What to eat in Spring
How to eat Spring is a topsy turvy time of year. Everything changes rapidly – cold one moment, hot the next, calm in the morning and...
3 ways to make hope from anger
Spring belongs to the Wood Element in Chinese philosophy, and the emotion associated with the Wood Element is anger. But surely Spring is...
Personality test: How Woody is your Wood Element?
According to Chinese medicine, there are five aspects to our physical and mental-emotional world. These are often called the Five...
Overcoming PCOS: Emma and Mike's story
Mike and Emma’s challenge Emma (33) and Mike (35) came to see me after trying for a baby for 5 years. Mike’s sperm count was at the low...
Personality test: Take the plunge
Take the plunge and find out what shape your Water Element is in. According to Chinese medicine, there are five aspects to our...
What to eat in winter
The weather has turned bitterly cold. Fortunately, Chinese medicine grew up in places with some of the bitterest winters imaginable and...
3 ways to shake off the winter blues
According to Chinese medicine, hibernation, exercise and soup could be the solution to the winter blues. Let me explain… Hibernate...
Anxiety is different for everyone
Years ago, I went to see my GP for help with anxiety. Three things stand out in my memory of that day: 1) how stressed my GP looked, 2)...
Migraines and needles: David's story
In my article in the Spring 2015 edition of Ciren Wellbeing, I talked about one of my patients' experiences of migraines and acupuncture....
Why our New Year’s resolutions should wait
New Year’s resolutions always seem an odd concept to me. By this time of year, in the dreary darkness of cold midwinter, I feel that my...
