PT Mindfully

19/07/2022

💫⭐️NEW!⭐️ 💫

Join us on Instagram Live THIS Thursday, 7/21 @ 12 PM PST for our very first installment of 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑨𝒃𝒍𝒆.

This week’s topic: “The Science Behind a Holistic Approach to Chronic Pain”

Anytime I create content and before I put it out into the world, I ask myself one question: would this content have been helpful to 𝒎𝒆 as I was learning to live better with chronic illness?

If the answer is yes, out it goes into the ether! 🌌

Ya’ll, this collaboration was a big YES for me. 🙌🏼

I am so excited to partner with to discuss all things chronic illness and chronic pain, because aside from being a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Owner of the Bay Area’s leading holistic PT business, Amber is an expert on the neuroscience of chronic pain. 🙌🏼

So if you’ve ever wished you could have access to a Physical Therapist AND a Music Therapist who 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 specialize in helping people with chronic illness + chronic pain, this is your chance. 🍀

We’ll be chatting about everything from cutting edge research, to navigating the healthcare system, to tapping into your creativity, to our personal experiences with chronic illness & chronic pain, and more.

Grab your beverage of choice ☕️, and we’ll see you via IG Live on Thursday @ noon! 💚

23/09/2021

Persistent pain affects 1 in 3 people in the United States! Hard to believe? Just think, do you know anyone who struggles with ongoing low back pain, headaches, or arthritic pain? Chances are, you do, it's extremely common!

My Empowered Relief workshop is THIS Saturday, September 25th from 1-3pm PST on zoom. Please share this resource with anyone you know who is struggling with chronic pain 🙏 There are solutions and no one should suffer needlessly.
https://ptmindfully.com/product/empowered-relief/

07/06/2021

As a physical therapist, I am often reminded how little the average person knows about how the brain and body work. I believe that basic anatomy and physiology should be part of our educational system; after all, we all have brains and bodies, yet we are never given an instruction manual! For this reason, I have decided to start a bookclub specifically for learning more about these amazing vessels we inhabit.

Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of your brain and body? If so, please join the waitlist for my Health Empowerment bookclub! We'll begin as soon as I get 10 signups 🤓 💪 🧠

Thank you for your interest in learning together :)

02/06/2021

Persistent pain affects 1 in 3 people in the United States! Hard to believe? Just think, do you know anyone who struggles with ongoing low back pain, headaches, or arthritic pain? Chances are, you do, it's extremely common!

My Empowered Relief workshop is coming up on June 19th from 1-3pm PST on zoom. Please share this resource with anyone you know who is struggling with chronic pain 🙏 There are solutions and no one should suffer needlessly.

https://ptmindfully.com/product/empowered-relief/

20/05/2021

Empowered Relief is back on June 19th from 1-3pm PST! This workshop is a 2 hour, single session, skills based pain class that will give you a better understanding of pain and quickly provide you with the tools to manage it more successfully.

You will walk away from the workshop with a binaural relaxation audio file and a personalized plan for pain relief. You are encouraged to bring a friend or family member, as it is important for those who are closest to you to understand what you are going through.

Please share this information with anyone who is struggling with any kind of ongoing pain 🙏

Empowered Relief™ is a skills-based, single-session pain class that rapidly equips patients with pain management skills. Developed at Stanford University, it delivers the most up to date evidence regarding persistent pain. This session will be held on Saturday 6/19/21 from 1-3pm PST.

06/05/2021

How to Incorporate More Movement Into Your Daily Life: A thread

Last Tuesday, I hosted a Clubhouse room on how to incorporate more movement in to your every day life with the Kidney Journeys club. It was a wonderful conversation where we challenged the idea that exercise has to be strenuous, lengthy, and structured to be beneficial for the brain and body.

I put together this resource to remind each of us that movement, activity, and exercise can take many forms! The key to staying active is to find something that you enjoy, something that makes you feel connected to your community, and something that you can stick to over time.

What do you do to add movement to your day?

01/05/2021

Mindful self-compassion is an important component of managing and healing from chronic pain 🙏🏻

This randomized controlled trial compares the novel intervention (MSC program) with the gold standard psychological intervention for CP (CBT). MSC improves the levels of self-compassion, a therapeutic target that is receiving attention since the last two decades, and it also improves anxiety symptom...

27/04/2021

The "Don'ts" of Offering Support: A Thread

People living with chronic pain and/or illness face a daily battle and really benefit from receiving support from their community. However if you aren't a medical provider and you haven't experienced chronic illness yourself, it can be challenging to know how to offer support. Unfortunately, many of our automatic responses to another person's suffering are not helpful to that person and in fact, can feel invalidating and hurtful.

While people are just trying to help someone feel better by saying things like "look on the bright side", "have you tried meditation?", or "don't worry so much, it can't be that serious", these statements often make the person in pain feel unheard and misunderstood. Chronic illness can be extremely isolating and negative interactions like these further reinforce the feeling that no one can understand what they are going through.

To this end, I have put together a resource with some suggestions of what not to say or do when offering support. Have you experienced an empathic miss?

14/04/2021

The "Dos" of Offering Support: A Thread

People living with chronic pain and chronic illness face a daily battle and really benefit from receiving support from their community. However, if you aren't a medical provider and you haven't experienced chronic illness yourself, it can be challenging to know how to offer support. When illness and symptoms persist for a long time and people face an uncertain future, it can be challenging to know what to say. To this end, I have created some resources with suggestions on how to offer support.

Each person is unique and will respond to these differently, but this is a good place to start. The statements offered are simply examples and you should adjust your language to suit the person's situation and to honor your relationship to this person.

What else could someone say or do to help you when you are struggling?