Physioenergetic Therapy

Physioenergetic Therapy Physioenergetic Therapy with Dr. Gina Calderone "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. Steve Jobs

CORE PURPOSE:
We want to rehabilitate people into a life rooted in prevention and empowered with the energy to discover and pursue what truly makes them happy. We do this by inspiring people to be knowledgeable about their body and teaching them how to connect to their underlying emotions in order to be pain free. VISION STATEMENT:
Centripetal Force is dedicated to making a mainstream change in the way we rehabilitate our bodies; by connecting specific emotional stressors of daily life to physical pain or injuries, we hope to see a shift in the way we think about pain thus putting ourselves back in control of our health and modeling the change we wish to see in the healthcare community. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

In a car, tire rotation prevents one side from wearing down faster than the other. It’s about redistributing the load so...
02/18/2026

In a car, tire rotation prevents one side from wearing down faster than the other. It’s about redistributing the load so no one part takes all the strain.

The human body works the same way.

In Physioenergetic Therapy, I often see what happens when energy pools in one part of the system and doesn’t circulate. You start to overuse certain emotional or physical patterns and underuse others until the imbalance becomes pain.

People who overthink but underfeel often carry tension in the neck, shoulders, and jaw.

Those who give endlessly to others but never to themselves often store inflammation in the gut.

Some stay frozen in stillness, paralyzed by fear or burnout. Others are in constant motion, never really arriving anywhere.

Over time, these patterns lead to:

Mental overload → Neck and shoulder pain

Suppressed emotion → Digestive distress and solar plexus dysfunction

Emotional stagnation → Low back and hip tightness

Chronic urgency → Tight hamstrings and collapsed feet

The body is wise. It adapts to survive. But when those adaptations are never recalibrated, imbalance turns into dysfunction.

And when energy depletion goes unchecked for too long, the body starts drawing from deeper reserves—beyond muscles and joints. It pulls from the organ systems, endocrine responses, and cellular vitality. That’s when patterns of imbalance evolve into chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, and dis-ease that medicine can’t always trace back to a single source.

Read more through the link in my profile to Physioenergetic Therapy with Dr. G on Substack.

Today’s post is Part Three of the Body Car Series.

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I listen closely to the details of someone’s life story so I can map it energetically in their body.It’s like lifting th...
02/11/2026

I listen closely to the details of someone’s life story so I can map it energetically in their body.

It’s like lifting the hood of a body-car—tracing the wiring, realigning the engine, and reconnecting body, mind, and soul so the whole system can run as one again.

Trauma doesn’t just leave a mark on the mind, it leaves residue in the body. Over time, the emotional experiences we weren’t able to process like grief, shame, fear, betrayal accumulate like sludge in our internal systems. You may not see it, but you can feel it:

▪️The heaviness in your chest
▪️The gut always on edge
▪️The low back gripping for dear life
▪️The tightness in your diaphragm when you try to take a deep breath

Just like oil in an engine, emotions need circulation. They need movement. And if they’re not given a way out, they begin to thicken, clog, and stall the whole system.

This is what I call an emotional oil change.

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Today’s post is Part Two of the Body Car Series.

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When I work with a client, we go through their life history and I note all the ways it has left a mark in the body. Not ...
02/04/2026

When I work with a client, we go through their life history and I note all the ways it has left a mark in the body. Not just emotionally, but physically through posture, breath, tension, pain, and patterns of holding.

And then, when it’s time to work on the body, I lift the hood, so to speak, and get to work.

Because when trauma happens, it blows the circuits. The nervous system overloads. The wiring gets scrambled. And we become disconnected from our soul’s path. We lose meaning. We lose purpose. And what that looks like on the outside is often pain, illness, injury, or a long list of diagnoses.

This is not random.

This is the body trying to tell the story the mind had to forget.

Trauma doesn’t just live in memory, it lives in muscle, fascia, breath, and the nervous system. It changes the way we stand, move, speak, and even how we experience ourselves in the world. Over time, the body begins to carry the weight of what was never processed, never spoken, never felt safe enough to release.

And yet, each of us is so unique.
We are not broken machines—we are living expressions of our soul through physical form.

Your body is your vehicle.
Your soul is the engine.

This four-part Substack series—The Body Car & Soul Engine—is an invitation to see your symptoms, your pain, and your patterns in a new way. Not as something to fix, but as something to understand. Because healing doesn’t begin with force, it begins with listening.

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A Closed Heart Cannot Love.It Can Only DominateFrom a physioenergetic perspective, hate reflects a collapsed heart cente...
01/28/2026

A Closed Heart Cannot Love.
It Can Only Dominate

From a physioenergetic perspective, hate reflects a collapsed heart center. Not absent, but armored.

When the heart is closed:

▪️There is little tolerance for difference
▪️Vulnerability feels dangerous
▪️Curiosity feels threatening
▪️Power becomes more important than relationship

This state breeds domination and control, not because the person is confident, but because they are not. Domination compensates for internal fear and shame.

Love, on the other hand, requires openness. And openness requires safety.

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Hi all,I added a new section to my Substack called With Heart, Dr. G.This is where I’ll share personal moments and refle...
01/21/2026

Hi all,
I added a new section to my Substack called With Heart, Dr. G.

This is where I’ll share personal moments and reflections from life, unfiltered and from the heart.

Let me know what you think. Thank you for subscribing to my work 💜

What makes people heal isn’t what you think. It happens in the presence of someone who can stay when the body tells the part of the story words never could ✨

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As a clinician I’ve witnessed this for decades. The body doesn’t lie. It’s generational history repeating itself in the ...
01/13/2026

As a clinician I’ve witnessed this for decades. The body doesn’t lie. It’s generational history repeating itself in the body. Here’s a story of what unprocessed war trauma does to families, cells, and culture… short audio today. Give it a listen. 💜💜

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Substack day 🫰🏼 The Emotional Anatomy of Back Pain. How Stress and Safety Shape the Spine. Deep within the core, the pso...
01/07/2026

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The Emotional Anatomy of Back Pain. How Stress and Safety Shape the Spine.

Deep within the core, the psoas plays a central role in spinal stability and threat response. When the nervous system remains in a state of protection, research shows that breathing patterns change, deep core coordination breaks down, and the psoas shifts into chronic overactivation. Rather than reflecting weakness or tightness, this gripping pattern represents an adaptive strategy—one the body uses to maintain stability when safety is uncertain. Over time, that adaptation becomes chronic low back pain.





When I finished writing the first part of this series about releasing fear from the psoas, I didn’t expect my own body t...
12/24/2025

When I finished writing the first part of this series about releasing fear from the psoas, I didn’t expect my own body to answer back so quickly.

Later that week, I went to Pilates.

My teacher had us place a ball under the sacrum, feet in the straps on the reformer. A familiar setup. Something I’ve done many times before. I know my body well.

But the moment she asked me to lower my legs, draw the pelvis and ribs inward, and find support from the center, something shocked my system.

It was hard.
Not weak-hard.
Not “out of practice” hard.

My body was pulling away.

She could see it immediately.

“What’s going on with your body?” she asked gently. “It’s pulling away.”

I paused. Took a breath. Let her guide my legs—stretching, reaching—until I found some semblance of stability. I felt okay again. Regulated enough. She moved on to the next person.

And that’s when the tears came.

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Some people think fear is an emotion you talk through.But in the body, fear is a reflex and it lives in one of the deepe...
12/17/2025

Some people think fear is an emotion you talk through.

But in the body, fear is a reflex and it lives in one of the deepest muscles we have:

the psoas.

Most people have never heard of it, but every PT knows its power.

It sits deep in the abdomen, attaching the spine to the legs, and it contracts instantly when the nervous system senses danger.

It’s the same primitive reflex a gazelle uses before it bolts across the savannah.

The difference?
Animals finish the movement.

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From a physioenergetic lens, I see a pattern:Women carrying the emotional stability of a partner who never learned to re...
12/10/2025

From a physioenergetic lens, I see a pattern:

Women carrying the emotional stability of a partner who never learned to regulate

Women holding the nervous system of a child who is spiraling, while their own body is shaking inside

Women propping up aging parents — physically, financially, emotionally — even when those same parents were never truly emotionally safe

Women becoming the organizing principle of the household: schedules, meals, birthdays, permission slips, emotional check-ins, crisis management

This isn’t just “being busy.”

This is carrying other people’s life force for them — being the engine that keeps everyone else’s life running.

Over years, the body starts to whisper:

“I’m exhausted” (adrenals, thyroid, immune system)

“I can’t hold this anymore” (low back, pelvis, hips)

“I am disappearing” (neck tension, jaw clenching, migraines, gut issues)

We lose our power in these years.
Not because we are weak, but because the currency of our power — our life force — is being spent everywhere but inside of us.





The Words Your Body Never SaidHow bones, fascia, and your autonomic nervous system hold unspoken truth—until you release...
12/03/2025

The Words Your Body Never Said

How bones, fascia, and your autonomic nervous system hold unspoken truth—until you release it.

There’s a pattern I see every week in my practice:

People walk into my office with shoulder pain, jaw tension, pelvic stiffness, or knees that feel like they’re carrying a lifetime of weight…

…and the first thing I ask myself is not
“What’s wrong with the joint?”
but

“What unspoken truth is this body holding?”

This isn’t metaphor.
This is physiology, fascia, and the autonomic nervous system woven together, the heart of Physioenergetic Therapy.

Bones Store What the Mouth Won’t Say

Bones are more than structure.
In physioenergetic anatomy, they are the architecture of truth—the deep framework that holds your soul’s alignment. The soul is truth.

When someone suppresses emotion, there is always a physical cost:

▪️Bones absorb the pressure of unexpressed boundaries.
▪️Joints contract to contain feelings we don’t feel safe expressing.
▪️Fascia tightens around the words we swallow.

Orthopedically this shows up as:

▫️limited joint glide
▫️increased resting muscle tone
▫️protective bracing
▫️asymmetrical weight-bearing
▫️stubborn pain that manual therapy improves… until it comes right back

Energetically it shows up as:

▫️self-silencing
▫️chronic politeness
▫️fear of conflict
▫️placating patterns
▫️internalized resentment

The body’s structure becomes the keeper of the words we never said.

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Healing Beyond the Body ❤️‍🩹As physical therapists, we must recognize that the pain our patients experience is often mor...
11/04/2025

Healing Beyond the Body ❤️‍🩹

As physical therapists, we must recognize that the pain our patients experience is often more than just physical. It is the result of unresolved emotional trauma that is stuck in the body, creating a dysregulated nervous system and chronic pain. We need to expand our understanding of pain to include life history alongside health history, so we know not only what our patients’ bodies have been through but also what their souls have endured.
By treating the body as a doorway to the nervous system, we can signal to our patients that they are safe now—that they no longer need to hold onto the pain of the past. Through our hands, we offer more than physical relief; we offer the possibility of reconnection, safety, and healing.

In a world where emotional pain is often overlooked, physical therapists have the power to be healers in the truest sense—addressing the whole person, restoring balance to the nervous system, and providing the grace needed to heal the soul.

Let us step into this role with intention, understanding that our touch can heal more than just muscles and joints; it can heal a lifetime of pain.

Let’s bring healing to healthcare,
Dr. G

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CORE PURPOSE: We want to rehabilitate people into a life rooted in prevention and empowered with the energy to discover and pursue what truly makes them happy. We do this by inspiring people to be knowledgeable about their body and teaching them how to connect to their underlying emotions in order to be pain free. VISION STATEMENT: Centripetal Force is dedicated to making a mainstream change in the way we rehabilitate our bodies; by connecting specific emotional stressors of daily life to physical pain or injuries, we hope to see a shift in the way we think about pain thus putting ourselves back in control of our health and modeling the change we wish to see in the healthcare community. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." - Steve Jobs