The last three newsletters were about a kind of false alarm — the body bracing for a loss that isn’t actually coming, treating an ordinary disagreement as if it were the end of a relationship. Most of the time, that’s exactly what it is: a false alarm, worth talking your nervous system down from. […]
Last week I wrote about a pattern I see constantly in patients: a lot of the emotional tension they carry in their shoulders, jaw, low back, and gut isn’t really about disagreement itself. It’s about the fear underneath it — that if you don’t come around to someone else’s way of seeing things, they’ll pull […]
Last week I spent 12 hours in front of my computer taking a continuing education class on muscle rehabilitation. Zoom is a wonderful thing in small doses, but 12 hours is a bit longer than my posterior appreciates. The essence of the class revolved around a physiologic fact that I have appreciated in the […]