A modern guide to seasonal living from a Doctor of Chinese Medicine who rebuilt herself in the messy middle and lived to map it. Tending to the Seasons follows the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar — twenty-four chapters, twenty-four two-week windows, each with its own particular medicine.

Dr. Sarah Siegel weaves Traditional Chinese Medicine, a Nature/You alignment model, and classical narrative arc into a single, unhurried framework: winter is exposition, spring is the inciting incident, summer climbs, late summer turns, autumn releases, winter resolves.

The seasons of the calendar and the seasons of your life are doing the same work at different scales. Grief is a winter. A new love is a spring. The book teaches you to feel that — and to stop fighting it.This is not a self-help book. It is a map.

For readers of Wintering, The Wild Edge of Sorrow, and Braiding Sweetgrass — anyone tired of being told to optimize, fix, or transcend their lives. The invitation is simpler, and braver: tend to where you actually are.
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