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.
Cinnamon-Roasted Carrots & Parsnips with Tahini
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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
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
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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Your Healing Was **Never** Just About You
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“In the shelter of each other, the people live.”
(Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine)
~~ Irish proverb
Greetings to all my precious people!!
Longtime readers will remember The C.O.A.C.H. Method I return to again and again — Curiosity, Optimism, Awareness, Courage, and Hope & Healing. (New here? Welcome. You’ve arrived right where you need to be.) Today I want to follow that path one step further than we usually go — past your own healing, to the quiet truth that so many of you have been sensing lately:
Your healing journey was never just about you. continue reading
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