I simplify my personal meals during this mini season between gatherings, events and celebrations.  Simple whole food sides are a form of self love and sometimes a full mono meal.

I bring a simple, whole foods dishes to gatherings.  They are time savers, stress reducers and super foods! Believe it or not, it starts a lot of conversations. One of my all time favorites is Roasted Rosemary Sweet Potatoes. 

ONLY 2 main ingredients

1. Roasted Rosemary Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

• 3 Tablespoons olive oil
• 1 small branch fresh rosemary
• 3-4 medium sweet potatoes, scrubbed and rough chopped with skins on
• Chunky sea salt, to taste

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Combine oil and chopped, crushed rosemary leaves in a small bowl. Pour 2 tablespoons of rosemary oil mixture in the bottom of a 2-quart covered baking dish. Drizzle the remaining rosemary oil on the top. Toss in dish. Season generously with salt.
3. Roast for 1 hour, covered, until potatoes are tender (test with fork). Increase oven heat to 450 degrees F. Remove cover and roast another 10-15 minutes, until tops of potatoes are browned and crisp.

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When I work with my patients, we co-create wellness plans. We are dynamic and our needs change as we change. These are best modified every season. I spoke with one of  my patients this week regarding her prescription.  She was astonished that her prescription provided such an immediate change in her energy levels.  What was it? A whole foods multi-vitamin. 
She was curious if they also made them for men for her husband. Yes! They do and the kids.  All supplements are not created equal. My professional Fullscript pharmacy provides practitioner grade, highly vetted support direct to your door.
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I recently read an intriguing research article about grief entitled: Grief, poetry, and the sweet unexpected.

“The sweet unexpected includes the ease with which trauma survivors engage their trauma narrative, the critical insights that emerge in poetry, the beneficial social context of sharing poetry, and the healing benefits of poetry for writers, care providers, and readers alike.”

The metal organ the lung is the seat of the emotion of grief. The large intestine’s facilitates in letting go or letting go into transformation. Grief comes in waves, often magnified by the holiday season and understood to be heighted during the autumn according to Chinese Medicine.

Experiencing the full spectrum of human emotions is living optimally.  When we are stuck in one emotion or cyclically vacillate between emotions, we are imbalanced.

Therapies like poetry, positive affect journaling, dance, yoga, qi gong can be directed to help us transmute the grief so we do not become only stuck in the emotion of loss.

For support for the metal/autumn season visit element-wisdom.com and pick up a deck of wellness cards for yourself or a friend.

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