Believe me, I am all for the trip to the ice cream store with your kids. I believe in living an 80/20 (and for some of us with more challenging genetics 85/15) lifestyle. However, I had been making this a habit, along with a few others, which were slowing building my inflammatory level, which was beginning to wreak havoc on my gut.
Here’s what most people don’t realize: the gut has its own nervous system (the enteric nervous system, sometimes called “the brain in your gut”), and it’s in constant conversation with your autonomic nervous system — your fight-or-flight and rest-and-digest switch
There was a time shortly after mom died, when he would sit on my back deck…no energy, feeling miserable, in a stagnant place in his life. He was aware of the work I was starting to do both personally and professionally. I planted seeds, lead by example and finally he was ready to make the changes he needed to turn his life around.
“Mom, I feel so much better after I workout with you!” I have a 14 year old soccer player. He has been struggling with Osgood Schlatter’s (which they call a disease, which I would both agree and disagree. It’s about biomechancal imbalances which create “dis-ease”)
Prior to reeling back in her nutrition she had undergone another health crises. She KNEW she had to get back on the bandwagon and decrease her inflammation.
I am proud to say that I live the majority of my days pain free., It has taken years of great manual therapy, prolotherapy and PRP, a great program of mobility, stability,...
I am sitting here at Panera, as I always do after I drop off my middle schooler and wait for my tennis class. I wrapped up the work I am doing on blogs, emails, and courses...
In the past, it was very easy for me to keep pushing forward…pushing down feelings, emotions, and other messages from my body telling me it needs care. Over time, this protective, unrealized strategy has resulted in a gradual loss of my health, both emotionally and physically.
I work with an Integrative OB/GYN practice out of Irvine, California. It was during a ROUGH mental/emotional time in my life in which hormone imbalances in addition to past...
“Jen offers a unique and amazingly comprehensive approach to movement, recovery and function. She is able to identify & address issues in multiple body systems that contribute to specific inefficiencies in movement and stability with extraordinary precision and effectiveness. After a single session, I could finally sleep and move in the morning without the constant and consistent back pain I’d had for several years despite previous PT, self-treatment and exercise. Someone finally could touch and treat “that spot” and the surrounding connections so I can not only move, but move without pain. The difference in my posture and walking was visible immediately and I can finally get those parts that felt blocked and inhibited to turn on. I am so excited and thankful to get out and use my back and legs. It feels like I can finally drive my body without the brake being stuck down.
Jen has the knowledge, education and training to address not only the orthopedic issues but to achieve to even greater levels of functional recovery for clients with her integration of the nervous and vascular systems to truly clear the drivers and contributors of dysfunction(s).”
