Mind Your Fibromyalgia Podcast

01/03/2026

Excited to attend this session! 🙌
If you have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) or hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD), you're not imagining it—your hormones really do affect your symptoms.
Many women with EDS/HSD deal with:

Painful periods
Heavy bleeding
Pain during intimacy
Chronic pelvic pain

And here's what often gets overlooked: hormonal shifts can make your hypermobility symptoms worse. This includes puberty, the week before your period, after having a baby, and sometimes even on birth control.
Menopause deserves special attention too. When estrogen drops, it can amplify the joint pain, muscle aches, and connective tissue problems you're already managing—yet this connection rarely gets discussed.
This is exactly why I'm passionate about treating the whole person, not just the joints. Your hormones and your hypermobility are connected, and you deserve a care team that understands that.

01/03/2026

Honored to have been part of The Starting Gate Podcast's Top 10 episodes of the year! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who listened and shared. Here's to more conversations in 2026 that help people feel seen, heard, and empowered in their health journey.

🎙️ The Starting Gate Podcast: Top 10 Episodes of the Year 🎙️

As we look back on an incredible year of meaningful conversations and practical health education, these were our Top 10 most-downloaded episodes. Thank you for listening, sharing, and investing in your health.

Here are the episodes you loved most:

1️⃣ The Menopause Transition: What’s Normal, What’s Not, and How to Feel Your Best with Dr. Deidra Beshear

2️⃣ Facing the Fire: Sarah’s Story and Expert Advice on Fire Safety with Chief Jason Wells

3️⃣ Life After the Fire: What I Learned About Loss, Insurance, and How Community Got Me Through It with Hays Featherston

4️⃣ Roadblocks to Results: How to Take Charge of Your Health Journey with Dr Sarah Schuetz and Dr Katherine Dotson

5️⃣ Stronger for Life: The Power of Movement at Any Age with Dustin Jones

6️⃣ Beyond the Joint Pain: Understanding Autoimmune Arthritis & Fibromyalgia with Dr. Olga Pinkston

7️⃣ From Diagnosis to Relief: Making Sense of Back Pain with Dr. Shawn Milburn

8️⃣ Understanding Metabolic Health: From Insulin Resistance to Longevity with Dr. Meredith Sweeney

9️⃣ From Wear to Repair: Managing Osteoarthritis and Knee Pain with Dr. Kevin Denehy

🔟 Eat Well, Live Better: Beth Kronenberg’s Recipe for Wellness

Whether you joined us for lifestyle medicine, movement, resilience, or metabolic health—your support makes this podcast possible.

🎧 If you missed an episode, now’s the perfect time to catch up. Our new season will start back January 6, 2026!

01/01/2026

Grateful for every patient, every referral, and every connection made in 2025. Thank you for being part of our journey. Here's to a health in 2026!

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas from the Whole Health Rheumatology family (& Pasha)! Wishing you health and happiness this holiday season. 🎄

12/08/2025

After a 2.5-year break from podcasting, at the request of one of my patients, I recorded another episode of my podcast: "Mind Your Hormones: Perimenopause, Menopause, and Fibromyalgia - Here's What You Need to Know." It's about the musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause and the overlap of the symptoms with fibromyalgia.

06/20/2025

Powerful


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We often think mobility fades with age—but in reality, it fades with inactivity.
Your body is always adapting… the question is, what is it adapting to?

If we stop moving, we get stiffer, weaker, and more prone to pain.
But if we move with intention—even just a little each day—we give our body the signal to stay strong and capable.

This is why I focus on improving mobility through muscle activation and progressive strength training —not just stretching or high-intensity trends.

💬 What’s one simple way you’ve moved today?

05/21/2025

# # 🎙️ NEW EPISODE ALERT: The Starting Gate Podcast 🎙️ Link in comments. Available on all podcast platforms!

**Just released!** I had the privilege of joining The Starting Gate Podcast to discuss the powerful intersection of rheumatology, integrative and lifestyle medicine!

Kentucky deserves better health outcomes, and The Starting Gate Podcast is working to bridge the gap by bringing cutting-edge lifestyle medicine to our communities!

The physician hosts, Dr. Katherine Dotson and Dr. Sarah Schuetz, are board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine and dedicated to transforming healthcare in Kentucky one conversation at a time.

🌟 **Your support matters!** 🌟
If you find this episode valuable, please take a moment to leave a 5-star review and share your thoughts. Your reviews help more Kentucky patients discover these essential health resources. Even if you listen for a brief moment, that will help push this podcast to the top the search, so it can found faster! Every rating, share and review matters!

05/08/2025

Learn something new everyday! We are expanding our knowledge & taking time for self-care today @ Integrative Health & Wellness Symposium today.

02/13/2025

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💪🐕 every day - Pasha, our therapy dog gets his physical activity daily - running indoor when it's too cold (for me)... What do you do to keep your physical activity up when it's too cold to go outside?

02/12/2025

what are you snacking on?
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02/09/2025

💥Fibromyalgia does not define who you are.



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02/07/2025

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These are the top 5 things that contributed to my own chronic pain story, and those that I see over and over every single day in patients at the Pain Psychology Center.

This isn’t aimed at calling you out or blaming you for what you’re going through, these are such common features of everyone’s story! This is to highlight the scenarios I see over and over that eventually, once we notice them, we can work our way out of.

When you boil it down to the bones, these elements put your brain on high alert and can dramatically aggravate your symptoms.

These things are natural - and most of the time - automatic. We don’t choose to have them, but once we notice how much they are “salting the wound” of our experience we can make the choice whether to continue or trash them - which takes away their power. A big part ofthe healing process lies in noticing, being mindful of what triggers our pain further, what perpetuates worry and fear, and catch them in the moment.

Beating yourself up for not seeing these things as triggers is not helping you - take the knowledge, hold onto it, and have some compassion for yourself as you start to notice how these things influence your experience.