Mind Insight

15/07/2025

🏃‍♂️ Want to enhance your athletic performance?

Athletes often turn to Kinetic Chain Release to improve balance, movement efficiency, and recovery.

KCR helps ensure the body is functioning as a fully connected system—reducing risk of injury and supporting peak performance.

Whether you’re a weekend runner or a seasoned competitor, your body will thank you.

07/07/2025

Fancy 'bouncing out' of a treatment?

That's what a recent client reported to me after a Kinetic Chain Release therapy session.

The person in question is awaiting a hip replacement.

So 'bouncing' sounds like a win to me.

If you want some of what they are having, contact me.

Limited appointments Fridays only in Cheltenham.

Book yours by emailing alison@mindinsight.online.

26/06/2025

Struggling with back pain that just won’t go away—even after trying different treatments?

If you're relying on opioid painkillers to cope, you're not alone. But there may be another way.

✨ New research shows that mindfulness can offer lasting relief for chronic back pain.

Pain is complex. It's not just in the body—it’s shaped by your brain, emotions, and past experiences. Mindfulness helps you explore these layers gently and skillfully, so you can respond in ways that truly support healing.

I teach mindfulness specially tailored for people living with persistent pain—both in person in Cheltenham, UK, and online.

💬 DM me if you'd like to find out more.

This randomized clinical trial compares the long-term impact of mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) vs cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in patients with opioid-treated chronic lower back pain.

25/06/2025

How’s your posture today?

Modern life doesn’t do our posture any favours. Whether you’re sitting at a desk, standing for long hours, or always on the move, your body can find itself out of balance.

Kinetic Chain Release (KCR) therapy helps your musculoskeletal structure function well by identifying and releasing restrictions in the body. More flexible posture means less strain, easier movement, and improved energy.

Contact me for appointments in Cheltenham.

19/06/2025

🌿 How well do you really connect with yourself?

Take a moment to think about the way you speak to yourself. Is it gentle? Encouraging? Would you speak to a friend the same way?

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Anna Clarissa Publico-Ong on her podcast, The Happiness Minute. In our conversation, we explored the importance of slowing down, becoming observers of our thoughts and feelings, and choosing where we place our attention. 💭💫

It’s such a powerful practice—and one that can make a real difference in how we relate to ourselves, especially when living with pain or ill health.

🎧 I’ve popped the link to the full episode in the comments if you'd like to listen.

19/06/2025

✨ How well do you really connect with yourself?

Is your inner voice kind? Supportive? Would you speak to a friend the way you speak to yourself?

I recently had the joy of joining .ph on The Happiness Minute podcast 🎙️—we talked about the power of slowing down, observing our thoughts, and gently guiding our attention with intention. 💫

It’s a reminder that how we speak to ourselves shapes how we feel and heal.

🎧 Head to the bio for the link to the full episode.

17/06/2025

🌀 Tired of living with chronic pain?

Back pain, headaches, joint tension—it can all stem from hidden imbalances in your body’s movement chain.

Kinetic Chain Release (KCR) therapy works to gently realign your body and ease tension, helping many clients experience lasting relief.

If your pain is holding you back, KCR could be the next step on your journey to feeling better.

Book a session and feel the difference.

Link in the comments.

12/06/2025

✨ What is Kinetic Chain Release (KCR)?

KCR is a gentle yet powerful bodywork therapy that helps restore balance and alignment in your body. Developed by physiotherapist Hugh Gilbert, it treats the body as a connected system—because discomfort in one area often stems from imbalances elsewhere.

KCR involves a series of mobilisations and stretches, performed fully clothed, designed to release tension and improve overall function.

If you’re dealing with pain, poor posture or stress, this could be the supportive reset your body needs.

📍Sessions available now – message me to learn more.

05/06/2025

Knee pain isn't always due to a problem with your knees. Or back pain due to your back.

Your body works as a whole and movement at any one joint impacts others.

If you are experiencing joint pain that won't go away, pain in many areas, or repetitive strains, consider Kinetic Chain Release (KCR) therapy.

KCR involves gentle mobilisation of the whole 'kinetic chain' - from your feet to the back of your head.

You get pain relief, improved strength, and more flexibility and suppleness.

Appointments available Friday mornings at The Isbourne in Cheltenham.

By appointment only - contact alison@mindinsight.online.

03/06/2025

It’s all about attention 💫

What we choose to focus on matters — more than we often realise.

When pain is present, it’s completely natural to focus on it with resistance: “I don’t want this”, “Why won’t it stop?”, “Make it go away.”

But this inner struggle, though understandable, can actually amplify the pain.

Mindfulness offers us another way.

We can choose to be present with the pain and bring a different kind of attention to it — one that is curious, welcoming, and accepting.

This kind of gentle awareness soothes the nervous system.

The body recognises that the mind is listening — and that in itself is deeply reassuring.

Over time, pain softens. Not because we’re fighting it, but because we’re meeting it with kindness.

✨ Follow me for more on how mindfulness can support you in living with less pain and more ease.

30/05/2025

Pain isn’t just a physical experience.

It’s also shaped by our thoughts and emotions—fear, anger, guilt, loneliness, helplessness. These emotional layers can make the pain feel even more overwhelming.

One powerful shift comes when we learn to separate the raw sensation of pain from the suffering created by our thoughts about it.

Mindfulness offers us this space—meeting the experience of pain with awareness, without adding judgment or extra struggle. 💛

✨ If you're curious about how mindfulness might ease your pain and help you navigate life with more compassion and clarity, I’d love to connect.

Leave a 🌿 in the comments or send me a message to learn more.

29/05/2025

Is your chain taking too much strain?

Your kinetic chain that is.

The anatomical links between your feet, ankles, knees, hips, lower back, upper back, all the way to your head.

Problems anywhere along the 'chain' can cause pain and dysfunction somewhere else. And increase your risk of repetitive strains and injury.

Kinetic Chain Release (KCR) therapy is a gentle, whole body approach to releasing and rebalancing.

Great for anyone experiencing chronic pain that impacts multiple areas of the body, for athletes looking to enhance performance and reduce injury risk, or for anyone looking to reconnect better their body and mind.

I'm practicing KCR therapy on Fridays at The Isbourne in Cheltenham.

Email alison@mindinsight.online, or phone 07946 867769, to book.