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The Sacred Pause: Surrender to Certainty

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This week we pause.

25 years ago, September 11 was a sunny Tuesday with a brilliant blue sky. It seemed a day like many others: a return to school, a return to work after the Labor Day weekend, a certainty to the air, the schedule, the path to the season of Autumn.  But on that day certainty broke, publicly and completely — the ground everyone stood on, the buildings people worked in, gone in real time. But what came after is where our theme gets its proof: the certainty that did show up that day wasn’t about answers to the questions, and it surely wasn’t shelter from the storm. It was people. continue reading »

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Cinnamon-Roasted Carrots & Parsnips with Tahini

 

Root vegetables are grounding and naturally sweet. Sesame is traditionally associated with nourishing and moistening qualities, making this combination especially appropriate for the dry transition into autumn.

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Creamy Ginger & Butternut Squash Soup

 

Butternut squash is naturally sweet and nourishing, making it a classic Earth-season food. Cooked squash is gentle on digestion and traditionally used to support Spleen Qi. Ginger adds warming, digestive support and helps counterbalance the coolness of autumn foods.

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A Quiet Turning Point: Healing the Gut from Within

A Quiet Turning Point: Healing the Gut from Within

According to the IFFGD, the International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders, approximately 5-10% of the world’s population has IBS, with most of those people under the age of 50. And like millions of people with gastrointestinal disorders, most have tried everything from elimination diets, medications, and probiotics, to stress management apps. One treatment many are surprised to discover is acupuncture and just how impactful it can be for gastrointestinal health. continue reading »

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Late Summer: The Gifts of The Fifth Season

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Greetings to all my precious people!

There’s a particular quality to these first days of September — nothing dramatic yet, nothing you could point to and say there, that’s the change. Just a cooler edge to the morning air. A slant of light that wasn’t there last week. Somewhere overhead, geese are beginning to practice their formation, long before they actually need it.

We are standing at a threshold. And thresholds ask something of us that the wide-open seasons don’t: they ask us to trust a turning we cannot yet fully see.  continue reading »

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