Let’s chat a little about pain. Yep pain, discomfort, injury, recovery. At some point each and everyone of us has had some kind of pain. Some bigger and more ongoing. And some occasional ouches. Let’s dive into the feelings behind pain and the key to reducing and managing pains -to move and life as pain free as possible.
It is frustrating to not be at 100%.
If you have an injury, are recovering, learning to manage chronic pain, or are going through something.
It can feel so discouraging, irritating, upsetting,
To still be in pain.
For the healing process and journey of recovery to take long.
To have to recover, relearn, or discover a new and changing body and self.
To still be working on it.
To have a drop or dip in progress.
When a lower day or week pops up.
When things are going well and another problem, issue, setback, or injured area comes up.
When you don’t have full answers.
This is a topic I talk with clients a lot about.
Whether coming back to fitness and health from injuries.
Learning to manage pain or body changes.
Getting back into their health and wellbeing postpartum, post babies, after injury, or life change.
Lows are normal.
Healing takes time. And lots of patience.
Give yourself and your body more credit.
It is so easy to focus on what isn’t working. What you don’t know. What has changed or been taken from you. The frustrating.
Within all of it and everything,
What is going well?
What have you learned about yourself?
What are you doing really good at?
Are you:
-Learning to listen to your body and your emotions.
-Getting to know yourself and your body better.
-Learning to give more patience and compassion to yourself.
-Exploring how to keep going.
-Discovering new possibilities.
Let yourself feel frustrated.
It is real.
Feel and acknowledge all the emotions and experiences involved.
And,
Give yourself credit and ability to see all that has and is going well.
You are doing a lot.
Breathe.
One step at a time.
If you are feeling alone,
Who is your support team?
Friends, family, healthcare team, Therapist, Coach, Personal Trainer, Physical Therapist, Chiropractor, support community…
They are your grounding base to talk through, destress, and focus on what is most important to you right now.
Healing, recovery, and all the ups and downs that come along are a wonderful (and challenging) time for discovery, exploration, growth, and learning yourself better.
Have you felt frustrated not being at 100%?
🖐me too!
And that’s okay 😊
Ready to start to reduce your pain, rebuild strength, and feel better in your body?!
Intentional strength and habits can aid in alleviating, preventing, getting rid of, managing, and reducing pains.
Learn how to move your body; to build strength; to set up your posture and alignment to better support your body through daily life and all the in betweens.
For myself and my clients, the changing factor in how long their pain lasts, the intensity, how often chronic pain resurfaces, and the ability to move as pain free as possible has been:
-Building intentional strength to stabilize your joints, finicky areas, and core stability
-Learning how to effectively support and stabilize your body
-Sometimes we need to limit the motions that make it pang, increase, scream that little bit. You can likely still move other body parts and still workout with small shifts.
-Not moving can intensify pain -especially for arms and legs.
-Gentle movement. Thinking soft movement and blood flow over holding a big stretch.
-Give your body time. To recover. Kindness to reset. Acknowledgement of the frustration. While giving yourself grace.
-Prioritize sleep, recovery, nutrition, and hydration.
-Finding the nutrition and recovery systems that work for your body, life, and self.
-Building a whole health plan that takes into account your unique body, needs, goals, lifestyle, and reality.
When we turn these tools into intentional strength in our workouts and into our daily life,
We can recover more smoothly.
Alleviate long term and chronic pains.
And help keep the body moving pain free (or as happy as possible) for longer.
It is not only what you do during your workout or physical therapy, it is also what you do within daily life, while sleeping, through your recovery.
Ready to reduce your pains, feel stronger in your body, be able to do more of the things you love, and feel at home in your body? I will be opening my coaching program soon!
I got into helping people with building strength and managing their pain because when I was a young teen through 20 something; I suffered from debilitating occasional back pain. My pain would get so intense that I would cramp, throw up, need an IV, barely feel like I could live life. At that time, I never got an actual answer. Some possible maybe’s, but nothing that actually helped to prevent or stop the pains. They gave me pain medications to cover up the issue, and these left me basically useless while taking them (tired, foggy brained, fighting to stay awake). This later led to me exploring what might help -when I finally decided to not just accept that it would happen, but to take control over the possibility.
And finding my management of pain has propelled the ways in which I help others to find their own recovery, rebuilding, management, preventive for future, and ability to avoid surgery when possible.
Have you had pain go without answers?
Felt down for not being at 100%?
Hit reply and share your story. Knowing you are not alone. And things can change.
The path out of pain, just like our journey of health and wellness is all about consistently showing up for yourself, taking simple and doable action, and continuing to prioritize yourself even when things get difficult.
You are capable of making the changes you dream of,
Of finding ways to move your body without pain,
Of feeling strong, capable, unstoppable in your body, health, and life.
Your Coach,
Arina
I help women who struggle with their relationship with their body, food and health build a sustainable routine to prioritize their wellbeing. So they can feel strong, capable, pain free, and at home in their body.
P.S.
Ready to kick your summer off prioritizing your health and wellbeing in a simple and fun way!
A free and easy to join challenge in my Women’s Health and Wellness Community.
Throughout June there will be fun ways to up your hydration, to drink and eat water, to explore the role hydration plays in your body and life, and accountability & support to make your goals happen.
A fantastic little boost to start into enjoying the summer!
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