What’s A Pain Coach And How They Can Help With Persistent Pain
Living with persistent pain can feel like you’re carrying a heavy, invisible weight that you can never put down. It wears on your body, mind, confidence, and day-to-day life. When you’ve been through rounds of traditional treatments such as, doctors,…
What Your Nervous System Has To Do With Your Desk Job And Back Pain
If you spend most of your day at a desk, you may have noticed something important. Your back starts aching long before you consciously feel stressed. Your shoulders creep up towards your ears during back-to-back meetings. By the time you…
Sitting All Day, Still in Pain: The Hidden Link Between Stress and Back Pain That Desk Workers Aren’t Told About
Back pain can be more than “just pain.” It makes long meetings exhausting, makes it hard to focus on your screen, and turns simple things, like sitting through a workday or driving home, into a constant negotiation with your body.…
Taking the anxiety out of Zoom meetings
I’ve just logged off from yet another online call. Zoom fatigue is becoming more widespread due to the fact that we’ve all been so reliant on this medium for over a year now. I read recently that Eric Yuan, the entrepreneur…
“I’ll do it later”: What causes us to procrastinate?
I planned to write this post on Wednesday, its now Tuesday. Why is that relevant? Well, it’s about procrastination! Procrastination is not a new phenomenon. It comes from the Greek word Akrasia meaning ‘weakness of will’ and was being discussed…
5 Quick Exercises to Take Away the Pain of Working From Home
2020 was certainly a very unusual year for us all and 2021 is proving just as challenging for many people. A significant change for a lot of us is the new experience of working from home full time. Do you…
9 Ways Pilates Can Improve Your Mental Health
Since its creation in the 1920’s, Pilates has been used around the world to increase muscle strength and tone; and to improve flexibility, posture and alignment. On top of these many positive attributes research is suggesting that Pilates also has a…
7 Reasons Why Pilates is Not Yoga
When I tell people that I’m a Pilates teacher I so often get asked ‘what is it’ then they have the inevitable epiphany ‘ah, you mean yoga?’ or sometimes just the straight up ‘what’s the difference between Pilates and yoga?’…