Transitions and Play Last newsletter I mentioned an adventure Becki and I had that involved ping pong. There is so much more to reflect and share! In the midst of our ping-pong game, Becki and I paused to marvel at how much fun we were having! The joy of unexpected, pure, and simple fun. Laughing […]
Transitions The single most important, yet most complex transition for any of us occurs at birth. Luckily, for most of us things went reasonably ok. For more than a third of us, there was more involved than you can imagine, even if it was planned. Over the past year, we’ve come to realize how integral […]
Beginning the New Year Many of us set goals for the year and attainment of these goals generally involves an element of change. As the Change Model graphic shows, transition is essential. What If We Are Stuck at The Transition? We consistently find that being stuck in a life transition correlates to being stuck […]
Baby Development and Play Play is a vital and interactive process of babies learning to excite, engage, and calm in every changing way. Play is also the foundation of communication and self-help. Play is essential for integrated sensory, motor, and cognitive development beginning with rattles and progressing to block building and books. Note from […]
Headaches with An Unusual Cause For years, 11-year-old Zoey experienced daily headaches. For as long as she could remember, Zoey’s mother said her daughter would comment about her head pain, particularly toward the end of each day. “As the day would go on, the pain would worsen,” she described. Unwilling to take any medicine to […]
Mastering the Dreaded Locker Lock! I still have my lock, the combo engraved in my brain from frustration… The fear and frustration of sweaty fingers twirling the dial of the gym locker on the bottom row of lockers, trying not to be late to class. Yes, that’s why I remember the combo. Middle schools and […]
Breathing—simple, yet so often wrong! When the muscles supporting breathing don’t work well there are many functions of our lives that don’t work well either. Anxiety Poor sleep Tight/frozen shoulder Poor digestion Headaches Slumped/rounded posture Low energy levels The coolest thing is experiencing the changes in breathing myself! My colleagues used our Bridging® technique to […]
Points….Ice! Winter is not done with us yet! The ice wreaks havoc on many fronts. We’ve seen several people in the past month for help with fall-related issues. Here are three typical injuries and how we are able to help— Head vs. Ice Slipping on ice, no matter how careful, often ends up with […]
A Wild, Weird, Cool Year of Amazing Client Stories—2015! Looking back on the stories of new clients this year further reinforces that we are crazy resilient and the myriad of things that affect us before birth makes me wonder how any of us actually grow up and function. Here is a sampling of the reasons […]
A Holiday Without a Headache! Until Dina found herself at Kinetic Konnections in early May, the mother of five was living a life of daily headache pain. “I totally love life without headaches,” she exclaims. “I have been limited for so many years and to now actually go back to doing stuff that I could […]