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Tera Sandona

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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weak ankles running

August 12, 2025 · In: Movement, Strength for Resilience

Weak Ankles Running? Stabilization and Strengthening for Pain Free Running

Do you suffer from frequently spraining your ankles? Do you have a sensation like you have weak ankles running? If you’ve ever strained to stabilize your ankles on a run…

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diaphragmatic breathing

August 5, 2025 · In: Nervous System Regulation

Diaphragmatic Breathing: How to Breathe Correctly

When stress, fatigue, and chronic pain play a part in your daily life, something has to change. I’ve been there. I understand the struggle. It’s hard to find our way…

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DOMS vs injury

July 29, 2025 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

DOMS vs Injury: What Your Body is Really Telling You

You crushed your workout and now your muscles are letting you know it. Now the question starts rolling around in your head: DOMS vs injury? Is this normal soreness or…

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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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Can’t Stay Consistent With Exercise? It’s Not a Discipline Problem

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Wired/restless and heavy/depleted are both signals Wired/restless and heavy/depleted are both signals of nervous system overload. They show up differently and they need opposite responses.

Wired looks like:
- can’t sit still
- mind racing
- looking at your phone every 2 minutes
- exhausted, but unable to fall asleep

The system is activated and the activation needs somewhere to go. Gentle movement helps because it gives that activation a channel out of the body. It could be a walk, slow mobility work, or doing the dishes. Anything that lets the system move without adding load.

Depleted looks like:
- limbs feel like lead
- brain is foggy
- hard to make a decision
- hard to get off the couch

The system is running on empty. Adding movement compounds the load and the body crashes harder.

It’s the same dysregulation with two presentations. Reaching for the wrong one is mostly why recovery doesn’t work.

Most women I work with describe themselves as “always tired, but wired” or “wired but exhausted.” That’s not a contradiction. It’s your nervous system telling you which lane you’re in on a given hour of a given day.

What your body is signaling changes. The response should too.

If you want help reading your own signals, comment SIGNALS for the free nervous system workbook.

#burnoutrecovery #burnoutrecoverycoaching #regulateyournervoussystem #hsp #highlysensitiveperson
The label got attached to slow yoga, easy walks, a The label got attached to slow yoga, easy walks, and gentle bike rides. Active recovery became a category of workouts.

But the label is doing the wrong job. What makes movement “recovery” isn’t the modality. It’s whether your body finishes with more capacity than it started with.

A 20 minute walk can be active recovery on a Monday and a workout your body can’t handle on a Wednesday. It’s the same walk on a different day with a different answer.

The thing most of us are missing isn’t a better workout schedule. It’s a daily look at what your body can actually hold. Some days, that assessment points to movement. Some days, it points to rest. Either one, when it’s used at the right time, it supports the body. When used at the wrong time, it makes things worse.

If you want help learning to read your body signals, comment SIGNALS for the free nervous system workbook.

#activerecovery #pushcrashcycle #listentoyourbody #nervoussystemregulation #chronicpainmanagement
This pattern was mine for years. And if your weeke This pattern was mine for years. And if your weekend looks anything like the one I am about to describe, you already know how Sunday night feels.

Rough week, exhausted by Friday, on the couch all weekend hoping to reset. Sunday night, I would be more depleted than when I started with nothing prepped for the week ahead. And the conclusions running through my head about what kind of person I must be to keep ending up here did not help.

The fix I always reached for was discipline…more structure, more consistency, and more grit. The crash kept coming anyway.

What moved the needle was learning to read what my body could hold, day by day. Some days a workout, some days a walk, some days a couch Sunday was the choice. The decision was made each morning, based on what was actually there.

If you want help learning to read the signs and what to do for them, comment SIGNALS and I will send you the free nervous system workbook.

#chronicpain #chronicfatigue #nervoussystemhealth #painscience #listentoyourbody
If by Wednesday you are already running on fumes, If by Wednesday you are already running on fumes, this one is for you. I called myself undisciplined for years.

Every Sunday night I would land on the same conclusion: more structure, more consistency, and more grit. That was the fix. And every Friday I would crash anyway.

Here is what I did not know about the cycle.

Both doors lead to the same room.

Door one is push. The body sends signals about what it can hold that day. Discipline overrides the signal. Push past the signal once, you crash once. Push past it for a year, you live in the crash.

Door two is rest. The week was rough so the weekend is for resetting. You sit Saturday hoping it works. Sunday comes and you feel worse, so you rest again. By Sunday night nothing is prepped and you are still depleted. The week starts in deficit, so you push harder to catch up, and the crash arrives by Friday.

Different doors. Same room. The room is the cycle.

The missing piece was never more discipline. It was a daily read on what my body could hold and the willingness to let the read be the decision instead of overriding it.

Some days the body can hold a workout. Some days a walk. Some days a couch Sunday is the work. The decision gets made each morning, based on what the body is signaling that day.

If you want help learning to read your own signals, comment SIGNALS for the free nervous system workbook.

#nervoussystemregulation #nervoussystemwork #burnoutisreal #lıstentoyourbody #reclaimyourenergy
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