the Anywhere Clinic

"I want to know how much of your life you spend just giving
and if you love yourself enough to also receive sometimes?"

~Andrea Gibson

My daily self-care routines are fraying, a bit. Yesterday I poured myself hot water with lemon after taking my basal body temperature for my BBT chart on FertilityFriend.com (tracking BB...

For the second night in a row I have slept through until 5:05am, and not woken up at 2:50 or 3:15, or 4:30. If only I could figure out how to put myself to bed before 10:30-11ish, and how to stay asleep...is it the herbs I'm taking? the slow breathing and mindfulness exercises? biking over 10 miles that day? cuddling my feline and human companions?...I'd be thrilled.

I'm excited anyway. It's been months since I've slept through the night.

For my doctoral capstone project, I'm making an audiobook of the Huangdi Neijing: Suwen, my favorite classical Chinese medical text, over 2000 years old.

If all goes well with the sound quality I hope to make it available for general consumption via audible.com ...way to harness modern technology for ancient texts. For the win, as my lady de la Libertina would say.

You can follow the evolution of my...

Yesterday was the solar term 立夏 lì xìa, the beginning of summer. I lost my first patient on this day three years ago. Exactly one year later, we lost my partner's maternal grandfather. 

Since I became aware of the turning of the seasons and its effect on people, I've become...increasingly judgmental of the Gregorian? calendar which thinks that spring and autu...

I have been starting my day with a large goblet of hot water with lemon. According to my meditation teacher, drinking extra water helps us digest our feelings. Tea is fine, but coffee doesn't do it. (According to my friend who is studying to be a chiropractor, the ideal amount of coffee to consume is 0-1 cups per day. I'm talking about American mugs here, no more than 12 oz. But coffee really ought to have its own post. Back to hot water and lemon.)