Living Well – The Integrative Lifestyle Medicine Blog is where Dr. Garner curates research, resources, and shares her experience as a longtime physical therapist, athletic trainer, Lifestyle Medicine practitioner, and professional yoga therapist. As a mother of 3 who is self-employed & self-made, Dr. Garner shares what she has learned about how to stay fit on a budget, how to eat well, sleep better, and manage stress. Ginger practices what she preaches, and her blog is a true reflection of that. Having gone through several surgergies, injuries, and hardships, Ginger’s story is a raw and real portrait that many of us share – one of overcoming big obstacles to build resilience, strength, and find eudemonia. Eudemonia translated means, a place beyond happiness. The Living Well blog, and Ginger’s clinical practice, EudeMOMia, an Integrative PT & Lifestyle Medicine practice for women, are a testament to Ginger’s ability to persist through difficult circumstances, overcome burnout & the threat of poverty, to speak to her passion – Living Well.
I am on maternity leave through August and September, so please enjoy today’s guest post by NAMC’s Advocacy Coordinator, Valerie Young. Valerie writes the popular blog for mother’s rights, Your (Wo)Man in Washington. BITL Founder, Ginger, in pursuit of “pushing back” in 2010, fundraising for women and children in Haiti through voice and song. Photo…
I am on maternity leave through August and September, so please enjoy today’s guest post by Stacey Curnow. BITL Founder, Ginger, standing on the precipice of a new life after leaving her job in conventional medicineto pursue her passion – improving health carethrough her grassroots education method in medical yoga/alternative medicine. It’s agonizing isn’t it?…
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Our third blessing, 2 weeks old. I am on maternity leave for the summer. Until then, enjoy the fantastic guest posts by BITL contributors. I wish everyone a wonderful Holiday week and would like to introduce the newest addition to Breathing In This Life… James Solomon (finally) arrived on June 17th, happy and healthy. We…
Today’s post is a guest blog from Midwife for your Life, Stacey Curnow. Last night a friend and I were talking about some challenges in his life and I remembered a line from a poem by Robert Bly: The albatross that lands on the mast began flying a thousand years ago. A long time ago,…
BITL Founder, expecting her third child this month (June 2011). This week’s guest post is penned by NAMC’s Advocacy Coordinator, Valerie Young. Valerie writes the popular blog for mother’s rights, Your (Wo)Man in Washington. Being a mother in the United States is an uphill climb. Alone among industrialized nations, we have no guaranteed paid leave…
In part one we considered general ways in which yoga helps you through menopause. In part two, we will discuss yoga and Ayurveda. In yoga and Ayurveda (the Indian system or medicinal side of yoga), menopause is considered an air/ether element, or vata (pronounced “vah-tuh”), condition. Characterized by dryness, the vata type (constitution) is typically…
Hello good readers, I want to thank everyone for their patience and support while I negotiate the unexpected terrain of late term pregnancy complications. Completely outside of my control, I found myself rather unable to post from the confines of the ER or the high risk antepartum unit, although my husband did manage to snap…
Yoga for Menopause: 7 Reasons Why You Need Yoga More Than Ever. (Part 1) Yoga is a wonderful anecdote for healing and transformation during the (seemingly unending) season of menopause. I am still in my season of motherhood, personally, getting ready to give birth to my third child in the coming weeks. However, I am…
Me in postpartum yoga practice, 11 months after my second son Yoga for Busy Moms It is ironic that I am sitting here procrastinating about penning this post on yoga for busy moms. Why? Because I am a fellow exhausted mother – with two boys under age 5, and in my third trimester with my…
Aches and Pains after Childbirth…What Can You Do? Physical therapy can do a tremendous amount to improve your health as a woman – before, during, and after birth. I’d like to share an interview I did with BreezyMama.com’s Alex Ota, published yesterday, on addressing physical ailments after labor. I also want to extend a special…
Photo taken this past week,entering into my third trimesterwith my third child. As I am approaching the last few weeks of my third pregnancy, I thought it helpful to share some of the resources I use and have written about in my own journey through motherhood. Here are some helpful resources for you eco-saavy mothers…