I hope that you are safe and well amidst our new daily lives. Here in Brooklyn, things are radically changed outside of my small abode, yet inside day to day life is quiet and slow. I am rather privileged and lucky in that regard, and am grateful for my circumstances and those who are out […]
Here we are, after January 1st and before Chinese New Year (January 25), which officially marks the turning from the most Yin time of year into the beginning of the Yang time of year. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we are still in the depths of winter, ever slowly approaching spring, waiting, hushed, for the […]
Based on all of the “detox” “cleanse” “reset” “30-day” “21-day” “clean eating”, and so on, programs that are touted this time of year…. I wanted to share something very simple that you can make that is not based on marketing mumbo-jumbo. I don’t know about you, but I know how tempting it is to jump […]
I hope you have been shining your light in the world in the way only you can. I’ve been huddled under a proverbial lamp, in a cave, working on a project that has morphed from a two part blog post about the herb Albizia into… 63 pages, and it is nowhere near finished. I […]
The dreaded ides of April… otherwise known as tax season in the U.S. Everywhere I go, seems folks are groaning about their taxes. I know I have been lamenting just how much I’ve procrastinated on mine this year, but something funny happened… As I sat reviewing my year of work as an herbalist, I saw […]
I had a big change a week ago, a huge realization: I am not what is swirling about in my head, my body or the environment around me. I am the stillness that resides deep within, that I have been allowed to touch every so often in meditation. With this realization, that sense of stillness […]
I lost a dear friend and companion, my cat Norton, who was by my side for almost 15 years to cancer at the end of April. I was devasted from the time I got his cancer diagnosis until his peaceful death at home. Yet, soon after Norton’s passing, my husband and I found ourselves fostering […]
It is the week after the completion of an intense two year course with esteemed Chinese Medicine practitioner, scholar and teacher Lonny Jarrett (called Clinical Integration). I’m reflecting on the two year homework assignment we were given, in addition to all of the readings and practicing what we have learned in class: if you could […]
I’ve recently been going through the most difficult thing in my life to date. And, I’ve developed a slew of digestive issues, and a return of migraines, to boot. My dear cat, Norton, was diagnosed with intestinal cancer a week before Christmas. I honestly, naively, thought my 17yo cat had worms and that’s why his […]
When we begin our own healing journeys, it’s scary to dive in and make all of the changes that are requested, if not outright demanded. We don’t know what we might become, or how our lives will change – will we be better, worse, lonely, more connected, joyful, or angry? It is what keeps a […]
