I took a break. I'm swimming in ideas. There is so much I want to do and yet sometimes the body says wait. Sometimes the timing is different than we think. Whether you are healing, working on your comeback, or actively creating a life you love, the setbacks and flare-ups can be the hardest to manage. Heavy on the heart as the brain creates the banter that is not exactly wishful thinking. Noticing where you are in that moment is a key pivot point in not just healing but LIVING with a capital L!

Feeling great and feeling ick are not the only ways to get to know yourself. There is a magical space in-between. The pause, where you get to recover. The space to process your day, your week, and even the ick. The moments where you sit in the "feeling great" and "all is well".

This is where you find trust.

The wait is like a pregnant pause full of life to come. Trust the healing process. Trust the ebb and flow of life. Trust your body and note...is this a...

I had a new client this week who is recovering from her breast cancer surgeries and treatments. She was nervous and guarded and like most women that get released out into the world, left with pain and tightness...the kind that means you can't do your job let alone sleep and do all the things at home. Imagine a scenario where co-workers have to open the door for you because you can't use your arm. These women are discharged from care. All better or as they so often hear this is as good as it gets and when the patient persists with complaints about pain and tightness...it is implied that they get to be grateful that they are here. As in alive.

 You can be grateful AND not settle for pain and tightness. You can have all you need and crave a little more spark and zest in your world. Vitality doesn't have an age and when someone says you are as good as it gets, you have hit their limitation and not yours.

There is a balance to accepting where we are...

I never thought too much about the word AND. I think I lived in the land of one or the other. This OR that and when one cancels out the other, that can make for a hard decision and lead to the land of No decision. If you get stuck and find it hard to take action...check out your options. I can't work out in the gym yet AND I can go for a walk. I'm not sleepy AND I can get on my cozy pants and read in bed.

Adding the little word AND can add some movement and motivation when you come up against that inner critic that heckles with can't and should. Adding the word AND can soften that draggy feeling of resistance so you can do the thing even if the thing is to not do.

Sometimes you're ready to take action and...stall and sometimes it's time to rest and yet you stay busy and keep hopping. How do you switch it up? 

1) First off you're gonna take a little inventory. What are you wanting...what's the goal? If your...

I went to my first physical therapy appointment this week. Cha Cha Cha! I've been lying around and recovering from long haulers since March 2020 and slowly adding more, like outings to the Clayton Art Fair and such. Good times but ya know how I like to ride my bike and jump around in the gym! Before I step up in the movement category, more than the neighborhood walks, easy yoga, and playing rock star in my living room, I want to build a base of core strength and mobility. I want to step it up without getting injured and really listen to my body. Sometimes ya gotta remind the muscles what their job is. 

It's ok to get support as you look at where ya wanna go and wonder how you're gonna get there. I know many things rehab, but having a one-one session bridges the gap. 

This is why people love working with us at Quantum Healing Arts! We have been specializing in and studying myofascial release for the last twenty years, helping you get out of pain...

I had someone ask me about legacy. You know I turned fifty and this is what comes up when you hit the big five O. Not so much the pressure of hurry up and do the thing but an inventory. We can do an inventory at any age and the key here is to tally up the wins. You have come so far! I'm talking about the comebacks, the pivots, and the opening of one's heart, especially when the go-to was to shut it down. Tally it all up, reminisce, celebrate, and sit in the beauty of all that you are AND be sure to include all things body.

We do an inventory of our bodies looking for what is wrong, how it used to be, how it should be...but don't forget the inventory of what is working. It's the little wins that mark the move towards healing, moving better, doing more, and resting with ease and grace.

You can be the high school track hero and someone who healed from having had breast cancer and made it through with a new way of looking at yourself, at the world.

Courage,...

Do you ever find yourself in the way? You know the thing that can help you and yet you don't do the thing? How do we find the time, the motivation, and the resources to make the change?

You see the goal (maybe it's to be pain-free, sleep through the night, have great sex with your partner, feel more at peace in your body) and you know the steps that can help you get there, and yet that two-step forward one-step back is as far as you get. 

You can have big shifts and build that momentum to healing AND to really embody that transformation it needs to seep into how you see yourself.

It's not just the activity, the stretching, the sessions on my table but how you think and feel about your body, your pain. As we say in the world of myofascial release...pain is the body asking for attention. How do you reply?

Is it like Miss Hannigan in the movie ANNIE, "...WHAT?!?!!"

So how do you get out of the way? How can you reach that...

I've spent the last few years taking things off my plate. Whether you are like me, and you had a big bout of Covid and the lingering side effects of long haulers or maybe you have had chronic pain, or you are watching pain and tightness creep up in your world and you are looking for the door that leads to feeling good in your body. So yes to taking things off your plate and slowing down your world...to heal, to integrate, to reassess what is working for you, and what still feeds your soul. Marie Kondo your day-to-day...the art of doing less. But how do you add more?

When you are feeling more spacious, have more energy, and that little bounce in your step is ready for new dance...let your heart and body lead the way. 

Your brain might be telling you to do more OR your brain might be warning you that to do more is gonna set you back. (Oh the dreaded setback!) As I say in my Myofascial Stretch class, to clients on the table, or in the world of coaching...

Do ya ever think there could be more? Not more as in "I'm dissatisfied" I need, I want, or even the realm of I can't have it...but more as in "yes please, bring it!" How much goodness can you stand without thinking it's too good to be true? Yes, we let go of patterns and heal the body, the heart, and the soul. What about the other side of that process? In our current healthcare system, the physical therapist is trained to get their patient to functional. I don't know about you but functional is not my stopping point! Body, Mind, and Soul, I am going for more!

 More love, more joy, more bliss found within your everyday. It's not over there or in the future or back when you were living it up. It's in the here and now.

Your nervous system is set up to detect danger. This is where the work comes in. You lay on the ball and create space where there was once pain and tightness. You notice your thoughts and counter that negative...

Can ya feel it? The subtle change in the air hints at the upcoming, fall season. I crave different foods, more nature, and I wake up with ideas brewing from a restful sleep. My summer companion (my 25-year-old daughter was home:) is back in her own world and I notice the space that is created. 

Sometimes we initiate change and sometimes change is simply upon us. The change in seasons is inviting you to not only pull out those cozy sweaters and all of the other things "autumn" but to search through your stash and see if what was last year, still fits in your world. 

You get to decide what you bring in. Here's the rub...you can only bring in something new when there is space created from the "letting go".

We are in the practice of "letting go" every week here in the Myofascial Stretch world. Gentle, sustained compression and elongation. Start the journey of learning how to track your body and take cues from your nervous system.  A...

Guess who's got a birthday coming up? I'm turning fifty this month and it brings all kinds of feels to the surface. I'm excited cuz that is amazing and fifty years is a long time and I can ponder my life and I am in awe of all that was, is, and can be. Everything we think, feel, and do add up and when I think of some of my favorites...Girl Scout summer camp as a camper and as a camp counselor, sports in high school...especially track and field (hello 400 meter run), my big move to Salt Lake City when I was twenty years old, buying my first guitar and writing songs, the car accident where I fractured my back and then I was a person who had pain, and then from my pain I figured out what I wanted to do with my life. I enrolled in massage school.

 It's not only the grand life experiences that lead you down the path to a happy, fulfilling life. It's the hard stuff that can shine a light on what really matters for you. You get permission to show up in a different...