Hey all,

I snapped these photos last week after I realized I’d been sitting out on the Panera patio all afternoon, and I hadn’t even thought about the chairs I was sitting on.  

During the worst of my SI joint saga, I couldn’t sit.

I’d try to go to the Starbucks closest to me, and the most I could make it was an hour (tops) sitting in their wooden chairs.

I wanted to be one of those people who’d stay all day working on things, lost in thought, but I just couldn’t.   My SI joints hurt too much.

Sometimes I’d try to push through the pain – mind over matter, right?   But I’d get up and I’d have radiating numbness and tingling down my legs.

After I posted the photos, I thought about how this is truly something that only people with SIJD can understand. After all, the average person probably doesn’t think of simply sitting in a chair as an accomplishment.

But actually, so much went into this:

• Learning about the major muscle groups at play

• Finding a balance between strengthening my muscles, while being gentle on the ligaments

• Optimizing my movement patterns, so that I could stay IN alignment, with proper feedback from my nervous system.

Truthfully, there is a lot of athleticism involved.

In order to support healthy alignment in your pelvis, your:

• muscles

• ligaments, and

• nervous system

all need to be working together.

It’s something we take for granted, until something interrupts it.

If you’re dealing with SIJD too, please don’t ever think these things are small.

They DO matter. Every small win is a form of athleticism, because it represents the amount of *strategy* it took to get there.

If you’re dealing with SIJD, it IS possible to go back to normal life again.

For so long, I didn’t know if I could do it. Now I am living proof.