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Summer Abundance, Food, Energy, and Herbs!

6/22/2021

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Happy Summer, dear ones! 

​The Summer Solstice on June 21st marked the beginning of this beautiful season of abundance, flow, heat, fire, the heart, and the small intestine!


A nourished and balanced summer body and spirit feels amazing!!  Alternatively, an imbalanced summer body and spirit feels hot, tired, irritable, and dry.  

Right now I am sinking so deeply into the expansive, flowing, loving, overflowing abundance of slowing down with this season.

Summer is a combination of speeding up in some areas and slowing down in others.  Think about slowing down at work and speeding up on vacation or hiking as an example!

Right now I am speeding up in my gardening and activating my time doing silly kid things during the day.
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At the same time, I’m slowing way down and giving myself the gift of fully catching up to my level of development so that no part of me is left behind.  While winter is a time of integrating in the  dark quiet, summer is a time of integrating through shining abundant light on all areas that need tending.

According to Joerg Kastner in his book Chinese Nutrition Therapy, the heat of summer “feeds on body fluids and harms yin. It is recommended to take in predominantly cooling, yin foods (cooling and moistening) to disperse heat and build up body fluids. The bitter flavor (think arugula!) corresponds to the fire phase, and mostly bitter–cool as well as bitter–cold foods in moderation should be consumed during the hot season.” 
In general, choose lighter foods to avoid indigestion. While our digestive fire can be higher in the summer, we don’t want to overwhelm digestion. Don’t forget that the heart and the small intestine are paired together in Chinese medicine!

This is an excellent time to nourish deeply with cooling and moistening foods such as watermelon, cucumber, green tea and cooling herbs such as mint, linden, hibiscus along with heart herbs such as Motherwort.  Summer is a time to avoid hot and dry foods such as coffee, excessively spicy foods, ice cold foods like ice cream since they cause the digestive system to slow down.

Give yourself permission to really enjoy the season!  Socialize more (oh my goodness this is huge this year!), make time to play and experience pleasure, be adventurous, and be sure to balance that with plenty of water, relaxation, and downtime!

  • Wake up earlier in the morning to enjoy the fullness of these long days of light and to stay cool.
  • Rest at midday to get out of the sun and allow your body temperature to go down as well as allowing yourself to slow down.
  • Go to bed later (not too late!) to enjoy cooler temps and longer days.
  • Seek water to balance the Fire element: cool baths and showers, swimming.
  • Seek activities that bring you pleasure and joy and put you in a state of flow
  • Nourish creative projects and daydreaming.
  • Find time to play like you did as a child to open up the heart center!

Sending you all abundant, fiery, heart blessings for this new season!
Love, 
Mitten
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10/19/2022 07:07:59 am

anks for sharing the article, and more importantly, your personal experience of mindfully using our emotions as data about our inner state and knowing when it’s better to de-escalate by taking a time out are great tools. Appreciate you reading and sharing your story since I can certainly relate and I think others can to

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Karen Sellars
7/10/2024 09:24:14 pm

Hello dear Mitten!💝

So sooo happy to have found your website!

From Nick Polozzis’ webinar last Fall (I believe) I learned then of an offering he hosted you with Introductory offer for your then, upcoming 7 part (I think ) on Elixirs. Bone Broths, and all other goodnesses too…watched your introductory with Nick, and SO INSPIRED, again after already inspired by his incredible series with other like minded folks in tending Nature with respect and utilizing all Gods Gifts of healing naturally 💯🙌

Last night found your website, as notes from your introduction with Nick offering 7 part series. I had notes however was not able to work then due to autoimmune conditions….so not able to pay for actual course…

Teeth are deteriorating and notes from Elixir and bone broth and other offering I wrote in quotation “Yes, you can heal your teeth, my dad was 70…”

I purchased your information chart for teeth and healing naturally …when trying to download from text message, it took me to sites I had open versus download, and again the 2nd time :(

Would it be possible to try email?

Also , is there a way I can purchase
That series with teeth braking and all greatnesses you shared ?

I believe I may have funds enough to purchase now, and would very much sooohsving your expertise and recipes to try sbd HEAL all symp, especially growing back teeth that symptoms of soft enamel from childhood DNA from momma, and repair years of dental “grinding and root canals, amalgam fillings, and deterioration from autoimmune conditions 🙌

Thank you fur your kind consideration, with all Respect, and warm sincerity with bounding gratitude for all you’ve shared, inspiring folks like me that there truly ARE natural holistic ways to live dvd live very well, as you’ve s horned that with proof, as well as Nick with his story and vetted interest to help others through docuserirs (I watched his first from
My couch immoblr from finding that my issues were Autoimmune bsddd bs Immediate care doc gave script for antibiotics for weeks trying to heal a deep bronchial cough with green phlegm and fever , lethargic after continuous working to keep up “”

Avoided the script as felt intuitively was not case…finally an ND sent me for X -Rays if lungs…radiologist thought the black mass on right lung was cancer…my ND told him was VERY enlarged lymph node…sent me directly to lab for blood draw, and EBV with “titers she’d never seen so high!

From that experience. beginning April 2018, it’s been quite a journey of enlightenment, as my mother passed of breast cancer after in the 70’s she was radiated and massive Chemotherapy after a radical mastectomy, that led to cs vet spreading, this then the other two invasive modalities.

I was 12-17 from beginning to her passing g…watching her suffer tremendously.


I struggled with tonsillitis constant as a child sbd into 20’s with regular dies of amoxicillin, then agreed to have them takes out at 23, as again began to have to have constant.

Doctor asked if he could keep for specimen:/

After that and my first two colder whom had ear infections, abd doctors wanting to out tubes in…etc, I began looking at shretbstjce care…a bit, but not much out there then.

Fast forward to NOW! 💫

If yiu can help me secure your information, estatic is o
putting it mildly how excited I’d be fior your help.🙏✨💗

This is my 2nd attempt to send a reply in this effortt to receive your series, and try again to download the $12.99 Teeth Healing offer., as download took me to two other tabs (1 each try) but no download :(

And snap would very much like to purchase the series as desire your recipes for healing Eli jars and such, as well as how you heard abd regrets if your dsss teeth🙌💗BEAUTIFUL are your sharing bd sharing of your journey!

Best to you. With Peace and pure love out to you and entire family✨🙏


Look very much, forward to hearing from you 🎶☺️🤗

Karen Sellars
[email protected]
971.281.1393



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Jamie
7/17/2024 07:22:41 am

Hey Karen!
Thank you so much for reaching out, we will send you an email shortly!

-Journey to Wellness Team

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