Prior to giving birth to my daughter, I had a really beautiful, soft image of the us hanging out in bed together taking the time to get to know each other and me adjusting to my new role as a mom. The image had me, pulling long tendrils of my hair aside so I could stare at my sweet baby breastfeeding perfectly from day one. My post-baby body would be soft and beautiful and I would be forgiving of it, letting it take as long as it needed to come back to itself. If I’m honest,

The vibrant, extroverted energy of Summer is waning and it is time to turn our attention inward to the Yin seasons. I love this time of year. The temperatures turn cool, the air is clear and crisp and the sky turns that incredible shade of blue that you only get with the seasonal shifts. Nature is slowing down and we should too. Chinese medicine counts Autumn as the pivot point between Yang and Yin. A season of contraction that asks us to start spending our time looking inwar

There is a long historical record describing the treatment of fertility with acupuncture and Chinese medicine. It has been written about in Chinese texts for over one thousand years. We now know scientifically that acupuncture and Chinese herbs positively impact assisted reproduction. In a recent review analysing 25 seperate trials, involving 4757 patients undergoing assisted reproduction, pregnancy rates in the groups receiving acupuncture were significantly higher than thos