Tall Trees Clinic & Studio

08/09/2026

The RAS (the retulicular activating system) is a really interesting part of the brain that has many functions.

One of its roles is to filter sensory information so we don't experience everything around us all at once.

🌳 The RAS selects what we pay attention to.

🌳 Other information is deleted or distorted.

🌳 Its where our assumptions and predictions come from.

✨️ For example, if you are hoping to fall pregnant you might see expectant mothers everywhere and think there's more than normal. There's not, your RAS is just noticing them all.

✨️ It is involved in chronic pain too: amplifying it so its the only thing you can notice, thereby forgetting the rest of your body and contributing to reduced proprioception. Numbing.

✨️ And I think most of us are guilty of not being able to see from someone else's point of view.

The RAS thinking errors can lead to the likes of catastrophising, comparing and mind-reading.

Coaching can help widen your lens, to override the RAS so you can see things more clearly, from another perspective, from a distance.

Coaching is a new service I'm offering this winter. Contact me if you would like more information.

06/09/2026

The GROW Model is a well used and simple coaching tool to help get the thinking juices going, but there's loads of other tools we use that encourage different and deep thinking.

Here I've added just a couple of coaching questions for each section, but the questions are endless!

Coaching is a new service I'm offering once my maternity leave has finished in November/December (depending on how the bambino is without me!)

Contact me if you're interested in exploring anything, I won't have all the answers but you have. Coaching helps to bring those answers to the surface.

I'll be giving away free sessions too, so keep your eyes peeled for more posts.

17/07/2026

I'm loving my big bump, but over this past week my pelvis is grumbling.

Here are a few things I did today to gain some relief and to try to reduce the searing hip pains I'm getting in bed (generally starting at 3am!). I'll be 39 weeks on Sunday. S'cuse the dodgy facial expressions 🫣

1. Sitting in long frog position and hinge forward and back. Ensure you take your sacrum (the bone lower of lumbar spine, centre of back of pelvis) forward with your hinge too, so you'll rock forward over your sitting bones. This felt like a lovely bit of mobility for my sacroiliac joints.

2. Wiper blades. Take your knees over to one side and gently press them towards to floor. Hold if it feels good. Repeat to the other side.

3. Low back shoogle. You've really got go let your low spine go here. Remember the old plastic snake toys, where each segment would move independently as you wiggled it? Channel that in your spine. Lush.

4. The humble pelvic tilt. A little ouchy to begin with, but quickly eased and felt needed. Ensure the movement of the tuck comes from pressing into your feet.

5. I'm not always a fan foam roller, I prefer soft massage balls normally. This foam roller by Sissel is lovely. I massaged over my SIJs, and deep hip rotators, right over my sitting bones. All the tender bits. It felt sooo nice. I then went into my low back too.

💡 Throughout I purposefully use a breath pattern that suits me. It helps through any tender moves, but I'm also multitasking by coordinating my breath with pelvic floor contractions. This aids with tone in the area - both contracting and relaxing the PF.

🌸 Remember, you've got to do what feels good for you. Some of these might not feel right, so don't force them. I hope at least some of these moves might feel relieving for you too.

08/07/2026

A suit of armour or a soft shell?

There's a myth that we need to have a 'thick skin' to be able to cope in this world, but actually we become more resilient when we allow a softness.

What protection do you hold on to, and is there a chance to change it?

https://open.substack.com/pub/unfoldandflourish/p/the-suit-of-armour?r=6t6hg7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

30/06/2026

Life Coaching appointments will be available at the end of the year, both online and in person.

I've called this new side to my business Organically Unfold, where you can do just that, in a safe space.

Here I offer a wee article on the 'liminal space'. A space we often meet with a feeling of being lost and unease. In it I explain why it's an important place to understand, to explore and embrace to realise opportunities, for growth, and for change.

https://unfoldandflourish.substack.com/p/the-liminal-space?r=6t6hg7

27/06/2026

In case you're not on my newsletter list..here is my recent email post.

Sharing big thanks for all the love over the past few weeks. That's me now on maternity leave for a wee while :)

The generosity and kindness I've received has been overwhelming. I'm so grateful and feel very lucky indeed.

BIG thank you to you all.

https://mailchi.mp/talltreesaberfoyle/thank-you-maternity-leave-workshop-bikes

23/06/2026

A bit of mobility, stretching, activating.

It's always good to feel my body work, especially at the moment. It gives reassurance. It feels good. It's needed.

I followed up with a bit of strength work, and some delicious foam rollering.

01/06/2026

What have you been taught about how-to-be that’s causing pain or stuckness physically, emotionally, or both?

Find your floaty centre

31/05/2026

Last week:
Youngest patient = 10 years old
Oldest patient = 93 years old

I will miss work when I'm off on maternity leave. I'm winding down, with reduced hours starting tomorrow.

June is very busy already, but please do pop yourself on my waiting list if you're looking for an appointment, they do become available and you'll be notified when they do.

Linda is a professional expert in body movement for health, offering Osteopathy, Pilates and Rehabilitation to help you out of pain.

24/05/2026

Re-establishing rotation during gait (running/walking) is something I go through a lot with my patients in clinic.

There are loads of reasons why people forget how to rotate their trunk and pelvis during gait, and reminding their body of this movement pattern can feel very weird to them!

This image shows such a lovely counter-rotation up through the whole body, sharing forces beautifully and elastically. He makes it look easy, doesn't he? This is what good movers do.

You don't have to be an athlete to move with ease, we all can.

Being a JEMS Practitioner gives me the skills to teach you these tools.

Lacking rotation can lead to all sorts of overload injuries and strains like low back pain, achilles and foot pain, hip pain..any pain really.

Rehabilitation of pain isn't just about strength and mobility. Its re-learning reflexive movement patterns with proprioception, coordination, awareness and timing, and by learning what movement is required for the task in hand.

Four-time Olympian Steve Moneghetti built a career on consistency – and he’s still running fast well into his 60s.

His go-to session, the Mona fartlek, is a simple 20-minute workout designed to boost speed, endurance and 10K performance.