Wichita Family Wellness

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11/16/2021

It's official, the new branding has launched!

05/17/2021

Your tongue acts as a rudder and support system through a fascial line that runs right down to your toes!

In nearly all my patients, I see poor tongue posture, and the links to bad spinal posture, breathing, and other issues are felt right throughout the body.

The simplest way we can see how the tongue is so influential is how it supports proper head posture. When the tongue is down and forward, forward head posture and mouthbreathing occurs.

Over time this associates with a narrow jaw, crooked teeth, and sleep disorders.

But… you guessed it, as always the mouth is a gateway for so many other systems in the body.

The tongue is an extremely complex muscular and fascial rudder system.

It guides all the structures of the myofascial continuity that runs from the inner arch of the foot all the way up through the middle of the body to the tongue and jaw muscles.

Isn’t that amazing?

Actually the tongue is potentially more important for core stability than turning on your actual core.

Our core begins deep under the arch with the insertions of the tendons from the lower leg, especially tibialis posterior.

To find its insertion, feel just under the inside arch of the foot, just underneath and forward of protrusion of the navicular bone you can feel a bit over an inch in front of your tibial malleolus on the inside of your ankle.

This point will respond to a soft-but-energy-rich touch that is held, and also to a more firm and direct fascial release. Pressing here can make a flow of feeling run up the fascial line.

So for better core support, spinal, hip and leg strength, you need to work on your tongue posture.

During exercise practice sealing the tongue to the roof of the mouth, this turns on the fascial rudder to the toes. It takes time and you need to work on making the BACK of the tongue connect to the soft palate. More on this to come.

04/05/2021

Good advice 💜

I was playing a game of pretend with my kids in the yard this past weekend and was all of a sudden taken back by how “big” and grown up they seemed. Their faces looked older, their little bodies stretching taller and their voices with clearer language and big laughs.

It really made me pause and take in that moment. To take a mental snap shot. To soak in who they were on that day. How big they seemed in some ways and how very little they still seemed too.

My kids are both May babies, and maybe it’s this muscle memory gearing up as we head to their birthdays. Or the fact that my youngest keeps telling me she’s a “big kid”, but I’ve been trying to slow down and take more of these mental snap shots. To notice who they are and who they’re becoming. To soak up all the good stuff in the midst of the hard stuff.

What can you pause and notice about your child/children today?

04/04/2021

There's a world of difference between seeking growth from a place of feeling broken or messed up vs. stepping into growth from the perspective that you're imperfect and you're OK.

03/22/2021

The first days are wet ones!

my job first week has been Liquid Patrol

03/03/2021

Friends, if you have tried to contact us in the last 3 weeks and haven’t received a response please accept my apologies. We have been having technical issues receiving voicemails and some text messages. I’m working though returning the messages that have come through. If you’re needing our urgent attention, please reach out again, either through FB messenger or email molly@wellnesswichita.com

Thank you!