Advocate for Life
A monthly newsletter that makes healing more accessible
Compassion Reset: Practices for Recharging & Thriving
Hi Reader, Wishing you moments of joy wherever possible—and plenty of courage, lots and lots of courage. This morning, I pulled a little prank on my kids by freezing their cereal! It was hilarious, though they found it somewhat annoying— which made it even funnier (to me!). Joy is always a radical act, and it helps our Heart Qi house all other emotions. I hope you enjoyed the mung bean congee from last month (if you made it!) and if you’d like to revisit it, you can find the recipe on my...
Spring it on!
Hi Reader, May you all touch hope with this Spring equinox and Nowruz mobarak! to everyone celebrating Nowruz ✨ Below you will find relief from stagnation as Spring begins, please read on... Spring emergence food... Mung Beans! Feeling sluggish, stuck, or irritable? It’s natural! Winter slows us down, while Spring—Liver season—pushes us toward growth, even when the light feels distant. And let’s be real—it’s hard to push toward a light we can’t yet feel, hard to be new, emergent, and trust...
Cultivating hope with grief
Roots of Hope Run Deep Hi Reader, I’m in the clinic today... healed, and healing. Thank you so much for your support and encouragement these past few months. 🙏🏼 Now, I want to talk about hope. Death and change are our constants, and both offer a path of hope. Grief—integrating loss, being with longing, loving, and letting go—stretches our capacity. It can’t be rushed, but it can be tended to. I grew up in a hospice of sorts. My childhood was filled with love, but also with loss—my Grandad, my...
Survival is our struggle, and thriving our inheritance.
Lamia's email- The PORTAL Hi Reader, I’m almost back in the clinic, and it feels like a birthday party is happening next week, with my excitement to come back. Sending you some care and Qi flow as the ruling few ruin lives, the snow melts and days get longer. Hope remains potent. During recovery, my commitment to whole health has extended to fully include me. Rest is woven (imperfectly) into my routine, supporting my needs, desires, and possibilities—dynamic and resourced. Over the past 2...
Qi flow keeps hope alive
Lamia's email- A PORTAL Feb 7th Qi flow, the "E" word and a hello! Hi Reader, I miss you, miss practicing Acupuncture, presence and collaborating on your care, healing and life force decisions. I am also loving rest, time to heal, watching Transplant and following the pull of my visions: Advocate for Life, professionally and Joy, personally (with plenty of overlap). It took an extra few days to get this one to you, and I hope you read what I have put down over at lamiagibson.com. The current...
Recovering well in the wholeness of generosity
Lamia's email- A PORTAL Jan 23rd Gratitude and generosity... Hi Reader, I am grateful to be recovering well and supported to heal and integrate over the next 6 weeks. 2 months off is a big deal My generosity is a well toned muscle, and I am experiencing the fullness of what generosity is as I am present from day to day during this recovery time. I wish we would all take time to recover, that it was woven into society and that we took it no matter what. For years, I lived as if this wasn't...
{Lamia's email - The PORTAL} to give or not to give, is that the question?
Lamia's email-The PORTAL Jan 4th Giving and receiving, a life long practice Hi Reader, I am receiving extra care the past few weeks as I get ready for top surgery and, with the care, has come an unexpected transformative healing beyond the generosity coming my way. I describe it as being the current. I spend a lot of time in giving mode. Receiving is way easier as I drop my "guard", but I can still resist help when I could really use a hand. There are also moments now when I truly do not need...
{Lamia's Newsletter} What a ___________ year! Reviewing 2024...
Hi Reader, As Solstice arrives I wish for you to have ease wherever possible and the conditions for presence for all there is to pass. Need an escape? Wrapping up benefits? Dealing with pain?Book an appointment here What a year of community care. I have celebrated positive news, reductions in stress, relief of pain and resolved conditions along the way. This year I saw we needed more care, presence and rest. As the world comes apart, you have come in with burnout, body pain, PMS, peri...
{Lamia's Newsletter} The PORTAL - The end begins...
... and the beginning ends. Hi Reader, I remember being in Vancouver 25+ years ago, under grey skies and tepid, wet weather. I felt mostly despair. I had gotten into quite the party life and between sketchy nights and dreary days, my world was drowning. I needed light and clarity. So I moved back to Ontario to live in the sun. Even if it was cold, cold, cold at least there would be bright & brilliant sun. With climate change, we are seeing different weather patterns and more grey days in and...
{Lamia's Newsletter} The PORTAL - A place for death and birth
Hi Reader, Welcome to Metal Season Grief, grieving, longing for control and communication between self and other, are all associated with the Lungs, Large Intestine and season of Fall. The only guarantee, that over which we can not reign, is death, and maybe birth. The name Portal means a lot to me. It is a reflection of experiences I have had, in birth rooms and death rooms, of a vibrant life force that carries the exact same energy. We live in this portal between birth and death, attempting...
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