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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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Mini-Guide Series #08: Are Canned Food healthy?
Canned foods are easy and shelf-stable, but there’s more to them than meets the eye. This guide looks at what’s inside the can, and what actually matters for your health.
Mini-Guide Series #07: Plastics. What’s the Hype?
Plastic is everywhere from food containers to water bottles. But what actually happens when it comes into contact with what we eat? A honest look at what matters, and what you can do.
Mini-Guide Series #06 Does Cooking Method Make a Difference for My Health?
We often focus on nutrients, but how food is prepared also matters. Cooking methods can change digestion, absorption, and how the body responds.
Mini-Guide Series #05: Choosing Cookware - Cast Iron for the Win
Cast iron cookware is simple, durable, and can add a bit of iron to your meals. A practical tool worth considering.
Mini-Guide Series #04: Ditching Non-Stick Pans
Non-stick pans make cooking easier, but what’s behind that coating? A simple look at what it means for your kitchen and your health.
Mini-Guide Series #03: Why Avoid Thermal Receipts? Hormone Disruptors Hiding in Plain Sight
Those shiny receipts from stores? They might be quietly impacting your hormones. Learn what thermal receipts are, why they matter, and how to handle them wisely.
Mini-Guide Series #02: Do I Have to Buy Everything Organic?
Wondering which fruits and vegetables are worth buying organic? This gentle guide uses the latest pesticide data to help you shop smarter and feel better doing it.
Mini-Guide Series #01: What Are Those Stickers on My Vegetables?
Wondering what those little stickers on your produce mean? This quick Toronto-based guide helps you decode PLU codes and make more informed, health-conscious choices at the grocery store.
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.
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.
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.
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.