The Pain and Movement Detective

02/06/2026

01/06/2026

🕵️‍♀️ Is your perfume causing your movement issues?

Sounds ridiculous, right?

Try this...
Pick a movement: ➡️ Squat ➡️ Lunge ➡️ Forward bend ➡️ Neck turn ➡️ Shoulder rotation
Check how it feels.

Now smell a perfume, essential oil, hand cream, deodorant, cleaning product... anything with a scent.

Repeat the movement.
Did it stay the same? Get easier? Or get worse?
That response is information.

Your nervous system is constantly scanning your environment and deciding what feels safe and what doesn't.

If your movement improves, your brain may perceive that smell as safe and supportive.

If your movement gets worse, your system may be responding to that scent as a stressor.

It doesn't necessarily mean the smell is "bad."
It simply means your nervous system is having a response to it.

The fascinating part?
You could be surrounded by inputs every day that are influencing how your body moves, feels and functions without ever realising it.

As a Pain & Movement Detective, I'm always looking for hidden clues.
Sometimes the clue isn't in the muscle.
Sometimes it's in the information your brain is receiving.

Your body is always talking.
The question is...
Are you listening? 👂

Try this for yourself and let me know what you learned about your nervous system and the smells it feels safe or threatened around in the comments below!

18/05/2026

I ask a lot of questions because questions = answers = clues. 🔎
Your body history holds SO many clues to your pain and movement puzzle.
Old injuries. Surgeries. Scars. Stressful periods. Pregnancies. Falls. Accidents. Repeated movements. Emotional events.

None of it is random.
Your nervous system is constantly building a story from everything your body has experienced… and sometimes the pain you feel today is connected to something your brain still sees as important, stressful or unresolved.

That’s why I’m always curious. Because the clues matter.
Pain isn’t always about the place that hurts. Sometimes it’s the compensation. The protection. The adaptation.

The body leaves breadcrumbs everywhere if you know how to look for them. 🕵️‍♀️
Different questions. Different clues. Different answers. Different outcomes.

Comment CLUES for my free E Guide on the missing clues to your pain puzzle

12/05/2026

This is Dee.

She came up to me in the gym after clinic to ask if I could help with pain and severe tension in her left hand.

10 years ago, Dee underwent surgery and suffered not one… but TWENTY EIGHT strokes.

Since then, her nervous system has held her hand tightly clenched in a protective pattern. Her fingers curl in hard, her shoulder and neck stay tense, and despite splinting the hand open to try and force it to open up … nothing really changed.

Now most people would look directly at the hand.

But me?
I’m asking:

🕵️ “What input does the brain need to feel safe enough to let go?”

So we had a little experiment.

I grabbed a few bits from my room and started testing different sensory inputs to see if we could calm the nervous system enough to create an “entry point” for movement.

And then… magic ✨

The second Dee put on the BLUE lens glasses, we literally watched:
• her fingers begin to uncurl
• the tension leave her shoulder and neck
• her whole system soften

Then we swapped to RED lenses…

And BOOM....
Straight back into tension.
Hand clenched.
Protective pattern switched back on immediately.

So we returned to blue.

Because for Dee’s nervous system, that frequency of light was a safer input to the brain and the output changed completely.

THAT is the bit I find fascinating.

The brain is constantly taking in information and deciding:
“Am I safe enough to relax?”
“Can I access movement?”
“Can I let go of protection?”

Once her system softened, we suddenly had access to movement we didn’t have before.

So we started simple coordination work between the fingers and thumb while the nervous system was in a calmer, more receptive state.

Honestly, it was incredible to watch.

And more than anything… it gave us HOPE.

Thank you so much to Dee for allowing me to share this ❤️

This is exactly why I do what I do.

Sometimes the body doesn’t need forcing.
It needs the right clues. 🔎

Have you tried everything and want to see if the applied neurology lens could work for you?

Jump in my DMs or book a free Clarity call at the link above ☝️

18/10/2025

Just had a fab confidence session with .washington at the Show Up with Confidence day with


There is so much expectation by others as to what I do that sometimes I reign myself in so as to make me not completely off the beaten path of people's experience.

But I've just realised that the authentic Nat is exactly why people work with me and what makes me the amazing Pain and Movement Detective with the impact I have 💖

I'm here for it 🥰💖