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Tera Sandona

back pain travel tips

September 23, 2025 · In: Habits for Healing, Holistic Self-Care and Sustainable Healing

Back Pain Travel Tips: A Physical Therapist’s Guide to Long Drives and Flights

Travel can be exciting, but it can also be tough on your back. Long hours in a car or plane often mean stiffness, soreness, or even flare ups of chronic…

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managing arthritis pain in cold weather

September 16, 2025 · In: Habits for Healing, Holistic Self-Care and Sustainable Healing

Managing Arthritis Pain in Cold Weather with Simple Daily Strategies

Ever notice how aches and pains feel worse when the weather is colder? This is especially true for those living with arthritis. Many people notice their joints feel stiffer, more…

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why does my knee hurt when walking down stairs

September 9, 2025 · In: Body Region Support, Knee, Science-Backed Education

Knee Pain Walking Down Stairs? This Can Help!

Do you have knee pain walking down stairs? You’re not alone. Many people find that going down stairs feels harder on the knees than going up, and there’s a good…

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prp for knee osteoarthritis

September 2, 2025 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

The Truth About PRP for Knee Osteoarthritis: Benefits and Limitations

Knee pain is one of the most common complaints among adults, affecting 25% of people in the US. As we age, the likelihood of experiencing knee pain also increases. For…

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stress muscle tension relief

August 26, 2025 · In: Nervous System Regulation

Stress and Muscle Tension Relief: How to Ease Tightness and Restore Calm

Stress doesn’t just live in your head. It shows up in your body; the tight shoulders, clenched jaw, an achy back. For many women, that tension becomes the quiet background…

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weekend recovery routine

August 19, 2025 · In: Holistic Self-Care and Sustainable Healing, Rest and Recovery

Your Weekend Recovery Routine: Simple Steps to Reduce Soreness and Fatigue

Weekends often bring long hikes, tough training sessions, or packed schedules with the kids that push your body to its limits. For many of us, Monday morning hits with tight…

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I'm a practicing physical therapist based out of sunny SoCal who loves to educate others and share information and knowledge. You can typically find me hard at work trying to manage normal life or cuddled up under a blanket enjoying coffee or desserts I can never seem to get away from!

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It’s June. You set a goal in January to stop crash It’s June. You set a goal in January to stop crashing on weekends. You’re still crashing on weekends and now you’re blaming yourself for that, too.

It’s Friday night. You’ve made it through the deadline week. You can’t even think about what to make for dinner…it’s too much. You scroll for hours. You go to bed early thinking sleep will fix it. Saturday morning you wake up worse than you were on Friday and the thought that lands is “why is this so hard, it’s just work, I should be able to handle this.”

Your nervous system was running in elevated mode all week. Cortisol up, heart rate up, fatigue signals overridden to keep the output going. Once the demand drops, the body downshifts and the fatigue you’ve been overriding all week comes through. The crash isn’t new. It’s the same fatigue you’ve been carrying, finally surfacing.

But, the body isn’t the hard part of this. The hard part is what you do with yourself once the crash hits. You confuse rest with being unproductive and feeling unproductive with being inadequate. The moment you crash, you become the sole believer of the thought that you’ve failed.

No one else is thinking that. Not your family, not your colleagues, not your friends. You’re the only voice in the room running that thought. I’ve watched myself do this too.

When the crash lands this Saturday, notice who’s telling you the truth about the week you just had. The body is honest. The voice calling you a failure is not.

#burnoutrecovery #chronicpain #burnoutfatigue #highachievingwomen #nervoussystemregulation
April + May (because I forgot about April) 🙈 Lots April + May (because I forgot about April) 🙈

Lots of food pics as I reminisce about all the tasty food I can’t have while Alex and I do the ProLon fasting mimicking diet for the next 5 days 😬
Some of the work does not look like work at all. Some of the work does not look like work at all.

Sometimes it looks like rest. Sometimes it looks like saying no. Sometimes it looks like doing 10 minutes when you wish you could do 60. Sometimes it looks like sitting on the couch and letting the day be small.

If you are someone who has spent your whole life proving you can push through, this part of the work will feel like failure at first. But try looking at it like this instead: it is part of what your nervous system has been asking you for the whole time.

A little reminder ❤️

#chronicpain #nervoussystemawareness #restisimportant #mentalawareness
I am not posting this from the other side of a fla I am not posting this from the other side of a flare. I am posting it from inside one.

For two weeks I have been doing the work I teach… pacing, resting, listening, modifying. None of it has fixed it.

And I have caught myself spiraling into the exact thoughts I would gently redirect a patient out of. “I should know better.” “I am the expert in this.” “What am I doing wrong?”

Here is what this flare has reminded me. Knowing the framework does not exempt you from living inside it. A regulated nervous system is not a permanent state. It is a relationship you keep coming back to. And the moments when nothing is working are not proof you are doing it wrong. They are proof your body is asking for something you have not figured out how to give it yet.

If you are in it too right now, I am right there with you. Tell me what is in your bucket this week. Let’s all share some support with one another.

#nervoussystemhealth #chronicpainawareness #chronicpainsupport #painflare #mindbodyconnection
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