Recipe for Spring: Ginger Lemon Tea with Mint
Spring brings with it vibrant awakening energy and flourishing blooms beginning all around us. With the increased energy surging through nature and the air, we tend to forget about the […]
‘Am I Depressed?’: One of the Most Asked Questions in Winter
The change of the seasons have come, passing the holidays by us once more. After a long, cooped up year that we’ve left behind, and the high energy of the […]
Recipe for Autumn: Immune Boosting Chaga Chai
The synchronicity of the seasons with nature and our daily lives is pure magic (and a little bit of mystery, too). Through the changing of the temperatures, the slowing down […]
Recipe for Autumn: Protect Your Sinuses and Lungs With Poached Pears
How are your sinuses and lungs? I have been feeling dry, dry, dry. The air quality in Colorado has been terrible since mid-summer with smoke and ash visible in the […]
The Art of Letting Go: Autumn and the Metal Element
For me, this has been a year of letting go. Letting go of the way I want/hope/wish things would be, of the way I sometimes feel they should be. Letting […]
Finding Ground In Late Summer
Can you feel it? The heat and energy of summer is slowly coming to a close, transitioning us into what we traditional Chinese medicine practitioners refer to as Late Summer. […]
Recipe for Late Summer: Stuffed Dessert Dates
Did you know that it’s possible to feed your sweet tooth without having all the refined sugar and additives, too? Dates are one way to nourish your Earth Element without […]
Immune Balance and Resiliency During COVID
By James Yardley, LAc. & Mindi K. Counts, LAc. I don’t know about you, but I want to do everything I possibly can to avoid contracting COVID. And if I […]
Our Take on the Coronavirus: The pathogen is nothing, the host is EVERYTHING
Find yourself panicking over the Coronavirus? We were too, for a moment. But then we did our research. Coronavirus isn’t going to sway us from what we know to be […]
Shadows of Caregiving: Compassion Fatigue & Burnout
Co-Written by Mark Reeves and Mindi Counts March 3rd is National Caregiver’s Day! And with caregiving comes its shadow: Compassion Fatigue and Burnout. Did you know: Mark, Inner Ocean’s manager, […]
Treating Our Children with Chinese Medicine
by John Winternitz, MA, LAc., Pediatric Acupuncturist Did you know that children can benefit from acupuncture and Chinese medicine? In fact, children often respond to acupuncture and herbal medicine more […]
Risk and Resiliency Factors for Healing From Trauma & PTSD (Part Two)
Part Two: Risk and Resiliency Factors for PTSD Risk Factors While minorities are the most at-risk populations in the world, there are other risk factors that make someone more vulnerable […]