The Body Keeps the Score. You Can Update It. In 2014, Bessel van der Kolk published a book that changed how millions of people understood their own bodies. The Body Keeps the Score gave language to something people had felt but could not name. Your body holds what has happened to you. Not just as
The Five Words That Keep Your Posture Stuck There are five words that run every posture program you have ever tried. Hold. Fix. Stretch. Strengthen. Correct. Say them out loud and notice what your body does. You brace. You tighten. You try harder. That reaction is the problem. Not because trying is bad. Because those
What Your Diagnosis Actually Told Your Nervous System You remember the room. The light. The angle of the screen when they turned it toward you. You remember the tone. Not the words first. The tone. Something shifted in the air before the sentence landed. Your nervous system registered the signal before your conscious mind processed
The Best First Response to a Scoliosis or Kyphosis Diagnosis I wish someone had told me this before I spent a decade navigating the system. Before bracing. Before being told nothing could be done. Before I lost years to a model that could not see the thing generating my posture. There is a question that
Posture and Pregnancy: What Changes and What Comes Back Your body changed to carry another human being. Nine months of adaptation. Then the baby arrived and your body was supposed to go back. It did not. Pregnancy is the most dramatic body schema reorganization most people will experience. The body’s center of mass shifts forward
Sciatica, Posture, and the Prediction Your Body Won’t Let Go Of The pain runs down the back of your leg. You have been told it is your disc. It might not be. Sciatica is one of the most over-attributed diagnoses in musculoskeletal medicine. The nerve is real. The compression is sometimes real. But in many
Posture for Athletes: Why Your Strong Body Still Hurts You can deadlift twice your bodyweight. Your hip still locks when you get off a plane. David ran marathons and played tennis twice a week. His FMS score was above average. His hip restriction was getting worse every year. Strength was never the missing variable. David
Posture for Desk Workers: Why Ergonomics Is Not the Answer Your company spent $1,200 on your chair. Your back still hurts. I have seen more money spent on ergonomic chairs than on any other single posture intervention. The chairs are not the problem. The prediction the body is running while sitting in them is the
Posture and Anxiety: They’re Not Two Problems. They’re One. You went to the therapist for the anxiety. You went to the physio for the posture. Nobody told you they were the same thing. Two appointments. Two billing codes. Two professionals working on what appears to be two separate problems. One gave you breathing exercises for
You noticed it in a photo. Or someone mentioned it. Either way, now you cannot stop seeing it. That bump at the base of your neck. The one that seems to grow when you look at it in the mirror. The one that makes you stand sideways to avoid certain angles. The medical term is
