Nutrition & Food Therapy

Food brings the slowest but greatest changes, and every food has unique properties that can be used like medicine to restore harmony. The holistic lens of Chinese medicine offers simple and intuitive ways to understand the nature of food, guiding how we can use it as our greatest medicine. We can nourish ourselves with exactly what we truly need in each moment, and this beautiful relationship with our food creates healthy bodies full of vitality that can overcome as well as prevent illness.

There is no one ideal diet for everyone at all times, we are all different, and our dietary needs are unique, but we can learn to listen to the pattern language of nature and understand how to nourish the body with exactly what it is asking for in each moment.

Shi Liao, or Chinese food therapy is a branch of Chinese Medicine that uses food as preventative and restorative therapy. These days nutrition and diet is complicated and confusing to navigate, there are so many opinions of what healthy eating is. Chinese food therapy has nourished people for thousands of years and considers our unique needs as individuals by taking into consideration our unique constitution, body type, metabolic requirements, and seasonal influences. We can understand the properties of our foods by the way they exists in nature and how they taste. When we pair this elemental understanding of food with the holistic nature of our body, we can develop a relationship with food that is enjoyable and intuitive.

While diet changes can be an uncomfortable and challenging exploration, our foods and fluids are the foundation of health and no amount of acupuncture nor herbs can bring lasting changes if food choices are constantly shifting the body out of balance. This can be as simple as adding more warming spices in winter, eating seasonal fruit in summer to cool down and replenish fluids, or cooking food longer if there is deficient digestive energy. We can explore specific food plans or simply discuss to empower your understanding of exactly what your body is needing. Sometimes even a simple change can have a profound impact on someone's well being and together we can nourish your body with what it needs, food relationships are essential to overcome and prevent all illness.