Stuck In The Middle
When I wrote that title, naturally the song “Stuck In The Middle With You” began chiming in my head. I had to google the artist, who happens to be Stealers
Energy Hygiene: Vital Practices for Healthcare Providers, Fall 2023
This class is meant for you if you want: - to develop your intuition in relation to your work -your body to inherently hold boundaries without your conscious effort -better
On Being, Not Doing, and Burnout
The orientation is toward growth (yang), achievement (yang), competition (yang), and pushing through (yang). Where is the yin in all of that?
How A Uterus Spends It’s Time
The uterus has a particular rhythm of contractions that changes, depending on the time of the month. And even more interesting, if this rhythm is out of order, it can affect...
The Voice of Intuition and Your Pelvis
Recently a friend linked to a fantastic blog post by another local woman in the healing arts: Rachel Warrington. She articulates with such rawness and beauty the connection between our intuition
Bringing Forth The Emotional… The Feminine
"The center of our femininity, as women, is in our pelvises. This our center for creativity, for inspiration, for processing our world, for making sense of our experiences. The pelvis is the fountain of our feminine energy, our yin."
Are You At Risk of Starting Menopause Early?
Are you in your 30’s and experiencing changes in temperature? Do you wake up in the night between 3-4am? Has the rhythm of your period changed? Is your bladder less reliable than it used to be? That got your attention, didn’t it? All of these symptoms in a woman below 45 most often indicate that you are running yourself too hard! They are likely signs of what Chinese Medicine calls “yin deficiency”. It can also be understood as “stress,” but it is more nuanced than that.
On Facing Pain
I am going on year 2 of intense episodic back and leg pain. Well, to be fair, I am going on year 24 but there were many years in there where my life was not characterized by managing my back pain. Although, to be fair again, many of those years were characterized by surviving brutal monthly cycles with endometriosis.
Pleasure In The Patriarchy
why do I, a woman who spends everyday working to help women connect more deeply to their own emotions and their own pleasure, feel like it would be 'inappropriate' to share a video about female anatomy and pleasure?!"
Women, Boundaries, and Autoimmune Disease
In the last few years my practice has taken a turn toward women's pelvic health. Specifically, I practice something called Holistic Pelvic Care (a la Tami Kent, who wrote "Wild Feminine",