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10/13/2025

Why you always get sick when winter hits (and it’s not just “cold & flu season”) ❄️

Every year like clockwork, the sniffles show up the moment the snow does.
But what if that “cold” isn’t just about germs — what if it’s your mitochondria trying to adapt?

Your cells run differently in summer vs. winter.
☀️ In summer, they burn fuel efficiently and thrive on long days and carbs.
❄️ In winter, they need to shift gears — producing more heat, burning more fat, and syncing with shorter days.

When they don’t make that shift smoothly, oxidative stress rises, inflammation spikes, and your immune defenses dip. The result? You feel “sick.”

Even elite athletes from equatorial regions often get sick when they land in colder climates — not because they’re weak, but because their cells are recalibrating to a new light and temperature environment.

✨ The good news? You can help your body adapt:

Winter isn’t a threat — it’s an invitation to align.
Learn how to thrive in this season inside my Hibernation Retreat or through 1:1 Wise Woman Consults.

Quantum Biology
Winter Wellness
Circadian Health
Wise Woman Medicine
Hibernation Retreat
Mitochondria
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10/12/2025

Winter isn’t a void — it’s medicine. ❄️
When we slow down, melatonin rises, our mitochondria repair, and the nervous system remembers safety.
The darkness restores what the light revealed.

This is the wisdom of Hibernation.
A weekend to rest, restore, and reconnect with your natural rhythm.

🌙 Dec 6–7 | Wild Roots Studio
Overnight • Wood-fire sauna • Somatic rest • Wise Woman teachings
$300 | Few spots remain — link in bio

09/24/2025

✨ No light, no ovulation.
Science has known this since the 1950s, but most women were never told. Instead, we were given tests, meds, and treatment schedules. While the simple truths of light, darkness, and timing were left out of the story.

Your womb isn’t random. It keeps time.
⏰ Ovulation is a dawn event.
🌙 Melatonin is nightly fertility medicine.
🕰️ Fertility is circadian — a rhythm, not chance.

Fertility isn’t just hormones. It’s timing. And when we live by rhythm, we live in coherence.

👉 Read the whole piece on my Substack: The Womb Keeps Time (link in bio).

09/22/2025

Did you know your fascia and vagus nerve are in constant conversation?
Fascia, your body’s connective web, is richly innervated, carrying sensory information that directly influences your vagus nerve. The vagus, in turn, regulates heart rate, digestion, hormones, and even reproductive health.

What’s even more magical?
Both fascia and vagal tone follow circadian rhythms. At night, fascia rehydrates and repairs while the vagus shifts you into deep rest-and-digest.

This is why ovulation, menstruation, and even the onset of labour often happen in the early hours — when your body is most supple, hydrated, and aligned with parasympathetic flow.

💫 This isn’t random. It’s your body’s ancient timing system.
When fascia is supple and vagal tone is strong, the body shifts from defence into creation, intimacy, and thriving.

🌙 Inside Wombcare, we explore these hidden rhythms: fascia release, vagus activation, and circadian alignment. Giving your body the support it craves to heal, soften, and flourish.

👉 Tap the link in bio to join me in this sacred container.

09/13/2025

✨ Inflammation runs deeper than “injury.”
It’s how your cells manage stress + energy flow.

A 2025 study shows that fat on either side of the superficial fascia behaves differently:

Superficial fat (closer to skin): calmer, more protective, rich in anti-inflammatory signals.

Deep fat (beneath the same fascial sheath): primed for inflammation, oxidative stress + tissue remodeling.

But here’s the deeper truth: inflammation isn’t about fat or injury alone. It’s how your whole system negotiates stress + rhythm:
🌞 light cycles
💧 electron-rich / structured water
🥗 food timing
🌍 grounding/earthing
🌀 your stress load + nervous system tone

Fascia isn’t a divider, it’s a conductor — one continuous sheath translating environment into biology.

💡 Inflammation = communication, energy, and rhythm.

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08/28/2025

The public deserves the real story about birth care.

What’s playing out in our hospitals isn’t new. The system works as it was designed.

For newer nurses, it may feel like a crisis. For residents in training, a “high-volume” center is celebrated as exposure and opportunity. For young reporters, maternity wards look like a breaking story. For those of us in birth work, it’s not new.

But for families, high volume means high intervention, and physiology is the first thing to go.

The CBC headlines tell half the truth: staffing is a crisis, yes. But the deeper truth is that this system was designed for high volume, high intervention, and residency exposure.

I’ve been in birth work for 15 years. The numbers and outcomes show a pattern, a different story. The system isn’t broken, it’s functioning as intended. It prioritizes funding, teaching, and volume — not mother–baby wellness.

As my teacher reminds us:
✨ “It’s up to us to save ourselves. Call your neighbour.”

🌿 Read the full Substack editorial: [link in bio]

08/25/2025

The rainbow isn’t just pretty; it runs your biology.

🔵 Blue light: sets circadian rhythm, triggers dopamine (focus + wakefulness)

🟢 Green light: balances mood + heart coherence, feeds serotonin (daytime calm + stability)

🔴 Red light: penetrates deep, fuels repair, builds melatonin (nighttime restoration)

Everything runs on this information. Mood, sleep, hormones, and energy are impacted by light.

☀️ Don’t see real light → your body misses the messages it’s expecting.
💡 Live under fake light → chaos ensues aka inflammation, dysfunction, dis-ease.

🌈 Every color = information for your cells.

👉 Learn more with me:
❄️ At HIBERNATION — our seasonal deep dive into the hidden language of light + repair.
🌀 In a 1:1 Wise Woman consult to decode what’s happening for you + your family.
🌿 Or join Elemental Self — where we weave light, rhythm, and nature’s elements into daily life.

08/23/2025

What we see 👀 is less than 1% of light.
The rainbow 🌈 is just a sliver.

Your cells, water, and brain are tuned into the invisible frequencies:

IR charges your mitochondria 🔋

UV codes your hormones ☀️

Low-frequency waves may even carry thoughts (telepathy studies 👀)

✨ Takeaway: Light is information, not just brightness.

👉 Want to explore this in your own body?

Come play with me at HIBERNATION ❄️ — where we’ll deep dive into the hidden language of light, repair, and seasonal rhythms.

✨️Meet with me 1:1

🌿Learn with me in the upcoming series Elemental Self

08/22/2025

🌀 You are not separate from nature. You are nature, expressing itself through cycles, elements, and story.

Read more on my stack Musingsofawisewoman
🔗🔗 in bio

08/12/2025

Root into your body’s wisdom.
Ground. Nourish. Belong.

Earth is the body’s home.

The place we return to when life asks us to slow down, to feel, to remember what truly sustains us.

Come as you are, leave rooted and replenished.

🌾 Sept 21 • 7–8:30 PM (Zoom + optional in-person)
• Link in bio to join.

07/03/2025

S***m Has a Rhythm. And No One’s Prescribing It.

When it comes to male fertility, everyone talks about testosterone.
But here’s the deeper truth:
🕰️ Your s***m are circadian beings.

They thrive on rhythm.
Not just on hormone levels but WHEN those hormones rise.
Not just on nutrients but WHEN you eat, sleep, and move.

🧬 S***matogenesis takes ~64 days.
It relies on precise timing signals between the brain, the te**es, and the light-dark cycle.

And guess what?

Even “women’s hormones” like estrogen, FSH, and LH play major roles in s***m development.
And all of it — ALL OF IT — is governed by your circadian clock.

Here’s the twist:
It’s not testosterone that best protects s***m.
It’s melatonin.

🌌 A night-only, rhythm-regulated hormone.
💥 One of the most powerful antioxidants in the body.
🛡 Crucial for protecting s***m DNA, supporting mitochondria, and ensuring motility.

Disrupt your rhythm: blue light at night, skipping meals, stress, sleeping late and melatonin drops.
And your s***m suffer, even if your testosterone looks “fine.”

✨️But here’s the uncomfortable truth✨️

Your doctor won’t prescribe you a sunrise.
There’s no fertility clinic with a reimbursement code for “light in the morning” or “eat dinner before dark.”

Why?

Because rhythm doesn’t generate revenue.
But it does generate life.

🧠 Fertility isn’t just a physical process.
It’s also emotional.
The limbic system (your emotional brain) is directly tied to your hormone signaling.
Safe connection, nervous system regulation, and rhythm all affect s***m quality.

Stay tuned for more and share people need to know this stuff!

06/12/2025