Winding Path

03/16/2026

It is like coming home every time I pass through this gate. I really feel a sense of connectedness and purpose. 

Taoist Tai Chi®: Be active, enjoy life. Everyone is welcome!
Tai Chi Taoïste® : Soyez actif, profitez de la vie. Tout le monde est le bienvenu !

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03/12/2026

I see a lot of patients in my Chinese Medicine clinic who have fallen into a rut with their food choices to the detriment of their gut health. We need a wide variety of foods to support a robust microbiome, and our gut is the root of our immune system.
Start with small changes. Add one new food and cook it several different ways to understand qualities and energetics.

03/10/2026

Food is much more than its nutrients. Each food has its own Qi, and it’s important to know how a food’s energy resonates with you. To do that, you have to experience it with all of your senses. You look, smell and touch long before you taste.

03/09/2026

It’s days like this that reminds you why you do what you do with a whole ❤️

03/06/2026

Every organ in Chinese medicine has a season. Liver gets spring. Heart gets summer. Lungs get fall. Kidneys get winter. And the Spleen? The Spleen governs all the in-between times. The transitions. It’s a reminder to return to center before any transition. 🌿

03/05/2026

You are what you eat. But in Chinese medicine, you are also what you watch, what you listen to, what you scroll through, and what you let loop in your head. Your Spleen is working on all of it. Feed it wisely.

03/04/2026

Daylight savings time is coming. If you feel the effects, and they seem worse each year, your system is telling you that this time change is counter to your natural rhythm. Over time, our bodies find this twice yearly change harder to recover from. Take the time now to ease into it by adjusting your bedtime a few minutes each day. After the time change, get morning sun first thing each day. This will help your body adjust more quickly.

03/03/2026

https://www.windingpathguide.com/blog/dont-rush-the-thaw

If you push hard into spring and crash by May, TCM has an explanation. Learn how your Kidney energy sets the foundation for the whole year and what to do right now.

03/02/2026

What if your anxiety is actually fear and guilt wearing the same coat? Because in Chinese medicine, they often are. And they both live in the Kidney.

Fear that has no reason. Guilt that has no off switch. That 3am spiral where you’re replaying everything you did wrong and dreading everything that might go wrong. That’s not just anxiety. That’s a depleted root.

When your Kidney Qi is low, you stop feeling safe in your own life. And guilt rushes in to fill the space. Not because you’ve actually done something wrong. Because your root is empty and your nervous system is grasping for an explanation.

This is the pattern I see all the time. And it doesn’t heal by pushing through. It heals by going deeper.

03/01/2026

This one is simple. And it’s doing a lot.
Fresh kiwi and orange to generate fluids and gently clear heat as we move into the warmer energy of spring. Gou qi zi to nourish Liver and Kidney, support the blood, and bring brightness back to tired eyes. Da zao to tonify Spleen Qi, stabilize the Shen, and offer that deep, slow nourishment your nervous system has been asking for all winter. Bai dou kou to warm the middle jiao, transform any lingering dampness, and keep everything moving so the goodness actually lands. And burdock root to clear heat, cool the blood, and help the Liver release what it’s been holding onto all winter long.

02/28/2026

Not all anxiety feels the same because it doesn’t come from the same place. In Chinese medicine, we do something called differential diagnosis, and it changes everything about how we treat.

🍠 Sweet potato feeds the Spleen. If your anxiety shows up as overthinking, rumination, digestive upset, and you just can’t turn your brain off, your Spleen is struggling. Spleen governs thought. When it’s depleted, the mind loops.

🍐 Pear nourishes the Lung. Lung-type anxiety feels like tightness in the chest, shallow breathing, sadness underneath the worry, or anxiety that spikes with grief or change. The Lung holds our capacity to let go.

🖤 Black sesame seeds tonify the Kidney. Kidney anxiety is existential. It’s the 3am dread, the deep fear, the feeling that the ground isn’t solid under you. The Kidney is the root of our vitality and when that root is weak, nothing feels safe.

Food is one of the most consistent, gentle ways to support your nervous system over time.

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02/27/2026

Lantern Festival is such a special time to set your intention for the year and hold onto that one commitment no matter what comes.

Celebrate the Lantern Festival on February 28
Célébrez le Festival des lanternes le 28 février
https://www.taoist.org/lantern/
https://www.taoist.org/fr/lanterne/

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