Traction Pain Relief & Wellness

Welcome to my "dump room"  😳  Go ahead, judge...now keep reading. This room used to be my home office. When I opened my Downtown Hampton clinic location in January it morphed into the "dump rom" - the room where everything gets dumped if I don't want to deal with it in the moment, but it's in the way.  The door to this room stays CLOSED! Over the past few months I would open it from time to time intending to take care of it, but the overwhelm of it all called the door shut again.  This morning I set my timer and I chunked it down. Voila! The thing that has overwhelmed me for 3+ months is now a source of joy in a matter of 60 minutes  🤯 What does your overwhelm look like? Maybe it's not a room in your house. Maybe it's the food in your pantry/fridge. Maybe it's the vision you see in the mirror. Maybe it's the lies and stories you fill your heart and head with.  I want to share with you some tactical advise for tackling the overwhel...

I was reading an article the other day that stated "Human existence and survival is based on cooperation. The mind and body are adversely affected without it. This is why social isolation is used as an effective form of torture." If you are feeding yourself negative social interactions or not interacting socially at all, you are literally torturing yourself on a small scale. The quality of your social interactions and relationships plays a major role in your overall health. When you are around negativity or people that stress you our and give you anxiety there is a reaction in your brain that taps into your fight or flight system and releases certain hormones and chemical that promote inflammation in the body. If you are someone that is constantly stressed out because of the people you are around, then you have to change the people whom you are around. However, it doesn't always have to be in the sense of "I'm going to cut them out." I want to em...