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Fitomize Fitness Fitomize offers trauma-informed movement and life coaching for people who struggle with their health.

Through our personalized and compassionate approach, we provide guidance, tools, and techniques to help you overcome challenges & transform your life.

10/09/2026

Changing Neural Pathways

I have felt broken many times in my life. I have had life deliver blows that have knocked me to the ground. The pain and the feelings of hopelessness and despair have consumed my life for many years. I wondered if I would ever survive this, or if I would live a life where I felt happy and safe. Slowly, over time, my life got better and I got stronger.

Now when I look back, I realize that these events, though they were painful at the time, were the catalysts for me to change my life. Now I am living my life doing what I love.

No one likes it, but everyone feels broken at some point in their life journey. Often when we find ourselves at this place of despair, we do not know what to do and so we can end up living our life through our fear, regret, pain, disillusionment and sadness. This is not the way our lives are meant to be lived.

When you are feeling broken inside, remember these 3 things as they will help you discover your courage and build your resilience so that you can step out and embrace the joy of living a life you love.

1️⃣Remember to Embrace Your Power Of Choice - Your power of choice is a gift that you have within you that if you choose to use, will transform your life.

2️⃣Remember to Ask For Help - It is the energy and wisdom from friends, family and supporters that fuels our courage and our desire to take action to change our lives for the better.

3️⃣Remember to Be Present - Your thoughts fuel how you feel about your life. Practice trying to distance yourself from these thoughts and observe them rather than react automatically to them.

Save this reels for those tough days! Play it over and over until your nervous system starts to shift. If you know - you know.

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Sharing this hasn’t been easy for me.I’ve been going back and forth about how to show up here. What to share. How much o...
10/09/2026

Sharing this hasn’t been easy for me.

I’ve been going back and forth about how to show up here. What to share. How much of myself to put out there. And when I slowed down long enough to notice, I realized why. It hasn’t felt safe.

That might sound strange coming from someone who teaches people how to feel safe in their body. But it’s actually the whole point. I don’t teach this because I have it all figured out. I teach it because I’ve lived the other side of it.

For years, I was the person who could push through anything. I carried that into everything I did, and I thought being ready all the time was just who I was. It took the whole world stopping for me to notice that my body never stopped.

You can know all the right things. You can do the therapy, read the books, and try every technique. And your body can still feel like it’s waiting for something to go wrong.

Safety isn’t something you decide. It’s something your body has to feel.

That’s why I created How to Feel Safe in Your Body. It’s the workshop I wish someone had offered me, and I’m still practicing what I teach in it every day.

Join me live on Wednesday, October 21 at 7pm ET. It’s 90 minutes, you can keep your camera off, and you’ll get the replay for 72 hours if you can’t make it live.

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10/08/2026

Feeling Stressed

Grab a straw.

Straw breathing or Pursed lip breathing technique can quickly reduce anxiety and panic, increase feelings of calm and relaxation and can help one think more clearly.

This technique is quite simple and in 5 minutes you will start noticing the difference.

If you have a straw with you, you can use it but this can be done even without an actual straw.

This is an easy to do technique for slowing down your breathing and getting more air into your lungs and also releasing the trapped air from the lungs.

Bonus, with regular practice, it can help strengthen the lungs and make them work more efficiently.

✅Inhale fully through your nose and then put the straw in your mouth and exhale fully and slowly through the straw. Make sure you exhale fully, be gentle; do not force the breath out.

✅If you don’t have the straw with you, you can make the shape of your lips as if you are holding a straw in your mouth. Inhale slowly and fully, and exhale gently through the imaginary straw in your mouth.

✅Inhale through your nose again, then exhale through the actual/imaginary straw in your mouth.

✅Try to breathe down into your diaphragm. Feel the rising movement of your abdomen as you inhale, and falling movement of the abdomen as you exhale.

✅Next you can include some counts - for example, inhale for the count of 4 and exhale a little longer, say for the count of 6-8. Continue with this practice for about 5 minutes.

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If you’ve started over more times than you can count, I want you to know something. It isn’t because you’re not trying h...
10/08/2026

If you’ve started over more times than you can count, I want you to know something. It isn’t because you’re not trying hard enough.

Most of the people I work with are trying harder than anyone. They buy the lamp. They download the app. They start again every Monday. And when it falls apart by Thursday, or they finally keep it going and then get sick, they decide the problem is them.

But here’s what’s really happening. When you’re already exhausted and stressed, your body is running close to full. Every new routine, even a good one, adds a little more. So your body does what it has to do. It pushes back. Sleep gets lighter. You catch whatever’s going around. You run out of steam.

That’s not a lack of willpower. It’s a body that doesn’t have room for one more thing yet.
So the answer isn’t a better routine. It’s helping your body feel safe enough to slow down, so there’s more room to begin with.

Safety isn’t something you decide. It’s something your body has to feel.
Start small this week. Sixty seconds, somewhere quiet, letting your eyes rest on one thing. If your mind races, that’s okay. You’re learning what your body needs.

On Wednesday, October 21 at 7pm ET, I’m teaching How to Feel Safe in Your Body, a 90-minute live workshop. You can keep your camera off, join from the couch, and get the replay for 72 hours if you can’t make it live.

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10/07/2026

Stress Response

How you respond to stress will highly affect your health and wellness.

Did you know that animals shake and dance after a fight to help them regulate themselves!?!

Stress is your body’s response to an actual or perceived threat. Some stress is good for you and drives you to take action, like looking for a job when you’ve been fired. Too much stress, however, can suppress your immune system and cause you to get sick more easily.
Prolonged periods of stress can also increase your risk of several diseases, including heart disease and cancer.

If you've never suffered from headaches but suddenly your head is constantly pounding, you might be too stressed. Stress releases chemicals that can cause changes to nerves and blood vessels in the brain, which brings on a headache. Prone to migraines? Stress can trigger them or make them worse. It's also common for your muscles to tense up when you're stressed, which can also cause a headache.

What are tried and true ways that help you manage your stress??

PS music helps!!

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So many of us start the day the same way. Before coffee, before the kids are up, we’re already checking the mirror and t...
10/07/2026

So many of us start the day the same way. Before coffee, before the kids are up, we’re already checking the mirror and trying to fix something.

The puffy eyes. The swollen cheeks. The face that doesn’t quite look like ours yet.
And then we spend the next ten minutes rolling, icing, and massaging, just to feel ready to be seen.

If that’s you, I want you to know it isn’t vanity, and it isn’t about your age. Your body is telling you something.

Puffiness is often a sign that your body is holding on to more than it can clear. And when the organs that do the clearing are backed up, no amount of rolling will keep it away for long. You’re moving it around, but the source is still there.

That’s why I care so much about how your morning starts. When you wake up and go straight into rushing, your body stays on alert, and clearing gets pushed to the bottom of the list. A slow, quiet start tells your body it’s safe to do its work.

So tomorrow, try the warm mineral water first. Sit down. Sip it slowly. See how your body feels when it isn’t being rushed.

And if you want to understand what your body might be holding on to, and how to help it clear in the right order, comment DRAIN and I’ll send you the link to Body Blocks.

10/07/2026

It’s the middle of the night. The house is quiet. Everyone else is asleep.

And you’re lying there with your eyes open, heart a little too fast, jaw tight. You tell yourself, “I’m okay. Nothing is happening. Just go to sleep.”

But your body doesn’t listen.

That’s because the part of you that thinks “I’m safe” lives in your thinking brain. The part that decides whether you can actually rest lives deeper, in your nervous system. And it doesn’t take orders from thoughts. It reads signals: how you’re breathing, how tight your muscles are, what your eyes and ears pick up in the dark.

So when your body is still braced from the day, “I’m safe” just bounces off.

Here’s one thing to try tonight. Before you close your eyes, slowly turn your head and let your eyes land on three things in the room. The lamp. The curtain. The shape of the door. Just notice them. You’re telling the oldest part of your brain: I checked. We’re okay.

That’s one of the 6 doorways to safety. On Wednesday, October 21, I’m teaching all six live in my workshop, How to Feel Safe in Your Body. It’s 90 minutes, you can join from bed with your camera off, and you’ll get the replay for 72 hours.

Comment WORKSHOP and I’ll send you the details.

10/06/2026

In 2002, scientists discovered a third type of cell in the human eye — separate from the rods and cones responsible for vision.

They’re called ipRGCs, and they don’t help you see at all.

Their only job is detecting light and sending that signal straight to the part of your brain that controls your circadian rhythm — when you wake, when you feel alert, when your body starts winding down for rest and repair.

This is why sunlight isn’t just “good for your mood.”

It’s a direct biological signal your nervous system is built to receive every single day — and most of us are starving for it, stuck indoors under artificial light that these cells barely register.

Morning and sunset light hit them at their most sensitive.

So this isn’t just a nice view. It’s information your body has been waiting for.

And here’s what that information actually does once it lands: it tells your adrenal glands when to release cortisol for the day and when to stop. It tells your pineal gland when to start producing melatonin for sleep. It helps regulate body temperature, digestion, and even how your immune system cycles through the day.

Every one of those systems is taking its timing cue from light hitting these specific cells — not from a clock, not from a to-do list, not from how tired you feel.

Which means the most overlooked tool for regulating your nervous system might not be another supplement or protocol.

It might just be stepping outside.

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