Wellness Edit: The Longest Day
By Amanda Chirumbolo-Miller, Founder of ALLORA Health + Wellness — where physiology meets consciousness.
The word solstice comes from the Latin. Sol, meaning sun. Sistere, meaning to stand still. On the longest day of the year, the sun reaches its highest point in the sky and, for a brief imperceptible moment, it pauses.
Not retreats. Not collapses. Stands still.
We are at that moment. And the nervous system is quietly asking the same thing of us.