11/03/2025
🍂 November: The Season of Deep Listening and Letting Go 🌙
As autumn begins its quiet descent into winter, November invites us into stillness.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is the season of the Lungs and Large Intestine, organs associated with grief, breath, and release. It’s a time to clear what no longer serves—not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well.
From the Taoist perspective, nature is showing us the way: the trees shed their leaves with grace, not with resistance. The sky deepens. The air cools. Everything simplifies. We are being called inward—to rest, to reflect, and to reset.
🫁 Physical Health Tip:
Support your lungs with warm, moistening foods like pears, white mushrooms, cooked radishes, almonds, and congee. Breathe deeply. Stay warm, avoid dry cold winds, and nourish your immune system with rest.
💛 Emotional Health Tip:
This is a sacred time for acknowledging grief, both old and recent. Cry if you need to. Journal. Sit with silence. Create space to process and release. This emotional cleansing supports your immunity just as much as food or herbs.
🪶 Indigenous Teachings also remind us that autumn is the West direction on the medicine wheel—a time of harvest and maturity. It’s a time to gather the lessons from the year, offer gratitude, and prepare for the darkness not as punishment, but as a teacher of patience and wisdom.
✨ The more you let go, the more space you create for healing.
