Mount Sunny

08/07/2025

In a rushed world, s l o w is medicine.

In TCM, moving gently and living with intention nourishes the body deeply. It supports better digestion, soothes the nervous system, restores hormone balance, calms inflammation, and strengthens immunity. When we slow down, qi flows with ease ~~~

08/06/2025

Our sweet shop on film 🌼

07/20/2025

Acupuncture | Cupping, Massage | Nutrition | Holistic Skincare | Lymphatic Drainage | Herbal Medicine ⋆˚꩜｡

We’re a wellness studio whose mission is to help you feel at home in your body, mind, and spirit. A gentle return to you through holistic practices.

07/17/2025

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Liver governs the smooth flow of qi, stores blood, and helps us process emotions - especially frustration, stress, and the weight we carry from the day.

Waking during the Liver hours (1 to 3am) isn’t random. A sweet nudge that something within needs attention.

Maybe your body is asking for less stimulation and more warmth.
Maybe it’s holding on to stress that hasn’t had space to move.
Maybe it’s simply tired of being on high alert.

What to do?
Slow your evenings. Drink something bitter and grounding.
Rub Liver 3. Write down what you’re still carrying.
Let the body know it’s safe to rest!

Sometimes, the wakeup is the message 💫

07/07/2025

Yin and yang represent the dance of duality - light and dark, rest and action, joy and grief. One cannot exist without the other.

Right now, it feels as though I’m holding opposites in each hand: taking my daughter to her first swim lesson while other children wake to find their parents gone; helping a patient whose period has vanished after too many hours of screen time and work stress while families half a world away search for shelter and clean water; stirring a postpartum soup for a new mother while whole communities line up for empty bowls. The weight keeps growing, disorienting at best.

TCM reminds me that there is no perfect balance, only movement. Only the work of tending what’s in front of us.

So what do we do?
We stay soft and we stay awake.
We grieve and we nourish.
We take care of ourselves, our neighbors and our communities.
We can keep showing up.

This week, we’re donating 10% of all product sales to:

• Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (Phoenix) – Offering free legal and social services to ICE‑detained individuals across Arizona
• Hands On Phoenix – Mobilizing volunteers across the Valley to address urgent needs like housing, hunger, and disaster relief
• Kerr County Flood Relief Fund via the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country

Moving forward, a share of every Mount Sunny product sale will be set aside for local giving. Each quarter we’ll choose a new neighbor-organization here in Phoenix and bring you their story. More soon ❤️

Love to all.

06/19/2025

The word solstice comes from the Latin solstitium, meaning “the sun stands still.”

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is more than a moment in the sky,
it’s a turning point inside the body.
Yang is at its peak. The Heart is open. Joy is abundant. Soak it in.

06/08/2025

Notes to self from a slower world

05/30/2025

Sigh on purpose! Wear (and eat) the color green! Drink chrysanthemum tea in the sun! Go on aimless walks with no phone, no agenda! Use acupressure on Liver 3 and Large Intestine 4! Practice eye rest by covering your eyes with warm hands! Dance in your kitchen! Stretch like you mean it! Shake it out! Journal your irritations then burn the page! Swap scrolling for staring at trees! Add something sour to your plate like lemon, vinegar, or pickled anything! Say what you need to say! Cry a little! Nap on the floor! Your Liver will thank you ❤️

05/01/2025

Mothers move through the world with a kind of quiet magic—a graceful juggling act of holding, tending, softening, strengthening. We feel it every day in the clinic and in ourselves. Every practitioner and receptionist at Mount Sunny is a mom (one of us to an adorable cat), and we know the balance of beauty and devotion that lives inside mothering.

We’re HONORED to give back to moms this Mother’s Day.
We’re gifting two moms their choice of an acupuncture + cupping session or a 90-minute massage.

To enter:
If you’re a mom, leave a note below.
If you’d like to honor a mom you love, tag her in the comments.
Share to your story for an extra entry.
*We’ll choose the winners on Mother’s Day.

We love treating moms! We love being moms! We can’t wait to celebrate YOU ❤️

04/22/2025

and in all of us ➰

04/19/2025

As we move into spring, the body craves freshness, lightness, and flow. This is the season of upward energy—of movement, renewal, and gentle cleansing.

On the final slide, you’ll find a simple fermented beet recipe—sour, earthy, and full of life—to support digestion and help things move freely.

Let the season guide you 🦋

04/04/2025