What Is Daoist Nutrition in the Daoist Healing Arts?
Have you ever considered food as a source of energy, medicine, balance, and harmony all in one rather than only as fuel for your body? In the Daoist healing arts, we see nutrition as just that. Every mouthful you eat is more than calories; it’s qi—your essential energy—that will nourish your body, mind, and spirit. […]
Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with the Spiritual Aspect of Being After Childhood Trauma
Childhood trauma can severely impact our spiritual selves and leave behind scars that aren’t just physical or emotional. Many of us go years without realizing the spiritual damage such early events create, which leaves us feeling cut off from meaning, purpose, even our own sense of self. Healing these spiritual scars has been the most […]
Understanding Exercise and Movement in the Daoist Healing Arts
When you consider exercise, most likely you envision visiting the gym or going for a jog. But in the Daoist healing arts, movement is about so much more than just physical fitness. It helps you to link your body, mind, spirit, and energy to cultivate a sense of harmony and balance. These techniques are meant […]
Understanding the Organ Clock: Aligning with Your Body’s Rhythms
Have you ever felt as though your body has a natural timetable? Daoist insight holds that it does! Reflecting how energy (qi) moves through the body, the organ clock is a 24-hour cycle supporting various organ functions at designated times. It reflects your body’s internal schedule for optimal function and self-care. Understanding the organ clock […]
Introduction to Childhood Complex Trauma and Recovery
Childhood complex trauma is the repeated or prolonged exposure to stressful or damaging events in childhood, usually within relationships that ought to have been protective. A child’s emotional, physical, and spiritual development can be profoundly shaped by these events, therefore forming patterns that last well into adulthood. The first step in changing its effects and […]
Journaling as a Tool for Healing: Processing Thoughts and Feelings that Arise in Meditation
Opening us to tranquility, self-awareness, and occasionally unanticipated feelings, meditation can be quite profound. But you’re not alone if you’ve ever completed a meditation session and felt unsettled or discovered old memories arising. Meditating helps one to surface ideas and emotions by gently stirring the waters. Journaling helps with this. Journaling provides a safe place […]
Could Unresolved Childhood Adversity Be Affecting Your Life Today?
No matter how hard you try move forward, have you ever felt trapped in particular spheres of your life? Perhaps it’s a persistent sense of anxiety, a battle with relationships, or even physical health problems with no obvious source. Although you may have tried several strategies—self-help books, therapy, lifestyle modifications—the patterns just keep recurring. What […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation
Meditation. The word alone can make one feel somewhat intimidated. Perhaps you’ve seen pictures of people sitting motionless for hours, appearing impossibly serene, and thought “That’s not for me.” Alternatively, perhaps you’ve tried meditation before and become annoyed when your mind wouldn’t calm down. Guess what? You’re not alone; and you don’t have to be […]
What Is C-PTSD and How It Relates to Childhood Complex Trauma
Have you ever felt like your problems with feelings, relationships, or even your sense of self were more than just normal stress? Like there’s a pattern tied to your past that you just can’t seem to get rid of? If so it’s okay, you’re not the only one. They’re likely reflections of complex PTSD (C-PTSD), […]
7 Ways Childhood Complex Trauma Affects Your Life (and What You Can Do About It)
Have you ever wondered why you battle to control your emotions, feel constantly anxious, or can’t get rid of the sensation that something in your life is “off”? If so, you’re not alone. For many of us, the events we went through as children—especially the difficult, complex stuff—can have long-lasting effects that manifest themselves in […]