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July 29th, 2025

How to Pace with EDS and Hypermobility: A Gentle Guide from the Community

Estimated reading time: 10 minutesI wish I had learnt about pacing earlier in my health journey.

July 22nd, 2025

EDS, POTS and Brain Fog: Is this normal?

Estimated reading time: 5 minutesI wasn’t aware of the term brain fog until I started working with the chronic illness community 17 years ago.

July 15th, 2025

Scared to Exercise with EDS or hypermobility? You’re Not Alone. Here’s a Safer Way to Start

Estimated reading time: 5 minutesBeing scared to exercise is something I commonly hear about. It makes sense if you have experienced pain or injury in the past.

July 8th, 2025

If you have hypermobility, pillow struggle is a real thing

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesPillow struggle is a thing. Is there the perfect pillow to hypermobile necks that will help prevent neck and shoulder pain? This is the number one non-movement related question I get emails and questions about.

June 30th, 2025

A Guide for Traveling with EDS & POTS

Estimated reading time: 6 minutesI do a fair amount of travelling. With an Italian husband, I often take short-haul flights to Italy. With my work, the flights tend to be long-haul, largely to the United States.

June 23rd, 2025

Tanya’s Story: How The Zebra Club Transformed My Life with EDS

Estimated reading time: 6 minutesThis is a really beautiful story I’d like to share with you. It’s heartwarming, inspiring, and hopefully, gives us all hope of what we can achieve with the right support and solutions at our fingertips.

June 9th, 2025

Deconditioning in Hypermobility & EDS: It’s Not Just ‘Laziness’

Estimated reading time: 6 minutesHow often do we hear “you’re just deconditioned” – as if that is a personal failing or a lack of effort to maintain our fitness and activity?

June 2nd, 2025

Beat the Heat: EDS, Hypermobility & Heat Intolerance

Estimated reading time: 9 minutesI’ve always struggled with heat since a child. I remember heat rash or prickly heat starting around the age of 6, together with dizziness and sickness.

May 27th, 2025

Sebastian’s Experience with The Zebra Club

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesAt The Zebra Club, I am continually inspired by the stories of our members and their demonstrations of perseverance, courage and transformation in the face of chronic pain and complex conditions.

May 21st, 2025

Hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome & Physical Therapy

Estimated reading time: 9 minutesHave you been referred to physical therapy or physiotherapy to manage your symptomatic hypermobility?

May 5th, 2025

23 Signs You Grew Up with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or Symptomatic Hypermobility

Estimated reading time: 9 minutesLooking back, the signs were there — little things that didn’t seem connected at the time.

April 29th, 2025

Mindful Movement, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and Hypermobility

Estimated reading time: 6 minutesMost of us have probably heard of mindfulness if we live with chronic pain. It is often suggested that the practice of mindfulness can be helpful in pain management.

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The Zebra Club app is a programme based on the Integral Movement Method. In this programme I will carefully guide you through safe exercises to manage your pain.

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