Bridging the gap between Health Professionals and the average sedentary office worker
In this short video, I talk about the importance of providing advice and practical suggestions that meet clients where they are. Being sedentary and having entrenched habits of poor eating and sleeping put people so far from an ideal picture of health that many of the standard suggestions like ‘get 150 minutes of exercise a...
Movement is a language. Use it or lose it.
Last fall, I went to Europe and spent a week in France. I was excited to use my high school French and to speak a few phrases to the locals, but overall my French is pretty bad. My best friend told me about Duolingo and while I was in France. I diligently played with the...
How to start your work day off well even when you’re already stressed
Yesterday, I had the hardest time beginning my workday. I seemed to be bursting with energy, but my mind was scattered in a thousand different directions. The sense of overwhelm and confusion was whirling. I took this as a cue that I needed to check in with my body particularly the tensions and stuck points...
The Cost of Being Sedentary on Organizational Health
Your company may have purchased corporate gym memberships for the employees; unfortunately, it isn’t enough to help them address their health. In fact, it’s not that it isn’t enough, it’s that it misses the root of the problem. The reason why traditional exercise (i.e., setting aside one hour a day to workout) doesn’t work for most...
Want to have a great day? Try moving your body first thing in the morning
What makes sitting hazardous for our health is not sitting itself, but rather prolonged uninterrupted periods of sitting. Being stuck in one position leads to structural issues such as muscle and bone atrophy, disc herniation, varicose veins, numbness in the feet and calves, and a slowed metabolism. Prolonged sitting also impacts our mental health by...
Sitting is the new smoking, and it’s time to quit
It was slipping on a patch of ice and twisting as he fell that dealt the final blow to Tim Sitt’s back. But the injury had been waiting to happen for months, his chiropractor told him – the direct result of slouching at his office desk for 12 or more hours a day.
“I was tight through my hip flexors, my quads, my glutes,” he recalls. “I was tight everywhere.”
How to boost your energy without coffee or the gym
Increasing energy is often the number one goal people have when they join the ThinkMOVE program. I define energy as the capacity to exert your mind and body towards some activity. Energy capacity goes down when you’re doing nothing for long periods. When you’re physically sedentary that’s literally doing nothing as far as your body…
Creating Calm in the middle of Chaos
Over the course of a day, we gather so much stuff: emotional content, things to-dos, stress, expectations, judgments, memories, sounds, sights, and tastes. We are in the constant flow of picking up, sensing, being aware, but when do we ever practice letting go of all that we grab onto or cleaning the cache? With the…