Lifestyle Medicine
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Lumpectomy Recovery: Telling My Story as a PT
Day 0: Post-Op Lumpectomy Recovery One thing I have learned through the years about adversity is this: Sharing our struggles can encourage and help others. So I’m sharing something I haven’t shared with anyone yet: I’m working my way through lumpectomy recovery. Last week I had a lumpectomy that turned out to be more of…
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How Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine Can Help You During the Pandemic & Beyond
What is Integrative Lifestyle Medicine (ILM)? ILM is the practice of Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine together in rehab and wellness practice. The five facets of Lifestyle Medicine are found in the graphics below and include: Sleep Nutrition Stress Management Movement Environmental Influences Integrative Medicine at Living Well Institute is defined through the lens of Yoga…
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Is Your Mindfulness Practice a Help or Hindrance? How to Tell
Are you using mindfulness and meditation correctly? How do you know? After over 25 years of practicing mindfulness and meditation, I have started to really ask myself if I am using meditation and mindfulness in a self-care or self-destructive way. Am I using meditation and mindfulness: ❎ As a crutch? ❎ As a way to…
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Telehealth May be an Option for Physical Therapy during COVID
The COVID pandemic has stopped much of the world as we know, creating a “new normal”. Once busy streets and shops are empty, activities are cancelled and you may not even be going to work. One thing that the virus has not stopped is pain and injury. Maybe you were seeing your PT when stay…
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Fighting COVID Fear (and Breathing Issues) with Mindful Self-Care
COVID has been at the forefront of all our minds right now for several years. As a self-employed mother of three, the coronavirus certainly has had top billing in mine. One week makes all the difference in the world. Last week I was a small business owner who already struggled to find enough time in…
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Simple Ways to Sleep Better Tonight
Sleep Isn’t Optional About â…“ of our life is spent sleeping. We spend so much time trying to enjoy our waking lives, it makes sense to support our daytime quality of life by getting the best sleep possible. Sleep is necessary for growth and repair. Research tells us sleep is for our brains and not…
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Medical Therapeutic Yoga: Using “Windshield Wipers” to Assess & Improve Whole Body Health
If you haven’t caught the rest of the posts in this MTY Mindful Movement Series, read them here! Take Time for Self-Care with The Yoga Couch – https://gingergarner.com/yoga-couch/ Stress(less): The Breath Practice You Can Do Anywhere – https://gingergarner.com/stressless-now-breath-practice-you-can-do-anywhere/ Manage Stress & Trauma with The Sensory Diet – https://gingergarner.com/manage-stress-trauma-with-this-simple-daily-yoga-habit-the-sensory-diet/ Windshield Wipers is a very helpful therapeutic…
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Earth Day is Our Day
What does Earth Day mean to you? To me, Earth Day is a reminder that our health is inextricably connected to the health of our planet. If the planet is unhealthy, we will be unhealthy. This correlation is such a simple concept, but one which according to the latest report from the UN, we are…
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Manage Stress & Trauma with The Sensory Diet
If you missed the first posts in the series, get them here: Start Here – The Yoga Couch – https://gingergarner.com/yoga-couch/ Stress(less) Now: Breath Practice You Can Do Anywhere After getting comfy on the Yoga Couch, and learning to master the basics of breathing to manage stress, let’s take your Stress Management Skillset up a notch!…
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Stress(less) Now: Breath Practice You Can Do Anywhere
If you missed the first post in the series, The Yoga Couch, get it below. After getting comfy on the Yoga Couch, it’s time to breathe. You can spend as little as 2’ a day to reap the benefits listed below. The Rest & Digest Breath Breath is essential to daily living. We breathe every…
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The Yoga Couch: Take Time for Self-Care
The phrase “Yoga Couch” is fun and inviting, especially for all you tired mommas out there who just need 5 minutes of peace (and a little self-care!). The Yoga Couch was originally called “Three Tier Approach,” and although it was accurately descriptive, it was a super boring name! It was a patient who dubbed it…
