Jeanette has shared her passion for mobility in all sizes and health conditions on a few shows with us. She brings joy, fun, and laughter to her exercise regime which makes moving your body so much more fun.
Jeanette is a plus-sized, certified fitness instructor, body-positive activist, and personal trainer author, producer and professional speaker who has helped thousands of people who haven’t worked out in a while (or ever) learn to love their bodies and love exercise again. She’s the author of EveryBODY Can Exercise: Senior Edition as well as the best-selling book and DVD, The Fat Chick Works Out! She has earned fitness certifications from the YMCA, ACE, and AFAA including special certifications for working with seniors. Her mission is to inspire beginning exercisers of a variety of ages, sizes, shapes, and abilities. She has been interviewed many times on television, radio and in print by Katie Couric, NPR, Dr. Drew, Hallmark’s Home and Family, Al Jazeera America, CTV (Canada), Huffington Post Live, Women’s Health, Scholastic Magazine, The Reader’s Digest, The New York Times, and The Wall St. Journal.
No one wants to be labelled or have others look at us as weak, but when you are living with a decease it is what it is and we have to find a way to live as productively as possible. I DON’T have Joint Hypermobility (EDS), but I do have Fibromyalgia + Myofascial pain. I have had it for over 27 years now, and as I get older, it gets a bit harder as one does not recover as fast as I used to each day. Being productive in something you love feeds the mind, soul, spirit, and heart, which eases pain. I can not work a conventional job, as sleep is my nemesis, and one never knows if one will get any sleep from day to day. I admit at times, it sucks; it can get really hard, especially if you’re on your own, and because it does not show on your face and everyone thinks your ok. I have traveled many roads trying to balance work, life, and body in harmony, and I have found a calling that serves humanity and serves me in my heart and soul. I work on the computer all day, which is not good for the body, but I get to interview people making a difference in the world who have had it much harder than me and who are now living examples of how to find meaningful purpose and joy despite what you have gone through or are going through. Pacing oneself is a must. Honouring the mind-heart-soul and body connection is essential in finding that partnership in respect within, for only in balance can we live in peace with ourselves. I know it can be hard at times; the pain, depression, lack of sleep, immobility, and not being able to do the things you want to do can be hard in finding that joy of living, but we can if we listen in, find that balance and honour ourselves in the nurturing we can to live a happy proactive life. So I take each day as it comes, sometimes a desperate struggle, most days a plodding through, and sometimes a leap and a jump, we just have to go with the flow. I will have to work forever, as if I still wish to live on earth, I need to, but if I continue to find joy in it and meaningfulness, then that feeds my soul as well as my body and gives me a reason to be. For I believe we all need that reason to be here, and we are SO MUCH MORE THAN OUR DISABILITY. WE ARE WONDERFUL SOULS SERVING HUMANITY in any way we CAN. Here is an article and shows I have done on the subject that may help you on your fibro journey, I wish you all strength and joy in your lives.
We have a dream, a vision of what can be, whom it can have an impact on, how far we think it can reach, but have we prepared for the success of even the failure of it?
An idea is great, but how to implement it so it can grow and exceed our expectations is in the preparations. So make sure that foundation is deeply rooted, and that the structure is strong, and that it can cope with expansion and weather any storms.
I am a visualizer, I see the finished product and whom it can serve, but I have not always had the patients to plan or prepare for the building of it, leaving that up to others who were more skilled than me. But, now I am wearing all the hats and that means I must step into all the roles and make sure that I have everything in order so that I can reach those stars.
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So with the tools of preparation in your kit, roots firmly rooted, foundation strong and sturdy, and the structure for the building in view and prepared for expansion, you can reach for those stars and step into your KNOWINGNESS (Knowing what you need to know when you need to know it) because you are prepared to jump, leap, or walk when you need to without fear of everything collapsing around you.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest KeithGregory, on-air from July 30th
As is surely evident, Awakening the Sacred Masculine is my primary interest, personally & professionally. However, I also realize this has to be creatively (re) presented to keep being relevant, if not interesting to your viewers. So, not to abdicate my say in this, I imagine you’ve quite the pulse via Social Media, as to what’s what in the ‘hot topic’ dept regarding men, yes? (Brainstorm Time …) Whether it’s the Awakened Sacred Masculine or The New Manhood, we’re speaking to the new, updated version of Masculinity on the Planet – or is it: The New Masculinity.
Which shifts it into an action-orientated identification.Where the specific attributes are highlighted & spoken of, from one who’s spent his life on the quest to do exactly this!.
Essentially, to move out of the conceptual towards positive, conscious behaviors that now define us dudes that I’ve helped cut this trail, laying the pathways for others to recognize, empower & enact in their own lives.
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I am an energy artist, Soul Coach, Advanced Energy Healer and originator of The Initiatory Journey To Awaken Your Sacred Masculine.
I have learned to do this work through my own arduous self-healing journey and by addressing and transforming the considerable woundology of my past.
I am clairvoyant and medical intuitive, being born highly empathic. Having studied and practiced a wide array of alternative healing and consciousness growth modalities for over 35 years, I have been developing my innate intuitive and healing abilities to assist those I work with.
My code, gift, and commitment is helping you Awaken yourself ~ awakenyoursacred.com
Could your Fibromyalgia Actually be Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome? No
Fibromyalgia symptoms can overlap with autoimmune diseases and other arthritis conditions making it difficult to diagnose. The defining symptoms of fibromyalgia are often associated with other subjective and objective symptoms which occur in combination. The cause of fibromyalgia is considered as complex as its clinical presentation. The exact cause of fibromyalgia is still not well understood but mechanisms that have been suggested include
Abnormal circulating levels of central neurochemical substances
Skeletal muscle abnormalities, structural or functional
It has also been suggested that joint hypermobility (JH) may be associated with the pathology of fibromyalgia.
Joint Hypermobility (EDS)
Joint hypermobility is defined as “abnormally increased mobility of small and large joints beyond the limits of their physiological movement.” Joint hypermobility is common among in young females and is seen in about 5% of the healthy adult population. When musculoskeletal symptoms occur in hypermobile people in the absence of any other systemic rheumatological disorder, it is called “hypermobility syndrome.” Joint hypermobility is also a feature of a medical condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) that is characterized by weakness of the connective tissues of the body.
What makes EDS different from fibromyalgia?
One with this condition has deformed collagen, the glue of the body. Therefore, ligaments and tendons do not have the strength to function effectively to work correctly and muscles must work on overload to compensate for their lack of effectiveness. This causes looseness in the joints that allow for bones to shift. One lives with many subluxations (partial dislocations) and even full dislocations. A simple twist, turn, a hug can all cause things to shift. Unfortunately, this shifting of the structure creates pain that one must learn how to live with. Remember, it IS NOT a Systemic Autoimmune Disorder or a Collagen Vascular Disorder.
The Study
In a study reported in the Journal of Rheumatology, the association between joint hypermobility and primary fibromyalgia was investigated. The study group was comprised of 88 patients (all female, median age 34 years old) with widespread pain clinically diagnosed as fibromyalgia and 90 healthy controls (all female, median age 36 years old). Excluded from the study were
Patients with any other rheumatological or systemic disorder.
Patients with any other inflammatory process or degenerative arthritis.
Anyone who had been receiving medications.
The patients had not been diagnosed with having fibromyalgia by a rheumatologist prior to the study and had not been treated for fibromyalgia.
Study Process
All patients were admitted based on widespread pain lasting longer than 3 months. Patients and controls were then initially evaluated by a rheumatologist. The patients underwent further and more specific evaluation by two other clinicians (who were blinded to the initial evaluation) for the determination of fibromyalgia and joint hypermobility.
Fibromyalgia was assessed in all patients by questioning about common complaints associated with the disease. They were diagnosed with fibromyalgia if they met the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for the classification and diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Joint hypermobility was considered present in patients based on the Beighton modification of Carter and Wilkinson criteria for joint hypermobility.
Study Results
Fifty-six of the 88 patients with widespread pain initially resembling fibromyalgia met the ACR criteria for fibromyalgia, while 6 of the 90 healthy controls also met the ACR criteria. Patients with or without fibromyalgia were also compared for the frequency of joint hypermobility. The frequency of joint hypermobility was:
8% in patients with fibromyalgia.
6% in patients without fibromyalgia.
Joint hypermobility was also recognized in 10 of the 32 patients with fibromyalgia who did not exactly meet the ACR criteria. The presence of joint hypermobility was more common in this group than in the controls.
Conclusions
The association between fibromyalgia and joint hypermobility is not totally understood. Joint hypermobility may cause widespread arthralgia in patients due to misuse or overuse of hypermobile joints.
Data from this particular study indicated:
That the typical complaints of fibromyalgia were primarily observed in the patients that did meet the ACR criteria.
Some patients who exhibit fibromyalgia symptoms clinically but do not meet the ACR criteria could actually have joint hypermobility misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia.
Joint hypermobility was first featured in rheumatology literature in 1967. Today, joint hypermobility is better understood and more widely recognized. However, further investigation and research are still needed to learn even more about the interaction between joint hypermobility and fibromyalgia.
You have inside you a cloak of gossamer connective tissue that surrounds and supports everything and functions like fiber optics. This tissue is called fascia.
Fascia is a specialized system of the body that has an appearance similar to a spider’s web or a sweater. Fascia is very densely woven, covering and interpenetrating every muscle, bone, nerve, artery and vein, as well as, all of our internal organs including the heart, lungs, brain, and spinal cord. The most interesting aspect of the fascial system is that it is not just a system of separate coverings. It is actually one continuous structure that exists from head to toe without interruption. In this way, you can begin to see that each part of the entire body is connected to every other part by the fascia, like the yarn in a sweater.
Trauma, inflammatory responses, and/or surgical procedures create Myofascial restrictions that can produce tensile pressures of approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch on pain-sensitive structures that do not show up in many of the standard tests (x-rays, myelograms, CAT scans, electromyography, etc.) A high percentage of people suffering from pain and/or lack of motion may be having fascial problems, but are not diagnosed.
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