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Here, you’ll find reflections on health, cycles, and the wisdom of Chinese medicine, written to support your everyday care and deepen your understanding of your body-mind-spirit in navigating each season and life stages, and transition from one to the next.
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Foundations of Chinese medicine, written simply and clearly for everyday understanding.
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Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water: maps of nature that also live within us.
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Expansive energy, Heart fire, and living in rhythm with the brightest season.
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The “fifth season” of Chinese medicine. Earth element, digestion, and transition.
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Rest, stillness, and the depth of Water.
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Wood element rising: growth, movement, renewal.
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Gentle herbal steam care for the pelvis. Tradition and modern application.
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Grounded care for an often-overlooked centre of health.
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Meeting health with safety, compassion, and awareness of trauma.
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Quick, practical guides for everyday choices.
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Cycles, Seasons, and Slowing Down: Fertility, Menopause, and the Winter Body
Winter is the season of stillness—but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Learn how TCM supports fertility, menopause, and reproductive health through slow, seasonal care.
Staying Warm Inside: Rituals for Rest, Resilience, and Winter Vitality
How do we stay warm inside when the world turns cold? In this soulful guide to winter vitality, we explore how TCM encourages gentle warmth, deep rest, and rituals that nourish without depletion.
Winter in Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Still Season and the Wisdom of Rest
Winter doesn’t ask for productivity. It asks for rest. This first post in our Winter Health series explores how Traditional Chinese Medicine understands the stillness of the season—and what it means for your body and your life.
Before Peristeam: What Every Curious Pelvis Owner Want To Know
Peristeam is more than just herbs and steam. To get the best results and avoid harm, you need safe, personalized care. Discover common myths, set-up basics, and when to seek expert guidance before starting your pelvic steam journey.
Peristeam and Mind-Body Integration: Healing from the Inside Out
Peristeam is more than physical care. It can be a gentle, grounding ritual that supports emotional healing and reconnection with your body.
Peristeam for Teens’ Menstrual Wellness
Teens struggling with cramps or irregular periods? Peristeam is a gentle, empowering way to support menstrual health and body literacy, without hormones or side effects.
The Slow Yes: Peristeam for Fibroids, Cysts & Beyond
Learn how peristeam supports gynaecological conditions like fibroids and cysts. Rooted in TCM, this gentle practice offers real support without surgery.
Steaming Your Way to a Better Period
Discover how peristeam supports menstrual health through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Less pain, better flow, deeper connection.
What Is Peristeam? (And Why You Might Want to Know)
A gentle introduction to peristeam: what it is, why you haven’t heard of it, and why it’s making a quiet return to pelvic health care.
Feeling It All: The Metal Element and the Corporeal Soul in Autumn
Explore the Corporeal Soul—the spirit of the Lungs in TCM. This post reflects on grief, sensory presence, and the beauty of letting go in autumn.
Menstrual Cycles, Perimenopause, and the Power of Letting Go
Perimenopause brings hormonal shifts that often mirror autumn’s quiet wisdom. This post offers TCM insight and gentle support to help you honour this transitional time.
Fall Foods and Gentle Transitions in the Kitchen
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, autumn is the season of Metal—governing the Lungs, skin, and boundaries. Learn how to nourish your body with moistening, warming foods and simple kitchen transitions to support your health this fall.
Nourishing the Lungs: Breath, Sadness, and Defence
In Chinese Medicine, autumn is Lung season—a time to breathe deeply, release sadness, and protect your body from dryness and external stress.
Bowel Movements, Detox Myths, and the Art of Elimination
Fall is a season for letting go—physically, emotionally, and energetically. Learn how TCM supports bowel health, debunks detox myths, and invites a more grounded approach to elimination.
The Spirit of Autumn: Breath, Harvest, and the Season of Letting Go
As the leaves fall, we’re invited to breathe, reflect, and let go. Discover Autumn through the lens of Chinese Medicine—body, mind, and spirit.
Transitioning Gracefully into Autumn
Just like the maple leaf that wears green, yellow, and red all at once, we don't shift seasons in a single step. This post offers gentle guidance for Late Summer's final days and Autumn’s first notes—focusing on nourishment, breath, and balance through the lens of Chinese Medicine.
Overthinking and Worry in Late Summer
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Spleen governs digestion and mental clarity. In Late Summer, both can suffer. This post explores the mind-body connection and offers gentle ways to ease worry and support digestion.
Supporting Digestion in Late Summer
Late Summer invites us to nourish our digestion and support the Earth element. This post explores how Traditional Chinese Medicine views digestion as the root of energy, clarity, and even pelvic health.