Phil Aberhart Massage Therapy

07/12/2025

Studies show that older adults who run regularly have stronger hearts, denser bones and sharper brains.
Just a few minutes a day can lower the risk of heart disease, diabetes and cognitive decline, while boosting mood and resilience.

Your lungs, muscles and circulation respond to challenge even gentle challenge. Running teaches the body to stay adaptable the mind to embrace effort and the spirit to savor freedom.

The beauty of running is that it doesn’t require perfection.
It doesn’t demand speed.
It asks only for presence, consistency and courage to start.
Each step is a small rebellion against frailty

So lace up.
Move deliberately.
Let your body remember what it means to be strong.

07/12/2025

05/12/2025

Why Are We Still Worshipping Hustle Culture When It’s Breaking Us?

There was a time when working hard simply meant doing your job well. Today, it has turned into something stranger and far more punishing. Hustle culture tells us that sleep is optional, rest is laziness, and success belongs only to those who treat exhaustion as a badge of honor. It is a worldview where the busiest person wins, even if the victory costs them their health, relationships, and sense of self.

The danger of this culture is not only its cruelty but also its absurdity. It promises greatness yet delivers burnout. It claims to empower us while quietly draining everything that makes a life meaningful. Somewhere along the way, ambition stopped being about building a future and became a frantic attempt to outrun feelings of inadequacy. If you are not constantly achieving, the culture whispers, you are falling behind.

Modern life amplifies this pressure. Our work follows us home through screens that never sleep. Success stories are everywhere, polished and edited to hide the human cost. Everyone seems more productive than we are, more focused, more disciplined. So we push ourselves harder, convinced that exhaustion is simply the price of belonging in this fast world.

But the truth is far simpler. Human beings are not machines. We are not built to perform endlessly or to measure our worth in output. Hustle culture collapses the full complexity of a life into a single metric: productivity. It ignores the slow, gentle work of relationships, reflection, creativity, and rest. It forgets that a meaningful life is not built from relentless motion but from intentional living.

The ridiculousness lies in the fact that hustle culture keeps promising a future payoff that rarely arrives. Many people wake up years later and realize they have perfected the art of being busy without ever asking what they were busy for. They accumulated achievements but lost the ability to enjoy them. They spent so long working toward “someday” that the present blurred into something they barely inhabited.

Hustle culture thrives on the belief that rest must be earned. But rest is not a reward. It is a basic human need and an essential part of wisdom. Slowing down is not quitting, and refusing to run yourself into the ground is not weakness. It is a sign that you are choosing a life you can actually live, not just survive.

How do you protect yourself from the pressure to constantly overwork and stay connected to what truly matters?

Painting: 'The Siesta', 1892 by Vincent van Gogh

02/12/2025

30/11/2025

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Still blaming lactic acid for your sore muscles? Science says otherwise. Discover what really causes post-workout pain and how to prevent it.

28/11/2025

For those in midlife and later,
this truth becomes even more important:
your body doesn’t respond to intensity alone.
It responds to rhythm.
Stress and rest.
Demand and repair.
Challenge and compassion.

Easy days aren’t laziness.
They’re biology.
They’re where your muscles rebuild,
your joints recover,
your hormones rebalance,
your energy returns.

They’re where the training takes hold.

So honor the work
but honor the space around the work, too.
That’s where resilience grows.
That’s where longevity is built.

28/11/2025

Rest is where your muscles repair.
Where your joints breathe.
Where your nervous system settles.
Where your energy returns.
Where longevity is stitched together
one quiet moment at a time.

So take time to rest and rejuvenate.
Honor the pauses as much as the effort.
Because strength isn’t built by pushing nonstop
it’s built by knowing when to rise,
and when to restore.

25/11/2025

Too often, we focus only on the stress the lifts, the steps, the miles thinking that effort alone builds strength. But without recovery, all we do is accumulate fatigue. Muscles tighten. Joints ache. Motivation fades. Strength stagnates.

For older adults especially, recovery isn’t optional it’s the bridge between today’s effort and tomorrow’s capability. Sleep, rest, mobility work, and intentional deloads aren’t signs of weakness.
They are the tools that allow your body to adapt, grow stronger, and stay resilient.

Every workout is a seed.
Recovery is the sunlight and water.
Together, they grow a body that can lift grandchildren, hike trails, carry groceries, and move freely decades into the future. Strength is about preserving independence, vitality, and freedom for the years ahead.

25/11/2025

Exercise is a celebration of your abilities, not a punishment for what you ate.

It's not a way to earn food. It's not penance for the weekend. It's not the price you pay for living.

Exercise is how you build a body that can meet life on your terms.

It's how you stay strong enough to lift your grandkids, carry your gear, move furniture, and help a friend. It's how you keep your balance on uneven ground, your confidence on a steep trail, your independence when everyone around you is losing theirs.

It's how you manage stress without needing a prescription, how you sleep better, how you think clearly, and how you show up with more energy for the people and work that matter.

Exercise is how you protect your future self from frailty, falls, and the slow decline that so many accept as inevitable.

It's not about aesthetics. It's not about punishment. It's about building capacity - physical, mental, metabolic - so that your world stays big instead of shrinking year by year.

You're not working out to compensate for what you eat. You're working out because you want to keep doing the things you love for as long as possible.

That's not punishment.

That's respect for the body you're living in and the life you're building.

10/11/2025

When the Two Worlds Meet…

Every so often, something happens in my work that truly humbles me.

This week, a GP reached out to me for support as they navigate a stage 4 diagnosis. Someone who has spent their entire career caring for others, someone trained within a very different system to the one I walk beside. And it moved me in the deepest way.

Not because of the title in front of their name.

Not because it confirms anything I teach.

But because it shows that something bigger is shifting in the world of healing.

It shows that the walls between the two sides of the fence are softening.

People who have lived fully within the medical model are now reaching toward the emotional, spiritual and energetic layers that often get overlooked.

What touches me most is that this isn’t about one side being right and the other wrong.

It is about both worlds meeting for the sake of deeper healing, for the sake of humanity, and for the sake of the person who simply wants to feel whole again.

When someone with a lifetime of clinical experience chooses to explore this work… healing from within, addressing root causes, reconnecting with intuition… it reminds me that the ripple we are creating is real.

It reinforces the vision that Jenny and I hold so dearly for "Healing Cancer Beyond Medicine."

* A vision where doctors and healers stand together.
* Where intuition and science complement one another.
* Where patients feel supported by a community rather than a system alone.
* Where healing expands emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically.

To this GP, and to every soul walking this path, thank you.

Your vulnerability gives others permission to pause, question and reclaim their own power.

And your trust is something I never take lightly.

This is also why Jenny and I created our two-week Fear, Mindset and Emotions Workshop starting on the 25th.

* Because fear begins to dissolve when we truly understand ourselves.
* Mindsets shift when we learn how powerful our inner world can be.
* And emotions begin to heal when we stop walking through all of this alone.

Healing is a human journey, and I feel grateful every time someone chooses to explore what lies beyond the limits of what they have been taught.

Healing Cancer Beyond Medicine — one heart, one brave step, one awakening at a time.

05/11/2025