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The other day I saw a client who was feeling #anxious and complaining of shoulder and low back #pain. Instead of performing manual therapy to relieve her pain, I took another approach that I am going to call Emotional Body Mapping.  I asked her to write a list of all the ‘negative’ thoughts she most often has. Then, I asked her to repeat each statement aloud one-by-one and notice what emotion was connected to that statement and where she felt it in her body. She felt three of

The Gut and Brain are closely linked. Gut Inflammation plays a key role in illness, pain, and emotions. Some anti-inflammatory tips

Let’s be blunt. #Pain sucks. It really sucks. It interferes with every aspect of a person’s life, and it affects others around us. So, what is pain?  Our body has “danger detectors” called nociceptors that send messages through nerve roots to the spinal cord, which, in turn, decides to send or not send messages, or to alter and not send all messages to the brain. The brain reads and processes these messages, compares it with our emotions, thoughts, expectations, beliefs, memo