The journey I’ve been on for the past number of years has awakened me to my soul’s essence as an embodiment of unconditional love by way of a long and very dark night of the soul.  This journey has brought to the surface to be reckoned with every insidious shadow hidden in my being. One […] The post Mirror, Mirror of My Soul appeared first on EvenTide Wellness - Washington DC ..read more

January 2023 During my course to become initiated as a curandera[1] in the Peruvian Amazon, I was given the following clear instructions in an early Ayahuasca ceremony:  You are to embody unconditional love and unity consciousness.  You must become a bridge between Heaven and Earth.   I immediately recognized the instructions as a core truth, universal to all […] The post Taoism, Shipibo Plant Medicine and the Magic of Emotional Alchemy appeared first on EvenTide Wellness - Washington DC ..read more

From the pen of Liana July 2022 The healer archetype is carried within each of us.  We are programmed with a natural inclination to remember, reclaim, and return to the central and eternal life force from which our existence arises and from which we drift away through our protective responses to individual, collective and lineage […] The post The Healer Within Genesis Story appeared first on EvenTide Wellness - Washington DC ..read more

Introduction On April 23, 2020, The Atlantic published an article entitled “Why Some People Get Sicker Than Others,” in which the author James Hamblin points out the incredible variability of the immune response of different people who contract coronavirus.  Hamblin quotes Robert Murphy, a professor of medicine and the director of the Center for Global […] The post The Intersection Between Chronic Stress, Trauma, and Immunity appeared first on EvenTide Wellness - Washington DC ..read more

In my latest article about the COVID-19 pandemic, I integrate reflections of my own personal and professional journey with a discussion of the Wood Element in Chinese Medicine, including the emotion of anger and its transformation into the virtue of justice. The Wood Element:  Liver and Gallbladder In Chinese Medicine (CM), the Wood element, associated […] The post Covid-19 And The Wood Element: Transforming Anger Into Justice appeared first on EvenTide Wellness - Washington DC ..read more

I am sitting outside on our porch swing on a beautiful early spring day in Washington, DC.  Trees on our street have started to bloom yellow, pink, and purple.  The sun is shining brightly and I feel a gentle breeze brushing my face.  It is early April 2020, a spring all of us will remember […] The post Yin-Yang Imbalances in the Time of Covid-19 appeared first on EvenTide Wellness - Washington DC ..read more

In Part One of this series, I wrote about the impact of imbalanced fear on our individual and collective nervous systems, described how regulating our own nervous system has a positive impact on our immune system, suggested that when we interact with others in person, on the phone, or even on via social media with […] The post Transforming Grief into Awe:  Covid 19, Your Lungs and Large Intestine appeared first on EvenTide Wellness - Washington DC ..read more

Liana Brooks-Rubin, L.Ac., Dipl.O.M. March 25, 2020 I am writing this in the midst of a global pandemic.  The first one that (almost) everyone alive has lived through.  A global pandemic that our systems and society are ill-equipped to handle.  There is a lot of fear in the collective.  Many of us are deeply feeling […] The post Transforming Fear into Wisdom appeared first on EvenTide Wellness - Washington DC ..read more

Many of us are witnessing a re-surfacing of pain in our bodies, both physically and emotionally; we’ve seen the same on a broader scale in our national politics as well as in society at large (e.g., #MeToo). Pain is arising for many of us during this time of energetic shifts in the earth and effects of […] The post Releasing Our Attachment To Pain appeared first on EvenTide Wellness - Washington DC ..read more