✨From Scoliosis to Broadway: Building Resilience with Paige Fraser-Hoffman

🎙️Episode Summary

What does it take to pursue your dreams while living with scoliosis?

In this inspiring conversation, Erin Myers sits down with Broadway performer Paige Fraser-Hoffman, currently in her seventh year with The Lion King, to share her journey from a scoliosis diagnosis at age 13 to one of the world's biggest stages.

Together, they explore chronic pain, building a trusted healthcare team, mental resilience, self-advocacy, faith, and choosing hope. Whether you're living with scoliosis or supporting someone who is, this episode is a reminder that a diagnosis does not define your future.

💡 Key Takeaways

• A scoliosis diagnosis does not define your future.
• Building a trusted support team can help you navigate scoliosis with greater confidence.
• Mental resilience, faith, and community are powerful parts of the healing journey.

🔗 Resources & Links

•  I Have Scoliosis. Now What?  by Erin Myers
• Scoli Care Package
• Scoliosis Retreat 
• Scoliosis Movement Specialist Certificate
• Ulta Lab Tests (use code ERINMYERS20 for 20% off)
• Elevation Worship
• Wendy Whelan documentary
• The Oak Tree poem by Johnny Ray Ryder Jr.
• Soul Healing by Sharron Lynn

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Follow Paige on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lovingthispaige

🤍 Encouragement — John 5:1–9 & John 9:1–11

"Do you want to get well?" (John 5) and the healing of the man born blind (John 9) remind us that healing is often a journey of faith, obedience, and hope. No matter where you are today, you are more than your diagnosis.

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🎙️Episode Summary

In this episode, Erin Myers debunks common myths about scoliosis and shares practical guidance for navigating the condition with greater confidence and hope. She explores the role of movement, education, and community support while discussing a holistic approach that looks beyond symptoms to whole-body health.

🔗 Resources & Links

•  I Have Scoliosis. Now What? Pg 9-10, 15-22
•  Scoliosis Retreat 
• Scoliometer
• Scoliosis Movement Specialist Certificate

🤍Encouragement 

"Death Was Arrested" by North Point InsideOut

“Ash was redeemed, only beauty remains”
“My orphan heart was given a name”
“Released from my chains, I’m a prisoner no more”

• Psalm 68:5 — “A father to the fatherless”
• Exodus 22:22–23 — God hears the cry of the orphan
• John 14:18 — “I will not leave you as orphans”
• Psalm 82:3 — “Defend the weak and the fatherless”
• James 1:27 — Caring for orphans and widows
• Isaiah 1:17 — “Defend the orphan”
• Deuteronomy 10:18 — God defends the fatherless

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🎙️ Episode Summary

Explore scoliosis bracing with Jennifer Stark as myths are debunked, research is explored, and practical insights are shared for parents and practitioners.

💡 Key Takeaways

• The right brace can help; the wrong brace can do more harm than good.

• Consistent movement is one of the most powerful tools for scoliosis management.
• Successful treatment supports both spinal health and emotional well-being.

🔗 Resources & Links

• I Have Scoliosis, Now What? See chapter 10
•  Scoliosis Retreat
•  Scoliosis Care Package
•  Scoliometer App
• Dr. Mark Morningstar’s Clinic and research that references his brace https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5759207/
•  Brace vs Surgery Psychological Impact 
• Research showing Schroth and Pilates help decrease Scoliosis
• Gensingen (Chêneau) brace
• This research (2025 Turkey) suggests that because QoL during brace wear is similar to that of surgery, you should just get surgery.
•  This research (2019 Kosovo) suggests that those wearing a brace can experience a similar QoL to those without a brace if you use movement (using the same measure: SRS-22r).

🤍 Encouragement

Seek multiple opinions, support your child's emotional health, and trust that with accurate information and patience, you can make the best decisions for their scoliosis journey.

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🎙️Episode Summary

Erin Myers and Heather Massie explore how nutrition, gut health, hormones, and genetics may influence scoliosis development and progression. Combining research and lived experience, they discuss how supporting the body from the inside out may impact long-term health and scoliosis outcomes.

💡 Key Takeaways

• Scoliosis may be linked to nutrition, inflammation, and genetics.

• Sleep, hormones, and gut health play a role.

• Testing and addressing deficiencies can help support healing.

🔗 Resources & Links

• www.spiralspine.com/shop
• Scoli Lab Testing with Ulta Labs - code ERINMYERS20 for 20% off
• Thorne supplements
• Scoli Care Package
• I Have Scoliosis Now What?
• Iron Patches / Blue Light Glasses
• Link between Prevotella and Scoliosis bone health   
• Zinc & Leaky Gut Research
• Gut Bacteria that may protect against Scoliosis
• Manganese Research
• Effect of Melatonin on the Pituitary Gland

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🤍Encouragement— Lamentations 3:21–24

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✨The Power Of Movement in Managing Scoliosis — Insights from Erin Myers

🎙️ Episode Summary

What if movement wasn’t just exercise—but one of the most powerful tools for healing while living with scoliosis?

In this episode, Erin Myers explores why movement is essential for scoliosis care and overall health. Drawing from decades of experience working with scoliosis clients, Erin shares research-backed insights, client stories, and encouragement for anyone navigating scoliosis, chronic pain, and fear around movement.

💡 Key Takeaways:

• Movement is essential for scoliosis—avoiding it can increase pain & stiffness.
• Pilates, strength training, and corrective exercise can improve mobility, strength, & life quality.
• Daily movement patterns—sports, lifting, posture, & work habits—can impact scoliosis.

🔗 Resources and Links

• I Have Scoliosis. Now What? - Erin referenced pg 49-55 & 73
• Analyzing Scoliosis - Erin referenced pg 92 & 110
• Schroth Method + Pilates Decrease Scoliosis                                                
• Research on resistance training and scoliosis care
• Spiral Spine Scoli Care Package
• Spiral Spine on Demand
• Website: https://spiralspine.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiral_spine?
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Spiralspine

🤍 Encouragement 

• “Goodbye Yesterday” + “Lemonade” - Erin loves moving to uplifting music!

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🎙️ Episode Summary

What happens when your greatest struggle becomes your life’s mission?

In this first episode, Erin Myers shares her deeply personal journey through scoliosis, complex health issues, faith, and healing. From navigating scoliosis as a young Radio City Rockette in New York City to becoming an internationally recognized Balance Body Pilates educator and founder of Spiral Spine Pilates, Erin opens up about the experiences that shaped both her life and the work she does today.

Grounded in lived experience, research, and compassion, this episode offers encouragement and practical insight for anyone navigating scoliosis, chronic pain, or complex health challenges.

💡 Key Takeaways From This Episode:

• Healing involves more than physical symptoms — it’s a mind, body, and spirit journey.
• A diagnosis does not define your future or your ability to heal.
• Erin’s personal health struggles deeply shaped her work in scoliosis and wellness.
• Curiosity, persistence, and self-advocacy can be powerful tools in finding answers.
• Faith, community, and hope became essential parts of the healing process.

🔗 Resources & Links

• Website: https://spiralspine.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiral_spine?
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Spiralspine

🤍 Encouragement

• “There Goes That Man” — Abbey Gamboa
• Revelations 22:1-2 “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb  through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”

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