OVER TIME UNRESOLVED PHYSICAL IMBALANCES AND LIMITING BELIEFS CREATE CAHOS IN OUR POSTURAL ALIGNMENT AND MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM - POSTURAL PSYCHOTHERAPY LOOK AT THE BIOMECHANICS OF BELIEFS I would say that 12648353869 x Week (give or take 1or 2) I get Questions about chronic pain...So here it is! People come and see me referred by GP's, Chiropractors, Surgeons, Physios, Yoga Teachers, Massage Therapists but also from family and friends. Indeed we know that the battle for Chronic pain treatment and management often falls into the "Too Hard basket" for a lot of Practitioners. So here is for my little story that will give you some insight and you can judge yourself if you need my help. For years I was a well established Senior Yoga teacher and lecturer, teaching classes, mentoring teachers and seeing patients suffering from muscular skeletal pain (back, neck shoulder pain, you name it.) Until one day I was the one in need of treatment after a nasty fall with broken ankle, damaged lumbar spine and sacrum. No bowel control for weeks, constant pain due to nerve damage. All of this combined with menopause symptoms (no need to describe!!) and the flare up of a hepatitis C virus that had been sleeping for years apparently and gave me severe Chronic fatigue amongst other debilitating symptoms. To the point that I could not cross the road without having to lie down for the rest of the day. I saw many people as you can imagine! And came to a place in my life where everything was Let’s say not acute anymore but rather lingering. Not good enough to my liking and when the “guru” of physiotherapist in Sydney told me that the best bet would be to take anti-inflammatory and wait till my spine fuses by itself in a few years time, I got very angry! A good healthy anger that reflected my struggle and drove me to “look till I find” a solution that would give me the tools to build a solid treatment plan for my back so I could at least sleep and move again with confidence! Remember that I am also teaching Yoga!!! At that time, I am teaching sitting in a chair, foot up, guiding my class from this unorthodox “mat”. So I went a little crazy! The thing is I am also ridiculously passionate about this subject. I read everything, spent thousands of hours researching people, events, meeting the best in the business: Olympic consultants, Olympic Therapists, Neuroscientists, healers, biomechanics experts, Psychotherapists, Mindfulness practitioners, and the list goes on. I tapped into their secrets and methods. I obsessed like a crazy person! I became a pest when they refused to train me because I was not a recorded physio or chiro, till I proved them I knew enough and sometimes more than their students and established practitioners …then they took me in, blessed their heart. I took the best of what I learned and straight away implemented, tweaked it, tested it with my own patients. And I put my own spin on it. I went like a mad scientist and I created my first clinic specialised in chronic pain in the northern beaches of Sydney. A bunch of highly respected Chiropractors rent it out a room for me to operate from and I have never advertised! Not once, it just took off, steadily till now when I am ready to expand and teach all that I know to whom wants to help a community that need more than what we offer today
So this page is for you all. I will try and help as much as I can. I would love to see you feel better in yourself but also know that there is hope. I am talking from experience, my own but also as a healer/therapist. I have been rewarded with people choosing to opt out of surgery because they felt they were finally on the right track. I saw athletes, ready to throw in the towel, go back to the track and bit their own records. I have seen suicidal patients smile at Life again. I have seen mothers who could not play with their children anymore, offer piggybacks and play ball with them again! I have seen young patients stand tall and pain free as they changed their posture together with their perception of themselves and Life. I have seen an old man crying because he could hold his wife's hand again after years of suffering from arthritis. And much, much more…so many people moving again with confidence, going back to doing what they like best, surfing, running, cycling, golfing, dancing. So I hope we can use this platform to help you guys and girls see that there may be light at the end of the tunnel.
