“It is in Autumn that the trees show us there is beauty in letting go.” I am sure that you’ve read or heard some version of this quote at some point. It is very possible that it was even within one of the very letters I send to you. There is beautiful wisdom and medicine in letting go and the deciduous trees all around us show us this year after year, right after they put on the most beautiful show of color. But something that has been on my mind over the last few weeks (agai

Autumn Equinox - the day when day and night are (nearly) equal, the halfway point between Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice. It is at this point in the year that the daylight begins to lessen at a steadier pace and the decrease in daylight is certainly more noticeable than it was even in August. Just as the fall garden harvests are being made, leaves are falling away, flowers are going to seed, and perennials are beginning to draw their energy back into their roots, might y

Sniffles, coughs, colds.. It has begun. Every year like clockwork, sicknesses begin when the season really makes a shift toward Autumn. Our bodies aren’t always able to smoothly transition alongside the seasonal changes depending on each person and what is going on in each person's body. Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda both have beautiful ways of explaining this in their own verbiage. If we were to simply look at the “why’s” behind our body being unable to smoothly