The Work IN to move out of stress, tension & anxiety

Our nervous system is designed to protect us at all times from all things and because of that it is connected to every system in our body. When we are suffering from an injury, chronic pain or illness, big t or little t trauma, chronic stress and anxiety it’s easy to forget just how important those connections are to our physical, mental and emotional health.

My guest today is Colleen Jorgensen, she’s an Osteopath, a graduate of Pain Care U’s Professional Pain Care program she’s a therapeutic Pilates, yoga and Somatics teacher who got her start in movement with dance at the age of 3.

A deep fascination with how the body moves led her to a B.Sc in Exercise Science with a major in Athletic Therapy from Concordia University in 1995 and a Rehab Pilates certification in 1996. Her curiosity about how the body, mind and spirit are interconnected led me to an Osteopathy degree from Le Collège d'Études Ostéopathiques de Montréal (CEO) in 2005 and a yoga teacher certification in 2018.  

In 1997 she founded CORE BASICS - Centre d’Ostéopathie et Pilates and was the proud owner of this small, multidisciplinary clinic for 16 years until challenging health issues changed my path quite suddenly.  

In 2017 Stillness in Motion was born. Combining manual therapy with creative, embodied movement, mindfulness, awareness, self-regulation practices and a distinctive, heart centered approach to pain care is what I am best known for. 

Living with chronic pain herself for over a decade has given her an invaluable perspective on the day-to-day challenges those in pain face. In 2020 my desire to empower people with knowledge, awareness and practical tools inspired the creation of Discover to Recover - Move from Pain to Potential, a 6-week online pain care program. She loves teaching and offers many courses, workshops and teacher trainings in embodied anatomy, somatic movement, and compassionate, creative pain care.

I learned so much from my conversation with Colleen. We covered so many things but the overarching theme was connection. Making, keeping and healing connections throughout the body and the nervous system. 

In this  4 part series we are going to explore those connections... between chronic pain, the nervous system, integrating movement and breath and finding new ways to befriend our body to experience a full life.

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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Today I'm so excited to bring you a very special interview with my trainer and mentor, Donna Phillips. Donna has over 30 years of experience in the health care, wellness and medical industries. She has degrees in exercise physiology, business and holds advanced certifications in both yoga and pilates. She's an outstanding teacher. But what makes her really unique, and why I wanted to introduce her to you today, is that she also happens to be a trauma release exercise certification trainer.

She is passionate about bringing trauma release exercise to the world as a way to safely self regulate stress tension and trauma. We're going to learn a little bit more about what trauma release exercise is,  what it does for the body, how it can help us connect and reestablish a friendly relationship within ourselves and safely down regulate the nervous system, so that we can really experience our lives to the fullest.

 I had such a great time talking with Donna. And as always, every time we sit down to chat, I learned so much, and I think you will too. Please enjoy this interview with Donna Phillips. 

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It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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 And today I wanted to take a little bit of a deeper dive into something that came up a couple of episodes ago, in our self care as self love interview with Paula Davis. One of the things that stood out to me most in that interview was when Paula talked about on complicating our self care, and about creating simple rituals that really count as self care, and self love. I wanted to speak today on moving from a routine, taking something that is our normal everyday habit and turning it into a really beautiful self care ritual.

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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7 waking sleep habits to send you to dreamland

Everyone loves a good night's sleep. Insomnia, sleep deprivation and fatigue are central complaints for almost every health issue. Fatigue being #1. But I think for a lot of us general fatigue is something that we simply live with as a normal state of being. It’s not supposed to be that way. Sleep deprivation, chronic insomnia is not normal. It might be common, but it isn’t normal and there are some pretty important reasons that we need to address it.

In this episode I share my top 7 waking habits to support a great nights sleep.


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It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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Happy Valentines Day! 
Welcome and in today's episode we are celebrating this month of love with self-care as self love in the face of a beauty industry, diet and fitness culture that survives and thrives on the messages of “not enough”.

I want to introduce you to an extraordinary woman who is on a mission to redefine beauty and help women navigate a world of wellness with compassion and self-love.  Paula Marie Davis is a 55 year young mother of 5 and wife of nearly 30 years. She's a health coach, entrepreneur, raw food chef, a flying Yogi, natural beauty advocate, changemaker and so very much more. 

 Paula created her company Beauty Detangled to be an in person and online community to help women detangle themselves from the destructive messages of not good enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not thin enough . 

We talk about self care rituals, how simple things that we already do everyday can become acts of self-love, how important connection and community is and how we can become our own guru and find freedom from the chains imposed by the beauty and diet culture.

Please enjoy my interview with Paula Marie Davis. 

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It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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In this episode we break down 4 stages of sleep, and why they're all important for cognition, creativity, problem solving, learning, memory and stress reduction.

Today, we are going to be talking about the stages of sleep. And what is happening in those stages of sleep, and which ones are more important. We just want to get a real good picture of what a good night's sleep looks like what is normal. What is abnormal. And how can we use this information to really find our way back, and support our health With a healthy night's sleep.
 
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Resources
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15575797/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32230944/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18772053/

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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In this episode we learn the physical anatomy of sleep in the brain.  We learn the the connections between  those brain structures and how they use hormones and neurotransmitters to communicate and control our sleep wake cycle and a little about how we form memory and learn new things while we dream.

Resources:

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/patient-caregiver-education/understanding-sleep

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326847#medical-benefits

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/312628

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/melatonin-what-you-need-to-know

https://www.amazon.com/Stress-Proof-Scientific-Solution-Body-Resilient/dp/0143130471

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/stages-of-sleep

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/mental-health/depression-and-sleep

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21377416/

http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/benefits-of-sleep/learning-memory

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK526132/

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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Welcome back to our Samskara series. There’s nothing like a pandemic, lock down and isolation to make you reevaluate what’s important, amiright? So throughout this month Instead of getting all twisted up with goal setting & behavior change we’re Shifting perspective on habits. Instead of looking at behavior from outside we’re excavating the deep internal patterns of survival, tension and emotion that support and direct our habits and in today's episode we're looking at some of our habits & shadow patterns around nutrition and food.

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It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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Welcome to the present moment, messy question of the day where we take a quick look and current events in our culture of stress and cultivate a little curiosity.

In todays episode let yourself be curious about the voices of the past that guard the gates to your safe space.  

What happens when something challenges your gatekeeper? What happens when an idea that runs counter to your world view gets into your safe space? 

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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In this episode we discuss how the brain sometimes interprets the story of our lives in ways that lead to patterns of tension throughout the body and can keep us stuck in stress , tension and trauma.

Brought to you by Kinetic Grace: Kinetic Grace is a membership that integrates yoga + TRE and functional fitness to guide outstanding individuals off the battlefield of trauma and back into grace. When you're ready to shake off your tension patterns and find freedom from stress tension and anxiety head over to elemental kinetics.com and try a free class.

It’s time to stop working out and start working IN. You found the Work IN podcast for fit-preneurs and their health conscious clients. This podcast is for resilient wellness professionals who want to expand their professional credibility, shake off stress and thrive in a burnout-proof career with conversations on the fitness industry, movement, nutrition, sleep, mindset, nervous system health, yoga, business  and so much more. 

I’m your host Ericka Thomas. I'm a resilience coach and fit-preneur offering an authentic, actionable realistic approach to personal and professional balance for coaches in any format.

The Work IN is brought to you by savage grace coaching, bringing resilience through movement, action and accountability. Private sessions, small groups and corporate presentations are open now. Visit savagegracecoaching.com to schedule a call and get  all the details.

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