Nourishing Ourselves in Late Summer

By |2022-11-15T14:05:35-05:00August 9th, 2021|Categories: Nutrition, Seasonal Changes, Wellness|Tags: , , |

The quality of the bright summer light is just starting to change from pale yellow to a richer, creamier yellow; the evening light is waning a little sooner; the robin’s last brood of the season has hatched. We’re entering the fifth and shortest season of the year called Late Summer in Five Element theory. It’s a time of transition from yang to yin, a phase between the expansive growth of summer and the inward pull toward autumn. This season correlates to Earth which serves to both feed us and ground us. According to Dr. Elliott Haas, “In the Chinese [...]