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Welcoming Autumn: The Metal Element and the Season of Breathing In and Letting Go

Okay, so... it's officially fall. And autumn is hands down my favorite time of year. Here's the thing though: I live in Southern California. So "fall" this coming week is going to be about 78 degrees ...

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Full, But Not Fed: The Earth Element and the Nourishment You're Actually Missing

Think back to your last meal. Not a special one, just a regular Tuesday lunch. Can you actually remember tasting it? Or were you standing at the kitchen counter, phone in one hand, scrolling one feed ...

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Your Clients Aren't Thinking About Cold and Flu Season Yet.

How to turn Late Summer into an immune-boosting offer that genuinely serves your clients and fills your calendar, built on the two most powerful points for strengthening Wei Qi (defensive Qi)

Most pe...

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Overthinking Isn't a Personality Trait. It's a TCM Pattern.

Why we get caught in our heads, a teaching from my beloved teacher Dr. Tran Viet Dzung, and the three-point path from thought to action

We are in Late Summer, the season of the Earth element. And if ...

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The Fifth Season: Meet Late Summer and the Earth Element

The season of transition most people don't know exists, and how to come back to center as summer starts to shift

Let me take you back to my treatment room for a second.

For years, I could feel this ...

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Comparison, Joy, and the End of Fire Season

On the afternoon I caught myself scrolling, comparing, and quietly handing my joy away

I need to tell you about a moment I had this week, because it is a little embarrassing and completely human, and...

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You Don't Have a Client Problem

What hundreds of my students told me they struggle with most, and why the usual advice keeps failing them

I hear the same thing from my students over and over, and honestly, it breaks my heart a litt...

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The Fire Element Pendulum

How I swung from joy to overheated to exhausted in a single ten-mile walk, and the point that brings you back down

Yesterday I walked ten miles.

I did not plan to feel a whole Chinese medicine lesso...

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The Restless Heart

 On agitation, an overthinking mind, and the point I reach for when I can't quite settle

I have been feeling it for a few days now.

Not anxiety exactly. Not sadness. Something lower and harder to na...

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I Did Everything Right and Still Woke Up at 2am

What waking between 1 and 3am says about your Liver, your stress, and a nervous system that won't settle the f’ down

Friday was, by any reasonable measure, a great day.

I walked eight and a half mil...

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How Often Do You Actually Take Care of Yourself?

What a sound bath taught me about the nervous system I keep forgetting to tend

I went to a cacao ceremony this weekend.

There was a sound bath, and journaling, and a room full of people setting inte...

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Oooo Baby, It's Hot Out There

When the heat outside is stoking the fire inside, and one acupressure point to cool it down

I'm going to be honest with you, and it comes with a little guilt.

This morning I took my coffee outside i...

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