This past week, Benjamin and I hosted the Rhizome Theater Company at our home in Maine. The Rhizomes describe themselves as “a group of artists committed to sowing the seeds of social cohesion, awareness and empathy through live documentary theater.” But what the Rhizomes really do is listen. The Rhizomes listen to people talk about their […]
Alchemical Healing: Transformation, Not Restoration
The other day, a patient thanked me for reminding her that it wasn’t her fault that she has Hashimoto’s Disease. That fact seemed obvious to me but for her it was a revelation. “Thank you for helping me to see that my thyroid gland is not my enemy,” she said, “for recognizing that my symptoms […]
Kidney 25 – Spirit Storehouse: Darkening of the Light by Lorie Eve Dechar, L.Ac.
First snow. Already, it’s beginning to melt. The world is wet, sodden, and cold. In my treatment room, I find the lung pulse often buried deep under a thick quilt of silence. Even with needles and grains of fiery moxa, it is hard to ignite the enlivening breath. Outside, in the early afternoon, the light […]
Pericardium 8 – Palace of Weariness:
A Point for Our Time
by Lorie Eve Dechar, M.Ac.
At the high point of Summer, a crimson poppy bursts from its green bud and brings to fullness the promise of its minute black seed. In Chinese Medicine, this is the season of Fire. Fire’s medicine is blossoming – the capacity of the yang to expand, to open and to move us outward into life. […]
Gate of Hope: Liver 14
This morning I heard the unmistakable trill of red-winged black birds swarming in the swamp maples outside the bedroom window. Summer residents here in Maine, they are back early. Is it global warming? For that one first moment of this April day, I didn’t care. I joined in their joy as they gorged on plump […]
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