First and foremost, pain is a messenger to change your behavior.
So, you start to run out the door and you slip and fall on your knee. Right away, you say ”Ouch!”
You said “ouch” but, in reality, you aren’t really experiencing the pain yet. Did you notice? It takes a few seconds for the action of hitting your knee to reach your brain. And then, woosh! All of a sudden all the pain is there. OUCH!
Read MoreSpring is here! The ritual of Spring Cleaning is as old as time. You might have already spring cleaned the heck out of your home. But what about your body?
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Spring is the time of the liver and gallbladder. Heat in the liver is common in Spring when we enter into the time of year that everything is rising, moving, and growing so fast. Sometimes we have a hard time keeping up with the energy and heat develops in our body. Heat symptoms in the hepatic (liver) region could manifest as headache, unexplained anger, "hot temper", skin eruptions, red inflamed eyes and muscle stiffness. Here are a few ideas on how to support the Liver during Spring.
Read MoreSo, what is brain fog? If you have to ask, you probably do not have it! Brain fog can feel like your brain is dark and full of cobwebs keeping you from being able to think clearly and grasp at thought patterns. You may have a diffucult time finding words or stringing sentences together, you may feel zoned out or irritable or like the “blood isn’t reaching my brain.”
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