by Melissa Roxas | Jul 13, 2023 | Chinese medicine, Feature, Inspiration, Mindfulness
Last night when we were reading bedtime stories, my 9 year old son was asking about how poems are structured and his dad read him a sonnet from Shakespeare. This morning I woke up thinking of another favorite poem of mine by Robert Frost called “The Road Not Taken”...
by Melissa Roxas | Apr 2, 2023 | Chinese medicine, Inspiration, Mindfulness
In East Asian Medicine, the pathway to vital health and longevity is to cultivate the physical and spiritual substances in the body called the Three Treasures: Jing, Qi, and Shen. Jing is our life essenceQi is our life forceShen is our spirit Jing, our life essence,...
by Melissa Roxas | Mar 22, 2023 | Inspiration, Women's Health
Perimenopause is a natural phase of a woman’s life that usually begins in your 40s or 50s, marking the transition to menopause. Unfortunately, this phase of life is often stigmatized in our culture, and women can feel devalued and marginalized as they experience...
by Little Sage | Feb 22, 2023 | Chinese medicine, Inspiration, Mindfulness
It’s common to get stuck in a pattern of negative thinking especially when it seems like things aren’t going our way. Psychologists have recognized that our brain has a tendency towards a negativity bias. This means that we tend to give more attention to negative...
by Little Sage | Oct 19, 2022 | Blog, Inspiration, Mindfulness
What does our society normally do when we break something? Say you broke one of your favorite cups, pot or vase. What happens to it? It ends up in the trash. We often do the same thing in our lives with things we perceive as broken. Not only material things, but even...
by Little Sage | Aug 11, 2022 | Herbal medicine, Inspiration
I want to share a little bit about my story about how I fell in love with herbal medicine. My journey to be an herbalist started before I was born. In my mother’s womb, the umbilical cord was tightly wrapped around my body and deprived me of oxygen. I came out as a...
