the blog
Analysis: Why Don’t More People Strength Train?
Exploring the disconnect between older adults perceptions of movement in their body and the well researched necessity for strength training for functional daily living as we age.
The Baseline State
Understanding that when we feel stiff and tight all the time, it may not only be a reflection of our lack of movement and exercise, but also of the nervous system’s baseline state in the body.
Lessons from a Second Opinion, Part II
The importance of your relationship with your health professional and what to look out for.
On Play and Pain
How play uses curiosity to facilitate a positive evolution to the relationship between you, your pain, and your moving body.
Lessons from a second opinion: Part I
You deserve to be given options, you deserve to be seen and treated as a whole person, and you deserve to have space in the conversation to discuss the concerns about how the treatment will impact your quality of life.
On Fresh Starts
And those are the two key elements that keep showing up over and over again in my work with others and in myself. Showing up (consistency) and receiving support.
How not to catastrophize
What catastrophization is, how it influences our pain, why it’s normal, and how to manage it.
Lifting Heavy Things
How things like embedded sexism and ageism affect our movement choices.
About Me, Extended Version
A more detailed account about how I ended up as a movement coach, my biggest influences, and my biggest hope.
A Case for Intense Physical Exertion
Intense physical exertion requires our attention. Why this matters and how we can use it to live better.
Podcast Interview with Jordana Edelstein.
Listen to this awesome chat I had with Body Image Coach Jordana Edelstein about chronic pain and body image.
Flexibility, Resiliency, and Adaptation
The differences between the three and how to use them as tools to move more and feel better.
On Resiliency
Stop focusing on being pain free, and start focusing on becoming more resilient.
Chronic Pain Takes Time
Patience and consistency for the win. A story about working with my dad.
Pain Demands Your Attention
Pain doesn't exist outside of our attention. How this concept can help us detach from the idea that pain lives in our tissues.
Your Eyes, your body state, and your pain
The we way see the world, literally and figuratively, helps determine our physical sensations.
Can you sit with it? Lessons from a Dyson
The value of being uncomfortable and how it sparks curiosity — a path to pain relief.
Where Your Attention Is Matters
“Where you spend your attention is where you spend your life.” James Clear