Category Archives: WELLNESS

The phrase reached my ears while discussing future plans with a former boyfriend. I shared my dream to someday be a stay-at-home mother and still provide income, but not bear the primary burden of family financial security. To this he responded, “Not only do you not want to contribute to society, you want me to…

Have you ever had a major crisis come up in your life or a big door closed on something you were putting a lot of hope in? Maybe in a career or relationship or something else you hold dearly? It is devastating when a dream, a hope, a plan goes careening off a cliff edge….

With World Earth Day just behind us, we are being reminded to take a look at how we connect with our environment and how we in turn, connect to ourselves. The Earth element in 5 Element theory is associated with the Stomach, Spleen, the colour yellow, the vocal quality of ‘singing’, the smell of fragrant…

As we are in the dawn of spring, March the 20th brings more than longer days and extended evenings. In Chinese Medicine, Spring is the season of the Wood Element. The organs that are associated with the Wood element are the Liver and the Gallbladder. The colour connected is green and the odour is rancid….

As we begin to slowly and gently emerge from our winter cocoon, there are a few things to consider when it comes to our health and mental wellbeing. In Chinese Medicine, the Winter season is the most Yin of all the seasons. It is governed by the Element of Water, which embodies deep stillness and…

‘Nothing, ever, is worth closing your heart over.’ Michael A. Singer By the age of 19 I found myself alone in a foreign country, I needed an algorithm to survive the whirlwind of decisions I didn’t know how to make. Intuition became my guide. When something felt right, regardless of common sense, societal expectations, I…

When I’m treating the menstrual cycle, I feel a sense of fusion. The fusion of the individual experiencing reconnection back to themselves. When we look at any type of dysfunction or disharmony within the body, we can often trace it back to a moment of disconnection. A moment or moments of active or passive separation…

Act One: A Failure in Kindness One time I had to ask the local sheep shearer to come to shear my family’s flock. He is notoriously difficult to work with. Several experiences with him in the past led to me not look forward to making this phone call. Mother and I were so anxious to…

What does it mean to be well? This is a question I ask myself, every single day. To be more precise, I ask myself; how does this person sitting before me feel, when they are well? This question is at the root of everything that I do and every decision I make as an acupuncturist….

If it comes- let it, if it goes- let it. One of my favourite Buddhist mantras. One true, and especially hard to follow in the midst of stormy emotions, which is precisely when you need to let go of something… anger, frustration, fear, hurt, expectations. But what is the inner mechanism of letting go? A…

Spring has finally arrived in London, the sun caressing our tired gaze, symphony of birdsong erupting outside our windows each morning (what a blessing), the green of fresh leaves so stark after the never-ending shades of grey, pubs finally open, energy flowing faster, hope for the better in life (in general) returning. Nature’s rebirth, timely…

It seems like this time of extra isolation provides an opportunity for creating extra amounts of fun. With lots of places being closed, I’ve started creating adventure events for people! I put one together last weekend. Each team had to trudge through the woods to find and decode a series of clues. One clue had…

“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” Frida Kahlo London is essentially a great conglomeration of small, independent villages, which over the years have slowly morphed into one busy (less so over the past year) megapolis. Despite it’s size and innumerous postcodes, it is the very essence of…

As the old Yiddish proverb goes, “We plan, God laughs”. Eight weeks ago I wrote an article on the benefits of cold water swimming and how much I was hoping it would help me manage through the cold winter months of uncertainty. My last swim was on the 4th of Jan and as of the…

Have you seen images of a plant seed germinating? A condensed version of the germination story is the seed first soaks up water, then the roots start growing, growing, and then the first leaves break through the soil surface to be greeted by warm rays of sunshine. Throughout the process to maturity, a plant grows…