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Movement Connect Trauma-informed personal training for busy people with chronic pain.

March had a lot of doctors appointments and a lot of trying and a decent amount of feeling defeated. But also look at ho...
04/14/2026

March had a lot of doctors appointments and a lot of trying and a decent amount of feeling defeated. But also look at how pretty these flowers are.

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.We celebrate the...
04/09/2026

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.

We celebrate the small wins here. We cheer each other on and work on being nicer to ourselves when we make mistakes. We find a balance between self discipline and self compassion and show up for ourselves because we're worth it.

Stoked! Drop a 🔥 in the comments if you're stoked too!

03/26/2026

The secret isn’t to “just push through.”

It’s to meet yourself where you are. Slowly increase your capacity over time. Maintain what you can when you can’t. Focus on being consistent, not intense. And ask for help when you need it (even when you don’t want to).

But that’s just me. What do you think?


03/12/2026

Having interests while also having chronic illness is hard. Your brain might be saying yes, but your body is usually saying no--which means you have a bunch of extra hurdles to jump through if you want to do the things you love.

This, obviously, is pretty fu***ng frustrating. It's demoralizing, irritating, and feels hopeless way too often.

I don't want to make it seem like I can do all the things all the time, because I can't.

I sometimes miss weeks or months of my life being unwell. I want to do the best I can anyway.

That's why I really like lifting weights. Because it gives me a chance to work with my body, help it get stronger, and do the things I actually want to do.

I don't want my illnesses to be the only thing deciding what I'm capable of.

But that's me. What do you think?




February, featuring life. It’s been a crashy, flaring kind of a month. I’ve been trying mostly to get the ancient curse ...
03/03/2026

February, featuring life. It’s been a crashy, flaring kind of a month. I’ve been trying mostly to get the ancient curse (chronic illness) under control, so not a lot has happened. But there’s a dog! And a cat! And art tutorials! And all those things are pretty neat.

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For some reason I thought that having a diagnosis meant I’d feel better fast. That was dumb. I’ve been chronically ill f...
02/17/2026

For some reason I thought that having a diagnosis meant I’d feel better fast.

That was dumb. I’ve been chronically ill for almost a decade now, so you’d think I’d know better. But apparently it’s still my first rodeo. Rude.

Over the last two years I’ve had to let a lot of things go. I’ve had to restructure my business which I’ve spent years building. I’ve had to reduce time with clients. I took a month off work because I was so sick. I’d walk around the block and end up lying down with a fever for the next nine hours.

Not everyone has enough flexibility in their jobs or situations to do those things, so I’m lucky. I’m incredibly grateful to have that privilege.

And it still sucks. Because chronic illness fu***ng sucks and it’s hard. I’ve been trying to figure it out for a long time and I get a grip on it, and it changes again.

But the skills never leave. In the last two years, I’ve gotten better at pivoting around stuff, at finding slivers of energy to do things with. I’m not as strong as I was, I don’t feel nearly as capable, but I’m not back at square one. I’m just in a new part of the story where I have to learn new ways to help my body be a better teammate.

So, idk. If you’re here, thanks for being here. If you’re also in the suck, I feel you. It’s hard. I hope it eases soon. 💜

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.We celebrate the...
02/05/2026

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.

We celebrate the small wins here. We cheer each other on and work on being nicer to ourselves when we make mistakes. We find a balance between self discipline and self compassion and show up for ourselves because we're worth it.

Stoked! Drop a 🔥 in the comments if you're stoked too!

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.We celebrate the...
09/11/2025

Every month I do a check in with my clients to see how things are going and how we can make them better.

We celebrate the small wins here. We cheer each other on and work on being nicer to ourselves when we make mistakes. We find a balance between self discipline and self compassion and show up for ourselves because we're worth it.

Stoked! Drop a 🔥 in the comments if you're stoked too!

August was strange.I got diagnosed with lupus/UCTD in July, and started on medications for it. Suddenly I’ve gone from n...
09/04/2025

August was strange.

I got diagnosed with lupus/UCTD in July, and started on medications for it. Suddenly I’ve gone from not even liking to take ibuprofen to taking six pills every morning. But, you know what, if it actually gets me my life back, I’m all for it.

I’m always really impressed by people who can live blog their diagnoses. I’m still trying to figure out how much I’m comfortable sharing. I feel like this whole year has been a parade of doctor’s appointments and feeling like I’m constantly falling down a bottomless hole. I’m still trying to find my way out.

I’m grateful for having a good doctor, who listens. I’m grateful for clients and work and my partner, who rocks, and my weird dog and the stray spooky cat who may or may not agree to being adopted by us.

Chronic illness sucks but I’m nothing if not obstinate. So, I keep working on the plan. Keep looking for things I can do anyway. Because I want to keep doing things, even if looks different than the things I did before.

If you’re here, thanks for being here. I’m really glad you’re here.

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