The Break Room


  • Ah, sleep. The one thing that we know reaps enormous benefits, but so often gets neglected. We are  always well-intentioned with sleep, but sometimes you just HAVE to watch the next episode of the TV  show you’re watching that just left you on a cliffhanger (I’m talking to you Yellowstone). As the saying  goes, “abs

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  • A Note From The Editor

    10 Days into January already! I wanted to write a quick personal farewell to 2023 and share my gratitude to all who follow along in The Break Room. This blog has been the small creative outlet I craved in my professional world. I’ve enjoyed meeting and connecting with others in our industry. I have already

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  • “We are all born with agency, but few of us ever assert it. We accept the limitations others place on us. We listen to what we are told is possible. We allow fear to dictate what we believe we can do. And in so doing, we never even try. But the truth is, we all

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  • Today Is The Day

    “Today is the day you woke up from time traveling to rewrite the future you didn’t want.” —Joel “This is it! Today is the day,” you tell yourself. It’s the one day a year that we give ourselves a clean slate.  If you’re anything like me, you watched as the sun crested over the horizon

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  • This is an excerpt from How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. While it’s geared towards those in sales or those working during the holidays, its value can be applied by anyone at any time. ‘The Value of a Smile at Christmas’ It costs nothing but creates much. It enriches those who

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  • Friendship

    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” —C.S. Lewis We’ve all got them… friends who have been with us through thick and thin, in our lives longer than we can remember, and have forgotten more random facts about

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  • Hip and low back pain prompt many to seek evaluation and treatment from physical therapists or medical professionals. Yet, it’s uncommon for sports or orthopedic physical therapists to possess pelvic floor training. Conversely, not all pelvic floor physical therapists stay updated with optimal orthopedic practices. This blog aims to spotlight the pelvic floor’s role in

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  • When Was The Last Time…

    “Having spent many years trying to define the essentials of trust, I arrived at the position that if two people could say two things to each other and mean them, then there was the basis for real trust. The two things were ‘I mean you no harm’ and ‘I seek your greatest good.’” —Jim Meehan

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  • Movement Is Play

    I started my coaching journey as an apprentice in a small local gym focused on strength training for endurance athletes. I am grateful to my mentor for instilling in me two principles that I’ve carried with me since my early coaching days: movement is play, and movement is serious. The two may seem contradicting, but let’s look

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  • “Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their

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