Ash & Honey-Season 2 Episode 4: Fire and Water: The Pitta Path

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.