From the Roots

A colleague asked me the other day if I do cosmetic acupuncture. It isn’t something I’ve ever been especially drawn to, but in answering her, it gave me pause. It made me reflect on beauty from a very different perspective. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, we speak of  Shen . It’s often translated as “Spirit,” but that word barely touches its depth. Shen lives in the Heart. It’s our consciousness, our emotional life, our capacity for presence and connection. It’s the light be