When I had my second baby, I knew my core wasn’t the same — not just how it looked, but how it functioned. I’d try to sit up, lift groceries, even get out of bed, and my lower back would scream at me. Turns out, I had something called diastasis recti. And like so many…
There’s nothing more frustrating than lying in bed, eyes wide open, mind spinning like a hamster on an espresso binge. I’ve been there—staring at the ceiling, feeling my chest tighten, and wondering why my brain suddenly thinks 2:13 AM is the perfect time to relive every awkward moment I’ve ever had. If anxiety has ever…
Some days, it hits like a wave. Other days, it hums in the background like a low-grade headache. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably asked yourself more than once: why does my anxiety feel so different every single day? One morning you’re functioning just fine, the next you’re spiraling over a missed text message….
If you’re anything like me, you might’ve brushed off occasional lower back pain as just “a bad night’s sleep” or blamed it on stress. But after months of dealing with nagging discomfort, I stumbled onto something most people never even consider: the connection between *pelvic floor dysfunction* and *lumbar instability*. Yeah, I was just as…
When I first started noticing this strange, dull ache in my lower back, I brushed it off as the usual desk-job fatigue. But the discomfort kept nagging me—persistent, weirdly deep, and not quite like the muscle soreness from a bad night’s sleep. Then came the frequent bathroom trips, the pressure, and a confusing sense of…
It’s easy to think anxiety only looks like panic attacks, shaky hands, or someone breathing heavily in a paper bag. But the truth? Anxiety wears a lot of different masks. I didn’t even realize I was struggling with it until a random Tuesday afternoon—just scrolling my phone and feeling oddly detached, like I was in…
Last summer, I was relaxing in the pool, soaking in the sunlight, eyes closed, just floating — when I opened them, there they were again. Those strange, wiggly shadows drifting across my vision. I blinked. I rubbed my eyes. Nothing helped. If you’ve ever spotted strange specs or squiggly lines that seem more visible while…
I didn’t realize how long anxiety had been quietly driving my habits until I started tracking it. I’d get those tight-chest mornings, random waves of dread in the middle of a meeting, or that all-too-familiar spinning brain at night. But when I finally sat down with a notebook and started logging—like, really logging—the patterns hit…
I used to think my back pain was just from sitting too long or maybe lifting my groceries wrong. But after years of being told “it’s probably stress,” I finally realized something wasn’t adding up. It wasn’t until I was diagnosed with PCOS that I started connecting the dots—turns out, those hormonal swings weren’t just…