One of the amazing things about children is that they live in the moment.  Adults are often amazed at the wonder they have in such simple things; a puddle, rain, a leaf or a bug.

I thought I would focus a bit on the transition into menopause as we had a lot of interest in this topic from our talk this month, so I felt to share some of the material.

We are truly into winter and this time of year is the water element in traditional Chinese medicine, so of course the organs that correspond to this are the kidneys and bladder. For this newsletter I would like to focus on the kidneys, as they are one of our main detoxification centers, are about the size of your fist and sit in the back of your abdomen between the ribs and pelvis.

In June I was able to attend an International Integrated Medical Conference in Germany, it was an amazing conference and I felt very inspired by what was shared. There were practitioners form all over the world and all types of modalities. We had presentations from the UN, PAHO (Pan American Health Organization) and the European Union to name a few. Countries presented how they were working to bring integrative health into their health systems. There were great success stories from Brazil, Germany, Switzerland and even Britain and there were only a few of us from New Zealand and Australia, I was able to present a post about how The Healing Rooms integrates health care.