You Are On Fire! 🔥

Summer Solstice Suggestions

The last few weeks in my office, I’ve noticed similar themes showing up:

☑️ You’re not sleeping well.
☑️ You’re feeling restless about the now, anxious about the future, and uncertain about your life.
☑️ Your body is talking louder than usual—more stress, more inflammation, more headaches, more symptoms demanding your attention.

Sound familiar? It’s possible that nothing has actually gone wrong.

You’re just on fire. 🔥

Today is the Summer Solstice, the height of summer and the most yang time of the year in Chinese Medicine.

Yang is movement, activity, heat, brightness, and expansion. Yang is action. It’s unavoidable. It’s intense. It’s — let’s do it now — whatever IT is.

For months, this energy has been building. The days have grown longer, the sun stronger, and our feelings more noticeable than ever. This can feel exhilarating and exhausting at the same time.

In Chinese Medicine, Summer belongs to the Fire element and the Heart Organ system. When Fire is balanced, we experience connection, presence, enthusiasm, and joy with ease. We take action. We rise with the fire. 🔥

When Fire becomes excessive, we may feel restless, overstimulated, scattered, and anxious. Physical symptoms flare. Emotions run hotter. We find ourselves chasing something that always seems just beyond reach.

So how do we tame excess Yang — all that fiery energy?

With Yin energy. With water, coolness, and stillness. Literally and figuratively.

Here’s the beautiful paradox of the Summer Solstice: just as yang reaches its absolute peak, yin begins to emerge. The day after the Solstice, the light begins — almost imperceptibly — to recede.

Doing gives way to being. Movement gives way to stillness.

In this season of peak yang energy, we can choose to stop chasing the sun. Stop chasing what is bright and exciting. Stop taking action simply to create a sense of control or certainty.

Instead, become still enough to notice what you already have?

Notice where you already are in control. Acknowledge that you already carry enough light in you and around you.

A pause from the projects, the thought loops, the storylines that cost more energy than they give back.

This is yin. This is your medicine right now.

Perhaps the most yin thing you can do in this season of abundant yang is simply:

To savor your own light. ✨✨✨

To let yourself be exactly where you are.

To feel that you are already home.

Before you go, some practical medicine for the season:

💧 Hydrate generously — water is yin’s element.
🙆🏻‍♀️ Stretch and slow the body down.
😴 Rest more than you think you need to.
❤️‍🩹 Tend to your heart — it’s working hard right now.

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Happy lightest and longest day of the year!

From stillness, the light in me sees the light in you.✨

With love,
xoxo
Dr. Kit

P.S. If the fire feels like too much, acupuncture is one of the most effective ways I know to bring the nervous system back into balance. To help tame the yang with the yin.

You can book a session with me here.