01/22/2026
I work with mental and emotional health every day in clinic. Even when someone comes in for pain, digestion, or sleep, it is always part of the picture.
But, here is what I wish more people knew:
We need our emotions.
Much of contemporary wellness treats emotional health as the achievement of calm. Regulation is framed as smoothing or quieting experience. The goal becomes an unruffled state.
From the perspective of classical Chinese medicine, this is physiologically misguided. Striving for that state stunts us, makes us sick.
Emotions are not psychological noise. They are movements of qi that carry information about alignment and direction. Health depends on being able to feel them clearly and respond, not suppress them.
If this seems difficult, it is treatable. Chinese medicine helps restore the capacity to feel without being overwhelmed.
It's like a bicycle wheel: it has to do with the gallbladder and how it hands off to the liver. I'll show you why.
Full post on the blog, here: https://ritualhealth.com/fulltext/please-feel-your-feelings
