Julia Rose Portela is an intuitive jack-of-all-trades, practicing tarot, astrology, hypnosis, and energy healings. She focuses on practical magic experiences where spirituality and reality collide. She prides herself on her integrity and ethics, meeting clients where they are and helping them transmute any patterns that are keeping them from living their best life! Follow her at @juliaroseportela (www.instagram.com/juliaroseportela) and make an appointment with Julia at www.juliaroseportela.com. Julia's podcast is "Stream of Consciousness" on Available on Google, Apple, and Spotify and all podcast platforms. If you want to learn more about Tarot 101- log on to www.biddytarot.com  About The Podcast: Subscribe to our all-new podcast, Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna - where Award-winning Interior Designer, JJ Acuna (that's me) speaks with Creatives, Leaders, and Spiritual Practitioners, from all walks of life living, inspired lives. We talk about everyday strategies, mantras, and processes to achieve balance and alignment. It’s all about carving out a path to live well and hopefully live better each and every day. Brought to you by Archipelago Media and available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Contact us on Instagram @jj.acuna and @alignedbydesignwithjj. Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna is brought to you by Archipelago Media and copyright of Archipelago Media 2022, a division of Archipelago Limited (HK). Any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this podcast without the expressed written consent of Aligned By Design is strictly prohibited. This podcast is about opening broader ideas for personal spiritual alignment and does not offer blanket solutions for any specific individual. If you are in need of assistance for your physical or mental well-being, please seek out a registered medical practitioner in your area. About Our Theme Music Composer, Olly Shelton: Olly Shelton is a Brighton-based composer, producer, and pianist specialising in ambient, electronic, and alternative music. He is half of the UK band PELA and works alongside a range of up-and-coming artists and established acts around the globe. Contact Olly on Instagram @o_s_music and on the WEB at www.ollysheltonmusic.com.

After a long career in Marketing, Mirabel Rosar decided to finally pursue her passion for jewellery. She founded ARAO (@thearaolife) in order to curate timeless, accessible, and versatile pieces with the Golden South Sea Pearl at its center. As the National Gem of the Philippines, this precious pearl represents the beauty of the country’s heritage, in which Mirabel takes pride in. Mirabel also has a great love for the ocean, and enjoys surfing with husband. This love inspired her to promote sustainability through ethical pearl farming that nurtures the oyster’s home- the sea- and keeps the environment and its ecosystem healthy. ARAO Jewellery aspires to share the beauty of the Golden South Sea Pearl to the rest of the world, and encourages men, women, and anyone really- to find the same beauty within. Rosar is holder of the GIA Pearl Certificate, the world’s foremost authority on diamonds, colored stones, and pearls, and this year she is also a Silver Medal recipient of the 2022 Expat Living Reader’s Choice Awards for her brand in Hong Kong. We welcome Mirabel Rosar of ARAO to the table. https://thearaolife.com/  About The Podcast: Subscribe to our all-new podcast, Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna - where Award-winning Interior Designer, JJ Acuna (that's me) speaks with Creatives, Leaders, and Spiritual Practitioners, from all walks of life living, inspired lives. We talk about everyday strategies, mantras, and processes to achieve balance and alignment. It’s all about carving out a path to live well and hopefully live better each and every day. Brought to you by Archipelago Media and available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Contact us on Instagram @jj.acuna and @alignedbydesignwithjj. Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna is brought to you by Archipelago Media and copyright of Archipelago Media 2022, a division of Archipelago Limited (HK). Any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this podcast without the expressed written consent of Aligned By Design is strictly prohibited. This podcast is about opening broader ideas for personal spiritual alignment and does not offer blanket solutions for any specific individual. If you are in need of assistance for your physical or mental well-being, please seek out a registered medical practitioner in your area. About Our Theme Music Composer, Olly Shelton: Olly Shelton is a Brighton-based composer, producer, and pianist specialising in ambient, electronic, and alternative music. He is half of the UK band PELA and works alongside a range of up-and-coming artists and established acts around the globe. Contact Olly on Instagram @o_s_music and on the WEB at www.ollysheltonmusic.com.

Our guest the Ink-brush Artist Michell Lie, was born in Hong Kong and was educated locally in a Catholic school and went on to a Jesuit school in the States to major in business, while minoring in illustration at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. After pursuing a lifelong career in advertising and branding, in 2017 Michell begun teaching herself Chinese brush ink painting as something to pass the time while taking care of her ailing mother who had a stroke. Her interest in ink paintings morphed into a way to create a more philanthropic-based art practice. In this talk we also discuss her Christian life, the concept of prayer vs. meditation, and how one can become a more charitable person. Michell Lie’s goal is to make art affordable, charitable and enjoyable, while raising funds for the city's senior folks; creating awareness amongst her social circle- that the importance of pursuing passion project alongside full time career is something worth dedicating lifelong. A self taught artist- Michell's art brings about connection that leads to convergence. It's all about connecting the dots, bringing people together and creating impact through art. It should be noted that a major portion of the studio's revenue is donated to local Hong Kong charities that take care of the poor, the elderly, and the disadvantaged. 10% of all her art sales are always donated. To date, Michell’s studio has raised over $317,500 HKD. Michell looks forward to many more opportunities to create art, spread awareness, and help Hong Kong become a better City through charity. We welcome Michell Lie to the table. http://www.michelllie.com About The Podcast: Subscribe to our all-new podcast, Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna - where Award-winning Interior Designer, JJ Acuna (that's me) speaks with Creatives, Leaders, and Spiritual Practitioners, from all walks of life living, inspired lives. We talk about everyday strategies, mantras, and processes to achieve balance and alignment. It’s all about carving out a path to live well and hopefully live better each and every day. Brought to you by Archipelago Media and available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Contact us on Instagram @jj.acuna and @alignedbydesignwithjj. Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna is brought to you by Archipelago Media and copyright of Archipelago Media 2022, a division of Archipelago Limited (HK). Any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this podcast without the expressed written consent of Aligned By Design is strictly prohibited. This podcast is about opening broader ideas for personal spiritual alignment and does not offer blanket solutions for any specific individual. If you are in need of assistance for your physical or mental well-being, please seek out a registered medical practitioner in your area. About Our Theme Music Composer, Olly Shelton: Olly Shelton is a Brighton-based composer, producer, and pianist specialising in ambient, electronic, and alternative music. He is half of the UK band PELA and works alongside a range of up-and-coming artists and established acts around the globe. Contact Olly on Instagram @o_s_music and on the WEB at www.ollysheltonmusic.com.

Shane Aspegren’s unique approach to a holistic sound practice combines his multifaceted background—as a contemporary artist, composer, and experimental musician—with training in therapeutic sound traditions alongside an ongoing research into modern wave science. As an artist, Shane’s work juxtaposes improvisational languages within carefully-crafted frameworks, frequently exploring a cross-discipline and non-dualistic perspective on such topics as consciousness, societal dynamics, and perception. He is largely known for his practices related to music and sound, which often play an integral part in his installations, images, videos, objects, and performances. Interested in the relational aesthetics of every form, he often prefers interactive methods of creation, as well as the practical application of those methods, such as his ongoing work with meditative and holistic practices—specifically the effects of sound and its effects on the minds and physical matter of various living beings. Aspegren received a BA in Film Studies from University of Nebraska. His work has been presented, commissioned, collected, and performed internationally. In 2014, after moving to Hong Kong, he co-founded the electro rock group The Berg Sans Nipple and Blood Wine or Honey.  About ONDO:  Since the early 2000s, Aspegren has explored various yogic practices, which led to a deep interest in meditation and the perceived experience of the human mind & body. After diving deeper into wave phenomena for a series of installations and performances, this eventually led to the development of ONDO, a natural bridge between his creative and holistic interests. Aspegren has training in Meridian Yoga Therapy, Integrated Vibrational Therapy, and is registered with Yoga Alliance as RYT-200. www.ondosound.com About The Podcast: Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna - where Award-winning Interior Designer, JJ Acuna speaks with Creatives, Leaders, and Spiritual Practitioners, from all walks of life living, inspired lives. We talk about everyday strategies, mantras, and processes to achieve balance and alignment. It’s all about carving out a path to live well and hopefully live better each and every day. Brought to you by Archipelago Media and available wherever you get your podcast. Contact us on Instagram @alignedbydesignwithjj. Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna is brought to you by Archipelago Media and copyright of Archipelago Media 2022, a division of Archipelago Limited (HK). Any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this podcast without the expressed written consent of Aligned By Design is strictly prohibited. This podcast is about opening broader ideas for personal spiritual alignment and does not offer blanket solutions for any specific individual. If you are in need of assistance for your physical or mental well-being, please seek out a registered medical practitioner in your area. About Our Theme Music Composer, Olly Shelton:  Contact Olly on Instagram @o_s_music and on the WEB at www.ollysheltonmusic.com. Music In This Episode: 852hz via Daily Frequencies, Lockdown Recordings by Shane Aspegren / Ça Va Cheri by Shane Aspegren and Jerome Lorichon / Change The Shape by Berge Sans Nipple / Interconnectivity for Sudhee Liao by Shane Aspegren Read: The Overstory by Richard Powers / Electric Body, Electric Health by Eileen Day McKusick Download: Imaginal Pathways App 

“Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT) is a system of researching the subconscious mind and soul records to quickly find a release of the discordant, limiting ideas and replace them with loving, supportive ideas and beliefs. SRT provides an exacting, powerful, virtually painless and accurate way of changing the landscape of our inner and outer lives.” (Rev. Robert E. Detzler – Founder of SRT) Shirlyn Wright is the Director of Secret of Bliss Limited (www.secretofbliss.net / IG @secret_of_bliss), a US and Hong Kong-based self-development company. She has worked with thousands of clients all over the world with the goal of teaching them the tools to discover, express, and be the best of who they are and create a lifestyle of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Prior to her energy healing work, Shirlyn had a nine-year career in finance, business development, and academic administration. Shirlyn has held research, marketing, and liaison positions in international financial and educational bodies. She also served as a part-time lecturer of Finance at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Shirlyn also worked in Johannesburg, South Africa under the Institute of International Education (IIE) to help develop the country’s small and midsized business sectors. Shirlyn was a student of Robert E. Detzler, founder of Spiritual Response Therapy (SRT) and Spiritual Restructuring (SpR). She has been a Certified SRT Consultant since 2002 and a Certified SRT Teacher since 2003. She served three terms as President of the Board of Directors of the Spiritual Response Association (SRA), an international organization with communities all over the world. In 2020, Shirlyn was approved by the SRA Board of Directors to be an Intensive Skills Class (ISC) Teacher. Shirlyn travels the world teaching and has inspired and helped over a dozen students to become certified SRT Consultants and/or Teachers over the years. We welcome Shirlyn to the table! About The Podcast: Subscribe to our all-new podcast, Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna - where Award-winning Interior Designer, JJ Acuna (that's me) speaks with Creatives, Leaders, and Spiritual Practitioners, from all walks of life living, inspired lives. We talk about everyday strategies, mantras, and processes to achieve balance and alignment. It’s all about carving out a path to live well and hopefully live better each and every day. Brought to you by Archipelago Media and available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Contact us on Instagram @jj.acuna and @alignedbydesignwithjj. Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna is brought to you by Archipelago Media and copyright of Archipelago Media 2021, a division of Archipelago Limited (HK). Any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this podcast without the expressed written consent of Aligned By Design is strictly prohibited. This podcast is about opening broader ideas for personal spiritual alignment and does not offer blanket solutions for any specific individual. If you are in need of assistance for your physical or mental well-being, please seek out a registered medical practitioner in your area. About Our Theme Music Composer, Olly Shelton: Olly Shelton is a Brighton-based composer, producer, and pianist specialising in ambient, electronic, and alternative music. He is half of the UK band PELA and works alongside a range of up-and-coming artists and established acts around the globe. Contact Olly on Instagram @o_s_music and on the WEB at www.ollysheltonmusic.com.

Isola Tong (@isolatong IG) is a Filipina Chinese Artist and Architect currently practicing in Manila. She engages in the boundaries between nature and technology, human and nonhuman, center and margin, north and south epistemologies challenging binarism, revealing worlds within worlds, conveying the interconnections of science, aesthetics, and politics, through the lens of a "transpinay" from maritime South-East Asia. Her work spans across a variety of media portraying a divergence from anthropocentrism towards interconnected biologies. She graduated cum laude at the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture. She also studied and worked in Osaka, Japan for four years. She has shown and performed in Korea, Slovenia, Serbia, and the United Kingdom. She currently teaches architectural design, theory, and history at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and the Arts in Manila. She is an incoming graduate student at the UC Santa Cruz in California. We welcome Isola Tong to the table. About The Podcast: Subscribe to our all-new podcast, Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna - where Award-winning Interior Designer, JJ Acuna (that's me) speaks with Creatives, Leaders, and Spiritual Practitioners, from all walks of life living, inspired lives. We talk about everyday strategies, mantras, and processes to achieve balance and alignment. It’s all about carving out a path to live well and hopefully live better each and every day. Brought to you by Archipelago Media and available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Contact us on Instagram @jj.acuna and @alignedbydesignwithjj. Aligned By Design with JJ.Acuna is brought to you by Archipelago Media and copyright of Archipelago Media 2021, a division of Archipelago Limited (HK). Any rebroadcast, reproduction, or other use of this podcast without the expressed written consent of Aligned By Design is strictly prohibited. This podcast is about opening broader ideas for personal spiritual alignment and does not offer blanket solutions for any specific individual. If you are in need of assistance for your physical or mental well-being, please seek out a registered medical practitioner in your area. About Our Theme Music Composer, Olly Shelton: Olly Shelton is a Brighton-based composer, producer, and pianist specialising in ambient, electronic, and alternative music. He is half of the UK band PELA and works alongside a range of up-and-coming artists and established acts around the globe. Contact Olly on Instagram @o_s_music and on the WEB at www.ollysheltonmusic.com.

After feeling burnt out and lost in her contemporary art career, Simmy Ling (@simsimlingawakening IG) called it quits in 2016 and backpacked around the world - to search for the meaning of life. Her spiritual awakening started with a mind-blowing past-life regression session in Bali- moving her to her calling to help people liberate themselves from all limitations and live freely. Through her "in-sploration" with hypnosis, channeling and reading the Akashic Records, energy healing, and yoga, she successfully healed herself time and time again on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level - and as a result, her reality shifted drastically. She is now inspired to share her self-healing experiences and teachings which are channeled from the Heart so that people can discover their true power and step into their life purpose. She firmly believes that everyone can access their inner wisdom and heal themselves. It is her true passion to share her experience, as well as share the overall techniques of the healing arts with her clients, students, and a much broader audience through social media. Simmy is the founder of SimSimLing Awakening Studio, an Akashic Records teacher & consultant, a certified Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique®️ Level 2 practitioner, a Sekhem-Seichim-Reiki Master practitioner, a Psych-K®️ facilitator, and a Yoga Instructor. You can find her 1-on-1 services, group sessions, and courses on her website www.simsimling.one. Thank you to Kenloch for the use of his space. https://kenlochhealingspace.boutir.com/ About The Podcast: Subscribe to our all-new podcast, Aligned By Design with JJ. Acuna - where Award-winning Interior Designer, JJ Acuna (that's me) speaks with Creatives, Leaders, and Spiritual Practitioners, from all walks of life living, inspired lives. We talk about everyday strategies, mantras, and processes to achieve balance and alignment. It’s all about carving out a path to live well and hopefully live better each and every day. Brought to you by Archipelago Media and available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Contact us on Instagram @jj.acuna and @alignedbydesignwithjj. Aligned By Design with JJ.Acuna is brought to you by Archipelago Media and copyright of Archipelago Media 2021, a division of Archipelago Limited (HK). Any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this podcast without the expressed written consent of Aligned By Design is strictly prohibited. This podcast is about opening broader ideas for personal spiritual alignment and does not offer blanket solutions for any specific individual. If you are in need of assistance for your physical or mental well-being, please seek out a registered medical practitioner in your area. About Our Theme Music Composer, Olly Shelton: Olly Shelton is a Brighton-based composer, producer, and pianist specialising in ambient, electronic, and alternative music. He is half of the UK band PELA and works alongside a range of up-and-coming artists and established acts around the globe. Contact Olly on Instagram @o_s_music and on the WEB at www.ollysheltonmusic.com.

Bennett Bossert (IG @bennettbossert) is an artist/architect currently based in Minneapolis. After graduating with a master’s degree in architecture from Cornell University, Bennett spent four years living and working as an architect in Hong Kong. His wider travels have earned him a broad perspective and a network of friends and colleagues throughout the world. As a precursor to his freehand abstract drawings, Bennett spent 10+ years developing the skill and craft of digital parametric design as an architect and artist. Parametric design is a method of coding relationships between different entities to create complex formal outcomes whereby a variation to one entity will cause an effect on all others. This enables many iterations of a design to be generated, and very often unexpected outcomes emerge. The results are akin to organic forms found in nature, as all of nature is governed by interconnected relationships and geometric principles. Breaking free from the computer, he now draws intuitively with ink and paints on paper or wood panels rather than using digital tools to create images. The theoretical and aesthetic pursuit of parametric design shows through. Bennett’s artwork is currently held in private collections in nine countries.  We welcome Bennett Bossert to the table. From Bennett: "As emotional beings, we tend to seek permanence and certainty. But there is no way of knowing what surprises good or bad tomorrow will bring. We begin each day without reliable knowledge of what will occur. This tension between intent and outcome, control and chaos, is what informs my drawings. Sometimes our expectations are exceeded and sometimes our hopes are shattered. But beauty can be found in all of it. After all, life is a series of peaks and valleys. Swells and swales. Highs and lows. Ebbs and flows. As the grounds shift beneath us, we adjust our balance and move forward. My drawing process is natural and meditative. I revel in the balance between feeling like I can control the process and realizing I cannot. The results are reminiscent of rolling waves, eroded earth, molecular structures, or the vibrations of the cosmos. These works can be read at any scale." About The Podcast: Subscribe to our all-new podcast, Aligned By Design with JJ.Acuna - where Award-winning Interior Designer, JJ Acuna (that's me) speaks with Creatives, Leaders, and Spiritual Practitioners, from all walks of life living, inspired lives. We talk about everyday strategies, mantras, and processes to achieve balance and alignment. It’s all about carving out a path to live well and hopefully live better each and every day. Brought to you by Archipelago Media and available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Contact us on Instagram @alignedbydesignwithjj. Aligned By Design with JJ.Acuna is brought to you by Archipelago Media and copyright of Archipelago Media 2021, a division of Archipelago Limited (HK). Any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this podcast without the expressed written consent of Aligned By Design is strictly prohibited. This podcast is about opening broader ideas for personal spiritual alignment and does not offer blanket solutions for any specific individual. If you are in need of assistance for your physical or mental well-being, please seek out a registered medical practitioner in your area. About Our Theme Music Composer, Olly Shelton: Olly Shelton is a Brighton-based composer, producer, and pianist specialising in ambient, electronic, and alternative music. He is half of the UK band PELA and works alongside a range of up-and-coming artists and established acts around the globe. Contact Olly on Instagram @o_s_music and on the WEB at www.ollysheltonmusic.com.

Daphné MANDEL (IG @daphnemandel) - is an artist born in Lausanne, Switzerland to a French father and a Dutch mother and grew up in Paris.  She credits her Dutch grandmother, a respected textile artist, Wilhelmina Fruytier, with instilling in her a deep appreciation of art and painting.  Daphné studied architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning in Versailles and graduated in 2000. She co-founded the Paris-based landscape architecture and urban planning firm Gilot&Mandel Paysage.  She and her partner were named "Best Young Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture Professionals" by the French Ministry of Culture (2006).  As a result, a number of public parks, city centres, cultural sites, and sports venues in France and abroad bear Daphne's touch.  She found inspiration in her move to Hong Kong in 2008 to explore other means of creative and artistic expression. Hong Kong’s environment is quite one of a kind: it is a mash-up between an urban jungle and lush greenery.  Using architectural rendering techniques permits Daphné to give a sense of ultra-realism to her works which contrasts with the more artisanal modes of expression, mirroring of Hong Kong’s urban aesthetic: the luxurious and polished juxtaposed with the untidied and derelict. Today we speak with Daphné about her field research on Hong Kong's abandoned sites. Her explorations of deserted places including villages, schools, theatres and cinemas, private villas, and mansions. Her new series 'Chimerical Villages' delves into the paradox of a city in constant change, with places that are left behind for years sometimes decades, and that seems to be frozen in time. The Series transcends these secluded sites and exacerbates the improbability of their landscapes. We welcome Daphne Mandel to the table. www.daphnemandel.com About The Podcast: Subscribe to our all-new podcast, Aligned By Design with JJ.Acuna - where Award-winning Interior Designer, JJ Acuna (that's me) speaks with Creatives, Leaders, and Spiritual Practitioners, from all walks of life living, inspired lives. We talk about everyday strategies, mantras, and processes to achieve balance and alignment. It’s all about carving out a path to live well and hopefully live better each and every day. Brought to you by Archipelago Media and available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Contact us on Instagram @jj.acuna and @alignedbydesignwithjj. Aligned By Design with JJ.Acuna is brought to you by Archipelago Media and copyright of Archipelago Media 2021, a division of Archipelago Limited (HK). Any rebroadcast, reproduction or other use of this podcast without the expressed written consent of Aligned By Design is strictly prohibited. This podcast is about opening broader ideas for personal spiritual alignment and does not offer blanket solutions for any specific individual. If you are in need of assistance for your physical or mental well-being, please seek out a registered medical practitioner in your area. About Our Theme Music Composer, Olly Shelton: Olly Shelton is a Brighton-based composer, producer, and pianist specialising in ambient, electronic, and alternative music. He is half of the UK band PELA and works alongside a range of up-and-coming artists and established acts around the globe. Contact Olly on Instagram @o_s_music and on the WEB at www.ollysheltonmusic.com.

Melbourne-based Jade Elizabeth Ouk has lived quite a life already and her new life in Traditional Chinese Medicine is just about to ramp up. Now a mother of two healthy and happy sons, Jade’s former career spanned new audience development at the Melbourne Festival, Multicultural Arts Victoria, Monash University’s Arts faculty, Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, was in cultural public relations at Sutton PR and was Marketing Director with Osage Gallery and Osage Art Foundation in Hong Kong, when I met her. She is now learning to become a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner as she finishes up her Bachelor Of Health Science in Chinese Medicine at the Southern School of Natural Therapies this year. Jade has lived a completely colourful life which will even get more colourful once she begins her practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Today we speak with Jade about TCM, the importance of TCM in health, and what we can do to take advantage of Traditional Chinese Medicine practices as a means of daily upkeep and sickness prevention to live healthier lives. We welcome Jade Ouk to the table. Books To Read from Jade Ouk: Nurtured by Love by Shinichi Suzuki. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks, neurologist and his case histories On "Yang Sheng" / Chinese Nourishment of Life tradition that includes diet and lifestyle recommendations: Live Well Live Long by Peter Deadman The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi by Peter M. Wayne with Mark L. Fuerst Welcoming Food: Diet as Medicine for Home Cooks and Other Healers Book 1 and Book 2 by Andrew Sterman. "I love these books! It's like Andrew is at my home kitchen table explaining potentially complicated things about food, making everything simple. It's fascinating. This work will be very helpful for a lot of people." - Philip Glass, composer For anybody who wishes to support someone post-birth: Golden Month: Caring for the World's Mothers After Childbirth by Jenny Allison (outlines a holistic approach towards postnatal care that amalgamates the best practices from different cultures throughout the world) On "the most lovable of all the great religious texts, funny, keen, kind, modest, indestructibly outrageous, and inexhaustibly refreshing" - Le Guin: Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching by Ursula K. Le Guin. "The type of work which the great Polish poet and Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska meant when she spoke of 'that rare miracle when translation stops being a translation and becomes ... a second original."... The whole of Lao Tzo: Tao Te Ching is well worth savouring - as much as for the ancient substance as for Le Guin's stylistic splendour." - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings For Chinese medical practitioner use: Fluid Physiology and Pathology in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Steven Clavey Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica 3rd edition by Dan Bensky, Steven Clavey and Andrew Stoger Secret Shaolin Formulas for the Treatment of External Injury new revised edition transmitted by Patriarch De Chan, translated by Zhang Ting-liang and Bob Flaws. About The Podcast: Subscribe to our all-new podcast, Aligned By Design with JJ.Acuna - where Award-winning Interior Designer, JJ Acuna (that's me) speaks with Creatives, Leaders, and Spiritual Practitioners, from all walks of life living, inspired lives. We talk about everyday strategies, mantras, and processes to achieve balance and alignment. It’s all about carving out a path to live well and hopefully live better each and every day. Brought to you by Archipelago Media and available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Contact us on Instagram @jj.acuna.