How would you describe the fundamentals of your health? ✔Like the structure of a house, the load bearing walls and ceiling joists, aka your bones? ✔Like the basement walls that hold everything up, aka your feet? ✔Is it it your ability to take in fresh and get rid of waste, like plumbing, aka lymph and circulation and respiration? ✔Is it the ability for your body to electrically communicate all its needs and responses, aka the nervous system? ✔Or is it ALL of these? If you’re focused on any one of these systems, I’d say you’re massively missing out. The real key to a strong foundation isn’t specializing and microfocusing on one aspect, it’s being a good General Contractor and overseeing the coordination of all of your foundations. We are holistic, complex beings. Look at those words- ✔Holistic means all of you, at the same time, intermingled ✔Complex means like the difference between a lean-to and a house ✔Beings, as in NOT machines. Not logically or rationally organized, but organically and naturally Herbalist Tammi Sweet has shared (I’m paraphrasing here) that a researcher at a conference she attended dismissed plant medicines as “messy and chaotic”. Yep, she teaches, just like us. Herbalist David Winston put it this way when I heard him speak in June 2019: “Show me a standardized human and I’ll consider giving them a standardized remedy.” THIS is why there’s no such thing as a Magic Pill. THIS is why there are so, so, so many types of practitioners- physical, herbal, etc- since there’s no one, single, perfect solution for what you need at this moment. If you tried something and didn’t get the results you wanted, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. That means it wasn’t the right answer for you right now. It wasn’t your Goldilocks answer, but that doesn’t mean it won’t work for you at another time. My answer to this uncertainty is to have a holistic approach to your holistic self. I don’t believe there is one single foundation; I believe they’re all important. They’re interconnected, intertwined, and interdependent. How you move, and how you hold still, directly causes (or prevents) circulation, drainage, and communication in your body. Calming your nervous system only helps so much if your ribs or a hip joint is putting a major nerve in danger. Adjusting your posture won’t last long if gut inflammation tightens muscles that tilt your pelvis. Stretching your neck will only last till your next 45 minute trip into an internet rabbit hole. So we look at all of it. How you move your skeleton changes how your organs move and function. How your internal systems operate impacts how your bones and muscles hold you upright. Notice I said we “Look at it”. Not “We change everything in the first session”. For one thing, we’re people still living our lives, with responsibilities like jobs and families and everything else. We don’t have the extra capacity to go in and change absolutely everything about how we are moving and living. That’s not sustainable, and in fact that would be a recipe for frustration and failure. For another thing, big huge changes aren’t usually the most effective anyway. Chiropractor and movement specialist Dr Perry Nickelston put it this way, “Complex systems are non-linear, meaning their behavior is irregular. That means little tiny actions can produce tremendous transformations.” In other words, our culture’s emphasis on MOREBIGGERFASTER can actually be counterproductive! This is my whole rationale, my philosophy. Changing how your outsides work (with movement) and how your insides work (with herbs) is truly holistic healing. And focusing on our foundations means I can help you build up strength and healthy patterns inside of your currently normal life. Yes, ultimately we want to build a new normal, one that’s got things like good sleep and manageable stress and strong hips and deep breathing. But when you first learned to ride a bike, or write, or even walk, you were pretty terrible at that for a while, too. This will also take practice. But as you practice foundational work, you'll find the most amazing things. Tiny things, that you didn't even notice you'd lost, will transform. I've heard all sorts of things:
That'll put a bounce in your step and a sparkle in your eye for sure! Yes yes Paula, but how?? How do I learn this stuff, to practice it?
Never fear, dear reader! You can start right now, for free, with the Relieve Your Aches & Pains Online Workshop. You've got 2 ways to access it:
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Chamomile has a quite personality, and it's the quiet ones you need to watch out for.
She's gentle but inexorable, quieting our inner whine, easing tension you didn't know you had and some you did- she's particularly helpful with the lower abdomen, and I've used Chamomile tea to great effect when I had pelvic floor area cramping twice (NOT a pain I'd wish on most people!) Chamomile people have a frozenness to them. Emotionally this can look like petulance- I don't KNOW what I want but it's NOT THIS😤 or physically it can be really stuck muscles that don't give and won't let anyone in to help. Chamomile also changes her ways when you give her time- a sweet, fragrant tea becomes deep and bitter, encouraging movement in the digestive system. Plants, like people, aren't just one thing. Chamomile remedies made gently, like a short-steeped tea, preserve the aromatics and work with more surface-level complaints like muscle tension or mental blocks (particularly around transitions.) Deeper remedies like a long-steeped tea work deeper, easing transitions in that lower abdomen. You'll need to get to know your plants to know when and how to capture their moods! Are you Just Getting By?Are you missing out on Near Living Experiences, in favor of taking care of another dumpster fire again?When will enough be enough?I think many of us are regularly having “Near Living Experiences,” nearly living as fully as we can but not quite. We're ignoring these experiences in the face of our busy lives, letting them pass us by, and instead accepting Just Getting By (JGB) as good enough. Near Living Experiences are the chances, opportunities, and openings for us to make the big and the small changes that would wildly improve our quality and appreciation of our lives- but the steps involved usually prove too much:
The route from step 1 to Step 6 is, actually, huge. These are legitimately HARD steps. It’s no wonder we can’t take advantage of our Near Living Experiences, what with all the rest of Life™ going on, and that JGB is the habitual order of things. And it’s also no wonder that a LOT of people come to the realization that they MUST make some kind of change at a crisis point in their life, when JGB has stopped being a viable option. At that point, you realize that any amount of work required between step 1 and step 6 is reasonable, since you simply must get to step 6 to ever feel better. But this JGB habit, it’s not really a comfortable one, is it? It’s like the frog in the pot metaphor- if you put a frog in hot water, it’ll jump out. But if you put a frog in a pot of cold water then put it on low heat, the frog will sit there with its world getting gradually hotter, until it IS the soup. (I have no idea if this story is true. But it illustrates the point!) We tend to accept small injuries, small adaptations, small shifts in our patterns as just one more thing that we’re too overwhelmed to deal with. In the buffet of dumpster fires before us, what’s a sore ankle? Over time, though, that sore ankle causes a limp, that changes your gait and your hip function. This impacts your psoas, which tightens up and tilts your pelvis, impinging circulation in your abdomen. Slow, heavy, uncomfortable periods become the norm, and digestion stagnates too, leading to bloating and pain since lymph can’t drain away. Now your energy is low, because you’re not digesting well to support it, nor are you eating well because you feel like crap and that’s a hard place to make healthy choices from. While you’ve been focusing on the dumpster fires, your own building is burning. Now, it’s time to make your own fires a priorityIn the Foot to Forehead Fix, we use a 3-pronged approach:
Those that attended my Aches and Pains workshop got a free Stick Figures of Demonstration fun sheet, to help them learn and practice aligning their pelvis. (You can too, it’s inside my free Resources Hub www.paulasherbals.com/login) These fun sheets are one kind of learning medium we use. There’s also the private and the group learning sessions that are held weekly. And we have a private online community, where I share the replays of our group classes and hold discussions. There’s all kinds of good stuff, really. I invite you to take a look inside the Foot to Forehead Fix today, because this IS A NEAR LIVING EXPERIENCE. You're nearly living to the fullest extent you can- let's get you there. Have you been suffering a lack of movement during the shutdown? Are you stiff, achey, and sore?
I know, me too. No matter how much things have changed for you, chances are almost 100% that your regular routines have been upended and you're not moving as much or as well as you were just last month. Ugh. Let's not beat around the bush.
Sounds like we need to hang out!👍 What are you doing next Wednesday, May 6, at noon EST? Not much? Great, you should join me then for a FREE webinar! What kind of webinar? Well, in classic Paula style, it will include some interesting facts, some movement practice, and a bit of plant medicine. I'm going to show you a super easy, sitting-in-a-chair position that has the potential to to remove the strains and stresses on your body from poor posture and improve everything from low back pain to reflux (if you practice). (We're also going to share a spot ☕ of tea.) It's a tiny shift, a subtle habit to form, that can rock your world. And it can be yours, in less than an hour, on a Wednesday afternoon. Not bad, hmm? And like I said, this is FREE. Zero dollars. Gratis. All you need to do is register HERE, and you'll get the link to the webinar, as well as the details you'll need to know beforehand, in your email. Oh, and why not invite a couple friends too? This'll be fun! Semi-private training has always been my favorite way to work. Some private, one-on-one time, together with some small group energy, has consistently given my clients the best results. This way, we pull the best of both worlds together. In private sessions, we can talk about the deep stuff, we can focus on the particulars, and you can learn specific things that you really need with an attention to detail that we can’t get in “mixed company”. But in small group sessions, there’s energy. There’s the wisdom of a crowd. There’s inspiration for me and everyone else too, to see, think, do, and experience the work in brand new ways. So, let’s do both! In my Foot-to-Forehead Fundamentals Fix, you get both private sessions and small group sessions, all online. You get my personal attention, and you get to benefit from others. Bonus- the pricing is always better in a SPT course than it would be if it were all private work! FInd out more about my online Foot-to-Forehead Fundamentals Fix program here I've been going around and around deciding how to tell you about my online program- why I'm offering it, who it helps, why you should care. Finally, I just sat down and wrote you a letter. Since I don't have your snail mail address, here it is. Dear You, I know you’ve always been active, in motion. Keeping everyone and everything around you going, flowing, clean and tidy, engaged and entertained. And I know you’re worried about aging, gracefully or otherwise. And I know you’re BUSY! Life doesn’t slow down just because you have a few more aches and pains. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just make your physical history go away? If you could wave a magic wand and you could feel as nimble as you used to? So many of us have accumulated Living Pains that have eroded our confidence, our trust in our own bodies. I want you to level up your experience of your own “normal”. I want you to feel your confidence again, your self-assurance, your mojo, your strength- literally and figuratively. (Whaaa..? Well, we hear that mind/body/spirit are one, we see the word “holistic” bandied about, but our culture still divides them and our ingrained understanding is of separations between what we think and what we do. So I talk about connections. You can have muscular AND personality strength. You deserve both! You can have spatial AND systemic balance. They work together! It takes some practice to understand the world as a Whole, so just roll with me on this for now. OK, let’s continue.) Back to that “life doesn’t slow down” idea. What I’m suggesting is, yes, a little bit extra. Some online classes, a few private meetings with me. And I know you’re busy. But what’s that old saying? Oh yeah- An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. (A favorite Ben Franklin-ism) I also like this one: I don’t believe in luck, I believe in preparation. (By the great Bobby Knight) Can you handle just one more? Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. (Thank you Richard Kline) In all the years (allllllll the years!) I’ve been teaching people like you about functional, whole body movements (in those reformer pilates classes) and about integrating plant medicine into your lives to stay healthy and sane in the first place (Stress? Sleep? Anybody? Boy, that’s a lot of hands waving. Alright, everybody!), I keep seeing the same 2 things over and over and over: EverySingleOneOfUs needs to go back to basics just a little AND Everyone feels AMAZING when they suddenly, finally get it. You feel strong, self-assured, confident, balanced, and lively. Imagine that. The preparation plan that I’m offering you is made of foundational, small movement practices. They’re designed to fit easily into your life, in natural pauses and positions you already have. And of simple food medicine to heal our most common complaints, like around chronic stress, inflammation, poor digestion or elimination. This program doesn’t ask you to stop anything you’re already doing. In fact, it encourages you to get more in! It’s not a replacement for your workouts, your walks, your memberships and your favorite sports. What is does do is create a solid, stable foundation for you to move and live from, so that everything you do is improving your physical infrastructure. What if taking a walk improved your hips, pelvis, and core? What if gardening or washing dishes improved your posture and endurance? What if you learned not just to breathe, but HOW to breathe, and it improved your reflux? Imagine having a sense of adventure again- do you want to climb the Rocky steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (72 steps)? Or maybe climb to the top of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome (551 steps!)? I’ve heard these stories and more from amazing, normal clients who finally decided to go for their bucket lists, stories about hiking volcanoes, and zip lining in rainforests, and biking across beautiful countries. I’ve also heard about getting on the floor to play with the grandkids, and doing home-improvement projects by hand, and taking up a favorite game again, and managing an over-full shopping basket with ease. The bigger story here is what it took to get from sitting too much, hurting too much, limping and creaking and groaning too much, to these successes. Surprise- it doesn’t take that much. So if you’re ready to start at the beginning, just a little bit, and learn how to literally and figuratively reposition yourself for living healthy and active again, let’s chat. Our next class starts soon. With Hugs and Chamomile, Paula Have you ever felt the slow, disorienting fall? Sure, I’ve missed a step, stumbled, tumbled, crashed, and just plain dropped. But that one time, on a street corner, it was very different. I had food bags in both hands, I was contemplating how I was going to reach my keys when I got to the parking lot, and I stepped into a handicap ramp on a corner. It was early spring, a beautiful day, and the restaurant across the street had an outdoor deck full of diners. A winter’s worth of plowing had deposited a good layer of tiny gravel and glass shards on the ramp, and I put my foot down. It just didn’t stay there. As I started to slide my mind shattered into about a dozen pieces:
What’s the point?
Simply, that one day you may also find yourself on unstable footing, unlike anything else you’ve ever experienced before, and in need of grounding, direction, or even adaptation. Sometimes it’s something physical that changes you dramatically. Sometimes is your perception or acceptance of what's “normal” or “reality”. Whatever it is, it can shake you up and make you lose your senses. And I get it. I can help. I’m stepping into the space of working on our physical foundations, literally and figuratively. Whether you’re trying to avoid, recover from, or adjust to your own slide in the gravel, we’ll get you settled first, see what’s what, and build a framework to help you work in the strengthening and supporting practices I give you- like scaffolding. You're not alone. In the midst of these uncertain times, we’re “All in the same boat, but not all in the same storm.” I wish I could remember who wrote those words, because the sentiment seems to perfectly encapsulate how differently everyone is experiencing the Covid-19 crisis. Personally I am alternating between fear and anxiety (which drives me to excessive production as a way to deflect the unknown) and acknowledging my decades of fatigue and exhaustion already brought on by excess productivity (which calls me to rest and contemplate and dream). As a result of these two states, I’m having bouts of insight that I’m moved to record here for the future shape of my work. However, I don’t want you to think that I am suggesting you should use this time to be, do, or change anything that doesn’t feel appropriate for you now. Even I can’t do that, and these are my thoughts. Just know that in the After Times, these posts will form the foundation of how I want to effect change in the world. Do what you can for yourself now. A is for Anatomy and AlignmentYou can’t trip over an exercise article without mention of the “core”. But seriously, who cares? Well, it IS pretty useful, in all honesty. Our bones exist for our muscles to pull on them (among other reasons, of course. Cool it, #anatomynerd) We need our muscles to pull on our bones to move, like a lever and pulley system, but also to stabilize the pulleys (joints) so we don’t fall apart. The core is cool because the middle of our torso doesn’t have any bones. Instead, layers of muscles between the pelvis, ribs, and spine work to help keep us upright, to keep us from peeing ourselves, and to create “intra-abdominal pressure”- useful for things like digestion and blood pressure. So the core is really the front, back, top, AND bottom muscles of the torso- abdominals, pelvic floor, diaphragm, spine muscles. They’re supposed to have some give and take, some ability to expand and contract, and not just be locked in for that impossible-to-attain washboard looking thing. Besides, if the rest of your body is mis-aligned, the core can’t work the way it’s supposed to anyway. What does this look like? At the bottom end of things, the core is attached to the hips and pelvis. So if your leg and hip muscles are uneven, unengaged, or unbalanced, they will pull your core off-center and impact the function of everything from your feet to your spine. At the top end, rib flaring is common in our “chest out, belly in” culture. We learn how to Stand Up Straight by throwing out the chest, not by straightening our alignment- it’s fake posture. This puts an awful lot of strain on the psoas (pilates peeps, you knew I couldn’t get through any mention of anatomy without the delightful psoas making an appearance!!) and on the neck. Any kind of alignment issues will literally mess you up from your feet to your forehead. B is for Breathing and BittersThe ribs move SO THAT they can disperse the pressure of breathing. If your ribs are flared (aka popped), then when you try to breathe they can’t go any farther and they stop being part of your breathing mechanics. Instead, when you breathe without your ribs you’re messing with your intra-abdominal pressure (bad idea) and with your chest (also bad idea). Chest breathing can actually cause anxiety, because it puts stimulates upper back nerves which feed signals to the brain that scream, “Pressure on the chest! We’re suffocating!” If you’re feeling tightness or burning on the center of the breastbone just below the collarbone, or a feeling like you need to take a deep breath and stretch that area, you may benefit from relaxing your ribs. More on that in a future video. Half of your digestion happens inside your ribcage, so realigning it really helps here too. Pretty much every organ except the large and small intestines are actually inside the confines of your ribs. How do you relax your ribs? Think about a big yawn. Now that you’re yawning (gotcha!), take that big stretch and big breath in, and let it out all at once- whoosh. Where are your ribs? Down, relaxed, and over your hips. Pretty quickly, they’ll probably start reaching forward so yawn them back down again, until you recognize the down position and can just go there. Side effects- you might gurgle, burp, fart, or even release constipation. Yay you! We’re not built to be silent machines. Digestion is a dynamic process, and anything we do to support it should be increasing its activity and energy, not just creating an end result. I’ve been thinking about this, though. Digestive remedies work in a variety of ways that act together to move the instinctive processes of metabolism and elimination along. They stimulate the different parts of digestion- chemical, mechanical, instinctual. For example, Herbal Bitters (my personal favorites) are amazing, and not just for digestion. When you taste a bitter flavor, bitter taste receptors ALL OVER your body relax smooth muscles. (Do a PubMed search for “bitter” and “asthma”!) In digestion, this means that smooth muscles like the intestines relax and expand and allow for more effective functioning. Bitters also stimulate the liver, the gallbladder, the pancreas, saliva, peristalsis, all kinds of fun things. But here’s the problem: In addition to popping our ribs to fake good posture, we also worry about the look of that belly. What good is herbally supporting the relaxing and expanding of your smooth muscles if you’re also “sucking in” AllDayEveryDay? How can the GI tract relax if it’s got nowhere to go? Or worse, what if it finds somewhere else to go? C is for Contraction and (In)continence and ConstipationRather than thinking of the core like a “wall” with a front and back, think of it like a balloon. Your abdominals wrap around your torso like plastic wrap (or a corset), your pelvic floor supports it at the bottom, and your diaphragm supports it at the top. What would happen to that balloon if you squeezed it in the middle (the equivalent of sucking your belly in)? First, all your organs get squeezed, and they’ve got nowhere to go. They lose all movement and blood flow is reduced. For context, a good deep breath can move your kidneys 3 inches side to side. Second, all that squeezed intra-abdominal pressure has to go somewhere, and it only has 3 choices- up, down, or out. If you squeeze the balloon and the top bulges, now you’ve got pressure pushing UP on the stomach, esophagus, etc. Reflux, and all its friends, are common. Plus, since blood flow is being cut off any kind of inflammation in there (think: leaky gut, ulcers, esophagus erosion) can’t be healed very well. Bottom-directed pressure pushes on the pelvic floor. This can look like urge or stress incontinence (I can’t hold it vs sneeze pee), prolapse (or enlarged prostate in men), pain (during elimination, sex, sitting, walking, etc), constipation, or the like. Out-pressure exits through the belly button. Hernia. ‘Nuff said. Absolutely NONE of these are easy issues to deal with. Wouldn’t you rather avoid them in the first place? The very first thing you can do to help is relax your belly, right now. Then, by the time you’ve finished reading this sentence, relax it again. Got you, didn’t I? The idea of sucking in is so very, very ingrained. It’s good for support. It’s good for looks. It’s good for who knows what else. But it’s not. No more than tight shoes or tight bras or tight shirts and jackets are good for us, regardless of how we think they look. At what point does a toddler’s cute round belly become a sign of “letting yourself go”, and who taught you that anyway? It’s crap. They know how to move naturally, let's take some lessons from the under-3 set. Your core muscles reflexively engage when you need them. They relax and allow for internal functioning when you don’t. Yes, you can work with someone like me to align and strengthen them when lifestyles aren’t challenging enough to do it already (that’s most of us, tbh.) You can also make sure you’re breathing when you move, that’s a massively important part of the core reflex. The biggest thing you can do, though, is relax your belly. Sucking in only rearranges your internal organs. It does NOT support, stabilize, brace, or improve anything. And yet, just about everyone has this habit, me included. The practice is just to relax, over and over and over, retraining yourself that relaxed is normal. Yes, there’s conversations to be had about the position of the pelvis, and muscle recruitment patterns, and stress responses and habits, and other such related subjects. And yes, there’s LOTS of practitioners out there besides me who have wonderfully helpful and accurate things to teach you about this. Learn from them, or from me, whichever- just learn it! Your body is supposed to work and move, fashion and culture keep it restrained and embarrassed, you have to practice to relearn natural habits. That's my calling, relearning those natural habits. Check out ways to work with me if you're interested. In the midst of these uncertain times, we’re “All in the same boat, but not all in the same storm.” I wish I could remember who wrote those words, because the sentiment seems to perfectly encapsulate how differently everyone is experiencing the Covid-19 crisis. Personally I am alternating between fear and anxiety (which drives me to excessive production as a way to deflect the unknown) and acknowledging my decades of fatigue and exhaustion already brought on by excess productivity (which calls me to rest and contemplate and dream). As a result of these two states, I’m having bouts of insight that I’m moved to record here for the future shape of my work. However, I don’t want you to think that I am suggesting you should use this time to be, do, or change anything that doesn’t feel appropriate for you now. Even I can’t do that, and these are my thoughts. Just know that in the After Times, these posts will form the foundation of how I want to effect change in the world. Do what you can for yourself now. You too? Here's 2 stretches that are part of the Release & Relief program that can help ease your tech neck. Read more about the R&R program or reach out if you have questions! In the midst of these uncertain times, we’re “All in the same boat, but not all in the same storm.” I wish I could remember who wrote those words, because the sentiment seems to perfectly encapsulate how differently everyone is experiencing the Covid-19 crisis. Personally I am alternating between fear and anxiety (which drives me to excessive production as a way to deflect the unknown) and acknowledging my decades of fatigue and exhaustion already brought on by excess productivity (which calls me to rest and contemplate and dream). As a result of these two states, I’m having bouts of insight that I’m moved to record here for the future shape of my work. However, I don’t want you to think that I am suggesting you should use this time to be, do, or change anything that doesn’t feel appropriate for you now. Even I can’t do that, and these are my thoughts. Just know that in the After Times, these posts will form the foundation of how I want to effect change in the world. Do what you can for yourself now. For so many years, Pilates and Herbal Medicine have been my 2 separate lives. At first I was overwhelmed with my pilates studio situation, and when that changed it was a relief but I no longer had the independence to be creative. I couldn't break down the gate between these two wellness approaches. My entire pilates career, I’ve been hearing about how surprisingly great pilates clients felt once they got into their practice. At the same time, I’ve been hearing about how amazed herbal clients were that simple plants could change their digestive system, stress responses, mental focus, ability to heal, and more. Now, as I write this, it’s day 16 of my own coronavirus shut down. I’ve only seen my pilates machines maybe twice, while I was picking up some items to try and make workout-at-home videos. And I’ve been seriously contemplating the overlap of movement medicine and herbal medicine. Here’s what I believe: It’s all inputs. Nothing we take in or do “makes up” for past inputs. No amount of exercise “makes up” for sitting most of the day, or eating anything, or dwelling in spite or anger. I don’t believe there’s any subtraction or division or past- there’s only addition, or multiplication, and future. This is what my experience has taught me.
Maybe it's not a good time to introduce a new program. People are stressed. We're experiencing collective anxiety, fear, and trauma. Our routines have been trashed, our freedoms curtailed, our very ability to move restricted.
Maybe it's the perfect time to introduce a new program. Avoidance coping mechanisms mean we spend all day at the computer, or on the couch. Learning how to exercise in our living rooms and basements via Zoom and YouTube leads to unaccustomed tweaks and soreness. So many people adopting the WFH lifestyle are unprepared for the amounts of time they'll spend in a different chair, at a different desk, without the support and customs of their "normal" day in place. I don't know. Maybe it's both. The very fact that we're not supposed to leave our homes means that we should be deliberately trying to move more in them. The very stress we're sinking under has a multitude of outlets in Adaptogens, herbs that help us adapt to stressful environments. The very virus we're threatened with requires us all to look after our immune systems, one of many systems that traditions like Herbalism are very well prepared to build and support. So maybe this isn't for you. Instead, it might be perfect for someone you know. Or it is perfect for you, but there's just too much "I can't even right now" for you to focus. All that is fine. Here's all the details about my new online program that combines movement, herbal medicine supports, private coaching, and small-group learning. I'm calling it Release and Relief: Back and Pelvic Pain Edition You're invited to join, share, or ignore- whatever fits you best. |
Fun Fact: I'm an herbalist and a movement coach. Not a doctor, or a pharmacist, and not pretending to be one on TV.
This is a public space, so my writing reflects my experiences and I try to stay general enough so it might relate to you. This does not constitute medical advice, and I encourage you to discuss concerns with your doctor. Remember, however, that the final say in your wellness decisions are always yours- you have the power to choose, you are the boss of you. And, some of my posts may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase through them I'll earn a few cents. Thank you for supporting my work. This website is provided for educational and informational purposes only and is not medical, mental health or healthcare advice. The information presented here is not intended to diagnose, treat, heal, cure or prevent any illness, medical condition or mental or emotional condition. Working with us is not a guarantee of any results. Paula Billig owns all copyrights to the materials presented here unless otherwise noted. Categories
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