by Jessica Kisiel | May 8, 2024 | Personal Wellness
Upon taking my sabbatical leave last June, I left you and myself with this question: What do you want in the next phase of your life? (Blog: Taking a Pause to Reflect, Redirect, and Reinvent) After posting my sabbatical blog, a wise reader from the Pain Free Athlete...
by Jessica Kisiel | Apr 3, 2024 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness
As discussed in my last blog, being preoccupied with pain can be all-consuming. For several of my clients, pain is the first thing on their minds in the morning. As soon as they wake, these clients actively seek out their pain, scanning their body for it and, if/when...
by Jessica Kisiel | Mar 5, 2024 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness, Sports Training
Do you continually worry about and focus on your pain? Do you put pressure on yourself to figure out how to fix your pain and become frustrated or angry when the pain doesn’t go away? Do you degrade yourself because you’re still hurting? Do you fight against the pain...
by Jessica Kisiel | Feb 23, 2024 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a research-based treatment approach for healing neuroplastic pain. These techniques were found to be highly effective for chronic back pain in a 2022 study. Refer to my blog, New Research on Back Pain, for all the details. Earlier...
by Jessica Kisiel | Jan 9, 2024 | Personal Wellness, Posture and Technique
Imagine a class that combines yoga, Pilates, core training, body awareness, and breathwork. Then add exercises proven to improve alignment, balance, and function. Next, blend practices into the class that calm the nervous system and expose the mind to new perspectives...
by Jessica Kisiel | May 15, 2023 | Personal Wellness
In January 2022 I listened to the Wellcoaches’ continuing education (CE) class–“The Urgency of Sabbaticals” by DJ DiDonna, founder of the Sabbatical Project. I recall that before I took the class, I had recently talked with an excited client about his sabbatical and...
