Dr. Theresa Larson: Stop Pain - The Most Common Myths

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Theresa Larson (movement health & inclusive wellness expert, Movement RX founder) joins us to discuss her work with adaptive athletes, what it was like to join the U.S. military after 9/11 and as a woman, and what you need to take full ownership over your pain. Mayim discusses first learning breathwork through Dr. T and they break down movement healing, downregulating the nervous system to improve mental wellness, why social support is so crucial to recovering from physical and emotional wounds, and practical ways to improve your daily ergonomics. Dr. T recalls growing up in a physically competitive household, her shift in self-esteem after her mom passed at an early age, and her job searching for land mines in Iraq. She explains her struggle to advocate for herself when her disordered eating impacted her military service, why disordered eating can feel extremely lonely, its prevalence amongst military personnel, how she was finally able to ask for help, and how her recovery led her to living with more intention & becoming less of a people-pleaser.

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0:00.0	If you were to tell me like the five biggest things that people can do just
0:08.5	ergonomically in their own home, tell me what those are.
0:13.3	Let's start with our feet.
0:15.8	Okay, let's put our, because we want, when I think of ergonomics, I want to align the
0:20.8	most important aspect of my body, which is my spine and protect my spine, right?
0:26.5	Because that's how we feel the environment.
0:27.9	So our feet are flat on the ground.
0:30.1	No foot prisons, which are shoes.
0:31.7	Like ideally if you can take your foot prisons off, so feet, flat on the ground, toes forward.
0:35.9	Okay, knees are slightly out, you know, when you're wearing a skirt.
0:41.1	Yeah, man, spread, yes.
0:43.8	Yes.
0:44.8	So knees out, so that allows your pelvis to kind of sit more neutral versus if your knees
0:52.2	are together, try it.
0:53.2	Like you're kind of in this sad rainbow bag.
0:55.1	I feel very 19,000 years later.
0:57.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:58.0	So knees are out and own it, right?
1:01.2	Pelvis is neutral and I want you to just like gently squeeze your butt too, just to kind
1:05.3	of like know it's there, know those tissues are there, yeah, they're there.
1:09.2	Okay, and then now roll those shoulder blades down and back.
1:14.1	Right, so now your shoulder blades are kind of sitting more up and down versus rolled
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