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Carolyn Barron, L.Ac

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𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘉𝘺 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘖𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦
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Self care Sunday. Thank you @botanarchy for always working your magic and healing me. 🙌🏼🩷

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“It’s not self-care. It’s self-preservation.”

A client said this to me recently, and I felt it.
She’s a mother, a wife, a business owner, whose family lives abroad.

We talked about how she’s doing everything,
holding it all together for everyone, all the time.
And how, eventually, all that doing starts to work against you.

I hear some version of this often.
Motherhood is amazing… and it’s a lot.

There has to be a place where you can step away for a minute, not hold it all together and trust things don’t fall apart when you do.

She came in to interrupt the pattern,
to step out of those roles for a couple hours
and reconnect to herself.

She left lighter, her grip a little looser.
And with a reminder of how important those mini breaks are - not just for her, but for everyone around her.

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Mother’s Day sessions available to gift 🤍
DM to book

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New Substack on this month’s medical astrology is ready for you!

Comment TAURUS or ♉️

and I’ll send you my article on the energy of this month of May and the season of Taurus and how these pings of energy from the stars activate different parts of your body. We’re all connected!

Tending this Earth sign within yourself holistically and in an absolutely fun way (through a Traditional Chinese Medicine lens) is all in the article. This is truly the season of embodying more expansive BEING energy. Manifesting more financial wealth while working less. Feeding your being with nourishing rituals, yummy and warm tonics, and receiving gifts like massage, walks in nature…

Swipe to the end to see my favorite weekly ritual in LA’s hidden temple gem.

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Spring At The Institute of Anarcha Taoist Poetics

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2. Song Of The Spring Wind - Chi’i Chi

3. Poppies

4. Early Plum Blossoms - Chi’i Chi

5. Mulberry Splendors

6. The Solitary Peak Stands Alone - Shih Shu

7. Gentle Ben

8. Against The Gently Flowing Spring Morning - Shih Shu

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10. Perfumed Springs Ripple - Shih Shu

11. Chet

12. Mountain Sounds Carry - Shih Shu

13. Bachelor Button Twinning

14. Study The Way and Never Grow Old - Shih Shu

15. Lily Pads

16. On The Road A Spring Day - Ching An

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18. Suncatcher

Poems from the majestic tome: ‘The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poet Monks Of China’

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Chet is now offering tarot readings at Botanarchy. 🔮

He’s not only Hollywood’s most famous acupuncture corgi,

he’s a loaf, a mystic shaped like bread,

close enough to the ground to hear the chthonic murmurs of ancestors, old gods, and the earth itself.

The cards agree.

The medicine continues.

The path unfolds in accordance with the Tao.

And Chet, Anarcha-Taoist Oracle of Wetnose Mountain, abides.

Thank you to auntie @ericaberger for the soft launch of this new service!

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Swipe for some of my favorite recent client projects! 🏹

Collage for Channeled Soul Art for @marygrisey

Album Art for @manpreetkaurmusic

Art History Course Graphic for @jotilovesyoga

Hotline Album Art for @botanarchy

Human Design Graphic for @carlytereseferguson

Website Graphics for @shantikrishna.x

DM me to get on my waitlist for branding and website design! ⚔️🌬️✨

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Need an excuse to spoil yourself this holiday season? Image has you covered. This year, our annual gift guide is written with revelry — meaning merrymaking, noisy partying, dancing until the lights come up — in mind. What would we desire if basic necessities weren’t an issue? If we didn’t have any cares in the world? That permission to fantasize might be the biggest gift of all.

Words @marie.skie
Images @audiotechnicaus; @louisvuitton; @botanarchy; @ssense; @lelabofragrances; @prada; Alexia Puga Ramirez Garrido (@alexiarmz) for @chava_studio

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WELL BEHAVED WOMEN SELDOM MAKE HISTORY 💥

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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙮 𝙃𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙀𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 13: 𝙎𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄𝙣 𝙎𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙒𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙣 𝘼 𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙚 is now live, stretching out in a hermit’s bathrobe while Summer slips out the back door and Autumn sneaks in with cold hands. Call (833) ECO-POEM and wander with us into a listening grove where Cold Mountain nibbles magic mushrooms, @goldenstatenaturalist tosses bats into the sky like confetti, and your resident Poet Doc finds herself bathing goats in a canyon that felt half Taoist scroll, half Fellini film.

Inspired by Cold Mountain’s ode to simple splendors - sitting in sunshine wrapped in a robe, reading the poems of the ancients - this week’s transmission features a very special guest: Michelle Fullner of @goldenstatenaturalist, whose voice turns creeks, ridgelines, and redwoods into radiant story. Together, Michelle and I weave a patchwork of memory, myth, and ecological devotion, a farewell hymn to the blaze of summer and a bow to the long nights just beginning.

To tell a story of summer is to compost it, to grind down the blaze of days into memory and myth. That’s the work of poetry: distilling the sweetness and ache of a season and burying it like mulch at the roots of what comes next. In Chinese medicine, this hinge of the year is the pivot from Earth to Metal. Summer’s excess condenses, crystallizes, and clears, so that emptiness can shine like polished bronze.

As such, this week’s hotline transmission makes like a herd of goats drifting belly-up through Red Rock Canyon, floating through:

🌬️ Bewilderment as method.

🌞 A cheeky mountain hermit’s recipe for simple splendors.

🦇 Michelle Fullner’s inquiry into the fire return interval of the human heart.

🍂 The Taoist art of composting memory into myth to feed the autumn earth.

🐐 A pilgrimage to a hidden swimming hole, chasing that Jonathan Richman summer feeling, and encountering a stranger magic instead.

So spread out some fresh grass, wrap yourself in whatever passes for a robe, and wander with us down this dusty fire trail. Because sometimes the holiest thing you can do is sit in the sun and listen to a story!

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august dumparoni and cheese

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