Movement as a Story
Movement is communication. It is the giving and receiving of signals, of input and outputs. When you watch someone move, whether it be dancing or jogging or getting out of a chair, the manner in...
View ArticleTry Awarded
feature photo credit: telegraph.co.uk Work has always made me feel accomplished. I did stuff simply for the sake of getting it done. Checking off a box or crossing off a project was immensely...
View ArticleThe Willingness to Explore
You are willing to explore when you feel safe and confident. Safety comes from recognizing your limits and being able to measure and manipulate risk. Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing...
View ArticleLoving Your Work As If It Were a Person
I live a charmed existence. I get to play with kids and problem solve painful movement with adults. Familiar with the importance of each, I also teach teens about pain and guide adults toward...
View ArticleNeurosomatic Therapy and Layers of Trauma
It is on rare occasion that I am floored by what I hear on a podcast. While listening to fusion health radio on a recent commute, my eyes sprung open when I recognized what was being given away. The...
View ArticleThe Softening of an Ego
The ego has many layers and interpretations. It can signify a sense of self, the definition of “I”, and/or the determination of esteem or importance. A psychoanalytical description fans this into,...
View ArticleExploration & Safety (Part Two)
The following is part two of my course notes and findings from Stress, Movement, and Pain. As practitioners seeking to help bio-psycho-social organisms, we have to be able to read, analyze, and...
View ArticleThe Nature of Hurt
The nature of hurt is a protective hardening. It heeds and is hypersensitive to perceived warnings of “don’t”, so much so that it often re-wires them as “can’t”. Doubt barricades them into safe...
View ArticleA Path Towards Harm
Some context. I have been learning to be sensitive to signals of and mitigate pain for about a decade now. My training revolves around feeling things out, noticing any off-ness, spending some time...
View ArticleCalming an Irritation (Fixing a Foot-Hip)
This post serves as a follow up to: A Path Towards Harm. Otherwise titled: The things I did wrong when I didn’t pay attention or have compassionate patience. The tag to this blog used to read, “fix...
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