This is Part 3 of a series. Part 1 is From All Illness Has 8 Stages to Liver Stagnation as the Root of All Problems and Part 2 is Cancer and Hormonal Conditions — Diet May Be Important, but Resolving Childhood Conflict Is Key. The grandparent article Parenting and Grandparenting Relationships Amongst the Major TCM Organ Pairs runs alongside this series as a personal clinical companion. The man with the fan I met someone recently who was wearing fan necklace. I asked about it

This is Part 2 of a series. If it is of interest to you, you can start with Part 1: From All Illness Has 8 Stages to Liver Stagnation as the Root of All Problems and Part 3 can be found here: Just Because Not Everyone Is Ready to Hear It Doesn't Mean It Isn't True — What I Couldn't Say to the Man with the Fan What Master Yan's framework (Part 1) helps us understand about cancer and sugar Master Yan's framework maps well onto what many people with systemic hormonal conditions

Master Yan sent us this: "Depression, Joint Pain, Yellow Skin, Poor Sleep — Actually One Problem You go to the hospital but they can't find anything. Yet the problem is real and present. ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Do You Have These Problems? Joint pain, especially in the tendons and bones — ache here, hurt there. Frequent leg cramps, and varicose veins becoming more noticeable. Yellow skin, no glow, no matter how much you care for it. Severe ha

This article is intended to provide a more detailed explanation of what You Have A Life Plan brought to the 2026 Fun Fair. If you were there, welcome back. If you weren't, let me catch you up. Here’s the cover to the booklet that You Have A Life Plan brought to the 2026 Fun Fair: Here are the photos that were in the booklet (with a bit more information about what each photo represents) The stress from attending public school before readiness caused my middle child's left ey

This article has been on hold for a while, I was just waiting for the right pieces to come together. A couple days ago I started watching Eli Stone on Disney+ Canada. I find it interesting how so many people are interested in seeing that everything is connected, we see what we need to see when we need to see it, in order to find our life path, and heal our unresolved wounds. And unfortunately, like Eli Stone, I seem to experience learning through pain, in order to know how to

Who this article is for If your child toe-walks, struggles with transitions, scans every room for signs of danger or safety, holds deep grudges against certain people, can be demanding and have extreme separation anxiety, demands the same limited comfort foods foods, has minimal patience, hits their head or scratches their face when overwhelmed, and cannot tolerate unpredictable people who do not respect their limits — this article is for you. These are the signs our youngest

Two years ago (April, 2024), shortly after getting my Kirlian camera, I took my son to see Master Yan with his 7th kirlian photo: How I would read this photo now differs from what I knew then. Now I can see that his mental health and self-care were not in place, he was coping by dissociating, and he didn't have sufficient hormonal regulation to pump garbage out of his body, and sleep might be a challenge. If he were an adult, and not my child, I would have started trying to r

The arm pain was not just an injury The body will only accept injuries that serve to teach us something we need to know. My right arm pain was not random. It was the body showing me where I was stuck and what needed to change — in how I go out into the world, how I receive, and how I offer what I have. Going back to the gym after 14 years of sitting and caring for kids finally started to move the stuckness in my feet that nothing else had been able to shift. Then life interru

I know better. And still, after giving in to one ice cream and two crazy breads, I'm awake before 3am with my right arm still in pain, my vision blurring as my arm heals (better when I go outside than when I sit too long at my computer/screens), and my liver doing exactly what the TCM clock says it would be doing at this hour — trying to clean up. This article is about what happens when we self-sabotage, what the body does in response, and what the TCM clock teaches us about

I almost skipped writing this article, but I was drawn to circle back because it is important. What the uterus carries The uterus is not just a reproductive organ. It is the first environment. What it contains — the mother's unresolved conflicts, her accumulated toxins, her hormonal state, her sense of safety in the world — has an impact on her developing fetus. A woman's first born tends to carry the bulk of what she has taken up until the baby's birth. This is not blame. It

At the 2025 Esogetic Medicine Update — the last Update Seminar taught by Peter Mandel before his recent passing — a case was presented from his clinic in Germany: Twenty-four rounds of prenatal treatment is not a small thing. It is a serious, sustained effort to address what a child carried into the world from the womb. And it worked — partially. The lungs cleared. The weight dropped. The child grew taller. But the headaches remained. And she still had no friends. This is the

Pain is the body's way of telling us that chill is stuck inside our body and is looking for a way to escape. Chill causes bracing. Bracing prevents rest, sleep, and recovery. Over time, people develop deep creases in their face or body — from years of holding tension they did not know how to release. The body molds itself around what it is trying to silence and keep away from the heart. What determines whether chill resolves or compounds is almost never the chill itself. It i

Most people think of diabetes as a blood sugar problem. RestoreChi and TCM see it differently — and the difference matters because, by the time blood sugar shows up in a test, the body has already been compensating for a long time. A distribution problem, not a blood sugar problem The liver converts carbohydrates to glucose. The small intestine absorbs nutrients. The spleen distributes what has been absorbed — sending white and red blood cells, calcium, and nutrients to where

The warning signs were there for years before the diagnosis. This is what happened when RestoreChi was part of the treatment, what made survival possible beyond a prognosis of months, and why addressing the emotional root matters more than most people are willing to accept.

This article is part of an archive series tracing the historic evolution of Master Yan's RestoreChi Specialty Tracks (older articles are not being updated, they serve only as a reference): May 14th, 2022 → Early chill/dampness release, kidney/spleen/liver function, and increase yang tracks (Shifting Perspectives on Detox to Support Embodiment) May 19th, 2022 → Stem track (It's all detox: Remove the sludge from the bottom or pour the lighter stuff out from the top) March 3rd,

I fell asleep treating sciatica directly. It helped a little but didn't clear. When I moved support to my left kidney instead, the pain finally released by morning. The loudest symptom isn't always the root — and perimenopause is one of the times that matters most.

Healing isn't always linear — and not everyone needs the same approach or pace. A clear overview of the four ways to work together, what each one is best for, and how to choose a starting point that fits where you actually are.

This video shows the many uses for the old RestoreChi Water Card, but when it came to taking a bath, those who carry a lot of “dampness” (congestion, heaviness, recurring inflammation) needed to use 2-4 cards at a time, and feeling better often came at the cost of severe detox symptoms (nausea, dizziness, sweating it out). You would also often see sticky thick yellow discharge on the walls of the bath after draining the water, and you would need to charge your shampoo with th

Good things can also contribute to allostatic load. A personal reflection on reaching a stress score of 466 — well beyond the threshold for a major health event — entirely from positive changes, and what that teaches about the nature of healing and recovery. Also a guide on how to use Tarot/Oracle cards to access your subconscious. The Recovery Spiral.

Our kids have 6 grandparents. When I try to think about who has the best relationship with them, what seems to matter most is: being young enough to play with them, knowing and respecting your own limits so you do not overdo it and take it out on the kids, working through your own issues so you do not blame the kids for what you did not or do not have, and trusting their parent to do a good job — because the grandparent is supposed to support the parent, not take over their j