Holistic Physical Therapy

10/25/2025

I enjoyed continuing my education this month in CranioSacral therapy working with infants and children. Early recognition and intervention is so powerful for a balanced nervous system and CranioSacral therapy can help. Most important is that we also worked with the parents and caregivers to facilitate a balanced nervous system. A happy and regulated parent helps to co-regulate the child. 😌 Upledger Institute International

04/11/2025

Happy Friday everyone! I welcome you to imagine love 💗 as light 🔆 radiating from Oscar’s 🐈‍⬛ purring heart through his glowing nose into your heart - giving you warmth and comfort 🤗

08/13/2021

Our virome and gut microbiome consist of microbes, viruses, parasites (i know, yuck) and more that live in harmony inside us. Sometimes they get out of balance. That’s illness. The key is to figure out why - to search upstream. Not to give medicine to suppress symptoms. Instead, to guide our body with other therapies to find that balance again. Start with food, sleep, exercise, stress management, and psycho emotional health. Consider environmental influences such as toxins, or mold and imbalance of minerals. And consider our relationship to nature of which it is so intertwined that if we ignore or distance ourselves from it we most likely can feel ill. So yes, go hug a tree 🌳.

11/21/2020

Yesterday the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a very important hearing on early treatment for COVID-19 titled, "Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution." I will share a link with highlights of the hearing, below. The remarkable and highly credentialed physicians who testified share the perspective--that early outpatient treatment for COVID-19 would help to prevent many deaths and would help control or prevent the worst possible symptoms of the illness in many cases. These physicians are all members of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).

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10/05/2020

An insane 9% cut in payment for physical therapy services is scheduled to begin January 1, 2021! Make your voice heard to to for

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07/28/2020

I come from a long line of strong women & have been influenced positively by women friends, teammates, colleagues, relatives & by my daughter more than any man in my life. These souls are caretakers, listeners, athletes, businesswomen, artists, healers, educators & more. Thank you to all of you❤️
Pictured with Bella - my companion & running partner after a long sweaty run 🏃‍♀️
💪🏻 thank you for nominating me.
I’ve been off social media A LOT!! these days. Feel much better doing that but hopped on briefly and saw the challenge. Basically, it’s a challenge staying off social media and listening to our own internal voice and not being swayed by media. I challenge all women I know to THAT challenge!!

07/05/2020

How can we learn, listen and digest new exercises, concepts, or movements to start a healing process unless our nervous systems are able to feel safe and in a receptive learning state? I’ve learned over 30 years of practice that it is almost impossible unless the nervous system is on board. Originally I would label myself as an “orthopedic & sports medicine” physical therapist, but over the past 10 years I’ve fallen in love with the amazing nervous system as well thanks to my holistic studies with & the work of . As a result, exercises that regulate the nervous system are included in most if not all sessions at Holistic Physical Therapy ☺️

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with professor of psychiatry and neuroscientist Stephen Porges about the polyvagal theory. Dr. Porges explains the transformative power of feeling safe to keep us healthy. Using clinical examples from the treatment of pain and trauma, he il...

05/15/2020

It’s spring!! Rain ☔️ and flowers 🌸 are here and my houseplants get to go back outside to live in a healthier environment. I am so grateful 🙏🏻 for all the oxygen and clean air they provided my family & pets all winter.

Mother-in-law’s tongue ( named because it grows so prolific 😆 ) or and the arrowhead plants are known for cleaning the air AND they became fast friends 👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽!

And as you see, 🌱 actually weaved it’s way between the stalks of 🌱 🤝❤️

It helped that over the winter I decided to group all my houseplants together. No plant was by its lonesome 😞 Instead - close enough to another so leaves could touch. They thrived better than ever! No bugs 🐜 pests or dead leaves as in the past‼️

Wellness is not just about Biology 🤒
It’s about 😀🙁🤪😫🤩
It’s about 👨‍👩‍👧👨‍👨‍👦👨‍👨‍👦‍👦👩‍👦‍👦👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨👬
It’s about 🙏🏻 🌍
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04/24/2020

“If people, you keep poisoning yourself, poisoning yourself physically, emotionally, mentally, that this is not going to go well.”
~ Dr. Tom Cowan

An existential challenge. Why not now? Is it not time to reassess everything when the whole world is shut down? Why is it shut down? What has humanity been going through as of late? The challenge is - to step back - way back - let go of all notions of how we were taught the 🌍, our bodies work. Get out of the forest so we can see the trees. Stop looking for zebras when we are seeing horses.

Newsflash - you can - we ALL can heal ourselves. We (nature) have the innate capability. As much as possible, avoid outside synthetic medicine (poisons) and trust in the miracle of you and your own body.

Second newsflash - this process takes us away from a reductionist model of our bodies and of the world to a holistic model. Yes, we are all connected. Let’s look at how. Let’s listen to the important messages sent in a pandemic fashion by our exosomes. What can we do or change to turn off the spreading of this exosomal message?
We have nothing to lose but much to gain in the process ❤️

Transcript So welcome, everybody. I happen to be somebody who likes to be punctual, so I tend to start on time. So again, I welcome everybody and I appreciate all the kind words and support, and we're just going to move a little bit forward here. There's a few housekeeping items I wanted to talk abo...

04/20/2020

🧐hmmm

A recent article published in the Wall Street Journal titled, “New Data Suggest the Coronavirus Isn’t as Deadly as We Thought,” confirms what I, and many who have been questioning the mainstream narrative on COVID have been saying since the lockdowns began: fatality statistics have been dramat...

04/20/2020

How to be proactive with your health!

Zinc plays a very important role in your immune system’s ability to ward off viral infections, and may play a vastly underrated role in the COVID-19 pandemic.