Injury Removes Proof ‘Injury isn’t only asking you to recover your body, its asking you to rethink what your body was proving to you. Your performance is not your whole story although it can feel it at the time. Recovery isn’t always finding your old self again,...
Stardust Sending Muscle Signals ‘At the ripe age of 55, I made it to the finals of my tennis club’s singles tournament, facing a spry opponent two-thirds my age. Absurdly, he was named Cort. I won the first set; the second went to a tiebreaker, and he...
There is a real buzz in the therapy world around Lymphatic Drainage. I don’t know if social media has added to this but my feed is occupied with lots of visuals of stomaches being rubbed. I learnt about abdominal massage during my original training by using...
In my 20s I wallowed in heartbreak to David Gray’s ‘This Year’s Love’. At a family funeral last year it was played as the exit music. I was a mess. When we listen to sorrowful music, the brain releases prolactin (the hormone that soothes after...
I may have been as young as 12 when my Chiropractic godfather told me I had one leg longer than the other. That was contributing to hip misalignment. My back was sore from such an early age. Yes, I was a fast swimmer who would swim 4000m a day, but get me stood up,...
Are you often shaking your head no whilst confused at why you’re saying yes? ‘”Do you like salmon?” Steve texted. I froze, holding the phone in my hand, not sure how to answer. The simple answer was no, I don’t like salmon but I...
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