You might not notice it while you’re in the middle of your day. You’re moving from one thing to the next. Answering emails. Sitting in meetings. Managing home, work, and everything in between. Nothing feels particularly intense in the moment. But by the time you pause… your body tells a different story.
Your shoulders feel tight. Your neck feels heavy. Your jaw feels a little clenched. And there’s this underlying sense that your body hasn’t really relaxed all day. And you wonder… when did this even start?
In this blog, let’s explore the subtle ways your body holds tension through the day, not because you’re doing anything wrong, but because it’s trying to keep up with everything you’re managing ....
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Have you ever gone to bed feeling reasonably comfortable, only to wake up with a stiff neck, an aching back, or sore shoulders? Or perhaps you have noticed that your spinal (back/neck) pain feels worse after a poor night's sleep, even though you have not done anything differently physically. If so, you are not imagining it.
Sleep plays a much bigger role in pain than most people realise. In fact, for many busy executive mums, poor sleep can quietly make pain harder to manage and recovery more difficult. In this blog, let us explore the connection between sleep and spinal (back/neck) pain levels ....
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If your neck pain tends to build as the day goes on, the solution may not start at 3 PM when your neck already feels tight. It may start before your first coffee. Many executive mums wake up feeling reasonably comfortable. Then the day begins. The emails, meetings, school run, work, phone calls. The constant switching between roles.
And somewhere around late afternoon, you notice it. Your neck feels heavier. Your shoulders have crept upwards. You start rubbing the base of your skull or stretching your neck without even thinking about it. By evening, the tension has often built into pain.
In this blog, lets explore how a simple 5-minute routine can help prepare your body for the physical and mental demands of the day ahead.
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As an executive mum, the long hours at a desk and high mental load leave very little time to reset the body, leading to tight spots. They are called trigger points and they form when muscle fibres stay in a low level contracted state for too long. Initially they might feel minor, so you keep going with meetings, emails, school pickups, dinner and a million other tasks in the day. Over time, they start to restrict blood flow, irritate nearby nerves, and create that familiar combination of dull ache, stiffness, and sometimes even headaches. In this blog, lets discuss what are trigger points and some easy ways to relieve them without adding more to your already busy day ...
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As an executive mum, you probably know this feeling well - a stubborn sore spot in your neck or shoulder that does not quite go away. You press on it and it feels tender, almost bruised. Sometimes the pain even spreads upward into your head or outward toward your shoulder blade. Many people call these “knots.” Clinically, they are called trigger points. In this blog lets discuss what are trigger points or 'knots' in neck and shoulder muscles and in part 2 of the blog we will discuss 'How to Calm Neck Muscle Trigger Points Without Adding More to Your Day' ....
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