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 Emotionally Motivated

We can live without our thinking brain, but will die without our emotional brain. Listen to those first emotions, for the body never lies. Then do thoughtful diligence, because we often lie to ourselves.

Take what works, discard what doesn’t.
We're all unique even though our basic needs are the same.

Healing is a Mindset We All Need

11/19/2023

 
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Through objective hindsight, I realize that I have always been a healer.
Where healing has been welcome, I have been successful.
Where healing has not been welcome, I have failed.
Those are broad, yet relatively accurate, strokes.

​Healing is nothing more than identifying that which is incorrect and correcting it.
To heal the world, we must be open to correction.
Pollution, for example, is incorrect. Remove pollution and healing happens, naturally.
Healing correction is never violent or extreme, punishing or condemnatory.

Healing is a vital mindset that can be nurtured in anyone.
When healing is one's bottom line then everything we encounter in life that is amiss and can be corrected by us, gets corrected. 
Allowing incorrectness to live on is corruption, and corruption is sickness. 
Correction is healing.

Healing is also a feeling as well as a mindset.
When all is right with the world, the feeling we experience is one of internal peace, and that sense of peace is a healing feeling. 
Healing feelings, combined with helpful effort, have the power to make right what feels wrong.

When I am with a client, my healing mindset gets supercharged, you might say.
Yet any environment where healing is welcome can be a supercharge opportunity. 
It is up to us to curate environments that invite supercharged healing energy in.

There will never be an end to healing work.
Good.
It means none of us will ever be out of work.

About me.

The Ultimate Piriformis Stretch

11/19/2023

 
Person laying supine with one knee bent and stretching it to opposite side
This active resistance stretch not only helps repair and prevent sciatica, but also most low back pain. If you feel any sudden, sharp pain doing this stretch, stop, rest, and check with a doctor, because something else may be going on.

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Drinkable Arthritis Relief

11/11/2023

 
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A multi-purpose home remedy ingredient I purposely ignored due to my gut’s inability to tolerate it, has turned out to be an occasional, needed remedy: Vinegar. Specifically, apple cider vinegar or ACV. It is one of three main ingredients in a recipe I hope you will join me in trying. Well diluted, ACV is already known to be a digestive helper, immune supporter, and weight loss tool, but combined with one or two other antimicrobial ingredients, it packs a powerful punch for arthritic relief, too - but only if it 'tastes' right to you. Vinegar can exasperate candida symptoms and potentially stress liver, kidneys, and central nervous system. As always with natural medicines, use judiciously and do your own research.


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Improve Your Aging Bladder

11/3/2023

 
Turtle underwater looking a little uncomfortable, like you might when you have bladder problems.
Image credit: Irs Bock-Cramer via Pixabay
One of the first areas of our body to be affected by aging is the center of the lower pelvis, where the bladder lives. No matter your age, life's uncomfortable when holding or releasing your water becomes a struggle. I developed a little bladder pushup program I share with clients that helps keep the fascia and the bladder in better shape. There are also some no-nonsense bladder health tips from Julia at Ascension Physio that I recommend. Download her free e-booklet and get yourself some continence peace of mind for your future.

Chronic Tension and Pain - A new explanation and longer relief

9/28/2023

 
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It is not unusual for clients to blame their pain on muscles, posture, or where they store their stress. Please don't blame. Blame never solves problems. Instead, let's address the common source of this pain through compassionate understanding of our bodies. Then, let me share with you a new therapy that helps alleviate this pain, so that one day we can learn to prevent it. ​

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Quality of Health Depends on Magnesium

9/12/2023

 
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Image by Emre Gen via Pixabay
I am loathe to sound the alarm unless I need to make a point that gets through as it did not get through to me: Magnesium supplementation is a must for most people!

Magnesium is an essential element required in over 300 reactions necessary for metabolic health. Scientific, anecdotal, and user evidence overwhelmingly supports the fact that likely ⅔ of Western population is deficient - for good but sad reasons - in this 4th most common mineral after calcium, sodium, and potassium.
​

Got Suffering? Listen up!
For those on vitamin D for years, you are likely magnesium deficient! For those addicted to sugar, alcohol, or coffee, you are likely magnesium deficient!  For those suffering from metabolic syndrome and similar, you are likely magnesium deficient! For those with mystery ailments, you may be magnesium deficient! For those finding arthritis or the aging process to be a problem, you may be magnesium deficient! Etc!

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Fibromyalgia is Not a Disease

7/10/2023

 
Illustration of a body in chronic pain
Image by Lily Cantabile via Pixabay
Fibromyalgia (FM) is not a disease for which, once they find a cure, a pill can be popped and now everything is okay. FM doesn’t have a single cause. (Or does it?) It is not a bug or a virus or a parasite. Fibromyalgia is not, despite its name, about muscle pain. Fibromyalgia is not incurable. Fibromyalgia is not in your or anyone else’s head.
Update: An underlying cause or aggravation of fibromyalgia may be magnesium deficiency.

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The Insomnia Phobia Connection

7/4/2023

 
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For anyone who has "Insomnia with a capital I," Saniya Warwaruk's TEDx Talk may be the answer they didn't know they were looking for. Even if you don't have "Insomnia with a capital I", there is much to be gained from the advice within. And as always, take it or leave it, the choice is yours.

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Your Childhood and Your Health Today

7/4/2023

 
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The relationship environment created by authority and parental figures in our formative years - as well as our choice of response - often determines our health and wellbeing throughout our lives. There is a simple test called the ACEs questionnaire that helps to quickly identify your Adverse Childhood Experience score. The ACEs website takes time to load, so please be patient. Those who score high may have suffered trauma that make them more likely to have chronic health problems that tend to worsen with aging. It is important to note that a given incidence on the questionnaire, like divorce, is not necessarily a trauma, but how divorce is handled within a family, often is. Still, divorce is worth tracking simply because few divorces are handled well when children are involved.

The goal here is not to blame but to address and learn to prevent. 
We can prevent future health problems of the chronic sort by becoming better parents, teachers, supervisors, etc. To become better people, we must become better at relating to others, especially those in our charge.

Relating Styles

​Pathological relating is:
  • Irresponsible
  • Disrespectful
  • Aggressive, passive, or passive-aggressive
  • Too confining or too free.
Healthy relating is:
  • Responsible
  • Respectful
  • Assertive
  • Bounded in the "just right" zone.
Particularly when it comes to children, but also as an adult, the will and ability of each person determines how health problems manifest over time:
  • Resolute people may internalize and end up with chronic personal health problems;
  • People that give up may externalize and end up being part of chronic societal health problems.
We can choose to relate in ways that contribute to trauma or help offset trauma. It is our choice. Let us choose the healthier way.

Healing from Trauma

Our past traumas show up in our present. We cannot change the past, but we can change how we respond in the present. There are probably many ways of accomplishing this. Most people will likely find themselves in need of professional help, but it can be done, individually, as well. A good place to start may be with trauma recovery specialist, Michele Rosenthal. I don't know her, but found her serendipitously. As I found my own way to healing the past, I can tell that Michele Rosenthal is on the right path. By right, I mean she is taking an approach that more closely resembles what I know to be needed for true healing to take place.

We can heal from the past and we can change the future by changing the present: How we choose to relate to every person, place, or thing, matters.

Trauma creates change you don't choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.
Michele Rosenthal

Originally posted 4/25/2023

Restless Leg Syndrome

7/2/2023

 
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Those prone to restless leg syndrome may want to avoid carbonated drinks. To find out if carbonation is affecting you in this or other ways, go 2-4 weeks without all carbonated beverages, including naturally carbonated spring water,  and observe for changes.
Update: Carbonated drinks can cause magnesium deficiency. Magnesium deficiency is behind a number of peculiar problems that women, in particular, face. Makes going carbonation-free even more potentially ideal.
Quality of Health Depends on Magnesium.
First published: 4/17/2019
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Repairing the human body since 2003

Paula helps your body heal itself through innovative connective-tissue-cleansing bodywork, and enlightened education minus the nonsense.

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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) aka systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID),
arthritis,
​and other inflammation conditions.

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The word 'massage' denotes Paula's innovative connective tissue therapies led by expert palpation for before and after results you will notice.

Paula's brand of bodywork is derived from  professional training in Western therapies including but not limited to: Swedish medical massage, Neuromuscular (NMT), and Trigger Point, as well as therapies of Eastern origin including but not limited to: Massage Cupping, Reflexology, Acupressure, Shiatsu, and Smooth Gua Sha along with various manual vibrational therapies from dense to subtle like: Tok Sen (hammer massage) and BioSyntonie.​
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