by Andrea Trank | Mar 11, 2024
HRV Is Considered a Critical Factor in Your Healthspan! When you go to a doctor’s office, they read your pulse —usually somewhere between 50 and 80 beats/minute. But, did you know that this is just an average of your heart beats? In fact, your heart rate...
by Andrea Trank | Oct 30, 2023
What is chronic pain and how is different from acute pain? The Cleveland Clinic defines chronic pain as pain that lasts longer than six months and continues despite the resolving of the original injury. Acute pain, on the other hand, occurs after a very distinct...
by Andrea Trank | Sep 25, 2023
Time is Not the Only Thing Needed for Healing! It has been a year since Mark and I learned first-hand the destructive force of water. The storm surge was not what we had prepared for and worried about prior to Hurricane Ian. That changed on Sept. 28, 2022. We no...
by Andrea Trank | Jul 13, 2023
Getting off the Energy Roller Coaster “Summertime and living is easy”, so says Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald in this famous song. But when you are on a roller coaster of emotions and energy from living with chronic pain or a chronic autoimmune condition it may...
by Andrea Trank | Jun 19, 2023
“Never Again” and Unlike Childbirth, I mean it! We have moved many times in our lives. Each time we do it, we say “Never Again!” There are so many pieces in motion all at once, and like a clock and the human body, each part is connected, creating a cascade...
by Andrea Trank | Apr 9, 2023
Frequently asked questions about yoga styles, including their similarities, differences and benefits This past week, a friend of mine asked what is the difference between Yin Yoga and Gentle Somatic Yoga? It got me to thinking about all the different styles of yoga...
