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.