I was listening to a podcast recently, sports related, and the host used the phrase ‘ear hustling’. Ear hustling? Hear me out… This is not a sneaky, eavesdropping sort of word play — it’s word play for listening that feels like a gift. Ear hustling, in this context, is deep, active listening: letting someone’s words land all the way, noticing what’s said and unsaid, and meeting their story with genuine presence rather than quick fixes. Most of us don’t realise how rare that e

Classical Chinese medicine texts have some pretty interesting things to say about our emotions in the context of disease and health. Emotions are considered a cause of disease under certain conditions, such as the prolonged experience of one emotion or even the suppression of an emotion/s. The emotions we experience have a correlation within a larger context, including a correspondance to an organ system and an element. Dysfunction in the organ systems can also cause emotion