Category: Wellness

Last month’s blog was about using Summer’s healing gifts when our heart is in relatively good shape. This blog looks at Summer’s gifts for healing serious heart hurts.

As lovely as Summer can be, it has a tough side, too. There are obvious risks like dehydration, sunburn and other forms of burnout from too much of all that comes with this season.

Other challenges of Summer are less obvious – and far riskier. This Season of the Heart comes with lows as well as highs. Continue reading “The Highs and Lows of Summer”

Healing with the Seasons: Summer (Part 1)

Such a buzz of busy-ness this time of year! More hours of daylight and yet not enough hours in a day. Sometimes, I feel like a pup leaning out a car window, with the world speeding past so fast, all I can do is hang on and grin as it flies by. I want to ‘Make hay while the sun shines.’ But I still have pots of little plants on the porch, waiting to root in my garden.

Summer flies. So fast we can miss its unique healing gifts.

So before it peaks, here are three quick reminders about how to connect with the miraculous healing possibilities of Summer. Continue reading “Tending our Tender Hearts”

Tension. Opposition. Violence, even. It may come as a surprise to some readers that all of these have a place in the life cycle of a healthy organism. At least they do in the paradigm of Asian Healing Arts. It’s not all sweetness and light in here!

Without any tension, we’d collapse like rubber chickens. Without opposition, we’d miss the full spectrum of our life’s possibilities. And without violent muscle contractions, none of us would have left our mothers’ wombs.

And yet. The destructiveness of these forces have been showing up all too clearly. Continue reading “Finding our Balance in Tumultuous Times”

Winter can feel like we’re just trying to get by. Especially after the holidays, our energy reserves are wiped out. When we try to ‘get things done,’ we find our concentration low and our nerves frayed. We just hang on, waiting for longer days. Warmer temperatures. Brighter skies.

Taoists viewed Winter a little differently. This tradition, the source of Asian healing arts like acupuncture, held Winter as a time of great power. And believed our choices in this season affect our health thru the year. Maybe even our destiny thru our life! Continue reading “Winter: What’s the Point?”

One of many reasons for silence around sexual trauma has been a lack of tools to heal these injuries. Emergency room physicians can brilliantly patch up physical wounds. But until recently, the longterm effects of traumatic injuries were barely recognized, much less addressed. Especially for sexual trauma. With no healing in sight, these wounds remained hidden. And they festered – as any wound will thats sealed before its healed. Girls, especially, learned to follow Miss Manners’ prime rule: “If there’s nothing to be done about if, there’s nothing to be said about it.” Continue reading “Healing Sexual Trauma – Beyond ‘Me Too’”