This post is about why coffee is likely making your migraine and autoimmune conditions worse, as well as my suggestions to kick the daily coffee habit.

While everyone in the health and wellness space is talking about how to deal with the influx of highly processed sugar via trick or treating, I want to both educate about sugar from the Chinese medicine model, as well as share how we deal with Halloween candy at our house. (Read on to learn about the Switch Witch).

Beef stews can be bland or pasty or just plain uninspiring, but I promise you this one is anything but. Like most everything I make, it originated in one place, and over time and with adjustments, it came to be what it is today. Stews and soups—or at least the type of ones I make—are very forgiving, which is good, because if I can avoid measuring, I will.

Making delicious, nourishing food doesn’t have to be a chore, and it should also be delicious!

Warm & wet food like soups, stews, and cooked whole grains are integral to building mediumship—and putting chronic disease into remission—so if you’re not in the habit of eating a stew, soup, or cooked whole grain at least once a week, try to make it a goal to start there and then progress to once per day.

It takes time and energy, both in planning and in cooking—and don’t forget clean up! But, I think it’s worth it. Here are some simple, fairly quick meal ideas that are better than takeout.

Chinese medicine food therapy approaches diet (meaning what we eat rather than a specific way of eating) the same way it does acupuncture: it’s an energetic practice with directionality. All of our organs have a direction in which their qi flows, & when that qi gets out of balance, that’s when we notice problems.

Plant based diets are all the rage these days and for good reason; Americans' health and the planet's health are in trouble.

The Chinese system has a channel system that spans certain areas of the body and connect to the organ itself, similar to a highway system connecting one city to another.

Yes. And no. The reason acupuncture helps in losing weight or maintaining an already healthy one is that by using needles to treat the organ system, we improve its overall function, which includes improving your metabolism.