Dancing Zebra Wellness

02/15/2026

Feather spoon ring necklace and ring set.... I'm loving the masculine design on these.. taking custom orders. ♥️

02/13/2026

Whether you're coming in for permanent jewelry or a special gift for your loved one... You'll definitely find something unique at Twin Flames jewelry. Don't wait till tomorrow to pick out your gift... I'll be open till 8:00 tonight.

02/13/2026

“I realized I couldn’t meditate my way out of my hip pain.”⁠
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This was one of the most important moments shared during our Winter 2026 Stories of Hope & Healing — and it came from Sabine in Germany.⁠
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For Sabine, progress didn’t look like feeling better right away.⁠
In fact, her symptoms were a bit worse (on paper) than where she started.⁠
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For her, progress looked like finally understanding what was actually happening in her body — and recognizing that not all pain is fibromyalgia pain.⁠
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That clarity changed everything.⁠
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She realized her hip pain required surgery — and that no amount of nervous system regulation alone was going to resolve it.⁠
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This clarity came from learning how pain works, what is and isn’t caused by fibromyalgia, and how to recognize when something deeper is going on — all foundations taught in our Certified Fibromyalgia Advisor® training program.⁠
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Sabine’s story (and the others in this week’s article) didn’t come from finding a magic solution.⁠
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They came from learning how to think differently about symptoms, pacing, and next steps — with fibromyalgia-specific education and support.⁠
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If you want results like this, our next class starts at the end of the month.⁠
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Read the full article and learn about our classes on The Fibro Compass℠: ⁠
Fibromyalgia Stories of Hope — Winter 2026 Edition⁠
👉 https://fibro.coach/O443Kg ⁠⁣⁠⁣⁠⁣⁠⁣⁠

02/08/2026

Music has always been how my life found its rhythm.

Long before I had language for stress or regulation or presence, sound was already shaping how I breathed, how I moved, how I stayed connected.

I learned it in voices, in songs, and in the quiet intelligence of moving in time with someone I trusted.

Looking back now, it’s clear to me: rhythm doesn’t just accompany life. It organizes it.

Today's song- Beautiful Mess by Left on Laurel
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Music, regulation, and why rhythm belongs in session

02/02/2026

I’m in the middle of a long, long oral surgery process due to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, including periodontal EDS — past the hardest parts, not finished yet. It’s been a real-time lesson in transition: in how hope and grief often travel together, and how relief doesn’t cancel out loss.

Living with chronic illness teaches this kind of complexity early. Change isn’t linear. Improvement arrives with adjustment. Stability can coexist with mourning what was, even while moving toward something better.

This is the terrain I move through with a physiographic lens — not only mental health, but functional capacity shaped by lived conditions, nervous system shifts, and overlapping cycles of adaptation. Transition carries information. The task is learning how to read it without flattening it.

Right now, this is happening across multiple layers in my life — relational, functional, structural — all at once.

02/01/2026

Some patterns only become clear after you’ve watched them for a while.

In the moment they can look inconsistent or confusing, but over time they start to tell a different story.



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01/21/2026

I’ve been thinking about how often “fine” gets taken at face value. For me, it’s usually a strategy — and the after-effect tells the real story.

Rhythm Of A Life- Today's song- The Show Must Go On by Queen What if “fine” isn’t a feeling? What if it’s a mode. A version of you that knows how to show up: coherent capable appropriately paced pleasant enough contained enough readable enough in real time For a lot of people, that version b...

01/17/2026

I move through the world with precision.

Precision shaped inside a body that requires it. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Dysautonomia. Migraine with vertigo and vestibular involvement. These are some of the things define my internal terrain — how I orient, how I move, how narrow the margins can become without warning.

Living this way means constant calibration. Distance. Light. Sound. Posture. Timing. The angle of my neck. The way the room feels when I sit up. Whether the ground will hold steady when I stand. These calculations happen continuously, threaded through every ordinary moment.

Precision is not preference. It is how life stays possible.

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Today's song- This Is Me by Keala Settle, The Greatest Showman Ensemble

01/14/2026

Across healthcare, coaching, education, and human services, a familiar pattern repeats itself.
People are labeled resistant.
Disengaged.
Noncompliant.
Unmotivated.
Interventions are escalated. Language sharpens. Expectations rise.
And still, the person does not respond in the way the system expects.
The prevailing assumption is behavioral: a failure of effort, insight, or will. But this assumption rests on a deeper error—one so normalized that it often goes unnamed.
This is not a failure of motivation. It is a failure of perception.
More precisely, it is a failure to accurately read functional human capacity in context.