Can Changing Your Image Of Your Pain Change your Pain?
These images are from Deborah Padfield’s book Perception of Pain. She collaborated with pain patients to help create visual tools to...
An eye exercise class for you to try
Eyes have held incredible power in many cultures for millennia. Talismans to ward off the curse of the evil eye are found all around the...
Remedies for Non Specific Low Back Pain - the “common cold for the spine”
Mark Shepherd is a physio who has likened non specific lower back pain to the common cold for the spine. I love this analogy because it...
Learning to Centre a Client in Their Cancer Rehab Process
These are my people - my husband and my two wonderful children. They are my reminder that life is precious and every minute spent with...
Exercise for Ages 40 and Beyond: Training Advice from Stacy Sims’ Book: ‘Next Level.’
For eons Earth has tilted as it rotates around the Sun, cycling through restful, preparatory, flourishing and quietening seasons. For...
Four Knee Class Recordings
Dusty knees may be a sign of submission. For those with knee pain, kneeling is fond memory of a movement that once meant nothing and now...
Training The Whole Person: Supporting Clients' Physical, Psychological, Spiritual and Social Health.
The overarching message of the course that I am studying at the moment (SURG 0133: Chronic Pain), is that pain is complex. It encompasses...
Good Health is More than Moving and Eating Well: Conducting a Health MOT
A marriage You are holding up a ceiling with both arms. It is very heavy, but you must hold it up, or else it will fall down on you. Your...
The Strain in Pain Lies Mainly in the Brain
Thank you Sean Mackey for the catchy title of this blog. His slides from his lecture on the neuroscience of pain can be found here I will...
No pain IS a Gain: helping clients work through medical decisions while staying in my lane
dinos and comics As a movement teacher and an educator, advising on anything medical is beyond my scope of practice. However, since...
