Brightside Integrative Physical Therapy

07/20/2025

My pleasure to share ☺️

Thank you Christina Jensen for guiding The Physiology of Ceremony: I appreciate the opportunity to practice ceremony and am grateful for the beautiful items in which to create an altar.

For more Shakti in the Mountains events with Christina, visit https://shaktiinthemountains.com/events.

05/25/2025

🤍I spent another magical morning today in community with the brave individuals who continue to show up and collaborate with me in search of our true and powerful Selves.

The physical body often offers boundaries in the form of resistance: tension, pain, and apprehension are examples of how resistance might show up.

These boundaries are important. They are worth recognizing, respecting, and exploring…

BUT. They are malleable. They shift. They evolve.

You can trust that.

05/14/2025

05/11/2025

💐Today is Mother’s Day, a fascinating innovation born out of American temperance, Protestantism, and an attempt to grieve the family wounds inflicted by the Civil War.

🤍💔💛Days like today can feel really complicated. Some mothers were wonderful, some were not. Some are still here, some are gone. Those are all big feelings.

🦋Every single one of us has a unique relationship with the idea of “mother” BUT we all have one. So whether you have one, had one, are one, or need one… I wish you deep breaths, warm hugs, and unconditional love 🌷

05/09/2025

🙃interesting, isn’t it? Because I also love being in front of a group, in front of a classroom, and speaking about topics on which I feel I have some authority.

💪Because I’ve worked really hard for that authority! I studied a bunch of stuff and read a lot of books and got the degrees and did “THE THINGS” to be able to feel justified in my confidence. So I can logically persuade myself that being seen in this way is a good thing.

📖BUT. It didn’t actually change the way my body responds to an old story I was carrying about how being seen might make me vulnerable to danger. Anyone else know that story? 😬

🧐As I continue to work with that story, I’ve noticed something amazing: all that energy in my body that used to just make me feel anxious is now doing something different. Now it has the potential to help me feel energized and even empowered when I’m speaking and teaching and being seen. And that feeling of activation is getting more and more familiar all the time, which makes it more comfortable to navigate when it happens.

✨And when I’m able to put that energy to good use rather than hiding it or ignoring it or having it run wild in my body as anxiety and tension and pain, it actually starts to feel pretty good.

🤍We all carry stories in our bodies, consciously and unconsciously, and they affect our health and our lives in real tangible ways. When you’re ready to start exploring yours, I’m here to help.

05/09/2025

✨When I’m not feeling self-righteous about my intentional avoidance of social media, I’m trolling the darkest corners of the internet for existential memes.

If one of these hit a feel for you, just know you’re not alone.

No one is alone. Not really.

💪Who’s ready for Friday?

05/06/2025

🪴Many health variables have a heritable genetic component. Heart disease or diabetes in your family may mean that you have a higher risk of developing similar issues. BUT when we intentionally build out a healthy lifestyle, we can mitigate those risks!

⚡️Turns out, even stress and trauma can be retained in our DNA and passed down from our ancestors. Many of us are trying to heal pain that we inherited.

The good news? We have technology in every cell of our body - technology to heal.

🤍And HEALING is HERITABLE, too.

04/23/2025

☀️We are wired for routine. By honoring our own gentle rhythms of daily life, we can actually cultivate more capacity for other things over time.

🌱Start small. Start simply. Start right where you are, as you are, every time.

🤍 Let the person you are becoming root and grow from the quiet ways you take care of yourself everyday.

See what sprouts 🪴

03/24/2025

03/19/2025

Our brains, our bodies are always learning.

A feedback pattern forms along these well-traveled loops, and it gains momentum with every repetition. We can’t just shut it off, but we can start nudging it — one rep at a time — into a new direction.

Want to change your life? Start shifting the old patterns towards a new pathway. We are always learning new things, new ways of being.

One day, one rep, one breath at a time.

01/31/2025

Trust me.

Trust you.

Trust something.