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Somatic Occupational Therapy for Whole Person Healing
Somatic Occupational Therapy for Whole Person Healing I deeply value the profession of occupational therapy. I love our scope of practice because it is a whole person approach. Occupational therapists are experts at holistic, functional, systems focused interventions....
Support for when you are feeling overwhelmed
I know the experience of feeling overwhelmed by life. Not only the everyday overwhelms that most humans will experience, at some point in their life, but the kind of overwhelm that happens when my body and mind feel completely flooded by intense feelings that seem to...
Happy Winter Solstice
Dear Friends, I invite you to stop for just a moment to BE still. Feel your feet on the ground. Notice the sounds in the space around you… BE quiet for ten deep, intentional breaths. Then notice how that brief pause affected your state of mind and body. Taking pause...
To Heal, You Must Be Heard
The need to be heard in our healing process is both true of individual healing and of collective healing. On that note, I want to first acknowledge this week’s holiday and honor that many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of settlers on this land, as it is a...
Painful Conditions Myofascial Release (MFR) Can Address
Dear Community, I remember the relief my body felt after taking my first JFB Myofascial Release (JFB MFR) workshop and receiving several hours of treatment during a weekend-long course. It not only eliminated the chronic pain and tension I had been feeling in my left...
Share the Love
Dear Community, I hope you are enjoying the crisper air as we transition into fall. My husband and I will be traveling back to the east coast for the first two weeks of October to visit loved ones, hike, and simply soak in the Autumn foliage! I will make sure to share...
About Tensegrity Medicine
Dear Community, I am sending love your way and hoping you are taking time to sense into your body and into each precious moment. I am grateful for you and for this community. This month I wanted to share in detail about Tensegrity Medicine™ (TM), the framework and...
Three Types of Pain & A Practice to Help You Connect With Your Body
Have you ever had a pain that seemed to suddenly appear in your body and persist without any traceable cause to a physical insult? Or, a pain that only shows up in your body when you are overwhelmed or stressed? If yes, you are not alone. Many of my clients come to me...
Self-Care: Myofascial Release for the Quadriceps
Dear Community, This month I wanted to keep it simple and share a self-myofascial release practice for the quadricep muscle group. I hope this serves you well… What you will need: one 3.5 inch myofascial ball OR two tennis balls in a sock (tied off so the balls stay...
Healing Requires Patient and Persistent Practice Over Time
Dear Community, A client, who started seeing me two-months ago, arrived at his first session with complaints of 4-7 out of 10 chronic back pain. He had been experiencing this pain every day since November, 2019 and was at the point of considering surgical...
Self-Care Snack
Dear Community, This month I am sharing a ‘self-care snack’ seated embodiment sequence. Whether you use a wheelchair for mobility, sit for long hours at work, or use a chair to best support your body when practicing yoga or other embodiment practices, I hope this...
Every Part of Us Deserves Love
Dear Community, One of my favorite mindfulness teachers, Tara Brach, recently shared a talk titled Every Part of Us Belongs. Something Tara often refers back to in her teachings is a quote by an attachment psychologist named Louis Cozolino. He says: We are not the...
To Heal Physical Pain, Sometimes We Must Heal Emotional Pain
There are more times in my life than I can count when I experienced physical pain relief after having a good cry. The area in my body of subtle, intermittent, chronic pain is in the left side of my neck. I can trace the origin of when that pain started to just weeks...
Addressing the Cause, Not Just the Symptoms
Most clients come to work with me because they want relief from chronic pain. Often times, they assume that the focal point needs to solely be on the area where symptoms are present. This is quite normal and natural, to desire direct contact with an area of...
Ten Hues of Practice
Close to a decade ago, when I was teaching yoga full-time… I wrote a list of ten ways I could cultivate an internal environment of serenity and gratitude. I titled that list the Ten Hues of Practice and used it as my class theme for the week. Just a month or so ago my...