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Keep Your Cool With These Summer Food Tips

Seasonal Changes, Self-Care, Wellness

Keep Your Cool With These Summer Food Tips

By Jaime Kauffman|2023-07-06T08:45:46-04:00July 14th, 2022|Categories: Seasonal Changes, Self-Care, Wellness|Tags: cool foods, summer, tips, yang|

Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), summer is associated with the Fire element, as well as the Heart organ system, which performs many energy functions that are vital to your body, mind, and spirit. And of course, summer is the time of year with the most yang energy, translating into sunshine, warmer temps, joy, passion, activity and abundant energy. However, not everyone enjoys the summer season and the heat and excitement it brings. According to TCM, one's reaction to summer depends on their bodily constitution. For instance, people with more yang energy tend to [...]

Understanding Summer Solstice Energy

By JaimeRoslyn|2022-11-15T14:08:18-05:00June 7th, 2019|Categories: Seasonal Changes, Sleep|Tags: seasonal changes, sleep, summer, Summer Solstice, tips, yang|

Adapted from Summer Solstice Start of Summer? Not For Your Body. In the United States, many see the Summer Solstice as the beginning of summer. However, as far as seasonal energies go, this is really the pinnacle of summer energy. Consider yin (dark, feminine) and yang (light, masculine) energy. The Summer Solstice marks the longest day (yang = day) of the year and the shortest night (yin = night). Therefore, the Summer Solstice is the most ‘yang’ day of the year - the height of summer and yang-fire energy. Our body works in conjunction with the daily, monthly and [...]

Understanding Summer Insomnia

By JaimeRoslyn|2022-11-15T14:08:18-05:00May 30th, 2019|Categories: Seasonal Changes, Sleep|Tags: insomnia, sleep, summertime, yang|

With modern day stresses and demands - long hours at work and lots of screen time - quality sleep is difficult to come by any time of the year. According to the CDC, more than a third of American adults are not getting enough sleep. However, things become even more challenging as we begin to approach the dog days of summer. SUMMER ENERGY AND INSOMNIA Summer – with its longer daylight hours, heat and humidity, as well as uptick in activity – can rev us up during the day and challenge our ideal sleeping temperature at night. These two [...]