by Courtney | Oct 9, 2025 | Ayurveda & Motherhood, Ayurveda & Women's Health, Fall Diet + Habit Tips, Nervous System, Nervous System Regulation, Seasonal Diet
I took a Mom-cation this week – 3 days of glorious alone time at my friend Christine’s rental on Cape Cod – and I spent some of it in bed, recovering from a virus. It’s been rocking my body (and not in the good way 🫠). September is always intense for me....
by Courtney | Oct 2, 2025 | Hormones, Nervous System, Nervous System Regulation, Parenting, Puberty, Somatic Experiencing
So many of us have been rocked by the ongoing violence in our newsfeeds. I don’t want to add to the noise and cast blame. I do want to offer a perspective that helps us heal. To do that we need to speak to the elephant in the room: The people committing these acts of...
by Courtney | Sep 9, 2025 | Ayurveda & Women's Health, Ayurveda and Personal Growth, Nervous System, Nervous System Regulation
“How are we supposed to learn to love the world if we don’t pick berries?” I saw a woman say this on TikTok. I was heartstruck. That woman was Robin Wall Kimmerer, the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Wisdom of Plants. ...
by Courtney | Aug 28, 2025 | Ayurveda & Hormones, Ayurveda & Immunity, Ayurveda & Massage/Bodywork, Ayurveda & Mental Health, Ayurveda & Women's Health, Ayurveda + Menopause, Ayurveda + Menstruation, Ayurveda + Sleep, Ayurveda + Stress, Ayurveda Habits, Fall Diet + Habit Tips, Nervous System, Vata Dosha
We’re less than a month away from the fall equinox. Part of tending to our human body – and especially the rhythmic female body – is preparing for the seasonal shift. So I want to share with you one of the most important practices you can be doing this...
by Courtney | Aug 5, 2025 | Ayurveda & Mental Health, Ayurveda & Women's Health, Ayurveda + Stress, Ayurveda and Personal Growth, Nervous System, Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Experiencing, Somatics, Trauma
The last 5 years – ever since the pandemic – it feels like the world is on fire. At first, I admit, my system was overwhelmed by all the emotions – confusion, grasping, rage, fear. But something shifted over the years, and even though the chaos and...
by Courtney | Jul 31, 2025 | Ayurveda & Hormones, Ayurveda & Women's Health, Nervous System, Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Experiencing, Somatics, Somatics & Hormones
The true blessing I’ve received from Ayurveda and Somatics is that I’m no longer chasing symptoms. When something comes up, I don’t rush to schedule an appointment with a practitioner. I don’t start cutting all the possible culprits out of my diet. I don’t start...
