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I am a Cranial Sacral Therapist offering 60,75 and 90 minute sessions. Visit www.upledger.com for mor I offer support and help to you exactly where you are now.

This page is in support of each individuals positive aging process. Your program will be tailor made to you and only you. You and I will sit down in person or over the phone and map out a positive aging strategy to meet your individual needs. I travel through out Washington and Oregon though I have been known to head to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming or Colorado. Message me here to get started. You can influence the process.

05/17/2024

Wow my hats off to all the truck drivers who sit in their rigs all day driving all over to deliver goods to us all. I spent the last two days in the car for random reasons and I’m stiff and sore. Mature joints aren’t made to be still. Gimme 6 hours of gardening instead.

12/26/2021

Seems as it’s been forever since I wrote a post. Months if not years have passed. I thank those who have visited my site and been patiently or not so patiently waiting for another post.
I want to speak to the insidiousness of societal views on aging as I have had, am dealing with this on a grand scale. This is a huge surprise to me. For years I have promoted positive aging and aging with grace. I have written papers, posts and taught classes on rising above societal views on the aging process. And what happens? I turned 65 last month and catch myself many times thinking I shouldn’t or won’t be able to do something because of my age. DAMN talk about being pi**ed off and surprised about invasive thought patterns from a country deeply entrenched with ageism. How dare the voices in my head, yes, we all have them, tell me to be careful or ask for help or be amazed that I can still lift, shovel or bend over at my age. Double damn. My mother walked 3 miles several times a week until she was about 80. She would get out and w**d and care for a dozen roses in the mornings. She could do Sudoku like nobody’s business. She was faster at Sudoku than me and 25 years my senior. So why this mindset on my part? I think part of it is that I hurt a lot more than I used to and I attribute that to going through surgery and radiation for breast cancer. My body says, "See you are hurting, it's because you're getting older." NOT but the voice still rattles around. More on cancer another time. The insidiousness of the voice of society says that the aging process is a physically painful and mentally challenging one. Part of my brain, my body has bought into that without me realizing it at first.

What about you? How do you cope with the subtle and not so subtle messages from society about your aging process? Marketing, commercials are mostly aimed at the young. The aging are relegated to getting messages about drugs for this and that and products that assist with societies view of the inevitable failures of your body. Aging doesn't have to include inevitable failures. Adjustments yes. Adjustments to the blessing of growing older, is a much more appropriate mindset. Is aging hard, difficult, mind-numbingly tedious at times, Yes. The alternative to growing older sucks, think about it.
Thank you for visiting and I will endeavor to write more often. Blessings to you as yet another year rolls to an end.

03/09/2019

Aging – Books have been written on it, Universities have whole programs on the aging process featuring what may happen to you physically, mentally, emotionally or even spiritually and we each have experienced watching someone age. However, what do all these authors and Universities really know unless they themselves have experienced their own aging process? Yes the medical world has given us guidelines and possibilities as to what may happen and statistically some of these things will happen. However, you are an individual, you bring with you your own distinct genetics, beliefs, experiences and thought processes to your aging process.
Just think today you are the oldest you’ve EVER been. Never before in your life have you been this old. Wow what an exciting thing! Some of you may be shaking your head and disagreeing, that is okay. You are you and your process is your own. I am just saying that you have the chance to re-write your life. To be able to redefine and remake our lives is exciting and scary at the same time. You may have felt you didn’t have the freedom to do this re-writing while you were raising children, working. And it’s not like magically life gets better when our children are grown and/or we retire. This time of our lives brings with it its own unique set experiences. I am just saying we can make it a very exciting and engaging time.
Today be patient and gentle with yourself, you’ve never been this old. Today challenge yourself; you’ve never been this old. Today be patient with aging parents or elders in your life, they are learning as they go.

02/21/2019

History, stories, and memories. As we age we accumulate life; memories in stored in our brains that give evidence to the life we have lived. The good, bad and ugly. I believe it is much easier to remember the good times. Revel in your good memories. The bad and ugly are often tucked away in the far side of our brain. Some times it stays there spinning in our cells quietly and unobtrusively. Other times the ugly and bad rears its head and we can be overwhelmed by such memories. At these times it is important to remember this happened in the past and while it is still with you, it won’t hurt you unless you allow it. This is not to say the ugliness of the past is your fault, it was what it was. Your past, all of it, created who you are today. If there is ugliness then maybe it helps you be more compassionate to those struggling with the same issue you did.
I invite you to live in the moment with full knowledge of your past. Be who you have become or who you want to become, it’s your choice and your doing.
I would also invite you to write out your memories in a journal. It can be done with pen and paper or electronically and can be completely private. Maybe do some writing to share with your children at some point. Write down facts and events of your childhood that would otherwise be forgotten when you die. Your children will probably enjoy knowing what it was like for Mom or Dad as a kid growing up.
Enjoy the day, enjoy the moment and breathe.

02/06/2019

Breathing, we do it every day, about 360 times and yet how many times to we actually take the time to notice the process? If you have asthma, COPD, Cystic Fibrosis, you probably do pay more attention to your breath than the average person. If you have one of these, hang in there and think positive. Only once in my life have I not been able to get that next breath and it was terrifying. Those of you with these or other ailments could experience this on a daily basis so my hats off to you.
This post is about noticing your breath, which can be done by anyone at any time. I was doing a guided meditation by Rasa last night and she had me notice that moment at the end of my exhale, notice the transition between exhale and the beginning of inhale and then again at the opposite point-the end of inhale and the beginning of exhale. Simple and yet powerful. For obvious reasons we go through entire days, weeks, months and maybe life times without noticing our breath, it is a given thing in our lives and yet noticing was/is totally amazing.
Even if it’s only once or twice today, take a moment to notice your breath. Taking the time to notice your breath brings you into the moment, the sweet spot of being alive. Notice whether your inhale is longer than your exhale, smoother or jerky. Please don’t judge, just notice. Draw yourself into that moment and feel the sweetness of it.
Leave a comment about what you discovered. This page focuses on aging process so many of you may have been breathing for a long time. We breathe over 131,000 times a year. Multiply that times your age. How many have you noticed and what did you notice? Blessings to all.

01/03/2019

Sleep, maybe a different topic than expected. Society really pushes for people to get 8 straight hours of sleep. Society provides chemical potions and pills to help with that. My question is do we really need straight 8 hours of sleep; are we failing if we don’t? Some of us still have jobs we must go to and sleep would be helpful in order to stay alert and functioning. Some of us have more flexible schedules.
Sleep is very individualized, some need more, and others need less. Don’t beat yourself up. Several nights in the past weeks I have been up before the sun, 4-5 a.m.. Rather than force myself back to try and sleep, I read and did some writing. I used the time rather than beat myself up for not being able to sleep. Plus the morning sky has been dazzling with the moon and planets hanging like sparkling diamonds.
Now is not too much different than when our children were newborns. Sleep when you can, be up when you need to. YES sleep is essential to life, without it you will die. Be gentle on yourself. Shy away from chemical potions and pills and embrace your natural cycle. You will be as efficient as you chose to be for your life now.
And I suppose as this is a new calendar year, make the choices that are best for you, not your spouse, partner, co-worker or neighbor. Be you!

11/21/2018

My daughter cooked her turkey over last weekend since she works Thanksgiving and yesterday she boiled down the turkey carcass and made broth and turkey and dumplings. I told her that her great Grandmothers would be proud to her for utilizing all parts of her “bird.” Her great Grandmothers lived through the Great Depression when everything was used multiple times; nothing was wasted. We live in a throwaway society today that is sad plus many of the “old” ways are being forgotten.
Our body’s age, no choice there, it is a choice to remember or learn self-sufficient ways to go with our aging process. What can you totally utilize today, this week or month in order to support your aging process? Take the time to learn something new this week or month. Not only will it strengthen your brain and maybe your body, it can lead to more self-sufficiency. Utilize all your parts.
Surgery update – I am down to one crutch and doing pool PT. I get to drive now and life is very good as my muscles get woken up and used to doing their jobs again. It can be a challenging time though there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it is NOT an oncoming train.
Embrace the moment, take a deep breath. Leave us a comment on how you are utilizing all parts of life and embracing some of the “old” ways in a new way. Blessings to each of you.

10/22/2018

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