Hello beautiful humans! Oh, how I have missed writing to you all! 2024 was a much more intense and busy year for me than I ever thought possible.  I also feel like this year has literally flown by so incredibly fast. We had a blended household until August and learned so much with having extra hands to help teach and learn from. We also grieved my father in laws passing and celebrated his love of life. Having this happen in the blink of an eye has really made me appreciate all that I have. 

But also, 2024 has been A LOT. I feel like I am just now coming up for air and it’s been only a few months. 

This has always been my favorite time of year for many reasons.I always feel like taking stock of the year, clearing out the clutter not only in my home but in my mind. Throughout fall and winter-I naturally have a more inward shift. It’s a personal practice of mine that happened naturally over time. This began long before I knew about Traditional...

Autumn is here.

The colors are shifting to brilliant golds, oranges, reds, and temperatures are dropping overnight too. Cooler air is here and with it comes a change in organ systems in Chinese medicine.

We leave the 5^th season and enter Fall, which is the time of the Lung and Large Intestines.

The Lungs are represented by the metal element and are nourished or most active from the hours of 3 to 5 am then the large intestines from 5 to 7 am. During the early morning hours, our lungs are restoring themselves while we are in deep, restorative sleep and dreaming. Then upon waking the large intestines, it’s time to wake up, release bowls and possibly meditate at this time.

There are a total of five elements in Chinese medicine and metal is the fall element.

Metal

The color is white, the emotion associated is grief and the exterior expression is the nose. The lung includes the nose to the lungs themselves. We say that the lungs oversee gathering the qi...