open mind helps to keep a wide eye around you. With open mindedness, you don’t need to be risky but just be you, be real, authentic and be willing to step outside the rigid lines of the box. Make that extra call or email to your patient’s primary provider if you notice or hear something, or encourage them to make that call. Be open.

Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?

I’m always available and interested to find ways to collaborate with others! Anything from a yoga or sound bath circle to doing community acupuncture events and retreats. My intention is still to dedicate a day or two every couple of weeks towards a discount day where patients can access care in a group setting receiving acupuncture. I would love to collaborate with others to offer this and their skills together.

If you would like to think outside the box with me and collaborate, I can be contacted at 503-575-9740 or bluehorizonacupuncture@gmail.com or through my website at www.bluehorizonacupuncture.com

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