Wellness
Health is Wealth: The Wisdom of Late Summer
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Greetings to all my precious people!!
We are in the “dog days” of summer — that long, sultry stretch the ancient Romans named diēs caniculārēs for the rising of Sirius, the Dog Star, alongside the Sun. But even as the heat peaks, the wheel is already turning. Chinese Medicine recognizes a fifth season the West often misses: Late Summer — the transitional time when summer’s extreme Yang, all brightness and heat, begins to yield and soften into the cooler Yin of autumn. continue reading
The Medicine of Rest
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“A good traveler has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving.”
— Lao Tzu
Greetings to all my precious people!!
In the thick of summer, I want to make the case for something we’re strangely bad at: rest. Real rest. The kind with no agenda and no arrival time.
We live as though rest must be earned — as though we have to spend ourselves all the way down before we’re allowed to stop. But Chinese Medicine sees it differently. Rest isn’t the reward for depletion; it’s how we prevent depletion in the first place. The whole system runs on the balance of Yin and Yang — Yin being rest, stillness, receptivity; Yang being activity, drive, output. A culture like ours runs almost entirely on Yang, and then wonders why it’s so tired. A true rest — even a small one — is a deliberate return to Yin, and it’s how the body restores balance. continue reading
We Mother Each Other
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“I can promise you that women working together –
linked, informed, and educated –
can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”
~~ Isabel Allende
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve spent the month of June exploring:
June 5: Taking up space (reclaiming the belonging mother’s body first taught)
June 12: Finding your voice (speaking from the body mother gave you)
June 19: Healing the mother wound (breaking the lineage pattern)
And now, the final piece: We are the mothers now.
Not just to our children (if we have them). But to each other. continue reading
The Mother Wound
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“The mother wound isn’t about a mother’s love.
It’s about a mother’s capacity.
And healing it is how we honor her by
becoming what she couldn’t be –
not because she failed,
but because she was doing her best with what she had.”
~~ Adapted from Attachment Theory
Greetings to all my precious people,
I want to talk about something tender today.
Not with blame. Not with anger. With deep, fierce compassion.
Because I’ve been sitting with this: The relationship between you and your mother’s body is the relationship you have with your own body.
And if that relationship is wounded, it’s not because your mother didn’t love you. It’s because she couldn’t emotionally attune to you in the way your nervous system needed.
And that matters. Not as blame. As context for healing. continue reading
The Neuroscience of Coming Home
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“Your brain doesn’t make you small to punish you.
It makes you small to protect you.
The question is: Are you still in danger?
Or is it time to come home?”
~~ Dr. Julia DiGangi
Greetings to all my precious people!
We’ve spent the month of May learning to come HOME:
To your body (Week 5 – body-mind is one).
To your Inner Mentor (Week 6 – listening deeply).
To coherence (Week 7 – interior alignment).
To living FROM home instead of searching for it (Week 8).
And you might be wondering:
“Okay, I understand this conceptually. I even FEEL it sometimes. But why is it so hard? Why do I keep shrinking back? Why does my voice still disappear? Why do I apologize for taking up space even when I know better?”
Here’s why:
Your BRAIN is still running old programming.
And until you understand what your brain is doing (and WHY), you’ll keep fighting yourself.
