“When we feel safe, we can be whoever we were meant to be” Stephen Porges, author of The Polyvagal Theory, said this at an event I attended with him. I have been curious and passionate about creating a sense of safety for myself and my clients...
"Thanks for sticking with me when things go tough" I received this at the end of an email from a lovely EDS client. I work with some very complex cases. There are always going to be ups and downs. A condition like EDS or HSD is...
Do you have ‘coathanger’ pain? What's that? . This is the pain that radiates across the shoulders, upper back and up into the neck. It looks like a coathanger. It's a muscular pain and can often be helped by improving posture, alignment and improving muscle...
Understanding how we breathe and why we breathe the way we do is key to rehab. When I was struggling to find answers and solutions to my pain and undiagnosed EDS symtoms, I was drawn to breathwork as the first step. . Breath is now the first...
Injury prevention - how do we work towards that with hypermobility? I’m not talking injury from trauma like a fall or an accident. I’m talking those exercise or everyday strains to our soft tissue type of injuries. Many things are going to contribute...
Squeezing, pushing, pulling - all words I try to avoid when teaching my hypermobile clients. Why - because they tend to put more tension into the body rather than helping someone move with ease and less pain. Let's take the Bridge as an example....
I recently did a post about pain management. Someone raised the question on the post of 'how can I communicate my pain to my partner effectively?' This is such an important question - relationships and communication when living with a chronic illness. ...
What happens when we lock our Hypermobile Joints? As someone who always stood with locked knees and picked things up with hyperextended elbows, changing this pattern was really important for my joint health. Why do we lock our joints? Subconsciously we think...
What’s your relationship with exercise? Has it changed over the years? Did a chronic illness diagnosis change your approach? Chances are, things had to change. I know my approach did. My clients share their exercise history with me - many people going from being very active...
Have you ever felt the message was ‘movement at any cost? I was speaking with a client recently who felt this was very much the message she had always perceived. We need to exercise, you must do it every day no matter what, even if it...