Caring Matters
After years of working on healing scoliosis, I still felt there was a bioenergetic block deep within my psyche. Even though I was cognitively aware of my protective armoring against sexual abuse, I was unable [Read More]
Those early interpersonal interactions with our primary caregivers are the building block of identity formation. They are the look-glass through which we form our core beliefs (lovable/good-enough or unlovable/defective) which in turn molds our mindset(mental [Read More]
Those of us with scoliosis have issues with proprioception. This means we don’t accurately know where their body is in space. This simple test will show how good is your sense of proprioception. Close your [Read More]
An integral part of feeling human is that sense of belongingness. We are innately programmed to want to belong to something/someone beyond ourselves. At the core of belongingness are acceptance, support, and protection. Prolonged lack [Read More]
One huge parenting fail is undermining a child’s reality. Most parents, either dismiss or invalidate their child’s perceptions. They fail to understand that their child is a thinking, feeling entity, completely separate from them. And [Read More]
Not all cases of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis could be due to ACEs or repressing of emotions. Sometimes the underlying cause could be functional which may often be overlooked. Functional scoliosis, also known as non-structural scoliosis [Read More]
Growing up in a dysfunctional home, one had to adapt and adjust to the chaos all around. Subconsciously, we adopted coping strategies or defense mechanisms to survive our abnormal situations. Often these habitual patterns of [Read More]
Many with scoliosis also have deviated septum wherein the internal dividing wall between the right and left nostril – the nasal septum shifts away from the midline. This causes blockage/narrowing of the nasal airways which [Read More]
According, to body language expert, Amy Cuddy, holding one’s body in a 2-minute expansive power pose can change our mental state. The reason being ‘high-power’ poses stimulate the release of testosterone (the hormone linked to [Read More]
To survive an abusive childhood one has to suppress the cognitive dissonance one regularly experiences. Depending on their moods our caregivers would swing from being a raging lunatic to a saccharine puppy, all in the [Read More]