HOW TO GET "UNSTUCK" AND MOVE YOUR LIVER QI - a Chinese Medicine breakdown with real life tips for hormones, PMS, frustration, and emotional waves
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Ep 54. Got hormone complaints? Feeling super frustrated and bloated before your period? Does it sometimes feel like you're 'stuck' in life and can't quite see your vision for the future or how to execute it? Is alcohol feeling harder and harder on your body as you get older? Let's talk about the Liver meridian in Chinese Medicine, and how something called "Liver Qi Stagnation" affects us all today because of our modern, fast-paced, often stressful lives. We've got you with a full breakdown AND the antidote — ways to help your Liver Qi flow free and smooth, so that you feel more emotionally balanced, have better periods, and can let out your anger and emotions in a healthier way when stressed. Plus, we've got an extra special guest from Team OO this week – our Director of Digital Marketing, Mina Hadjian is on the mic with me to help translate this complex TCM convo to real-life situations – like a friend in the room with us that always asks the best questions :) We're talking about why Liver Qi Stagnation is so common, how it's connected to your hormones, what signs to look out for, and what happens if you ignore your body's signals and let things fester. Most importantly, you'll walk away with tangible steps to help support your liver and hormones. Let's get juicy!
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| 0:00.0 | Okay. Are you ready? |
| 0:09.3 | What's the juice? We just live with emotion and passion and fire. Tune in to our body. |
| 0:16.4 | It's really powerful. I hope you who my soul would like to show up show up as want to go that extra mile as people |
| 0:22.9 | connect in with their body. You're empowered by our health. Thank you. I'm going to leave it there. |
| 0:27.0 | Engage to react, to learn to grow. And without further ado, let's get juicy. |
| 0:33.6 | So this year, we're talking a lot about Rose. and whenever I talk about Rose's cooling properties, |
| 0:41.1 | I always have to bring it back to Chinese medicine and this concept of liver chie stagnation |
| 0:45.5 | and liver heat or liver fire that Rose is just so wonderful at cooling so that we can have |
| 0:52.0 | more stable periods, more stable emotions, and just a smoother |
| 0:55.5 | flow in life. And I think it's really important to teach you guys and talk to you guys about |
| 1:02.0 | what liver cheese stagnation is because it's a phrase that I'm sure so many of you in the |
| 1:06.5 | holistic health world or even if you're holistic curious have heard from your acupuncturist. It is definitely the |
| 1:11.9 | most common diagnosis or pattern of imbalance that acupuncturists see. And you've probably been given |
| 1:18.4 | points for your liver cheese stagnation or herbs for your liver cheese stagnation. And I say it all the |
| 1:24.1 | time. So what does that mean? Is that really a thing? And how can we use this lens as a way to |
| 1:30.9 | just have these gentle reminders of really simple lifestyle changes we can make to have healthier |
| 1:37.2 | hormones as a whole? That's kind of what this episode is really about. When you have liver |
| 1:41.8 | tree stagnation, your hormones are off, you're angry, your perspective |
| 1:45.0 | of the world is off, you can't see a vision for your life, and you're just walking around feeling |
| 1:49.1 | frustrated and stuck, and nobody wants to feel stuck. So in order for us to feel healthier |
| 1:54.3 | hormonally, have better periods, and just feel a bit freer in life, we want to address |
| 1:59.5 | liver-chie stagnation. So going through what it looks like, |
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