Happy Holidays From Ahimsa ✨🍂🧡🦃🍠✨

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Happy Holidays!
Love,
Ahimsa

The holiday season officially kicks off this week with Thanksgiving and I hope you get to spend some quality time with loved ones, enjoying your favorite seasonal dishes, meals and treats <3

Fall Is Well Underway...

We are very much still in the Fall season, the season of the Metal Element that pertains to the Lung and Large Intestine in Chinese Medicine. 

As you might recall, if there is an imbalance in the Metal element (or any element in a given season) a person might be prone to certain physical or energetic symptoms during the Fall season. 

This season, I've seen a fair amount of acute illness: sinus infections and upper respiratory infections as people's immune systems contend with the extreme changes in weather, as well as whatever the latest "bug" is. Plenty of folks have reported sluggish digestion, indigestion and other digestive imbalances.

Daylight Savings Time always throws us for a loop and as the daylight becomes less and less, physical and emotional energy really wanes as our bodies attempt to align with the rhythms of this season.

In these darker months, we can also really be confronted by how the year has been thus far - has it been full of energetic output, continuous obligations, acute or ongoing stress or any major life shifts?? Also worth noting: life does not have to be a flurry of constant activity in order to feel draining. In any given moment, a person can be grieving a change or a loss, big or small <3. 

Preparing For The Darkest Nights (And A Greater Demand)

While of course I hope your holidays are jolly and full of loved ones, treats and ease, most of the time this season and its commitments are more emotionally complex.

Even in the absence of complicated family dynamics or expectations, this is often a corner of the year where there can be greater demands on our time and resources in a season that so dearly wants us to conserve, consolidate and take stock of our internal reserves. 

As always, Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine can be employed as a supportive tool to lighten the load, reduce your stress response (even if for an hour) and to shore up your energetic boundaries.

This is an obvious statement (and I don't mean it flippantly in today's climate) but when we feel well enough, when our nervous system can access a relative sense of safety, when we have support with whatever challenge we are holding, everything changes. We can come to our interactions from a more stable, regulated and generous place. 

Many of you have experienced this first hand, not only in response to an Acupuncture treatment, but in any modality or personal practice you find supportive and resource-enhancing. 

With Sincere Thanks,

In May of next year, my clinic will have been in operation for a full decade. It's heartwarming and moving to reflect on that passage of time. I even began seeing some of you during my first 4 years of clinical practice at another beloved Acupuncture clinic in Madison. 

I know it's such a cliche to express gratitude in a Thanksgiving email (as you age, you realize all the cliches have merit & are mostly true). But, my goodness, what a gift it is to practice Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and to share that with all of you. 

To say I am grateful for the trust you place in my clinic is a wild understatement. It has been life changing in countless ways. 

It is the honor of my life to witness and support you all through the changing seasons, from major life milestones to the mundane moments, to celebrate your successes, to hold your challenging moments with great care, to help you integrate and recover from any heartaches or losses <3

I have learned a great many things in my first 13 years of practice and I'm grateful for the opportunity to continue learning and integrating modalities and clinical skills that compliment my first medical language of Chinese medicine in the years ahead. It all means very little unless it connects with you and affords you some support, relief and healing - the most noble of pursuits. 

Thank you always and forever. I look forward to seeing you soon.

Warmly,
Katie Fritz