Category: Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Winter and Supporting Yourself in the Coming Months.

I have many clients at the moment coming to see me concerned that they are feeling the need to retreat. This is perfectly normal at this time of year and is nothing to be alarmed about. However, this can create a little fear for some of us. I am certainly feeling it and I encourage you to take some time out and rest and restore in the colder months. Here is why! Traditionally Winter is a time when nature appears to be dormant. Everything is dark and resting. All appears to be frozen and still. It’s a time where humans traditionally…

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Adieu Winter.

Winter is a season that definitely affects us and while it’s now coming to an end, we’re still very much in a period where many women are feeling physically and emotionally out of balance. What can assist with this and help you to come out of the winter rut feeling alive and vibrant? As a little background information regarding the very basics of TCM, the Chinese revolve their lives around 5 seasons: Summer, Late Summer, autumn, Winter and Spring. These are respectively represented by the 5 elements; fire, earth, metal, water and wood. Each element has a corresponding yin organ…

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Embracing Uncertainty.

For me uncertainty was something I feared for years. So much so, I used to chronically worry about what would happen if my deepest fears became a reality. How would I manage? How would I cope?  Amongst many fears, one thing I chronically worried about in my 20s was death. I feared death.  Not so much my death but the death of those I loved deeply. The fear of losing those I loved, created a great deal of anxiety for me. As a consequence, life fast became a journey to minimise loss. I did everything to minimise loss and planned and…

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Welcome to Autumn!

“Nature instructs us about our own cycles of creating and letting go: Trees in autumn don’t stubbornly hold onto their leaves because they might need them next year.” – Neil Gumenick I have to say autumn has to be my favourite season of the year. The air becomes crisp and fresh and has a sense of purity about it. It is the season when the trees let go of the leaves and fruits that no longer serve them, in turn returning essential nutrients and organic matter to the Earth. The energy of this season, more than any other, supports “letting go” of the waste, and the old and stale in our lives, leaving us receptive to the…

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