"Paula always has a smile on her face and a gentle way about her.  She is approachable and trustworthy. She won’t judge. I know that I can be vulnerable with her, share the not-so-nice parts of my life, and she always make me feel better about myself. She paints a picture of a brighter, more hopeful tomorrow that keeps me going."  
                          - a glowing (but anonymous!) client
Winter, 2021:
Many years ago I started to recognize that I had a very strong reaction to seeing the snow fall. It gave me an overpowering sense that I needed to sit down, and if I was sitting I would end up lying on the floor, under a window, watching it snow. There was a profound peace in knowing that a big storm would relieve me of my work obligations, if only for a few hours, and my body immediately forced me to rest.

This was the beginning of a long period of chronic burnout, although I didn't recognize it at the time. We don't know what we don't know, and I was so familiar with being on this edge that pushing myself farther and farther over it didn't seem wrong or unusual or even a bad idea. It absolutely was my "normal".

This experience, being so deep into an unhealthy normal that I can't even recognize it, definitely impacts what and how I teach now. Exposing that chasm, between what's normal or familiar to you and what's both healthy and achievable, and teaching how this is part of your bigger picture, is what I'm here for.

This season, the Stress theme is one that pretty much everyone is familiar with! So it makes a good "on-ramp" to discussions about holistic wellness. My whole-body approach to pelvic support is another good "on-ramp" because all of our daily movement has its origins in the pelvis, as do many of our internal body systems, so it's another great way to talk about full-body wellness.
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Whatever your goals, whatever your symptoms, I'm going to keep encouraging you to look for the broader patterns, the deeper connections, to see how the thing you're focusing on is influencing all the rest of you. It's the difference between pulling one marionette string, making one part move, and pulling a thread on a spiderweb- the whole web is impacted. Everything we do impacts our whole web, so let me teach you about working with your whole web.
Listen to my most recent podcast episode here!