How We Heal

The summer solstice is almost here, and in Chinese medicine, we're deep in Fire season.

This is the time of year when everything wants to be expressed, seen, and felt fully.

Most of us contain that energy instead.

Playing With Fire is a 60-minute experience for women who are done with that.

You'll receive a teaching on Fire season, a movement practice to use right away, and embodied practices of the Wisdom Within Method™.

Expect playfulness and something genuinely useful to carry into your week.
Two ways to join:
👉 In person, Sunday June 14, 1–2pm at Yoga Heights Takoma Studio, 255 Carroll St NW, Washington DC
👉 Online, Thursday June 18, 12–1pm on Zoom

Both are $12.57. (I turned 57 in May. 5+7=12. I'm doing things differently now. 😀)

Register here:
In person: https://howweheal.info/events/93m1p9l8dfi6kaubehed1w08g9d1nb
Online: https://howweheal.info/events/93m1p9l8dfi6kaubehed1w08g9d1nb-jf6lf

The price is intentionally small. The experience is not.

pic of me enjoying the Tuscan sun🌞🇮🇹

I'm back home from Europe

Germany was sehr gut! 👭

Italy was bellissimo! ☕

Both had the same theme running through them: deep reconnection with dear friends, and coming home with a big bambini heart and expanded qi.

Are you connecting to that big, blue sky?

The trip was so restorative I returned wanting to keep the birthday month celebration going right into June!

Check out my online and live events coming up this week and next, plus free events through June (with some bonus offers tucked in).

I'd love to have you!

Let's let the Fire element burn through the old habits keeping us small, contained, and not who we truly are.

Shine bright now. Let's go!

𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁:
https://howweheal.info/events/93m1p9l8dfi6kaubehed1w08g9d1nb-jf6lf

𝗜𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 (𝗗𝗖):
https://howweheal.infoevents/93m1p9l8dfi6kaubehed1w08g9d1nb

𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀: https://howweheal.info/events. Register once, use the link for all of them.

What's possible when you lead with your senses?

Not your strategy. Not your credentials.

Your actual senses — what you're hearing, feeling, noticing in the room before your mind catches up.

That's the conversation I keep having everywhere I go.

It's also the entire premise of the Wisdom Within Method.

More on that when I'm back. For now, Tuscany is calling.

Wonderful conversations about what's possible when you lead and live with your senses.

Not from a screen.

Not from a strategy.

From the body that's here, in this city, with these people, in this moment.

This is the practice. Not just in the office or on a call. Everywhere.

Next stop: Tuscany for our annual Zhineng Qigong retreat.

The most important element of traveling is to relax, go with the flow, and have fun.

That's not a vacation tip. That's creating a field of energy that's genuinely healing.

More soon.

You woke up with a plan.

Then the phone rang.

The email pinged.

Someone dropped a glass.

Suddenly you're standing in the kitchen staring at burnt toast. There's a rising sensation, heat from your chest migrating to your face that has nothing to do with breakfast.

That heat is a signal. Not a character flaw. Not a bad morning.

Data.

Your body speaking in the only language it has.

Are you listening?

-> Latest blog: https://howweheal.info/writings-and-listenings/luazv1sv24qvm0cnfz1v7tunhbhwoa

If this resonates and you're ready to explore what working together looks like — there's a link in bio for my new 12 week program - Wisdom Under Pressure. https://howweheal.info/wisdom-within-program

For most of my life, I've quietly edited myself.

In my career it looked like this: lead with the credentials, soften the rest.

I'm done with that.

New blog post, including a podcast I want you to hear, and how to listen to it well.

Link in bio.
https://howweheal.info/writings-and-listenings/luazv1sv24qvm0cnfz1v7tunhbhwoa

Let's be clear: Misinterpretation is expensive.

Women feel rage about the state of the world. The violence. The injustice. But we are taught to fear that rage. We are taught to eradicate it. We are taught to calm down, meditate it out, bite our tongue or a multitude of ways to suppress what's natural given the environment.

Not knowing how to be with this energy can be devastating. It also leaves us stewing, ineffective, and exhausted.

We need a reorientation. We need to stop seeing our body signals as problems. We need to start using our sense perception to feel our way into our knowing.

Anger is a potent and needed emotion. It's the energy for liberation, the energy that says "No more." It is the force that builds the new world.

When you work with your anger instead of trying to erase it, you find your clarity. You find your voice. You find your power.

👇 Read the full post on how to reorient to your body's wisdom: https://howweheal.info/writings-and-listenings/o3cctevijay1vkhdpupf0tvfptbe40

Let's work with this energy together.
🗓 Schedule a Wellness Insight Call: https://link.howweheal.info/widget/bookings/conversation-for-curiosity

Raise your hand if you've ever felt like a failure because you snapped at your kid or yelled at a coworker over something tiny. 🙋♀️

You wake up with a plan. You start breakfast. You sit down to work. Then the phone rings. Your email pings. Your kiddo drops a glass.

Suddenly, you are standing in the kitchen staring at burnt toast. You feel a rising heat in your face. Loud curse words spill from your mouth.

We often think this is a character flaw. "I'm just too stressed." "I'm not patient enough."

But in my 16 years as an acupuncturist and coach, I've seen this pattern a thousand times. It's not a flaw. It's a physiological jam.

In the season of Wood (Spring), our energy is meant to surge forward. When it hits a wall, it presses back. That pressure is what you feel as frustration, anger or rage. It feels like a gear grinding in your chest. Like the path you saw in your mind has vanished, replaced by a wall of WTF?

Most leadership coaching tries to fix the mind. They tell you to "reframe your thoughts." But if your body is stuck in fight-or-flight, you're trying to drive a car with the parking brake on.

My work isn't about adding more tools to your mental toolkit. It's about removing your version of the physical brake.

I've written a new blog post on how to spot the blockage, clear the view, and turn that frustration into clarity.

👇 Read the full post here: https://howweheal.info/writings-and-listenings/o3cctevijay1vkhdpupf0tvfptbe40

And if you're ready to stop feeling like you're running in place, let's talk.
🗓 Schedule a Wellness Insight Call: https://link.howweheal.info/widget/bookings/conversation-for-curiosity

Let's turn your frustration into freedom.

Most of us have been listening our whole lives. And yet, one of the top complaints people have about their doctors is that nobody listens.

Not misdiagnosis. Not wait times.

𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴.

We assume listening is automatic. Our ears work, so we must be doing it.

But here's what nobody taught us:

Listening is a choice.

You can listen for possibility. You can listen to connect. You can listen as empty space, just letting someone's words move through you without needing to fix, advise, or respond.

And you can ask someone: *how do you want me to listen to you right now?*

That one question changed a client's relationship with her sister. One conversation. Years of friction, gone.

You can also tell someone how you need to be heard.

*May I have your listening?*
*I need to say something and I don't want you to respond until I'm done.*
*Ask me questions, that's how I want you to listen.*

This is agency most of us didn't know we had.

Not a communication technique. A leadership skill rooted in the body, because when someone is truly present with you, something in you relaxes before you've registered why.

This is one of 12 skills inside The 30 Day Reckoning, a high-touch experience for 6 women learning how wise their bodies already are. At any career level. Any season of life, and particularly for a woman's perimenopause season.

Two seats remain. Registration closes 4/1. Program runs 4/2 through 4/30.

👉 Register: https://howweheal.thrivecart.com/30-day-reckoning-april-2026/
👉 Book a call first: https://link.howweheal.info/widget/bookings/conversation-for-curiosity29f68t
👉 Details: https://howweheal.info/workshops