What's Your Season? presents a new and valuable approach to living well, bringing together the best of Eastern and Western medicine to help you optimize your health. By relating characteristics of your health, personality, and physical condition to five different seasonal body types, this remarkable system explores the ways in which what you eat, drink, think, and do impact your health and how you can use nature's example to develop a lifestyle plan that works for you. Drawing on guidance from the cycle of seasons, this comprehensive book includes:
- A personalized approach to health based on your own specific body type
- An overview of holistic health principles from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
- Diagnostic checklists, dietary recommendations, and suggestions for therapies and activities
- An A-to-Z guide to whole food ingredients, including healing properties and seasonality
- Over 75 delicious and easy-to-make recipes for seasonal dishes that will balance your body and satisfy your palate
Whether you embody the warmth of summer or the cold of winter, with the help of
What's Your Season? you'll learn how to take a more mindful approach to the way you eat and live and, in so doing, discover the good health that you seek.
Brielle Kelly, L.Ac., Dipl.O.M., is a licensed acupuncturist in California and New York and is a nationally board certified Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She also has a certification in Applied Clinical Nutrition. Brielle has previously held professorships at Mercy College and the Swedish Institute in New York City. With over 15 years of clinical experience, she runs a successful acupuncture and holistic health care practice which specializes in the use of whole food nutritional therapies and traditional herbal remedies. Cherisse Godwin has a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Hawaii and is a graduate of Tante Marie s Cooking School in San Francisco. She received a Healing with Whole Foods Certification from the Heartwood Institute in California, where she studied with renowned Traditional Chinese Medicine and nutrition author Paul Pitchford. Cherisse has worked in community outreach programs that promote disease prevention and healthy lifestyles. Kristy Hsiao has a Bachelor of Science from Johns Hopkins University and is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. She also received a Healing with Whole Foods Certification from the Heartwood Institute in California. Her professional experience includes work in the engineering, pharmaceutical, and food industries
