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Untreated past trauma can have a huge impact on your health. According to Harvard Medical School research, trauma triggers emotional and physical reactions that make you more susceptible to serious health conditions including heart attack, stroke, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Additionally, the risk of developing mental and physical health problems increases with the number of traumatic events you’ve experienced.  But, before your health gets in a critical condition, your body will give you a number of warning signs that you have stored trauma.  Here are the top 10 signs of having stored trauma in your body: 1. Sleep issues 2. Gut issues...

When your hips feel tight, the root cause is often stored trauma that's stuck on your body. Your hips are the storehouse for trauma and unprocessed emotions within your body. This is primarily due to body's physiological survival response.  When you experience trauma, your psoas muscle contracts and stays contracted until you manually release it. The psoas is a large, deep muscle in your body that connects your diaphragm to you hip joint.  You can release your psoas muscle at home with somatic exercises. (I teach 3 ways to do this in my Free Your Hips course). Your adrenal glands also kick...

There are so many ways to include Pilates props into your home workouts. Regardless of whether you want to invest in a reformer for your home or not, Pilates props are highly versatile and effective. Pilates props assist you with alignment and intensify the effectiveness of your home workouts. 12/10 recommend! Here's a list of my favorite Pilates props: 

Have you ever wondered what can cause lower back pain and chronic hip pain? Or looked up, "why does my lower back hurt so much?" Or, "what are "what are good stretches for hip pain?" There IS good news for you! It IS possible to alleviate lower back pain and hip pain through simple stretches, especially if you follow a well-researched program under the guidance of a rehabilitative fitness professional or physical therapist. So if you're looking for easy stretches for lower back pain and hip pain, try some of these! To bring you some relief today, these are the...