Wake Up With A Morning Tonic

Learn how to use simple household ingredients such as apple cider vinegar, lemons, yogurt, and more to cool and calm your skin and hair. Ladies need to pay close attention to their skin, including the skin on the scalp. I can relate firsthand to the needs and demands of this Power Type. The combination is fascinating but challenging at the same time. A Savvy Chick often fluctuates between her two selves, with one being stronger than the other at different times. The gift of being a combination of two types is what I call translational creativity, or creativity that manifests in objective or tangible ways, such as the ability to create a new business or an innovative product. When in optimal balance and health, Savvy Chicks can have powers from both the spheres of Gypsy Girls and Boss Ladies. That can mean potent creativity and passion, plus a strong drive and work ethic. This combination can manifest itself in a true inventor and creator of bold businesses, products, or progressive families. With twice the blessings come twice the burdens, in some cases. A Savvy Chick’s ultimate weakness is that her emotions pull her in two different directions. The artist in her wants to stay true to her visions and dreams and to follow the flow of creative energy, but the commander in her demands productivity, results, and structure.

Always In My Head

Winter and summer, the seasons associated with Savvy Chicks, represent both cold and hot, hibernation and passion, the place where innovative thinking and ideas surface. Savvy Chicks have a tendency to be both dreamers and doers. While they can be energetic and effective leaders, creators, and inventors, they have to watch for moodiness, restlessness, depression, anxiety, and irritability. Medium to underweight. Savvy Chicks are prone to poor circulation and to cold hands and feet. Their skin is often rough, dry, and oily. Savvy Chicks often have large pores and hair that tends toward dryness. These colors represent stability, energy, dignity, royalty, power, and ambition. Think of the sea, of depth and stability. Darker blues also are colors of confidence, integrity, wisdom, and tranquility. When in balance, the wellspring of creativity flows, but out of balance, artistic endeavors can turn to obsessive worry, compulsive behaviors, or phobias. The common physical signs of anxiety often reported by a Savvy Chick are chest pain, palpitations, insomnia, and trouble focusing.

Count Your Blessings

Because they are part Boss Lady, anxiety in a Savvy Chick can also express itself as anger rather than the depression that can overwhelm a Gypsy Girl. Helping Savvy Chicks with anxiety is a personal mission for me, since I know firsthand how it can block their awesomeness. Migraine headaches are common amongst Savvy Chicks and while they can be the result of hormonal, nutritional, and digestive imbalances, they are also a sign of a Savvy Chick in overdrive. Many Savvy Chicks will come into my practice listing off a cocktail of multiple migraine medications that have been prescribed over the years in an attempt to manage the debilitating symptoms, often without success. The root of the migraines has never really been addressed. Just picture your gut tightening into a tight, knotted ball every time you are stressed! Bloating, abdominal pain, constipation, and diarrhea are just a few of the digestive symptoms that a Savvy Chick may battle. Skipped menstrual cycles can be a common issue for Savvy Chicks, and this comes from the Gypsy Girl side of the equation. Like Gypsy Girls, Savvy Chicks are plagued with hormone imbalances and nutritional deficiencies as the result of too much thinking and doing! Because of these imbalances, fertility can be an issue. Balancing hormones, gut function, and nutrition can improve signaling for fertility hormones and regular menstrual cycles in my Savvy Chicks. It’s something I see in increasing numbers in the young super women I treat, especially my Savvy Chicks. This is another one that, unfortunately, I am all too familiar with. I can recall at least three episodes when severe stress left my jaw tight and painful to the point that my ears rang.

Give Rest To The Problems Weighing You Down

You might experience the inability to both fall and stay asleep. Savvy Chicks can have the low/altered melatonin with the interrupted sleep of a her, waking up between 1 a.m. Talk about an innovation stumper! The chronic lack of healthy sleep can dampen any creative vision and just leave a Savvy Chick plain old tired. A Savvy Chick may find that she is oily in the summer and dry in the winter. For this reason the skin barrier breaks down, and conditions like eczema or psoriasis can take root. According to conventional medicine, eczema is a chronic, noncontagious inflammatory skin condition that presents with dry, itchy skin that can weep clear fluid. Psoriasis, on the other hand, is an autoimmune disease characterized by raised, red, scaly patches on the skin. Part of your Savvy Chick Power Plan will be learning to maintain a healthy skin and hair barrier so that it stays moist and intact, using the right food, supplements, and products. In Savvy Chicks, there is a tendency for both of these meridians to be out of balance, affecting hormone regulation. We will tackle this in your Power Plan! Both doshas are predominant in your constitution, and the pull between these two types can increase your tendency to fall out of balance. For example, vatas are light, cool, and dry while pittas are hot, sharp, and oily. In a good sense, the heat of pitta can balance the coolness of vata, but under duress, the two elements clash. This can affect energy balance and concentration or focus. Medicine literature even mentions focusing on balancing the vata element in fall and winter and the pitta element in spring and summer. Adrenal fatigue, in its later stages, often leads to low progesterone levels, while the chronic thyroid imbalance, even at low levels, will disrupt estrogen metabolism. If you stick to these recommendations you’ll see your health, happiness, and energy soar. Wake up with a morning tonic.