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Movement Connect Trauma-informed personal training for busy people with chronic pain.

Hot take: back pain sucks, and things suck less if we fix it. There’s tons of different reasons why someone might have b...
08/07/2025

Hot take: back pain sucks, and things suck less if we fix it.

There’s tons of different reasons why someone might have back pain, but what I see most often is a combination of tight hips and ankles that need to be stretched, and

Basically: step 1 is make sure your joints are moving well. Step 2 is strengthening them. Flexibility without strength isn't going to be useful or reduce pain as much as we want.

So try these exercises if your back hurts:

1) Supine Glute Squeezes
2) Standing Glute Kickback
3) Bird Dog
4) Dead Bug
5) Standing Hip Airplane

There’s about four hundred more exercises to try, but these are a good place to start.

Start with something easy and progressively make it harder.

If this was useful to you, please hit the icon to share it to your story. I'm here if you have questions. 💜✨

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.We celebrate the...
08/05/2025

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.

We celebrate the small wins here. We cheer each other on and work on being nicer to ourselves when we make mistakes. We find a balance between self discipline and self compassion and show up for ourselves because we're worth it.

Stoked! Drop a 🔥 in the comments if you're stoked too!

Hey here’s a thought, what if we showed up specifically to half ass something today. Instead of trying to whole-ass it, ...
07/31/2025

Hey here’s a thought, what if we showed up specifically to half ass something today. Instead of trying to whole-ass it, and crashing super hard after.

What if we let go of trying to do everything 100% and just did like 36% because we feel like hot wet garbage.

That’s a neat idea. I’m gonna try that.

During my break I had a while to think about social media, life in general, and how I want to show up. Socials feel a lo...
07/15/2025

During my break I had a while to think about social media, life in general, and how I want to show up. Socials feel a lot like pointless noise, and I don’t want to add to the cacophony.

I’m really tired of how everything on Instagram is a curated feed or a business. Someone with a coaching course and an angle, who’s aiming to go viral.

That’s ironic, I know. After all, I have a business. And I want to talk about it sometimes, because work is a big part of my life. But I don’t want to do the bu****it that business courses say to do:

Create artificial scarcity. Be so goddamn specific about your niche. Use AI chatbots. Sell super hard. Be some idealized version of a perfect person so people buy your s**t.

It’s boring. It’s dumb. It’s fake. I want to talk about work, and dancing. Lyra and getting stronger and cool rocks and books. Hiking and rehab and clients and roller skating.

And whatever the f**k else.

F**k niches 2025. I want to be eclectic and whimsical and stop feeling so much pressure to already be good at everything. Who cares. Social media is all pretend but that doesn’t mean I have to be.

Anyway, if you’re here. Thanks for being here. I’m really glad you’re here.

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.We celebrate the...
07/10/2025

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.

We celebrate the small wins here. We cheer each other on and work on being nicer to ourselves when we make mistakes. We find a balance between self discipline and self compassion and show up for ourselves because we're worth it.

Stoked! Drop a 🔥 in the comments if you're stoked too!

I’m alive! Hello. The chronic illness is slowly creeping towards a better diagnosis, and I’m slowly creeping towards bei...
07/08/2025

I’m alive! Hello. The chronic illness is slowly creeping towards a better diagnosis, and I’m slowly creeping towards being alive again.

That part kinda sucks right now, BUT there are sweaters and backyards and hoops to play in, which is pretty f**kin good too. So, you know. We’re hanging in (literally) and it could definitely be a hell of a lot worse.

Hi friends! Unfortunately the “chronic” and “illness” parts of being chronically ill are continuing to kick my ass. All ...
04/15/2025

Hi friends! Unfortunately the “chronic” and “illness” parts of being chronically ill are continuing to kick my ass. All the management work in the world doesn’t change or cure chronic illness (if only, right?), so I have to practice what I preach and pull back however I can while I get my health issues under control.

See y’all soon. Thanks for being here. I’m glad you’re here. 💜





Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.We celebrate the...
04/08/2025

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.

We celebrate the small wins here. We cheer each other on and work on being nicer to ourselves when we make mistakes. We find a balance between self discipline and self compassion and show up for ourselves because we're worth it.

Stoked! Drop a 🔥 in the comments if you're stoked too!





I'm the first one to tell you that when you have chronic pain, sometimes you super don't feel like cooking.However! It's...
04/03/2025

I'm the first one to tell you that when you have chronic pain, sometimes you super don't feel like cooking.

However! It's much easier to prepare for the low energy times without having to resort to takeout every time (and I don't know about you, but I don't have the money to spend on constantly eating out).

Choose some preferred, shelf stable things to keep on hand. You may not cook with them constantly when you feel good--that's fine! The point is to keep something around that can be assembled with as little energy as possible.

If you think this might help someone you know, please send it to them.

One of the hard things about chronic illness & chronic pain is that it’s not all in your control.That makes it *really* ...
03/27/2025

One of the hard things about chronic illness & chronic pain is that it’s not all in your control.

That makes it *really* hard to be cheerful about keeping on.

The good news? You don’t have to be. You can be grumpy about it and still keep going.

Take what you need & be kind to yourself please, you got this.







The hill I’ll die on: consistency is more important than intensity, and making it not suck is the biggest thing that mat...
03/20/2025

The hill I’ll die on: consistency is more important than intensity, and making it not suck is the biggest thing that matters.

But that’s me. What do you think?



Hot take: back pain sucks, and things suck less if we fix it. There’s tons of different reasons why someone might have b...
03/13/2025

Hot take: back pain sucks, and things suck less if we fix it.

There’s tons of different reasons why someone might have back pain, but what I see most often is a combination of tight hips and ankles that need to be stretched, and

Basically: step 1 is make sure your joints are moving well. Step 2 is strengthening them. Flexibility without strength isn't going to be useful or reduce pain as much as we want.

So try these exercises if your back hurts:

1) Supine Glute Squeezes
2) Standing Glute Kickback
3) Bird Dog
4) Dead Bug
5) Standing Hip Airplane

There’s about four hundred more exercises to try, but these are a good place to start.

Start with something easy and progressively make it harder.

If this was useful to you, please hit the icon to share it to your story. I'm here if you have questions. 💜✨






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