As I was preparing the newsletter, several themes came to mind for the autumn season. Fall is my favorite season, so I love getting out my fall boots and fall jackets. I was feeling excited about my themes and meditating on positive words such as “gratitude”, taking in the “harvest” of what I have worked hard on. Yet I was feeling this inertia when it came to journaling these thoughts.

Spring Allergies got ya?

Picture this – it’s a beautiful Spring day, suddenly you’re sneezing, your eyes are itching, your head is pounding, and you feel like you are tracking through a pit of mud. Allergies are the worst!

Anti-aging in TCM

Within each season, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) embodies an organ, a taste, a feeling, an emotion and an action to help heal the body. The winter season is correlated with the Kidneys. Like we have established in Western Medicine, Chinese Medicine sees the kidneys as the organ that filters our body and blood by removing waste and excess water. However, in TCM, the kidneys play a much larger role.