January 7, 2026
As comfort food goes in Chinese culture, you can’t get much more ubiquitous than congee. Congee is a rice porridge made by slowly cooking rice in liquid. Though there are innumerable recipes for how to make it, it’s really something that can be modified any way you like once you know how to prepare it.
Happy New Year. Thank You. It’s a new year, and this one is going to be a whirlwind. We will write more about what it means to be entering 2026, the Year of the Horse (and it’s a fire horse no less) in our next newsletter. You can imagine, it should be full of movement […]
Every January, I watch the same pattern unfold, for myself and those I work with in clinic. We set ambitious resolutions, lose 30 pounds, go to the gym five days a week, completely overhaul their diet (Whole 30 anyone?), quit sugar. We attack these goals with a sincere, fierce determination, fueled by the cultural pressure […]
I’ll be honest with you: I struggled with fatigue and low mood in the winter for years. At the time, I was forcing myself to go to early morning workout classes, feeling guilty every time I hit the snooze button, frustrated with myself for not having the energy I had in summer. I felt like […]