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'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

"Anyone can find disease. If you find health and align with it, the body's blueprint for healing will follow." - Dr. Andrew T. Still In the late 1880's, the lives of Dr. Still and most Americans were rocked by the great epidemics sweeping the US and disputed lands. After finishing his apprenticeship in medicine and serving as a doctor in the Civil War for the Union, he lost three children to spinal meningitis and another from pneumonia. Countless more he could not save. Dar

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

Franklyn Sills: "It is all about perception. Perceptual skills are the ground of this work. Presence, contact, grounding and the quality of space you hold are essential for success...The purpose of this work is not to release restrictions or to process issues, but to liberate the health inherent within the restriction. This can be instantaneous...Health is never lost; it centers our experience. Truth is found in the depth of our listening...Past and future are holographical

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