There are four pillars to maintaining health:
physical, mental, emotional and spiritual
Collectively, these four pillars establish the mission of The CMNWLTH. They ebb and flow like the tides through our daily lives. At different periods, we may unconsciously place more or less emphasis on specific aspects of ourselves. There is a season for everything in Nature and in our lives. Maintaining our health requires that we check in with ourselves regularly. No matter the season of life or its ebbs and flows, we can pause to assess how well-balanced these four aspects are at any given time.
In Chinese medicine, this process begins with understanding the individual as a whole. At The CMNWLTH, assessment may include thoughtful conversation, tongue and pulse diagnosis, channel palpation, and other traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic techniques. These observations help us understand how different aspects of health are interacting and where support may be needed. Together, we work with all four aspects of health to cultivate greater harmony within ourselves.
Listening to the Body
A key aspect of this work is learning to define what we feel within the body.
Just as there are effective love languages for cultivating meaningful relationships with others, we must develop our own love languages with ourselves. We learn to recognize the ways our bodies communicate through sensation, emotion, energy, pain, fatigue, tension, and other changes.
When we experience an imbalance, the source may extend beyond a purely physical symptom or injury. In Chinese medicine, we look at the relationship between the “branch” and the “root” — the symptoms presenting on the surface and the underlying patterns that may be contributing to them.
This allows us to consider the whole person rather than treating symptoms in isolation. Through acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and other Chinese medicine therapies, we work together to address both what is being felt and the deeper patterns that may be influencing it. This approach is especially meaningful as symptoms are connected to more complex patterns of health including chronic pain, stress and anxiety, menopause and perimenopause or uterine fibroids.
The CMNWLTH,
an investment in our whole being
The journey of transformation is about clearing the obstacles along our paths. We can remove the presence of disease. We can release the effects of trauma. We can acknowledge our own self-limiting beliefs. We can listen more deeply to the body. And can we walk into our destiny. The CMNWLTH is an investment in the whole of who we are — body, mind, emotions and spirit.