Hand on Heart: What the High Holy Days Taught Me About Self-Compassion
A gentle hand over the heart during Yom Kippur becomes a reflection on self-hatred, the apologies women make for their bodies, and practicing self-compassion.
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Why Cypress Feels Good Right Now
Why cypress keeps appearing in my treatment room this fall—and what Chinese medicine teaches about grief, the lungs, and the difficult work of letting go.
The Art of Energetic Boundaries
Twenty years of listening to other people's hardest stories taught me how to stay present without carrying it home. This is what energetic boundaries look like in practice.
A Letter to Your Perimenopausal Vagina
Nobody gives you the talk about where your vagina is headed after 40. Here's the honest version — what actually changes, what helps, and who to ask.
Do You Find It's Hard to Ask for Help?
Why so many women can give endlessly but can't receive a kindness — the childhood conditioning underneath it, and the week I practiced letting it in.
The Healing Is in the Music
Music is the language of acupuncture. Twenty years in, here's how sound became half the treatment in my practice, and why the powers that be have always found...
21 Days of Being Enraged: What Women's Anger Is Trying to Tell Us
My acupuncturist gave me homework: write down everything I'm angry about for 21 days. Here's what suppressed anger does to women, and why it needs somewhere to go.
Your Body Is Screaming — Can You Hear It?
A 6 a.m. call with my college roommate turned into a reckoning: years of pouring everything into everyone else while our own bodies quietly broke down.
I Melted Down My Grandmother's Ring for My Daughter's 21st
On her daughter Ava's 21st birthday — a home birth in Providence, four generations of mother-daughter trauma, and a grandmother's ring remade into two pendants that rest over...
Is Your Bone Density Quietly Declining? What Every Woman Over 40 Needs to Know
Women can lose up to 20% of bone density in early menopause. Here's the honest, evidence-grounded guide to protecting your bones through perimenopause and beyond.
Stuck Energy, Spring Body: The Ancient Science of Moving
Feeling stuck, angry, or restless this spring? Chinese medicine calls it liver qi stagnation — and movement is your best medicine. Here's why.
The Sexual Wellness Conversation Women Over 40 Deserve
Your OB-GYN probably isn't asking about your libido. Here's what midlife women need to know about sexual wellness, from vaginal estradiol to finding the right provider.
Letters from Catherine
A little room for yourself.
Personal stories, things I’m reading, and thoughts on living well. A free letter, usually on Sundays.