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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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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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add more movement to your daily life

September 17, 2024 · In: Habits for Healing, Holistic Self-Care and Sustainable Healing

Simple Strategies to Add More Movement to Your Daily Life

In this day and age in a fast-paced world, hours can pass as you are glued to screens or confined to a desk. The necessity of weaving in movement into…

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sitting posture

May 21, 2024 · In: Pain Science and Healing, Science-Backed Education

What is the Correct Sitting Posture?

If you’re a desk worker, your sitting posture is very important. Why? Because proper alignment of your trunk and limbs places the least amount of strain on your joints, muscles,…

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how to build self care

December 5, 2023 · In: Habits for Healing, Holistic Self-Care and Sustainable Healing

5 Different Ways How to Build Self Care

Building self-care can feel like a daunting task. Where to start? What to do? How much will it cost? This post will look into 7 different areas of self care…

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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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If you sit most of the day and still work out, the If you sit most of the day and still work out, then we need to talk about something...

You are doing all the “right” things. But let me guess... by 4pm, your hips feel tight and your neck aches.

Here is the part no one talks about:

A single workout does not offset prolonged stillness. Your body adapts to what it experiences most. If 8 to 10 hours of your day are spent in the same position, that becomes the dominant input. Your body reflects it.

This does not mean you are damaged or injured. It means your body needs more variety throughout the day, not more exercise at the end of it.

The full breakdown is on the blog this week. Link in bio or comment “SITTING” and I’ll send you the direct link.

#deskwork #movementismedicine #movementvariability #chronicpain #painscience
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For most of my twenties, my approach to nutrition For most of my twenties, my approach to nutrition came from my bodybuilding background.

The focus was always the same:

✔️ very high protein
✔️ very low fat
✔️ very low carbs
✔️ low calories overall

Training was heavy strength workouts and a lot of cardio to stay as lean as possible. Over time, that mindset stuck with me. I thought “healthy” eating meant a plate with protein and maybe a small serving of greens and not much else.

What I didn’t realize was that this way of eating was slowly creating more stress on my body than support.

Over the years I started dealing with more and more symptoms. The biggest one eventually became severe, painful bloating that would come and go unpredictably. Eventually, it just wouldn’t go away. It was present 24/7 regardless if I ate or not.

Last year, I finally decided to approach nutrition differently. I discovered @beingbrigid and went through her 10 week program, “My Food is Health.”

It completely shifted the way I think about building meals. I do not count calories anymore. My focus is much simpler: high protein, fiber-rich, and very colorful plates. While I learned so much more in that program, these are the main things I have found that help me the most.

These are meals that support digestion, stabilize my blood sugar, lower inflammation, and support recovery.

When I build my plate now, I am thinking about things like:

- protein for tissue repair and satiety
- fiber for digestion, satiety, and blood sugar balance
- healthy fats to keep energy stable and support my hormones
- bitters to support digestion
- and a colorful plate for micronutrients and to support gut health

These small shifts made such a big difference for me. My digestion improved, my energy became more stable throughout the day, my brain fog disappeared, cravings decreased. I actually feel full after meals now. And I even sleep more deeply now.

Just like movement can support healing, food can too.

I am not chasing “perfect” nutrition anymore. I focus on building meals that actually support my body. The meals in this carousel are some of the simple ways I do that most days.

#nutritionforhealth #guthealth #wholefoodnutrition #nutritionandwellness
Two weeks of high stress and my body has been lett Two weeks of high stress and my body has been letting me know.

Not through pain this time…through everything else. Disrupted sleep. Constant exhaustion. Brain fog. Zero motivation. That heavy feeling where the couch is the only thing that makes sense.

And I know exactly what was happening. I know the science. I know what my nervous system needed. I even know what would have helped.

I just couldn’t do it.

That’s the part nobody talks about. Understanding your body doesn’t automatically make it easier to respond to it. Sometimes the load is just high and your system is going to feel it regardless of how much you know.

So I gave myself permission to be in it. Without making it mean something was wrong.

And now that I’m starting to come out the other side, I’m not overhauling everything at once. I’m choosing small things, slowly, without adding more pressure to an already taxed system.

A little cleaning. It calms me and a clean environment helps me feel more settled.

Nutritious meals prepped and ready to go. Not because I’m being perfect about food, but because having something ready removes a decision I don’t have the bandwidth to make. Less decision fatigue, more support for my body without even thinking about it.

A short meditation before bed on the nights my brain won’t shut off. I don’t do it every night. But the nights I have, it’s helped.

None of these things are dramatic. That’s the point.

With the nervous system, the sum of everything you’re doing matters more than the one big thing you choose to do. Small, repeatable actions over time add up to something real. If you try to overhaul everything at once, the overwhelm becomes its own stressor.

Choose one small thing. Do it a few times. If you’re feeling up to it, add something else.

Two weeks of running on empty won’t be fixed in a day. Give yourself grace, and find the balance of actually sticking with it.

#nervoussystemregulation #bodyawareness #restandrecovery #nervoussystemsupport
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