The Vagus Nerve and Posture: How Your Body Reads Safety Through Shape The longest nerve in your body has been trying to tell you something for years. It starts at the brainstem. It threads through the neck, weaves through the chest, pierces the diaphragm, and fans out across the stomach, intestines, heart, and lungs. Eighty
Is It Too Late to Fix My Posture? The Truth About Age, Tissue, and Change Dear reader who just turned fifty-five and found this site at midnight, No. It is not too late. I know why you are here at this hour. You looked in the mirror, or someone took a photo from the side,
Best Sleeping Position for Scoliosis and Kyphosis: What Actually Matters You want to know which side to sleep on. Here is the short answer, then the real answer. The Short Answer Sleep in whichever position allows you to breathe the deepest and wake up the least. For most people with scoliosis or kyphosis, that is
DNS Exercises for Adults: Why Baby Positions Fix Grown-Up Posture You are about to lie on the floor and move like a three-month-old. And it is going to do more for your posture than the last five years of corrective exercise combined. I know how it sounds. Ridiculous. Reductive. Like some influencer selling you a
Somatic Exercises for Scoliosis: Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, and What They Share The best scoliosis exercises do not look like exercises at all. They look like a person lying on the floor, barely moving, paying attention to something invisible. No reps. No sets. No sweat. If you walked into the room you might think nothing was
The Hidden Symptoms of Scoliosis: Fatigue, Digestion, and What Your Spine Is Not Telling You Fatigue. Acid reflux. Brain fog. Digestive issues. Shortness of breath. Nobody told you these are all the same thing. You went to the doctor for the fatigue. Blood panels came back normal. You went for the digestion. Endoscopy clear. IBS
Can Posture Cause Anxiety? The Nervous System Connection Nobody Talks About I spent years thinking my anxiety lived in my head. Therapy. Journaling. Meditation. Breathing apps. I did all of it. None of it touched the thing that actually happened when anxiety arrived: my rib cage locked. Not my thoughts. My ribs. A physical cinching
Scoliosis and Breathing: Why Your Curve Affects Every Breath You Take She was lying on her right side, trying to breathe into the left lower ribs. The concave side. The collapsed side. The side where the rib cage folds in on itself and the diaphragm cannot descend. For three breaths, nothing happened. The air went
Your Back Pain Is Not Caused by Your Posture Posture does not cause back pain. That might be the most liberating sentence in this entire library. Read it again. Let it land. Because if you have been working on your posture specifically to fix your back pain, you have been solving the wrong equation. The
I Had an 85-Degree Scoliosis Curve The surgeon reached for his hardware catalog. I said no. I was eighteen. The X-ray showed an 85-degree S-curve. The kind of number that ends conversations. At that degree, the clinical pathway narrows to one option: metal rods, fusion, a spine that will be straighter but will never bend
