Pain has an annoying way on creeping up on you…and if you’re not careful, in time it can take over your life. Like a houseguest who loves your hospitality a bit too much, once you’ve got it, it can be a challenge to get it to pack up and leave. Thankfully, there are things you can do to prevent pain from moving into your body and settling down into your sacred space, draining you of time and energy. Practice some prevention and close the door on pain with these strategies. Incorporate massage into your daily routine.What, you don’t have your own personal on-call masseuse available 24/7? Oh { Read More }
Five Quick and Easy Tips to Keep Your Sanity When You’re in Pain
May is Mental Health Awareness Month – a good reminder to check up - and brush up - on yours. The pain began as a dull off-and-on ache between my shoulder blades. But then, seemingly overnight, it progressed into a persistent, sharp and stinging sensation that moved beyond my neck and down into my arm. The unrelenting pain woke me – and kept me - up at night. And the more I felt the pain, the more I tensed up and the tighter my muscles became, which only added to my discomfort. In no time I became stressed and sedentary, short-tempered and depressed. After spending considerable time trying all my { Read More }
What’s Getting in the Way of Your Weight Loss?
If you’re planning once again to make some New Year’s Resolutions, but tired of making the same ones over and over and over again, here’s something for you: A dive into what’s getting in the way of your desire to shed some pounds. Because sometimes, you need to silence your inner critic from telling you that you have no self- control... and finally find the truth behind it all. Pain. Chronic pain can lead to unwanted weight gain in many ways. Side effects from medications, like anti-inflammatory steroids, can make the scale creep up. Being in pain can make it more difficult to be active, or can make you { Read More }
Pain Relief for Achy Joints
Getting older certainly has its perks, but the reality of it is that aging can take its toll on many of us, despite our efforts to get out there and stay active – especially as the cold weather sets in. No, it wasn’t an exaggeration when your mother/father/grandmother or someone else rubbed their knee/elbow/back; winced and muttered, “I can feel a storm coming on.” Yes, there is evidence that shows a link between weather changes and chronic pain, especially joint pain and migraines. A 2007 Tufts University study showed that for every 10 degrees drop in temperature, there was an incremental increase in { Read More }
Does Your Body Need a Winter Fixer Upper? Five Easy DIY Improvements
With winter season on the horizon, it’s time to start thinking ahead about sprucing up around your home: cleaning out closets, tuning up your heating system, weather-proofing your garden, gathering firewood, clearing your roof and gutters of debris, caulking around windows and doors, and more. But just as important is sprucing up your health. Here are five easy things to do to get you prepped for the upcoming winter months, so you can keep your mind- and body – in the best shape possible. 1. Get plenty of light. As the days become shorter and sunlight more scarce, many people feel sad – and suffer { Read More }
Make it a Habit: 5 Tips for a Pain-Free You
For people with chronic pain, life can be hard. The unrelenting pain may make you feel uncomfortable and cranky and even hopeless at times. But it’s more within your control than you think; switching bad habits for good ones can help ease the pain and improve – and potentially prolong – your life. It’s never too late to reverse your bad habits or adopt some new, healthy ones, and it can be done if you give yourself some time and patience. It’s said that it can take about 21 days to develop a habit; when you think about it, that’s really not a huge amount of time to invest in better health and { Read More }
Win a New Genius Wahl Massage Patch!
I love hosting giveaways. And who doesn't love to win? That's why I'm so happy to gift one of my readers with a brand-new genius product: The Wahl Pulsing Massage Patch. You can read about it here ...but make sure to come back to this page and leave a comment to be eligible to be the winner. Because, after all, you might be one of the estimated 75 to 85 percent of all Americans who will suffer from some sort of back pain during their lifetime. If and when you do, this will come in mighty handy. Here's the scoop: One name will be chosen at random. Then I'll notify you via email. Please respond to the { Read More }
You Need to Add This Pain Reliever to Your Wardrobe
No one will ever know you’re enjoying a massage…except for you. Wahl has come out with a Pulsing Massage Patch that you can wear on-the-go and under your clothes. I don’t know who first uttered, “If we’re not in pain we’re not alive,” but lately the word “pain” has become one of the most common and popular topics at many dinner conversations. It isn’t easy being pain-free. We may be an active generation; after all, having been weaned on Jack LaLanne and Jane Fonda can do that to a person – but with that comes the inescapable and at times, insufferable aches and pains. We bear the toll as body parts { Read More }
Five Ways to Enjoy a Pain-Free Vacation
You’ve looked forward to it all year…researched, planned and anticipated. It’s finally here - vacation time! And you’re determined not to let anything ruin it. Unfortunately, no matter how meticulously you plan, there are a lot of things that can derail a vacation. Some are simply out of your control – like delayed flights, lost luggage, and perhaps the most infamous of all – the weather. Fortunately, you can control one of the worst travel ‘disasters’ – and that’s spending your vacation in pain. I’m going to give you great ways to avoid pain in the first place, so your vacation can be as perfect as { Read More }