Five Elements

  • Finding Freedom as Seasons Transition
    Emotions have a profound effect on our bodies. When we let go of continually held emotions, we begin to find our own freedom.
  • Late Summer Cooking: Fresh Pasta Sauce
    What better way to enjoy a delicious backyard harvest than with fresh sauce! Try the quick and easy approach or opt for the slow-cook version.
  • Food for Thought: Negativity
    All energy runs on its own frequency. Negativity can only affect you if you are on the same frequency. Choose to vibrate higher!
  • Food’s Invisible Messages
    What does food really contain? What information is there that we cannot "see"?
  • Intensity: Water Puts Out Fire
    Nature is our best teacher. While rain releases Late Summer's building heat and intensity, tears relieve ours. Water puts out fire.
  • Tips for Summer Magic
    There’s something magical about summer — that time when the warm sun shines until late in the day, large blooms dot the landscape and animals scamper about. The weather warms as temperatures creep higher, relying on thunderstorms to clear excess humidity. Birds frolic and play. Bees and butterflies flutter about. Summer flowers bloom and trees […]
  • Quenching Summer Fire
    A good thunderstorm quenches the "fire" of the hot summer air. Just as water puts out fire in Nature, the Kidney calms the Heart in the body.
  • Flow Freely!
    The Heart is associated with joy and love! These emotions support the creativity that happens when the Heart's energy is free-flowing.
  • Connecting with Unconditional Love
    You can only give someone what you have. The more you have, the more you are able to give.
  • Spring Cooking: String Bean Salad
    Liver Qi flows up and out, like the branches of a tree. Foods that grow up and out on a vine will support this organ's functioning.
  • The Body Never Lies: Stress
    Did you know? The leading factor in most modern diseases is stress? Learn some tips to let go of stress and live your healthiest life.
  • Live Wild and Free
    All of Nature’s elements are contained within you. Can you feel the unpredictability of water, the flexibility of wood, the momentum of fire, the strength of metal and the grounding qualities of Earth?