If your pain is the result of a recent injury within months of an event, or ongoing pain related to vertebrae fusion, hardware, nerve damage and other diagnoses, please continue seeing your PCP for care and referral. This article is not meant to treat or diagnose neck issues, but rather give an overview of common causes, and exacerbating habits that we as a culture have accumulated. I have homework for you if daily neck pain (not from serious diagnosis) is affecting your qua

I hope you are seeing some improvement, the steps, even incremental, are important. For all causes, symptoms and discomforts, there is an opening. The authentic endeavor to address your body's signals and cultivate possibility and solution is a blessing all its own. In electing to treat your TMJ holistically, you open pathways to well being of your jaw, head and neck. This itself opens us to greater self love and self care.... that results in lower stress levels (and less str

I'm sharing this personal journey to inspire myself again, and my clients that its possible to ride through pain to greater self-empowerment, self-understanding, better self-care, and real well being, integrated with our already-unified spirit-mind-feeling-body consciousness. For a period of three years, I experienced moderate to severe, constant, persistant pain in my low back, with added jolts of pain with: standing, bending over, and lifting. Not great, while having a new

Here's an overview of the 6 major components of recovery that I give my clients and that I've followed myself to recover from chronic pain. 1) Assemble your team 2) Fine-tune your self-assessment 3) Loosen your schedule, routines/habits, and your ideas of "shoulds" 4) Take inspiration from those that have made strides 5) Breathing, allowing the composition of your reaction to your experience to shift, from now moment to now moment. 6) Persevere and repeat until significant s

This is my secret....in the sense that until now, I've only told people on a one-to-one basis during a massage. Now I'm finally writing it down. Before I get to it: one point, and one pinch of salt. One Point) Most clients I see do not breathe....much, hardly. And no judgement. Sometimes my breathing is vague at best. I literally need every reminder I can get to breathe consciously, like having a career centered on it:) When your practitioner asks you to breathe or even