Category: Jaw dysfunction and pain
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From Survival to Stability: How One Mother Reclaimed Her Body After Postpartum
Understanding how protective patterns can outlive their purpose — and how awareness, breath, and assessment help the body recover. Protective Patterns and Functional Freeze When the body goes through stress, injury, or big transitions like pregnancy, the nervous system automatically creates protective patterns. At first, they help — but when they linger too long, they…
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Holistic Strategies for Menopause Musculoskeletal Syndrome
Navigating health changes can be challenging. I personally struggled to get the right support for my symptoms, only to find out later that they were normal. Dr. Vonda Wright’s groundbreaking research highlights that musculoskeletal changes during various life stages are a natural part of aging, not something to silently endure. This is a game changer…
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What you don’t know about clenching and grinding your teeth
The habit of grinding, gnashing, grating, or clenching the teeth is called bruxism, and millions of adults and children are affected by this condition. I know bruxism well, providing therapy to alleviate and normalize the muscles of the jaw for my clients and with my own personal experience with it. Bruxism can occur as a response to…
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Headaches, teeth grinding, The hip-jaw connection
It’s a sign of the times we live in. If you have ever experienced jaw pain or popping, teeth grinding, ringing ears, chronic headaches, and other issues. You may have already suspected these can be related to muscle tension and mis-alignment in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). How chronic stress is a factor: Stress has a role…