My top Three Free Therapy tips to thrive in fall…

Play is our natural state; it’s the highest form of complex learning and development. Just look at kids and most young animals. But by the time we’re adults, most of us have unlearned how to play through conditioning, ego, and competitiveness that interferes with this natural state.

Having just passed through the Autumnal Equinox here in the northern hemisphere, it's got me thinking of all the ways we can ‘surf’ transitions more smoothy in our lives. The change into Late Summer, or what’s known in Chinese Medicine as the Fifth Season, is a key pivoting point in the natural cycle of the year. It’s a time of transition from the more expansive, bright, warm and yang summer months to the more contractive, cooler, darker, yin energy of fall…

With days getting longer and brighter here in the northern hemisphere there's a budding feeling that we might be approaching the end of this wild pandemic year that's pushed us into a collective reimagining of ourselves, our values, our relation to other humans, the planet, and... Netflix.

Transitions can be challenging. They threaten our feelings of safety and security. In reality though we are always in transition, we are always in the process of unfolding. A work in progress.

(Photo credit: @acreativegangster) In response to the current global health crisis, I'd like to share with you some ideas on the importance of building internal immunity alongside the more widely practiced external immunity- focused public health recommendations.

(Photo credit: Peter Wall) With Fall in full swing, the season of harvest and thanksgiving, I'm wondering what you are feeling grateful for? What are the things that are place in your life that you can take a moment to feel appreciation for?

We are nature, and nature is us. That is Chinese Medicine 101. It’s what you learn on day one of Acupuncture School and it’s at the heart of all original healing systems.