The Week of November 23rd: Pitta-Kapha Health Rx —

If you're a Pitta-Kapha type, Thanksgiving week brings a confusing stress response— you feel both irritated and stuck at the same time.

You're worried that when stress hits, you won't know whether to snap at everyone or just withdraw to your room. You'll feel hot with irritation but also heavy and immobilized. You'll be caught between wanting to control everything and wanting to avoid everything. And that internal conflict will make the stress worse.

Because here's what's probably already happening: You're irritated because someone's not doing things efficiently, plans keep changing, people aren't helping the way you need them to. That's your Pitta side heating up. But simultaneously, you feel stuck. Heavy. Like you can't quite access the energy to deal with it. You want to withdraw or shut down— that's your Kapha side. Your jaw is clenched, your shoulders are tight and heavy. You feel hot with irritation but also stagnant, like you can't quite get yourself moving.

And November's erratic, chaotic, disorganized energy is irritating your Pitta side that needs order and control. But the cold, heavy quality of the season is also amplifying your Kapha tendency to shut down and hibernate. So Vata season is simultaneously making you more irritable AND more likely to withdraw. You're dealing with Pitta fire trying to ignite while Kapha heaviness is trying to smother it.

In this week's Pitta-Kapha Health Rx, integrative medicine physicians and Ayurvedic experts Dr. Avanti Kumar-Singh and Dr. Tanmeet Sethi explain why Pitta-Kapha types get stuck between heat and shutdown, and why you need both movement and cooling.

This week, you'll get a specific 3-4 minute practice that combines a cooling environment with a brisk walk— cooling irritation and discharging stuck energy at the same time.

Listen now to learn:

• Why Pitta-Kapha types feel both irritated and immobilized when triggered, and why this internal conflict is exhausting
• The movement practice that breaks up stagnation while cooling inflammation
• How movement discharges Kapha heaviness while cool air calms Pitta heat simultaneously
• Why you need purposeful, brisk walking (not gentle strolling) to break through the stuck feeling

Hormonal changes affect your nervous system, and the right support makes all the difference. Dr. Kumar-Singh and Dr. Sethi have curated the Hormonal Health Prescription Toolkit with physician-selected products and protocols specifically designed to support your stress hormones and metabolism through perimenopause and menopause. Learn more at myarvasi.com.