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Cortex Rehabilitation Dizziness, weakness, or fatigue are getting in the way of doing what you love?

We help people get back to enjoying a weekend of family fun AND having enough energy to make it through the work week.

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12/16/2023

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06/21/2023

Exercise may be a prescription, but it doesn’t have to be rigid and boring.

So often, I talk with clients who are told by their doctors to
- Ride a recumbent bike for 30 minutes every day
- Stick to the basics – planks, squats, and curls
- Use the rowing machine 🚣

But that’s so BORING!!!

🙅‍♀️ If I were your teen, I would hate that kind of exercise routine

Which is probably why your real teen with POTS *does* hate that routine or tells you that they feel terrible while they’re doing it…

🚀 It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to guess that teens aren’t going to love the idea of staring at a wall while riding a bike for an hour a day

And when teens are bored while exercising, their minds will wander and gravitate toward everything that’s happening within their bodies–like feeling light headed, noticing their heart is racing, and feeling more nauseous

Then this increased attention on symptoms just snowballs into them feeling worse for the rest of the day, and laying in bed scrolling Facebook instead of joining you for family dinner and game night 🍲

Here’s the thing–While a perfectly curated exercise plan may be necessary for baselines and research, chances are it isn’t necessary for your child’s ultimate recovery of POTS

It certainly didn’t work for me

When I was first diagnosed with POTS in high school, my doctors told me to just walk on the treadmill 🚶‍♀️

I was so bored and uncomfortable–I STILL remember the feeling of my heart rate skyrocketing to 200+ and my vision blurring while walking at 1 mile an hour!

That led me to hate exercise, and to avoid it like the plague

When I shifted away from the forced exercise routine, and instead did activities that were actually fun – like dance and swimming – my health finally started to improve 👍

This movement wasn’t rigid and didn’t follow a set plan, but it was fun and it kept me moving!

Meaningful movement - this was my snowball into fully recovering from POTS.

🤷‍♀️ Have you or your kid ever been prescribed a rigid exercise routine?

Is that working for you or are you looking to find more meaningful movement?

Send me a DM and let’s brainstorm together!

Is your kid sick with POTS and going stir crazy at home?Are you wondering how you can capitalize on summer break to help...
05/25/2023

Is your kid sick with POTS and going stir crazy at home?

Are you wondering how you can capitalize on summer break to help your kid feel better over summer break and get back to school and sports this Fall?

You’re gonna want to keep reading…free training details at the bottom! ⬇️

The most common thing I hear from parents of kids with POTS is “I want to help my child get better, I just don’t know how! I’m not sure when I should push them to do more, and when to let them rest.”

I’ve heard this SO often that I decided to create a free live training to help parents of teens with POTS demystify this topic and get clear on the TOP 3 things you can do this summer to help your kid improve their energy and eliminate their POTS symptoms.

As someone who has fully recovered from POTS as a teen, and now supports teens with POTS, I know how confusing it can be to sift through all the information you’ve received and to figure out how to apply it to your life and make it work for your family.

And I know that reading through endless pages of protocols and articles trying to figure out what to do is not how you actually want to spend your summer (I can think of WAYYYY better beach reads than the CHOP protocol) 😉

So, If you’d like to cut through the clutter and get clear on how you can support your kid this summer and actually see results, then I invite you to join my for my FREE live training on Sunday June 4th at 1PM Central / 2PM Eastern to hear more about how you can

GO FROM
- Seeing your kid riding a symptom rollercoaster
- Feeling unclear on when to push your kid and when to lay off
- Trying SO HARD to help and seeing little or no improvements

TO INSTEAD

✔️Helping your kid have more good days & less crashes
✔️Feeling confident you’re doing the right thing at the right time
✔️Having strategies you can implement to see more consistent improvements with greater ease

👀 To register for this free training, click the link in the comments!

Once you’ve registered, drop a 🥳 in the comments!

🍝 “Let me noodle on that!”At a meeting on Monday, I was (lovingly) called out for saying “I’m gonna noodle about that.”🤷...
04/13/2023

🍝 “Let me noodle on that!”

At a meeting on Monday, I was (lovingly) called out for saying “I’m gonna noodle about that.”

🤷‍♀️ Apparently (and unknowingly to me!!) this isn’t what you would consider a “normal” phrase

I had no idea!

I’ve been saying “I’m going to noodle on it” ever since I can remember!

It’s just my version of saying, give me a bit to think about it 🤔

And this got me thinking

That I used to do a looooot more noodling than I do now

Especially when it came to my health 🏥

👩‍⚕️ Get a recommendation from a doctor? Let me noodle on it

Have a friend suggest a gentle, but effective, exercise routine? I’m going to noodle on that one

Try working with a coach and get access to incredible support? Gonna have to noodle on it

You see

😳 I couldn’t commit

And not because I wasn’t ready or I didn’t think I needed support

No

I couldn’t commit because

😬 There was an underlying fear

A fear that
- Getting help meant I couldn’t fix things on my own
- I would try what they recommend but it still wouldn’t help 🤦‍♀️
- I didn’t want to spend any more resources trying to feel better

So instead of owning up to these fears

I bought myself time by saying, “Let me noodle on it.”

Have you ever done that? 😅

Maybe you didn’t use “noodle” specifically – maybe you said “let me think about it” instead

⏳ But are you just trying to buy yourself time so you don’t have to face your fears?

I have a new way of viewing my health

And I’d love to share it with you!

Instead of letting fear run my health decisions 🏃‍♀️

I have a different way to frame things:

- Fear of not fixing it by myself? → everyone needs support! That’s why Ted Lasso has Coach Beard 🧔 (IYKYK)! And just because you need help, doesn’t reduce your worth
- What if it doesn’t help? → what if it does? What if it’s exactly what you’ve been missing?
- Fear of spending money? → I just spent $172 on Amazon. I deserve to spend and invest in myself

Does that make sense?

It’s okay to noodle about something to make sure it’s the best fit for you

💪 But don’t let fear decide how you’re going to live your life

Don’t let fear dictate your health!

Do you have any underlying fears that encourage you to spend more time “noodling” and less time actually taking control? ✋

Drop them below or send me a DM!

Let’s work through those fears together! (:

🙃 “I know, I know”This is your responseWhen you’re sharing with a friendAbout how you’ve been feeling lately- Stressed a...
04/10/2023

🙃 “I know, I know”

This is your response

When you’re sharing with a friend

About how you’ve been feeling lately
- Stressed about finishing a work project on time ⏲️
- Overwhelmed with your kiddo’s school and spring sports schedule
- Disconnected from your partner. You live in the same house but you only see each other when you’re asleep at night 😪
- Tired – All. The. Time.

🧘‍♀️ And your friend gives you some advice to try yoga because it worked for her

And you say, “I know, I know.”

You feel like you know what you should be doing

🤦‍♀️ Her advice is incredibly sweet and caring, but it’s stuff you already know!

You know
- That you should try exercising to help with stress
- That you should set up a carpool schedule with the neighbor so you aren’t driving to 3 different fields per night 🚗
- That you should wake up 30 minutes earlier in the morning to have connection and coffee time with your husband
- That you should stop doom scrolling on Instagram before bed so you’re able to fall asleep quicker 📵

You have a solid tool box when it comes to taking care of YOU

So why is it so hard to actually DO these things?

You know what to do, so why not do it?

Because it can be hard

🪄 I’m here to tell you that, even though you know these tips and tricks

It’s okay that you haven’t done them

The first thing you need to do is give yourself some grace

🥊 Stop beating yourself up for not going to yoga

Stop feeling guilty for spending 15 minutes on Instagram instead of asking your husband about his day

It’s okay! You are doing the best that you can

And the tricky thing is…

You might know WHAT to do

🤷‍♀️ But do you know HOW?

Do you know WHY?

Saying that you are going to spend 30 minutes a day journaling and relaxing is very different than actually knowing
- HOW to build this into your schedule 📆
- HOW to center your brain’s focus for 30 minutes
- WHY you need to even journal and relax in the first place!

⚒️ So you have the tools, but now you need to be taught how to use them

You need support!

You could try at it alone (like you’ve been doing for awhile) and see how that goes for the next few months

Or

You can take action TODAY and turn your stress, overwhelm, and frustration around ↪️

You are worth it. You are allowed to do things for yourself

Let’s connect! Send me a DM to start learning HOW to use the amazing tools that you’ve collected!

My four legged coworker has officially declared that our work is done ✅
04/06/2023

My four legged coworker has officially declared that our work is done ✅

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