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
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
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
"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 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.
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",
The solstice is drawing near. The season of yin is fully surrounding us. I was joking with a friend this evening, as I lay in the warm bath, that I