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Self care Saturday is in full swing this morning!

Self care Saturday is in full swing this morning! Plus a little🚨Spoiler alert!

Actually - I’m doing double duty and filming 🤩 Session 3 of my new Three Thursdays Series that’s now on sale!

If you’re ready to uplevel your #coreworkouts with some fun and creative mindful movement, this little 3 week series is for you!

I also teach modifications for osteoporosis, osteopenia, and spinal fusion, so don’t let this clip scare you - this series is 💯percent modifiable.

Link in bio to learn more and sign up! Look for the Three Thursday’s post!

Did you know exercise snacks that are multi-modal

Did you know exercise snacks that are multi-modal can help you get fit the fastest? ⁠
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PLUS, they are supported by science to be the most effective. ⁠
PLUS, if you add mindfulness to it, your exercise snack becomes superior to exercise alone! ⁠
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So let’s get started with this week’s #PoseoftheWeek: Wall Warrior Twist⁠
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Because #MedicalTherapeuticYoga is a multi-modal activity. It combines: ⁠
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✅Physical/Occupational Therapy ⁠
✅Athletic Training⁠
✅Therapeutic Yoga⁠
✅Balance⁠
✅Strength Training⁠
✅Aerobic Activity ⁠
✅Mobility and Flexibility Training ⁠
✅Mindfulness & Stress Management ⁠
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This week’s pose of the week is an 8-in-1 time saver! ⁠
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The Wall Warrior Twist helps improve: ⁠
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🤓Thoracic (mid-back) mobility ⁠
🧘‍♀️Mind-Body awareness⁠
🎉Strength of the gluts and hips⁠
😍Pelvic floor function ⁠
👏Core strength⁠
❤️Lung power⁠
🚀Core timing ⁠
😎Balance and overall fitness ⁠
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Get the full post at the link in bio ⁠
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#yoga #fitness #wellness #coreworkout #balance #yogamat #lowerbodyworkout #exercise #mindbodyfitness #mindbody #physicalactivity #physicaltherapy #jointmobility #stressmanagement #occupationaltherapy #athletictraining #integrativelifestylemed #eudemonia #eudemomia ⁠
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Your CORE is like a 🏡 house. ⁠ ⁠ A house ha

Your CORE is like a 🏡 house. ⁠
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A house has a foundation, ceiling, roof, and walls. ⁠
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💪Your CORE has a:⁠
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✅ Foundation: Pelvic diaphragm/floor (what allows you to do a Kegel)⁠
✅ Ceiling: Vocal diaphragm ⁠
✅ Roof: Respiratory diaphragm⁠
✅ Walls: Abdominal, back, and hip muscles ⁠
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If your physical therapist is trying to address your CORE, he/she/they need to address the WHOLE HOUSE. ⁠
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When should they address your CORE: ⁠
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🤓If you have pain in the hip, back, pelvic, vocal, shoulder, knee, &/or sacroiliac joint.⁠
🤓If you have vocal issues, breathing problems, a lotta stress, leakage, painful sex, pelvic organ prolapse, or…⁠
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You get my drift….⁠
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The CORE is a vital connecting point for WHOLE HEALTH. ⁠
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So if you want WHOLE HEALTH you have to address the WHOLE HOUSE. ⁠
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Thanks for coming to my Ted talk ;) ⁠
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#coreworkout #corefitness #abs #core #physicaltherapy #integrativephysicaltherapy #integratlivelifestylemed #hippain #backpain #shoulderpain #kneepain #pelvcpain #pelvichealth #kegels #breathwork #wholehealth #holistichealth #eudemonia #eudemomia ⁠

📚Dropping in October! ⁠ ⁠ This text needs t

📚Dropping in October! ⁠
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This text needs to be ON YOUR BOOKSHELF and in use at your clinic if you use Lifestyle Medicine in your women's health practice. ⁠
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🎉 I’m pretty excited to have been invited to pen a chapter in this book! ⁠
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🎉 In a sea of super qualified MD's, this chapter will be the lone one written by PT's. ⁠
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🎉 I’m also excited the fab Dr. Wendy Price, PT, DPT, WCS, agreed to join the wild ride as my coauthor and partner in lifestyle medicine crime ;) @wendyfprice⁠
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🎉 Dr. Michelle Tollefson, MD et al have edited this gorgeous text: ⁠
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📚Improving Women’s Health Across the Lifespan⁠
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🙌 PLUS: It's not like other textbooks that are super expensive. The paperback is a very reasonable $55! ⁠
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📚Summary: ⁠
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There is renewed interest in lifestyle medicine – the focus on food, physical activity, stress management, high-quality connections, restorative sleep, and avoidance of toxic substances – in the prevention, treatment, and sometimes reversal of chronic disease, but very little information exists on its application for improving specific women’s health issues across the lifespan. ⁠
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Consequently, there is a growing need among health professionals who care for women for a textbook that addresses evidence-based lifestyle solutions to manage the health challenges they face every day in their offices.⁠
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This book begins with a review of the fundamentals of Lifestyle Medicine through the lens of a woman’s lifespan. It provides information about lifestyle interventions to improve gynecologic and sexual health and to manage and sometimes reverse gynecologic diseases.⁠
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Excited to be a part of this collaboration! ⁠
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#lifestylemedicine #author #writer #medicaltextbooks #womenshealth #sexualhealth #gynecology #pelvichealth #mindfulmovement #physicaltherapy #integrativephysicaltherapy #infertility #pregnancy #postpartum #cancer #menopause #autoimmunedisorders #dementia #diabetes #hearthealth #heartdiesase #mentalhealth #behavioralchange #healthequity

After 24+ hours in the backcountry and nearly 6000

After 24+ hours in the backcountry and nearly 6000 feet and 7 miles hiked plus a stop at the watering hole spring - a little AM birthday 🥳 song for my birthday 🎂 boy! Happy birthday 🎁 to sweet William! #fourteenthbirthday #boymom #outdoorlife #birthdayvibes #birthdaysong #grandfathermountain #profiletrailnc #callowaypeak #backpacking #highlandsnc

The hips do more than transfer load between the up

The hips do more than transfer load between the upper and lower body. The hips are a MAJOR METAPHOR for success in business and lifestyle choices too…⁠⁠
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This weekend I took my family into the backcountry for their first backpacking trip in the NC Highlands on Grandfather Mountain. We traversed 6000 feet with a 10 year old and 2 dogs in tow, plus my (Happy 14th to my middle son!) 2 teenagers, about 80 pounds of gear or so, and 3 of us “seasoned” adults. ⁠⁠
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Every step I took with a full load of water, food, wilderness first aid, and gear was a test of my hips, especially my right one, which was “refurbished” in 2014. ⁠⁠
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Having strong hips also requires: ⁠⁠
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✅Ab strength⁠⁠
✅Pelvic floor endurance and resilience ⁠⁠
✅Back strength and endurance⁠⁠
✅Good posture⁠⁠ - it matters for long term joint stability
✅Happy fascia and mobile scars ⁠⁠
✅Cardiovascular endurance ⁠⁠
✅Hydration⁠⁠
✅A growth mindset for when you have to figure out how to get 2 dogs up and down ladders perched on the side of rocks with severe vertical drops! ⁠⁠
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On the business front, having strong "hips" can mean: ⁠⁠
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✅ Not neglecting self-care ⁠⁠
✅ Having strong systems in place to guide your decision making⁠⁠
✅ Diversifying income streams⁠⁠
✅ Not trying to do everything yourself⁠⁠
✅ Pacing yourself - choose the BEST plan for your season of life, not just a good one⁠⁠
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I’ve been an integrative clinician and business owner teaching PT's and OT's how to maintain their sanity and scale their practices for success for over 20 years now.⁠⁠
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Want to learn more about strengthening your hips &/or your business model as a PT or OT? ⁠⁠
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Visit the link in bio or integrativelifestylemed.com to learn more! ⁠⁠
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(Pssst, there are FREEBIES if you do and ZERO risk for you!) ⁠⁠
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#motivationmonday #integrativelifestylemed #businesscoaching #synergy #careercatalyst #integrativephysicaltherapist #integrativeoccupationaltherapist #stressmanagement #entrepreneur #mompreneur #medicaltherapeuticyoga #hips #sethgodin #selfcare #pelvicphysicaltherapy

20 years ago I sat with a WWII veteran and we watc

20 years ago I sat with a WWII veteran and we watched together in horror as the towers suddenly and unexpectedly fell. He was a Pearl Harbor survivor.

Where were you and what were you doing when 9/11 happened?

#neverforget #911memorial #911anniversary

Wheee, it’s FriYAY y’all! Let’s Use 👏Our

Wheee, it’s FriYAY y’all! Let’s Use 👏Our 👏Voice 👏to feel stronger, bolder, and more capable. You know what else speaking up can do? ⁠⁠
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Having a strong voice can allow you to: ⁠⁠
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✅Be seen. ⁠⁠
✅Felt heard. ⁠⁠
✅Felt more understood. ⁠⁠
✅PS Improve your pelvic and back health & resilience 👏👏👏👏⁠⁠
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THIS IS WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE VOICE: ⁠⁠
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🤓 As a #therapist and #teacher, I need my voice to make a living. We all HIGHLY depend on our voice, right? ⁠⁠
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🎤 As a #vocalist, I need my voice to stay healthy to make beautiful #music. Because #musicismedicine and #singing is therapeutic. ⁠⁠
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❤️As a #pelvicfloorphysicaltherapy provider and #orthopaedic PT, I have long used the voice to help folks - men, women, trans, and nonbinary folks - claim their power to improve pelvic and orthopedic health. ⁠⁠
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Vocalizing IS a sport, y’all, and a KEY INDICATOR OF PELVIC HEALTH. ⁠⁠
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🥰 As a #boymom, I have a LOT to teach #my3sons about listening to and respecting the women in their lives. Because #equality #respect #listenup ⁠⁠
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💪As a #human #woman - it can be hard for women to speak up. We are constantly told and in so many ways, like death by 1000 cuts - culturally conditioned not to. To borrow the words of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Well behaved women rarely make history. So speak up anyway. You won’t regret liberating yourself. ⁠⁠
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🎉So speak up, make some noise - and NOTICE if using your voice makes your pelvic floor and core (hip and low back is included here too folks!) feel BETTER or WORSE.⁠⁠
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Because USING YOUR VOICE should UNLOAD your pelvic floor strain and low back stress. If it doesn’t, you may not be using your voice correctly. ⁠⁠
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More tips on that to come in the future - so please give me a follow on IG @drgingergarner and subscribe to my FREE YouTube Channel at the link in the bio. ⁠⁠
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Thanks y’all! And keeping USING YOUR VOICE for making things better in the world AND in your own pelvic floor! ⁠⁠
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#pelvichealth #voice #liberatethevoice #integrativemedicine #lifestylemedicine #womenshealth #LGBTQhealth #menshealth #friyay #fridayvibes #weekend ⁠⁠

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