It’s funny how I seem to go through and heal from things I am meant to teach and share with the world. In my recent trip outside the country, my first Pluto challenge was in letting go of an old part of myself that I thought I’d outgrown: people pleasing. Secondly, I was reminded why not to drink bottled water. It's so acidic, and my hand and ankle developed a terrible rash from this, even while I ate an alkaline diet. Water is life! Pure filtered water is so imperative for healing and maintaining our health, and I won’t forget this for my clients or myself in future travels. 

We need tools for the ways that we must change through these time. We need more quietude. We need less noise, less social media, and more time in nature to get quiet and find ourselves and get our answers. The Truths that only we can find.

In Chinese 5 Element Theory, we are at the end of the fifth season of late summer. The days are cooler, daylight is shortening, and we feel a difference in the energies since August. During this period where the Earth element is strongest, we need to focus on strengthening the correlating organs of the spleen, pancreas and stomach. Focusing on healing the gut and our “mother earth” will be the priority in order to strengthen our immunity for the fall season.

Nature teaches us to flow

Interesting how it only takes one day for our health to start to crumble. To make the wrong choice, to have an accident, to start thinking things that could spiral you out, to stress and then not sleep well,  or eat foods that really disrupt the body. The body and its symptoms are always showing you its needs. And what comes to the surface physically are reminders to each of us to take the time for self-care.