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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. Enjoy!
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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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Spring Health:
The Hun: Spring’s Ethereal Soul and the Free Spirit Within
Summer Health:
Summer Health: The Heart Organ in Traditional Chinese Medicine - Passion, Love, and Expansive Energy
Summer Fashion: TCM-Inspired Tips for Staying Seasonally Smart
Late Summer Health:
Autumn Health:
The Spirit of Autumn: Breath, Harvest, and the Season of Letting Go
Menstrual Cycles, Perimenopause, and the Power of Letting Go
Feeling It All: The Metal Element and the Corporeal Soul in Autumn
Winter Health:
Winter in Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Still Season and the Wisdom of Rest
Staying Warm Inside: Rituals for Rest, Resilience, and Winter Vitality
Cycles, Seasons, and Slowing Down: Fertility, Menopause, and the Winter Body
Facing Fear, Remembering Trust: Emotional Health in the Water Season
In the Winter Kitchen: Slow Food and the Strength Beneath Stillness
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Gentle herbal steam care for the pelvis. Tradition and modern application.
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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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The Hun: Spring’s Ethereal Soul and the Free Spirit Within
The Hun is Spring’s ethereal soul, connected to our dreams, imagination, and sense of direction. Learn how to care for this aspect of spirit through TCM and gentle seasonal practices.
Movement, Vision, and Planning for the Year
Movement nourishes Liver Qi. This post explores the power of vision, planning, and gentle motion in Spring, with practical tools rooted in TCM.
Spring Foods and Kitchen Transition
Spring is the season of movement, upward energy, and Liver health in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Learn which foods and cooking methods best support your body this season.
Menstrual and Fertility Health in Spring
In TCM, Spring is about more than flowers blooming—it’s the season of fertility, creativity, and the Liver. Learn how this energetic shift influences your menstrual cycle and vitality.
Spring Emotions: Anger, Boundaries, and the Wisdom of the Liver
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, anger isn’t a “bad” emotion—it’s part of Spring’s call to grow and define ourselves. This post explores the Wood Element’s emotional wisdom, the role of Liver Qi in frustration and PMS, and gentle ways to express and release tension.
Spring and the Liver: Detox & Decluttering, But Make It TCM
Spring isn’t just for cleaning closets — it’s a season for lightening your physical, mental, and emotional load. Learn how the Liver and Wood element in Chinese Medicine guide a gentler, intentional kind of detox and decluttering.
The Spirit of Spring: Movement, Growth, and Renewal
Spring is a time of movement, vision, and growth. Learn how to align with the season using Traditional Chinese Medicine's wisdom.
Ways to Support Pelvic Health
Pelvic health isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing what’s needed, when it’s needed, with care. This post offers gentle, grounded ways to reconnect with the pelvis and support it over time. Explore tools like acupuncture, bodywork, breathwork, and more—each an invitation to move with rhythm, not rush.
Pelvic Health Beyond Gender and Reproduction
Pelvic health is for every body—not just for fertility, menstruation, or postpartum. This post explores pelvic care beyond gendered narratives, honouring diverse identities, surgeries, traumas, and quiet forms of disconnection. Reconnection is possible—for all of us.
Cycles, Hormones, and the Pelvis: A TCM View of Pelvic Vitality
Hormonal rhythms, first bleeds, PMS, fertility, perimenopause, and beyond, shape our pelvic health over a lifetime. Traditional Chinese Medicine reads these changes not as problems, but as vital signs. Learn how your cycles reflect deeper patterns of energy, emotion, and balance.
Understanding Pelvic Pain: Decoding Pelvic Pain With TCM
Pelvic pain doesn’t always play by the rules. It might feel sharp or dull, radiating or vague, or show up only during certain times of your cycle. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, pain is more than a symptom—it’s a message. In this post, we explore how pelvic pain is understood through TCM patterns like stagnation, deficiency, and internal climate, and how trauma-informed care can help you listen to your body with more clarity and compassion.
What Is Pelvic Health, Really?
The pelvis does more than hold us upright—it anchors our sense of safety, identity, and connection. But pelvic health is often overlooked, especially if we don’t fit the usual boxes of gender, anatomy, or reproductive status. This gentle introduction explores what pelvic health really means, why it matters for every body, and how Traditional Chinese Medicine helps us listen to the wisdom stored in this vital region.
The Space Between Us: Shared Responsibility in Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed care isn't a fixed label, It’s an active practice between people. This reflection explores what shared responsibility really looks like in care.
Trauma-Informed Care: Red Flags
Just because a provider says they’re trauma-informed doesn’t make it so. Here's how to spot common red flags without gaslighting yourself in the process.
Signs of Trauma-Informed Care (What It Looks and Feels Like)
What does trauma-informed care actually look like in real life? This guide offers green flags to look for, like clear communication, consent, and collaboration, and tips to help you assess if a healing space is truly trauma-aware.
What Does Trauma-Informed Actually Mean?
“Trauma-informed” isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a care philosophy built on compassion, safety, and shared responsibility—not just for trauma survivors, but for everyone.
The Body Remembers: Trauma and the Nervous System
Trauma isn’t just a memory, it’s a pattern the body holds onto. This post explores how the nervous system responds to trauma and what it means for healing.
What Is Trauma, Really? (And Why It Matters in Care)
The word “trauma” gets used everywhere now—but what does it actually mean? In this opening post of a 6-part series, we explore how trauma shows up in the body, what it means to be trauma-informed, and why compassionate care starts with understanding what’s beneath the surface.