Every year on May 29, the World Gastroenterology Organisation marks World Digestive Health Day, a global initiative focused on raising awareness around digestive health and how often symptoms get overlooked or dismissed. This year’s theme is “Chronic Diarrhea: Don’t Flush the Signs Away,” which is really about paying attention to what the body is trying…
Category: Daily Habits
Things About Eating That Nobody Really Talks About
Not rules. Not a plan. Just seven quiet observations for anyone who’s doing everything right, and still wondering why something feels off. There was this one day I ate really well. Everything was pretty balanced, lots of colour, all the stuff you’re supposed to do. Breakfast made sense, lunch was solid, and I even skipped…
When Drinking More Water Isn’t the Answer
TCM has a really good explanation for this, and it’s not “drink more water”. Okay so here’s something that honestly confused me for the longest time. You can be drinking water constantly, like, doing everything right, carrying your Stanley cup everywhere, hitting your two litres, whatever it is, and still feel parched, have dry lips,…
Top Reasons to See a Holistic Nutritionist
A lot of people think seeing a nutritionist means sitting across from someone who’s going to hand you a meal plan and being told to eat more vegetables and drink more water like you haven’t heard that a hundred times already. But holistic nutrition is different. It looks at the whole picture: how you’re sleeping,…
Mental Health Is More Than a Mindset
May comes around every year with a lot more conversation about mental health. You’ll see posts, statistics, reminders to “check in on your people.” And yeah, it matters. But if I’m being honest, sometimes it can also feel a bit surface-level. Like we all agree mental health is important… but we don’t always slow down…
What Gua Sha Is Really Doing Beneath the Skin
The first time my practitioner scraped a smooth wooden tool along my skin and left those deep red marks behind, I won’t lie, I wasn’t sure what to think. It looked intense and scary, if I’m being honest. It felt strange too, and nobody around me had even heard of it before. But after that…
The Role of Nutrition in Children’s Mental Health
When we talk about children’s mental health, we usually focus on things like therapy, screen time, sleep, and school pressure. But there’s another part that doesn’t always get as much attention—nutrition. There’s more and more research looking at how what kids eat can influence things like brain function, emotional regulation, stress response, and overall mood….
Slow Down When You Eat
No, seriously. Your body will thank you. Think about the last meal you actually sat down for. Not eating quickly at the counter, not scrolling through your phone, not rushing through lunch between things. Just… sitting and eating. For a lot of us, that doesn’t happen as often as we think. Most of the time,…
Understanding Yin in Women’s Health
There’s a particular kind of tired that doesn’t go away with a good night’s sleep. You rest, but you don’t actually recover. You’re functioning, technically, but something underneath feels dry and depleted, like you’ve been drawing from a well that nobody’s been refilling. I’ve been feeling like that for years, and it’s what the first…
The Organ That Doesn’t Exist (But Runs Everything)
Okay, so here’s one that’s going to make your head spin a little. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there’s an organ, actually one of the most important ones, that doesn’t physically exist the way we think of organs in Western medicine. No tissue. No exact spot in the body you can point to. You won’t find…
Mouth Taping and Nasal Breathing
I didn’t think much about how I breathed at night until my son’s orthodontist brought it up. We were there for a routine visit, and she started asking questions about his breathing habits, whether he slept with his mouth open, whether he snored, whether his lips were usually parted. And then she started explaining why…
The TCM Organ Clock
Your body has a schedule. Here’s what it’s doing every two hours. Your body at 3pm versus 3am feels different for a reason. It’s not only that you’re tired, your body is actually operating differently in the background. Different systems become more active at different times of day, things like digestion, hormone production, energy regulation,…
Wei Qi: Your Body’s Invisible Shield
Some days I stride through the cold without a second thought. Other days I wince at the slightest breeze on my neck. It wasn’t until I started paying attention to those sensitivities that I truly began to understand Wei Qi. What Is Wei Qi? (衛氣) Before we reach for explanations, let’s begin with experience. I never really…
Stress Hygiene (And Why We Don’t Talk About It Enough)
We talk about skincare. We talk about gut health. We talk about what we eat. But we don’t really talk about how we handle stress on a daily basis, even though it plays a big role for a lot of us. Let’s be honest, stress is kind of just part of everyday life now. We…
The Everyday Mindfulness of Japan
I remember one afternoon in particular. I’d ducked into a tiny café somewhere in Kyoto. It had maybe just a few seats and a handwritten menu and that soft late‑day light coming through the window. I ordered an iced matcha and a soft red bean paste with cinnamon wrapped in mist-warabi dough. They went together…