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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.
Water Element in Chinese Medicine: The Stillness That Moves Mountains
Water element teaches us about rest, renewal, and trusting the deep currents within. Explore its role in Chinese Medicine, emotional themes, physical health, and how to support your Water energy naturally.
Metal Element in Chinese Medicine: The Edge That Cuts Through to the Truth
The Metal element helps us breathe deeply, release what’s no longer needed, and reconnect with clarity and truth. This post explores how Metal shapes the body, mind, and spirit — and how to support it through cycles of grief, refinement, and letting go.
Earth Element in Chinese Medicine: The Nourishing Place to Land
The Earth element represents nourishment, empathy, and the ability to feel supported. It helps us digest life — from food to emotion — and return to centre.
Fire Element in Chinese Medicine: The Spark That Connects
The Fire element teaches us how to connect, express joy, and tend the warmth within. Learn how this summer energy shapes our emotions, sleep, and spirit — and how to care for it when the flame burns too hot (or too low).
Wood Element in Chinese Medicine: The Purposeful Growth
Wood Element energy is about vision, direction, and growth. Learn how this springtime force in Traditional Chinese Medicine shapes our emotions, cycles, and physical health.
Five Elements in Chinese Medicine: Living with the Nature That Lives Within Us
Not all bodies work the same — and they’re not meant to. The Five Elements in TCM help you understand your nature, your needs, and how to care for yourself better.
The 7- and 8-Year Cycles of Life: Growing, Changing, Aging Gracefully
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, life unfolds in deep 7- and 8-year cycles tied to Kidney Essence and meridian energy. These natural rhythms shape our growth, change, and aging, offering a roadmap to move through life with more ease, resilience, and grace.
The Organ Clock: Living in Rhythm with Your Body
What if your 3am wakeups or afternoon energy crashes weren’t random?
Discover the 24-hour Organ Clock of Traditional Chinese Medicine—a rhythmic map that reveals how each organ plays a role in your body’s healing, emotions, and daily flow.
The Organs That Feel, Digest, and Dream
In Chinese Medicine, organs are more than body parts—they’re entire ecosystems. Your Liver isn’t just processing toxins, it’s helping you plan your future. Your Heart isn’t just pumping blood—it’s where your spirit rests. This post introduces the Zang Fu: a way of understanding the organs as emotional, spiritual, and physical guides.