Body Restoration is an important part of the process for many of my clients.
Many people report feeling as though years of stress, problems, or limitations have been lifted from their realities. Almost all are surprised and happy to find out that they really don’t have to just live with painful and/or limiting issues forever. The techniques involved in this process can help clients find relief they often didn’t know was possible. People frequently feel they have a new lease on life, or that they have suddenly regained years’ worth of vitality.
In the course of our lives, our bodies go through an incredible number of changes. There is the natural progression of growing, learning, maturation. Life, however, sometimes brings injuries, stress, or medical interventions which change the landscape of our bodies, often with short-term, but sometimes with long-term impacts on our quality of life or physical abilities. Many of my clients have had an injury that has never completely gone away. Many others have frequent or chronic stress of one type or another in their lives.
During my time working in both hospital and out-patient clinical settings, I learned a great deal about these conditions and causes. We worked with people of all ages and backgrounds, each with their own story, and each with their own desire for a better quality of life. Now in my private practice, I use this experience to help people regain their full potentials.
Injuries and surgeries can alter us long term by creating scar tissue, damaging other tissues, or simply by creating protective or compensative behaviors that linger long after the event. Sometimes these secondary problems don’t surface right away, but instead surface sometime later. This is frequently considered unrelated to the initial event, but is often actually a natural and predictable part of the body’s response to injury. These conditions need not be as permanent as most people think, we do not have to live with these changes passively. It is also rarely too late to do something about this.
Frequent or chronic stress also has the capacity to alter our bodies, however usually in slower and more subtle ways. Postural changes, tendonitis, tension, fibromyalgia, headaches, and reduced tolerance for work, exercise, or just life in general are all examples of this. We are often told that this is just the expected effect of aging and using our bodies. These changes are often described as inevitable and unchangeable. I have found, however, that relief and healing are possible with the proper treatment.
Once initial problems or primary complaints have been resolved, the way is clear to work on the underlying issues which create and frequently re-create the symptoms clients are dealing with. After scar tissue remodeling and body rebalancing, base protective behaviors are reset to their pre-injury norms. Clients experience immediate gains, and are then taught precise self-care techniques for even further long term improvement.
Our experience of our bodies involves an interaction of both ‘hardware’ and ‘software’. Working together, we can return the hardware to as close a state of norm as possible in terms of form, balance, strength, and flexibility. Then together we will help the body realize that the injury has passed and that it no longer needs to guard and protect around the issue. When the body functions in a state of balance and harmony, health becomes the norm.