Why do I get injured?

Why do I keep getting the same injury over and over again?

Why do I go from one injury to another to another?

Why does something always go wrong that stops me achieving a goal or getting to my event?

Why am I always getting ill?

Why do I struggle with sleeping?

Why is my weight changing?

Why do I eat or drink things I know aren’t the best for my health?

Why am I living with pain?

I could go on and on.

I am asked these questions every day. I’ve asked loads of them myself and for years never got the answers I needed!  

I try everyday to help my clients explore all of the ‘whys’ so that we can look at the ‘what can I dos’ to find a plan of action.

It’s a little bit like detective work - we piece together all the different strands of evidence and try to build a picture of what’s going on. 

Over the years I’ve done this by asking lots of questions, studying movement, by looking at held patterns, and feeling for them in my massage therapy. A combination of knowledge, experience, intuition with scientific backing.

Many times over the years I instinctively knew that for some people the massage therapy, or movement coaching I was offering may give some relief, but was never going to give a lasting resolution. Because I knew that root cause of pain in the person in front of me wasn’t from their physical body.  

Over the years I’ve trained in lots of different styles of movement. Pilates especially looks at the body as a whole. As does Fascial therapy.  The principles of both can be applied to any movement or sport and is part of why I love working with these methods. They don’t just look at the part that hurts, they ask us to go deep, to look at the whole story, to address what we are holding onto. But we don’t necessarily talk about what has led us to not live comfortably in our bodies.

The problem for me was that clients hadn’t come to me to discuss their emotional health or past traumas. They likely had no idea the physical pain they were experiencing could be manifested from learned behaviours, beliefs, experiences and traumas, grief. They hadn’t come to me prepared for me to bring that up - and I wasn’t at that time qualified to go there and to be able to support them.

I can think of many people over the years with whom I wish I’d been able to bridge that gap.   Which is why I am now going there.

I still look at physical injuries and held movement patterns and can practically treat them. I still teaching Pilates sessions, classes and do massage treatments. And if that’s all you want from me that is absolutely fine. But I am also fully qualified to be able to support my clients in looking deeper into the reasons for their pain or health issues. So sessions with me can be about movement, or hands on therapy. They can be energetic readings, they can be talk based therapy. Or a combination of all of these.  I will always give tools to help my clients to move forwards. 

It’s about looking at the whole picture - which can take courage - but I am there to support my clients and everyone works at a level and speed that they are comfortable with.

Does this resonate? If you want more information please get in touch. If you are already working with me and want to go deeper just ask.