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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.
Five Elements: maps of nature that also live within us (AKA. Your Personal Care/User Manual).
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Spring Health:
Summer Health:
Summer Health: The Heart Organ in Traditional Chinese Medicine
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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Peristeam: a herbal hydro care for the pelvis.
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Meeting health with safety, compassion, and awareness of trauma.
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Easy and 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 is not 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 is not 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 is 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.
In the Winter Kitchen: Slow Food and the Strength Beneath Stillness
Winter calls for slow, warming meals. Learn how Traditional Chinese Medicine uses food, herbs, and cooking methods to support Kidney energy and deep rest.
Facing Fear, Remembering Trust: Emotional Health in the Water Season
Fear is survival. In TCM, winter is the season of fear and the Kidneys. Learn how to rebuild trust and support emotional health from the root.
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.