Welcome to Kapha.

The Nurturers, the Builders, and the Art of Staying Without Getting Stuck

In this episode of Ash & Honey, host Alexandria Quinn Love completes the dosha trilogy with Kapha — earth and water, the principle of structure and stability. The nurturers and the caretakers. The ones who stay when everyone else leaves. The quiet strength that holds everything together.

If you listened to Season One's episode on Phlegm, this will feel familiar. Once again, two ancient traditions describing the same human pattern: the people who don't burn bright but don't burn out, who build slowly but build to last.

We'll explore the gifts of balanced Kapha — loyalty, endurance, patience, the ability to create safety and home. And we'll face the shadow: the stagnation, the resistance to change, the loyalty that becomes a cage when you can't let go of what's already gone.

Along the way, Alexandria shares honest stories about partnership — how her husband's Kapha energy sustains Ash & Honey, and what happens when even steadiness can tip into stuckness.

🎧 In this episode:

• What is Kapha? Earth, water, and the principle of structure
• Portrait of a Kapha person: the nurturers, the loyalists, the steady ones
• The gifts: stability, endurance, patience, strong immunity
• The shadow: stagnation, weight gain, resistance to change, the cage of loyalty
• Moving the earth: food, lifestyle, and how Kapha transforms
• Kapha season: why late winter/early spring requires extra care
• Honest stories from the Ash & Honey partnership
• The trilogy complete: "Vata dreamed it. Pitta built it. Kapha sustains it."

Your earth is a gift. The world needs people who stay. But staying power isn't the same as stuckness. It's time to learn the difference.

Next Episode: Agni & Ama — the digestive fire that determines everything, and what happens when it goes out.

Let the burn teach you. Let the honey keep you.
Until next time — be gentle with the body that carries you.

In this episode of Ash & Honey, host Alexandria Quinn Love explores the second of Ayurveda's three doshas — Pitta, the principle of fire and water. The leaders and the achievers. The sharp minds and the driven souls. The people who get things done, set the standard, and hold themselves to impossible expectations.

If you listened to Season One's episode on Yellow Bile, this will feel familiar. Different continent, different century, same human pattern: the fire that builds empires and burns out before forty.

We'll explore the gifts of balanced Pitta — intelligence, courage, determination, the ability to transform raw ideas into reality. And we'll face the shadow: the anger, the perfectionism, the criticism that cuts others and cuts yourself deepest of all.

Along the way, Alexandria shares honest stories from building Ash & Honey — the week before launch when she was impossible to live with, the acid reflux and sleepless nights, and the moment she realized the perfectionism wasn't about quality. It was about fear.

Because here's the truth: your fire is a gift. But fire that burns without rest eventually burns out. And fire that turns on itself destroys the very person carrying it.

🎧 In this episode:

• What is Pitta? Fire, water, and the principle of transformation
• Portrait of a Pitta person: the leaders, the perfectionists, the hangry ones
• The gifts: intelligence, courage, determination, passion
• The shadow: anger, judgment, perfectionism, burnout
• Cooling the fire: food, lifestyle, and the Pitta entrepreneur's survival guide
• Pitta season: why summer requires extra care
• Honest stories from building Ash & Honey (the perfectionism behind the dream)
• The essential medicine: "Your worth is not your work"

Done is better than perfect. You are lovable even if you never achieve another thing. Let the fire rest.

Next Episode: Kapha — earth and water, the nurturers and the builders, stability and what happens when stillness becomes stuck.

Let the burn teach you. Let the honey keep you.
Until next time — be gentle with the body that carries you.

In this episode of Ash & Honey, host Alexandria Quinn Love dives deep into the first of Ayurveda's three doshas — Vata, the principle of wind and space. The artists and dreamers. The visionaries and the scattered ones. The people with seventeen brilliant ideas and notebooks full of half-finished projects.

We'll explore the gifts of balanced Vata — creativity, enthusiasm, intuition, the ability to imagine what doesn't exist yet. And we'll face the shadow of Vata imbalance: anxiety, insomnia, overwhelm, and the particular chaos of a mind that won't stop moving.

Along the way, Alexandria shares honest stories from building Ash & Honey — the scattered notes across three journals and two apps, the sleepless nights, and the moment her husband looked at her and said: "You're teaching people about balance. Maybe you should try some."

Because here's the truth: you cannot build something new without Vata energy. But wind without ground scatters. Learning to harness the creative force without being blown away by it — that's the Vata journey.

🎧 In this episode:

• What is Vata? Air, space, and the principle of movement
• Portrait of a Vata person: the creatives, the entrepreneurs, the anxious ones
• The gifts: creativity, flexibility, intuition, vision
• The shadow: anxiety, scattered energy, starting but not finishing
• Grounding the wind: food, routine, oil, and the Vata creative's survival guide
• Vata season: why autumn requires extra care
• Honest stories from building Ash & Honey (the beautiful chaos behind the dream)

Your wind is a gift. The world needs people who can imagine what doesn't exist yet. But wind without ground scatters. Let's learn to build a container for all that beautiful air.

Next Episode: Pitta — fire and water, the leaders and achievers, ambition and anger.

Let the burn teach you. Let the honey keep you.
Until next time — be gentle with the body that carries you.

Close your eyes. Come with me somewhere.

We're standing at the foothills of the Himalayas. It's five thousand years ago — maybe more. In a clearing, sages sit in meditation, watching. Watching the stars and the seasons. The way certain plants heal and others harm. The way some people run hot while others run cold.

What they're building will become one of the oldest and most sophisticated medical systems in human history. They call it Ayurveda — the Science of Life.

In this episode of Ash & Honey, we leave ancient Greece behind and travel to ancient India. Host Alexandria Quinn Love, M.A., introduces the foundational concepts of Ayurveda: the five elements, the three doshas — Vata, Pitta, Kapha — and the revolutionary idea that what keeps you healthy is different from what keeps me healthy.

You'll learn about Prakriti (your original constitution) and Vikriti (your current imbalance). You'll discover Agni, the digestive fire that transforms not just food but experience itself. And you'll begin to see the echoes — the remarkable parallels between Greek Humorism and Indian Ayurveda, two traditions that never met yet arrived at strikingly similar truths.

Different map. Same territory.

🎧 In this episode:

• Why Ayurveda now: the echoes between Greek and Indian wisdom
• The five elements: Ether, Air, Fire, Water, Earth
• The three doshas: Vata (air + ether), Pitta (fire + water), Kapha (water + earth)
• Prakriti vs. Vikriti: who you are vs. where you are now
• Agni: the sacred digestive fire that determines everything
• Portraits of each dosha type — see yourself in the descriptions

This is personalized medicine — five thousand years before we invented the term.

Next Episode: Vata — the wind and space dosha, the artists and dreamers, the anxious ones who live in their heads.

Let the burn teach you. Let the honey keep you.
Until next time — be gentle with the body that carries you.

There's a door I've been dreaming about. Wooden, old, with a brass bell gone green. A physical sanctuary where time moves differently.

That door isn't open yet. But today, a different one is.

Welcome to Season Two of Ash & Honey. I'm Alexandria Quinn Love, M.A. — historian, researcher, maker. And in this episode, I'm announcing something that's been years in the becoming: Ash & Honey Botanique — now open online.

www.ashandhoneybotanique.com

Not a physical store — not yet. An online apothecary. A modern sanctuary rooted in ancient wisdom, where the Kitchen Pharmacy becomes something I make with my hands and send to yours.

Whipped body butters in seasonal formulations. Healing salves and aluminum-free deodorants. A scent library of eight signature blends built entirely from essential oils. All of it made in small batches, all of it built on one principle: if you can't eat it, why would you feed it to your skin?

This episode is about what it means to build something before it's perfect. About starting with a website when you're dreaming of a storefront. About the courage it takes to offer what you have, even when what you have is just the beginning.

🎧 In this episode:

• The announcement: Ash & Honey Botanique is open online
• The Body Care Collection: The Ash & Ember, The Storm Break, The Honey & Hive and the Lionheart Collections.
• The Scent Library: eight seasonal signatures
• Why now: building before you're ready
• Season Two roadmap: Ayurveda, TCM, guest practitioners
• The dream: the brick-and-mortar sanctuary still to come

Maybe it's a website instead of a storefront. A beginning instead of an arrival. But it's real. And real things can grow.

Let the burn teach you. Let the honey keep you.
Until next time — be gentle with the body that carries you.

We've traveled a long way together.

Through fire — the yellow bile of ambition and the cost of burning bright. Through air — the blood of connection and the art of giving without losing yourself. Through water — the phlegm of stillness and the wisdom of waiting. Through earth — the black bile of melancholy and the courage to feel.

Now, in this Season One finale of Ash & Honey, host Alexandria Quinn Love weaves it all together. What does it mean to hold all four elements at once? To be a whole person in a world that constantly tries to reduce us to one thing?

This episode is about integration — living with the seasons, knowing your constitutional tendency, and working with your nature instead of against it. It's also about vision: the larger world of Ash & Honey that's beginning to take shape. A cookbook called The Iron Orchard: A Kitchen Pharmacy Companion. A philosophy of living called Ash & Honey Living. And a Season Two that will explore Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and more ancient wisdom waiting to be remembered.

But most of all, this episode is about the mantra you've heard at the end of every episode — and what it truly means.

🎧 In this episode:

• The dance of elements: why you are not one thing
• Living seasonally: a practical framework for the humoral year
• Knowing your constitution: which humor is your home base?
• The Kitchen Pharmacy: food as the first medicine
• The larger vision: introducing Ash & Honey Living and The Iron Orchard
• The mantra explained: what "let the burn teach you, let the honey keep you" really means

You are whole. You have always been whole.

Coming Soon: The Iron Orchard: A Kitchen Pharmacy Companion — Simple Nourishments for Body & Spirit

Coming in Season Two: Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the continuing journey.

Let the burn teach you. Let the honey keep you.

Let the burn teach you. Let the honey keep you.
Until next time — be gentle with the body that carries you.