​​As a teenager, I had terrible posture, exacerbated by swimming on the high school swim team and then cycling (hunched over handlebars) for years as an adult without any counter measures to strengthen opposing muscle groups or stretch tight muscles.  My posture got so bad that I couldn’t actually stand up straight against the wall at age 40.  I searched out body work practitioners to help me.  I found a chiropractor who released the bound up tissues and bones in my upper back.  I could immediately stand more up right.  But, in that release my muscles didn't know what to do and  I began to experience chronic pain in my neck and upper back .  That pain got so bad that I was terrified to go to bed at night because I would wake up in tears with worse pain.  My chiropractic care was no longer working because my muscles were so tight that they would pull out whatever structural realignment the chiropractor performed.  During this time, I was also running to train for triathlons.  I was constantly getting injured every time I pushed my distance or speed. One setback after another was so frustrating.  Restarting and rebuilding again and again.  Frustration with cycles of reinjury can lead even the most motivated individual to throw in the towel!  But I loved the sport and the community of triathlon, I didn’t want to stop participating in the challenge and the fun.  ​I was determined to find a way to relieve my pain and break the cycle of injury. 

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Being in pain consumed my energy and distracted me from focusing on my family, my clients, and even dealing daily living activities.  I began my mission of finding relief in earnest. I recognized one day after a massage, that gave me the most temporary pain relief of any body work I tried, that my issue wasn’t a problem with bone structure, but instead about bound up soft tissues. I began to learn all I could about recovery care, muscle release, and soft tissue issues in general.  I realized that my poor posture and my chronic neck and shoulder pain had a lot to do with not properly releasing and caring for over active muscles.  As I continued to learn, I discovered Corrective Exercise (CE).  CE is a systematic process of releasing bound up tissues, strengthening weak muscles, and reprogramming the brain and the body to work together to improve movement patterns and reduce the risk of injury. 

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Learning CE allowed me to help myself live without pain and maintain healthy movement patterns to be able to push myself in every new adventure.  Now, I also help  my clients improve their performance and quality of their everyday lives too.  To this day, I always tell my clients, “if there’s nothing else you can do, get in 15 minutes of muscle release work each day.  Your body will thank you for it"!

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