Your Tongue Reveals Everything About Your Health According to Traditional Chinese Medicine
Happy Sagittarius season, everyone!
I actually love Sag energy. I have a Sagittarius stellium (meaning three or more planets in the same sign/house), so I’ve always felt deeply connected to it and easily get along with this sign. Sagittarius isn’t so different from Pisces (my sun sign) — both are mutable signs traditionally ruled by Jupiter (the planet of abundance). The difference is that Sagittarius brings the fire: bolder, more energy, boundless optimism. With Sag ruling my 8th house, I credit this part of my chart for my unrelenting quest for truth and understanding—and the ability to see life’s most challenging lessons as my best teachers.
Sag energy also loves adventure, especially a spontaneous one, and I just got home from a very last-minute work trip to Saint Martin, where I ran into former FWD JOY guest Mara Hoffman. It felt so good to be back in the Caribbean for a few days, and I’m feeling tempted to channel this Sag energy into booking one last trip before the year ends.
Now, let’s get down to business. Today, we’re talking with Dr. Felice Chan about traditional Chinese medicine. She’s board-certified in acupuncture and herbal medicine, with a unique blend of Western neuroscience training and Eastern traditional wisdom. I first came across Dr. Felice last year on Instagram, and she immediately hooked me with a video breaking down acne from a TCM perspective.
Obviously, acne is highly personal. There are so many individual and environmental factors, but TCM can offer valuable insight into the kinds of imbalances happening inside the body. Is it too much heat? Too much dampness? Beyond acne, her content covers everything from chronic pain and inflammation to how to fight off colds, and the acupressure points that can help relieve nausea, headaches, or anxiety. She also has a regular series called “Tongue Tuesdays,” where she analyzes different tongues because, according to TCM, the tongue reveals all. She even analyzed mine during our chat, and I wasn’t surprised by her feedback.
So, if you are curious about holistic healing, fascinated by the connection between our gut and our skin, or simply craving a more intuitive relationship with your body, listen to our full conversation or read the highlights below.
Welcome to FWD JOY, Dr. Felice! Let's start from the beginning. You grew up in Hong Kong, right?
Dr. Felice Chan: Yes, born and bred in Hong Kong. I moved to the US for college, and I've been here since. So Chinese medicine was always integrated into my lifestyle at home with food and herbs, but I didn't actually study it until after I studied Western medicine.
How did your interest in Chinese medicine grow?
Dr. Felice Chan: It's funny because even in Hong Kong, it’s a very westernized cosmopolitan city. So, the medicine that was shared with me was Western medicine. In order to seek out Chinese medicine professionally, acupuncture, and herbs, you have to go into the city, go to an uncle or auntie. It wasn't systematized like Western medicine was.
So, Chinese medicine, at least in the 1980s/1990s, was almost deemed as the second medicine because of the money and the structure of knowledge. All of the top-scoring people who wanted to go to med school they'd go to Western med school, either in the US or the UK, and then come back to Hong Kong. Chinese medicine wasn't really a common career path, if that makes sense. It was more so passed down through tradition through their parents, but not to be studied and then to practice here in the West.
Yeah, it also makes me think of my parents, who were both born and raised in Jamaica, and I think very similarly, cultures that are also used to living off the land, there's all these herbs and potions that they cook up. In our refrigerator right now, is a glass of water with some kind of bark in it. I don't really know what it it’s called, but it's something that one of my dad's Jamaican friends has given to him. He says it's very bitter, it’s supposed to cleanse your blood. He drinks the full glass, then fills it up with water and lets it sit for a couple of days, then drinks it again.
Dr. Felice Chan: Wait, I'm so curious to see what it is. Chinese herbs in general are bark, right? There are roots, barks, leaves, and flowers. So, what you're talking about really resonates with me. Even at home, Chinese medicine was a home remedy. It was the herbs given to me when I was sick or had a sore throat, or the soups given to me daily. But it wasn't like this is the medicine you have to practice. So, ever since I was six or seven years old, I've known I wanted to be a doctor—definitely a past-life soul mission situation.
So, starting in middle school, I shadowed doctors throughout the year, including during summer school in Hong Kong and in the US. My aunt is a neuroradiologist at Kaiser in the Bay Area. I feel so grateful to have had that connection to then experience medicine in the US. Throughout high school, I spent many summers here in the US, during which I shadowed a neuroradiologist or a pediatric neuroradiologist. Oh my gosh, I loved it. I saw brain surgeries, back surgeries—it was incredible.
Now, is there a core philosophy or set of principles in traditional Chinese medicine?
Dr. Felice Chan: Yes. I say that Chinese medicine is about balance. It's the yin-yang symbol. We call it the taiji symbol. Half of it is white, half is black, and then you have white on the black side and vice versa. It's all about balance, and that balance and duality are necessary to exist for harmony. So you can think about it for your physical health, but also about how we relate to nature and to ourselves as nature beings, because, in essence, we need to be connected to nature. We live on this earth, and to emphasize that portion of our health with our modern world, it's very interesting to see how that intersects
So tell me what Qi is, because you talk about it a lot in your content.
Dr. Felice Chan: Yes, Qi is the vital energy that runs through our bodies and meridian system. In acupuncture or Chinese medicine, we have this energy that runs through the meridian system that connects our head to our feet, to our hands. There are 12 main pathways or meridians. We name them according to organs like the spleen channel or the stomach meridian because it passes through that organ itself, but also starts or ends in the feet, hands, or face. So this is the pathway and energetic pathway that is present in our body, or our five senses can't really grasp it, unless, let's say, you go to acupuncture, you can feel this movement of qi that runs through the meridian system. Chinese medicine is all about qi movement, and one of the first quotes I ever learned in school was that if there's free flow of qi in the body, you have perfect health. But as soon as there are blockages, whether it's a blockage that is pain or an emotional blockage, it stops the movement of qi, and that's when ailments start to happen.
You've said that the tongue reveals everything. Why is that?
Dr. Felice Chan: In the Chinese medicine perspective, the tongue is the only internal organ that we can see externally. If we were able to have perfect X-ray vision and see the coating of our heart, or our stomach, there's going to be a coating, a color, it's going to be different for everyone. So that's what the tongue is, and the tongue is connected to our digestion. But the tongue also represents all of the organs, and we have a tongue map. So the tip of the tongue is the heart, the sides for the gallbladder, the central areas are our digestion— our spleen, stomach. The back is our kidneys, our bladder, and everything to do with women's health and the uterus. When certain patterns show up on the tongue, whether it's red, whether it's pale, whether there's actual physical things on it, like blisters or even the tongue coating, it all gives us information on what's happening inside the body.
Can you analyze my tongue?
Dr. Felice Chan: So the tongue that I see, at least from my angle and lighting, it looks a little bit pale, and there are some slight teeth marks. A pale tongue in Chinese medicine indicates some type of qi or blood deficiency. It doesn't mean that the blood is deficient per Western standards. It just means that the blood could be nourished. When we think about the Western standpoint, it could be nourished with more iron or B Vitamins. How can we encourage more qi or blood flow. It can give you more energy, clear-headedness, less digestive issues, and I always encourage red meat bone broths or things like juju dates or goji berries.
So, what does a healthy tongue look like?
Dr. Felice Chan: We always say a healthy tongue is a pink tongue with a thin white coating. I've only seen it maybe once or twice, but again, it's transient— it changes. Let's say a person comes in with a healthy tongue. The next week they come in, it’s different because the tongue changes with how you eat, your emotions, whether you're hydrated, whether you're stressed, even before and after treatment, the tongue changes.
How much does the tongue actually fluctuate?
Dr. Felice Chan: It's not like, you have a pink tongue and it's going to become black at the end of the day. It's little changes. Coating is something that we see transiently, rather than the body. The tongue body, we say, is more like chronic issues, whereas the tongue coating can change. Let's say someone has a smoothie—their tongue coating is going to be thicker and wider because a smoothie is cold and damp, and that's what it signifies. Let's say someone has a ginger tea afterwards or has lunch, the tongue coating is likely going to dissipate because the warming moves that.
You are adamant that cold drinks are horrible for us. Can you elaborate?
Dr. Felice Chan: Yeah, and modern research is finally catching up.
I’m a huge tea drinker, so it’s not a hard one for me. Of course, sometimes in the dead of summer, you need ice-cold drinks. But there have been numerous occasions where I've had a really, really cold water, and TMI, but it's given me diarrhea.
Dr. Felice Chan: It makes sense. I'm so happy to share from a TCM perspective why that is. So, when we think about our digestion and who we are as people, we're warm-blooded, right? Our digestion is warm. As soon as something cold comes in, it's on the other side of the scale, and so your body has to work to warm it up. So let's say you put a smoothie or an ice cold drink in your body. Your body's supposed to digest it and you transform the good nutrients, and then the rest you pass right through. But if something is too cold, it weakens your digestive ability to transform and transport food and fluids, and to process them. So that's why it comes right out. We always say in Chinese medicine, when someone leans towards looser stools, that their digestion is a little bit colder, but as soon as it moves on the other end with more constipation or harder stools, for example, it's drier. It's almost hotter in nature because all the fluids are depleted because of the heat. So, that indicates what's happening with our digestion.
And that applies to the foods that we eat as well. It's probably terrible that I have yogurt first thing in the morning, isn't it? This is actually something I wanted to unpack with you because I have a very sensitive digestive system, but in the last few years, I found out I have a sensitivity to eggs, I'm technically lactose intolerant. But I love breakfast, it is my favorite meal of the day. So yeah, I think over the last few years it's just been hard to figure out what is right.
Dr. Felice: In Chinese medicine, that's when our spleen and stomach wake up, and those are the first organs in our digestive system from a TCM standpoint. So when they wake up, it's at its strongest, you have to nourish it. When you have breakfast in Chinese medicine, it gives you energy for the rest of the day. Back to the yogurt standpoint, I am there with you where it's such a common breakfast item worldwide. For some people, it's fine, everyone is different, but I say if you are tending towards a cold or damp presentation, it's going to make you worse because yogurt is cold and it's damp in nature because dairy is damp. Not to say you can't ever have it again. Tune into your body—are you extra bloated? Are you having loose stools? Then maybe yogurt's not the best for you today. Maybe if you're feeling stronger, let's say your digestion is strong, you're feeling warmer, it's summertime, you're less damp in nature, having yogurt is okay because it is high in probiotics, it is high in protein. It's hard because eggs are such a breakfast staple, but I always encourage non-breakfast foods for breakfast. Even in Asian culture, we'd have congee for breakfast, noodles, meat, soup, or bone broth.
A lot of people don't like breakfast. Do you still advise that they should try to eat it anyway?
Dr. Felice Chan: Yes. I think a lot of issues that I see in the clinic, especially for women, the first thing I always advise is to have breakfast. Having breakfast can fix a lot of cascading symptoms, from fatigue and brain fog to digestive instability, and even period and hormonal health. So when someone's just like, I have low energy throughout the day, I can't sleep well, I'm bloated. I'm like, have breakfast, start with a hot cup of water or tea, have something before nine o'clock. Let's say you wake up at six or seven. Let's say someone wakes up at 10 or 11, eat an hour after you wake up, or within an hour. I find that once someone eats consistently for breakfast and they train their bodies to be hungry, then a lot of their issues that they experience start to dissipate.
Do you recommend that people eat on a schedule or at least be consistent in the timing of their meals? I feel like I'm pretty consistent with that.
Dr. Felice: Absolutely. In Chinese medicine, the spleen, stomach, which is our digestion, loves breakfast, and it loves consistency because if your body's able to tune in to kickstart your metabolism. We love to feed it so it's nourished, but it also needs a break and rest. So, for example, if someone's digestion is weak and they're snacking all the time, it doesn't have time to rest, so it might become weaker, leading to more dampness, bloating, or loose stools in the long run. Again, it depends on how someone is presenting.
So let's talk about skin. I've struggled with acne, and you have as well. Obviously, there's a lot of talk about how acne is also connected to the gut. So, what is the TCM philosophy around this?
Dr. Felice Chan: In Chinese medicine, the skin is reflective of the lining of your gut. So if your gut is inflamed and it's red, it's going to surface on the skin, especially on the face, as heat. In Chinese medicine, there are so many different root causes of acne, but let's say heat is a main cause. Dampness is a cause, but also a type of stagnation, meaning energy is stuck, and so what causes that is an inconsistent diet or things that are too cold and raw. Also emotional stagnation—too much stress. Stress is relevant to digestion, so it's relevant to the skin. Right now, there's so much research on the gut/skin connection or the gut/brain connection. That's what Chinese medicine is all about. It's been present for thousands of years, and it has its own understanding of what it means, and it's so nice to see modern research catching up to that to say, Hey, there are all these pathways and connections.
Chinese medicine principles are so effective in helping skin health heal from the inside out, but also externally. For example, growing up, for skin health, we wouldn't just drink Chrisanthemum because it's so cooling, anti-inflammatory, and great for the liver. In Chinese medicine, it clears toxic heat, and acne is that heat and toxicity coming out. It's trying to escape, but you would also put Chrisanthemum flowers on your eyes or your skin when you had redness or inflammation, it's a natural antibacterial. So, how can we use herbs holistically, not just internally, but also externally? Hence, why my sister and I created Moonbow to make that concept accessible.
Let's talk a bit about the skincare brand that you started with your sister. Also, I was so shocked when I saw, oh, there's two of you!
Dr. Felice Chan: Yeah, there's very much two of us and we're very much identical. We're very much yin and yang. We're opposites, and we work so well together, but we've always wanted to create something together. We're best friends. We just wanted to create something special that shared Chinese medicine principles with the world in an accessible way, because Chinese medicine can be daunting, even for modern consumers. Even for my patients who come see me weekly, they know it works. They can feel that it works, but the understanding of how it works isn't talked about. A lot of what I do in the clinic is education and explaining to all of my clients and patients, and also my community on social of what is happening in the body. Then they're able to grasp it. So that's what we are doing through Moonbow, through the education around skincare, but also through what we say, the four pillars in Chinese medicine. We have the acupuncture, which is the meridian system. We have herbal medicine, and it's a combination of herbs that work synergistically together to enhance each other's properties. Then we have food as medicine, the broths that Heather and I grew up drinking every meal with our family, or the teas that we drink when we have a sore throat, and then the lifestyle aspect that emphasizes mindfulness. That's where we see growing up all the aunties and grandmothers doing Qigong or Tai chi. Making sure our nervous system is regulated was really emphasized because that's the only part of the nervous system we heal, and so we wanted to share that through Moonbow.
Even with skincare routines, I think it's very easy for people to think that, like, oh, self-care is selfish, but doing your skincare routine is a way for you to actually connect with yourself. It's not always just about vanity, especially when you're doing it right, when you're your face and you're using the right products.
Dr. Felice Chan: Yeah, with every shipment, we also send a chrysanthemum flower, like a big beautiful yellow flower, to encourage people to drink the tea, to calm down, put on skincare, because once you're able to calm down, tune into what's actually happening to your body, resetting the nervous system, you start to heal. We're trying to encourage the beauty behind the health and wellness, behind skincare, rather than overwhelming consumers with a 12-step routine. It's just three steps. You cleanse, you serum, you moisturize, twice a day.
Yeah, especially for those of us who struggle with skin, I think it's very easy to be oversold that you need all of these different products, and one of the biggest things that has helped my skin in the last two years now is just paring back my routine and actually doing the least. I use a gentle cleanser, nice moisturizers, and a serum here and there, but I really cut back on actives, acids, and all that stuff.
Dr. Felice Chan: Oh my goodness. I think we went through the same thing. When we were first creating Moonbow, I was experiencing adult acne. I got off 10 years of birth control, my body was trying to regulate, and I had really bad acne for six months. I resorted to purely Chinese medicine principles to heal. Chinese supplementation and herbal formulas. I got acupuncture weekly. I had to adjust my lifestyle and the food that I ate just for a short period, making sure everything was warm and cooked. My skin healed tremendously, but also finding skincare that worked. I have tried everything. I did the whole vitamin C trend. I realized that vitamin C was making me break out because my skin barrier was so bad. I realized that retinol was actually ruining my skin barrier because it was drying it out. I found that using gentle products healed my skin better, and now my skin barrier is so much stronger. It's going back to principles that existed for thousands of years, and also going back to how did my mom do it? How did my grandmother do it? Retinol didn't exist then. I have a specific understanding of that. I know there's a lot of research. It's always controversial in my TikToks where I'm like, there's other things to retinol out there.
When we created Moonbow, for example, our serum is a gentler version of vitamin C, and we incorporate Chinese herbs that are high in vitamin C, but don't break you out, and then all of the other herbs you put into it are calming for any type of inflammation, so it's so gentle. And then, there's so many herbal alternatives to retinol. For example, chrysanthemum is high in betacarotene, which is a precursor to vitamin A, so it hits the same pathways, but it's holistic because you get all the benefits of the whole chrysanthemum flower rather than just the betacarotene itself. You get the aspects that help with brightening and calming inflammation, and antioxidants as well. It's fascinating. And then the orange peel can't even see. It's also great for the gut. I put it in my teas to calm my gut, but it's also great for the skin to brighten.
What are all the teas that are good for skin?
Dr. Felice Chan: For acne: I love chrysanthemum tea and spearmint—it’s very cooling. Spearmint has a component in it that actually is great for high androgens, so it's great for people with PCOS, but it's also great to help detox the liver and help with liver health. Chrysanthemum, because it's so cooling, and every herb in Chinese medicine and food goes to a specific organ and a specific channel, and so Chrysanthemum goes to the liver, and we have to cleanse the liver for any acne issues.
For dryness: I would say Jujube dates, black sesame, and Tremella mushrooms. I always have black sesame butter in my fridge that I spread on toast. I put it on oatmeal. So nourishing what we say in yin, yin is the blood and the nourishment that women need for health and wellness, but also for plumpness and glowiness, because when we think about glow, it almost looks like a wetness or sheen over them. That's what yin is.
For glow and blood flow: Jujube dates, which I mentioned before for yin, but also goji berries, and ironically, if you want to do gua sha on the face, because it increases that qi and blood flow.
Let's talk about cosmetic acupuncture. This is hopefully going to be the next Botox alternative, right?
Dr. Felice Chan: Yes, as it should, because the New York Times released another emerging article about how cosmetic acupuncture is the new alternative to Botox. So, cosmetic acupuncture is amazing for so many things. For the face itself, it increases collagen build, it's different than microneedling because it gets deeper. It hits the energetic channels. So, let's say you put a point over here, it's great to increase the blood flow. It helps with acne, it helps with the blood flow, it helps lift the face, but it also connects to points in the stomach, so it helps digestion, right? There's always three to four benefits per point at least. When people come in, they'll come in with certain goals, let's say someone is trying to dissipate forehead wrinkles. I'll put needles on the wrinkle itself. They penetrate the skin, get into the epidermis, and sometimes the dermis as well, and it sends inflammatory signals to then fill it out, but also signals to create more collagen, and that's how it fills out the points itself. Let's say someone has TMJ and it's tight here, and their face is a little asymmetrical. We'll go into that muscle and release it, but also we can activate the muscle and lift everything. If someone wants brows that are lifted, you can put some points that activate the energy around it, so it's going to naturally lift it, right? It's subtle. It works. It's amazing. It takes a lot of repetition. I always say, you can't just go in once and then get the same results as one thing of Botox. It's a whole different system. It takes time. It's natural, but the results are amazing.
It’s the same thing with the micro-current tools. I have a lot of friends in the esthetician world, and they will all say, yeah, it does work, but you have to do it regularly. You can't just do it once a week and think that it's going to make a difference.
Dr. Felice Chan: Oh, yes, of course. When someone wants to get cosmetic acupuncture, I'm like, you're going to love it. After the first treatment, it just increases your glow, your plump. Everyone's like, wow, I look so renewed. It's because it's moving everything that needs to move. If you want these crow's feet to go away, you need to come in, let's say 10 times, once a week or twice a week, for five weeks to get to the root of it.
When we think about what Botox is, it's a neurotoxin, and where does that go? It goes into the rest of your body, into your brainstem. When we think about Botox versus cosmetic acupuncture, it's such a different medicine. It's modern medicine, but there's also now so many research studies about long-term Botox use. In my clinic, too, I get so many patients who come in with Botox poisoning, and it manifests in different ways because it all hits the nervous system because it's a neurotoxin. Nerves are the nervous system, so it's how your body switches from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic. I have found that it's affected a lot of women who already are kind of weaker off balance in certain ways, and then the Botox triggers that and makes it even worse and exacerbates their symptoms.
Yeah, does Botox and freezing muscles, does that mess with our qi?
Dr. Felice: A hundred percent, yes. When we think about longevity and health, from a skincare perspective, often longevity is all about that free flow of qi. When you freeze the muscle, you stop it from functioning, whereas Chinese medicine actually activates the muscle, so it keeps its function because muscles are supposed to move. If you freeze it, it's going to stop not just the muscles from moving, but all that qi movement, and the muscle will atrophy. Everyone loves to put Botox to lift. This is connected to your digestion. It runs through the breast into the digestion, so it's always going to affect the rest of the body.
As we're going into the winter months, what is best for us to eat and support our health and digestion?
Dr. Felice: We have to nourish our bodies with more warmth. Hot water, teas, and focusing on foods that are warming in nature. It's not just the cooked foods, it's the warm soups, it's lamb, beef, because we say they're more warming in nature. Ginger, cinnamon, I mean, it's everything in an apple cider holiday mix, the cardamom, the pumpkin spice lattes in a healthier way.
What is it that you wish people could take away or learn from TCM versus their approach to Western medicine? Obviously, we all live in America. The medical world is also just focused on how we can put a band-aid over whatever is wrong with you, then really being proactive about our health.
Dr. Felice: With Chinese medicine, what I'm hoping for people to get from it is that health is a journey, and it's wellness. I really want Chinese medicine to be an avenue for people to be curious, to ask questions, and to then be intuitive with their body. Taking a step back, how is my body feeling or aligning at this time, tuning in to let me drink a cold smoothie and feel how my digestion feels. Am I also having brain fog? Am I feeling lethargic? Is my energy actually lower? Instead of saying, I'm doing this because of all the supplements and it's good, and then I'm going to go to work and not think about it.
Chinese medicine is completely opposite of the quick-fix band-aid solution. It takes time. It's about getting to the root cause, and so we have to change our mindset of these quick fixes. I almost say that it's a quick-fix epidemic that we live in, right? We are all so busy. We want things to just be done, and then we go, right, so how do we veer away from that? In LA, and I'm sure New York too, those are the cities that are the most forward-thinking in health and wellness, and we're finally taking a step back to say, meditation and journaling and taking a break is cool. Saying no to dinner commitments or things that feel overwhelming is cool because it's good for our nervous system, it's good for our body, making that more normalized and not a taboo.
Yeah, I completely agree. Everyone is obsessed with convenience. So yeah, there really needs to be a slowing down. TCM is something that helps you learn about your body over time.
Dr. Felice: At the end of it all, it's about balance, right? Yes, I'm busy, and yes, I'm going to order groceries to the house instead of going to the farmer's market and pick out the vegetables, but sometimes I will go to the farmer's market. It is all about balance. How do we find that for you? It's going to change for everyone. So again, there's no one quick fix answer, and I know that a lot of people come into the clinic, they're like, fix me now, I want to have this specific protocol that works for me. And I'm like, this is going to be a journey. We have to work through it together because if it were a one-stop shop, oh my goodness, this world would be a different place if that were Chinese medicine. That world doesn't exist.
I think balance is such a great word to keep in mind. That’s what it's all about, right? In life, how do we find the balance? Of course, we can't have the balance to 24/7. Sometimes we're working like crazy, it's the holidays, we're social, we're eating like crap. But then how do you bring it back? How do you find that equilibrium?
Dr. Felice: Yes, exactly. Thanksgiving's coming up, and I have my things I take for stagnation or a bloat, and again, that's just balance. It's understanding what you can do at that moment, but I'm not going to stop eating my pumpkin pie or my Turkey and stuffing. I'm going to eat it all.
Final question: What is bringing you joy right now?
Dr. Felice: I think stillness and just time with my family. I've been traveling a lot in the past month. I went to Japan, San Diego, and I was just in San Francisco, and I hadn't had time to just chill in my backyard with my family. So, the other day I was able to dip my feet in the pool, play with my dog, and hang with my husband. I was like, this is what life is about. Life is about joy, love, and connection because at the end of the day, we're human beings, and connection is what we crave, right?
Dr. Felice’s Reading List
Between Heaven and Earth by Efrem Korngold and Harriet Beinfield
Great book to understand Chinese medicine philosophy. Helped me in the beginning of my TCM journey to read before I went to TCM school.
The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted Kaptchuk
An incredible beginner deep dive into the world of TCM understanding TCM concept and language.
Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss
My holy grail book of knowing that there isn't just the physical world. Love Brian's perspective as a Dr. himself and that open minded thinking of healing methods.
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
Helped me during my transition from western to eastern medicine. Back bone of how I knew that TCM was for me.
Shaman, Healer, Sage by Alberty Villoldo
Opened my mind to energetic fields and energy medicine, which intertwines with Chinese medicine and our meridian system. Has made me a deeper healer and practitioner but also broadened my spiritual horizons.