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Who’s in charge of your life?

If you answered, “I am,” then congratulations! You’re right. You are the only person ultimately in charge of your life – good or bad, right or wrong, healthy or not, happy or not.

The power to create the life you want is within YOU, nestled alongside that awesome concept of personal responsibility. They’re joined at the hip, those two, and that’s what I want to write about today.

This is on my mind because I sometimes hear from people who feel they have no control over their lives.

❌ 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 “𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚” 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦.
❌ 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑥𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒.
❌ 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑥 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛’𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒.

So, let’s clear this up right now.

The key to unlocking your own power and exercising more control over your life is understanding that it’s all on you. You hold the reins. And you have to understand that you don’t know everything you need.

This means you get to “take credit” for all the good stuff in your life – because you have woven them all together into your awesome, beautiful life.

Even the “bad” stuff that was done to you. Granted, it might not have been your “fault,” but it’s now your responsibility to make it better. If you don’t, then who will?

Once you start to see this, I want you to think about these ideas next.

✅ 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒔𝒕: Your past is your greatest source of inner strength. Remember your successes and take inspiration from your own self! YOU DID ALL THOSE THINGS! Similarly, remember your setbacks and learn from them.

✅ 𝑺𝒆𝒕 𝑺𝑴𝑨𝑹𝑻 𝑮𝒐𝒂𝒍𝒔: Let’s get strategic. Your goals should be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Track your progress, adapt as needed, and dance a little victory jig for every small win.

✅ 𝑩𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝑫𝒆𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒕𝒉: Tell others and yourself about your new direction. Do this without apology. Too often we mumble something like, “Well, I guess I shouldn’t really say this, but I would like to be…” Nonsense! Say it. Own it. Do it.

✅𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌: Help others, share your opinion when it’s needed, and help where you can. By the same token, don’t be shy to ask for help when you need it. Yes, asking for help is part of being powerful. Just ask any powerful person you admire!

✅ 𝑻𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 – 𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚, 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕: our well-being is non-negotiable. Care for your body with exercise, nourishing food, and restful sleep. Cultivate your mind through positive habits and manage stress. Speak your emotions, embrace spiritual practices that resonate with you – even on tough days.

This journey isn’t always a breeze. But every step you take builds on the one before. Success begets success. Power grows more power.

And it’s all in YOU.

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SI joint issues can make your life miserable. They can just lean on and on and have constant pain in different places. It is one of the worst things that could happen to your body. It is very difficult to treat and to train, but there is a way, so I want you to listen closely because there is a way to get rid of your SI joint problems and make your life better, which I’ll talk about in this video.

Hi, I’m Ekemba Sooh, I’m the owner of SolCore Fitness. I’m a Summa therapist and a Summa trainer which, to help you understand, it’s kind of like a physical therapist but much more, all under the osteopathic model of which I train. I had SI joint problems, but didn’t know about it, that contributed to my L4-L5 disc compression and sciatic pain. It wasn’t until I started to look at my body holistically and train and treat it holistically, that included the SI joint in a bunch of other places, that I’d get results for my L4-L5 disc compression. The body works and functions holistically and, until you start to train and treat it that way, you won’t get the results you desire. In fact, you might go the other way. If you want to hear more about how to work with your body in this holistic fashion, then subscribe to my channel. Don’t forget to hit that bell so you’re notified. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up, share with your friends, and I’ll post videos about once a week. Thanks so much.

Let’s first all make sure we understand what the SI joint is. SI stands for sacroiliac. Sacrum is the triangle bone that’s between your glutes. Ilium is your hip bone. In between the sacrum and ilium, you have two joints, your sacroiliac joint or SI joint. Those joints look like boomerangs. Those boomerangs are in your back pocket. That’s your SI joint, right here. Now, this is important to understand because this is your pelvis and your SI, that’s your lower back. Pelvis, SI, lower back. I say that because I have a lot of people come to me and go, “Oh, I have back pain,” and they point to their pelvis and SI joint and I go, “No, you don’t, you have an SI joint issue.” That’s important for you to understand too because when you talk to any type of practitioner it’s important to tell them where you actually have pain.

Now, in that joint, you have different parts. So again, remember it’s a boomerang, right? In that boomerang, I have a lesser arm and a greater arm. Like I said, an isthmus in the middle, right? Within that lesser arm, I have an apex and a base, which is right above the isthmus. In the greater arm, I have a base which is right below the isthmus and then an apex. It’s going to be important to understand later on when we talk about dysfunction and why it’s hurting. That SI joint is a total joint. There’s cartilage in there. It’s a total capsule. There’s ligaments to help management, namely the anterior, that means front, sacroiliac ligaments, and the posterior, back, sacroiliac ligaments, and two mini accessory ones called your ilial lumbar ligaments. So if you were to tell me, “Oh, the SI joint is fused,” explain to me why there’s a total joint there, why those ligaments help to manage it? It doesn’t make sense to me to say it’s fused. Now, this is also managed by some muscles so in the front of your sacrum you have your piriformis. In the back of your sacrum, you have your glute max, deep and a little bit superficial, and you have some other muscles that assist with that.

You have your glute med, which attaches to your piriformis. You have your obturator internus, with your piriformis. You have your psoas, with your pelvis, so you have a lot of structures in there that help manage your SI joint. Now, because this joint, this SI joint is a total joint with ligaments that help manage it, it moves. Now, it has two main movements, an oblique movement, that and that, right? It’s called positive torsion, negative torsion, and it works with the ilium. There’s one on the other side but I only have two hands. It does stuff like this on both sides. That’s your main movement. That’s the physiological, you can say, good movement. There’s 20 main pathological movements that can happen to it and a combination of the 20 other pathological movements. Combined, that’s infinite number of ways that it can become dysfunction because if it doesn’t move in that oblique fashion, then that’s where we get SI joint problems.

This joint gets forces on it constantly. Me standing here right now, there’s forces from the ground up to my head, ascending forces that go through the SI joint. There’s also forces that go from gravity and force down through my body, through the SI, going down called descending forces. There’s forces when you sit down on your ischial tuberosity, your sit bones, going through your pelvis into your SI joint. So if you want to have a healthy life and be able to move around, the SI joint needs to be properly functioning. You can have almost an infinite amount of issues with those infinite amount of pathologies at your SI joint. The combinations are almost endless. Take me, for example. I had no sensation in my SI, no pain, nothing like that. I was still moving properly. My pelvis felt good. I was squatting, dead lifting, but a little slight pathology at my SI, which over time caused a big issue at my L4-L5 and disc compression, because the sacrum pulled my spine out of place.

It should be here, the spine’s up here, but it ended up there. And I put the bar on my back and I should be able to transfer forces nicely through my body but it didn’t because it was out of place. But the SI joint could also cause hip pain, knee pain, foot pain. Anywhere in your chain, your body, that you have a weak link, you could have an issue because, again, the body works holistically. I don’t only have a pain if I hit myself there. I can have a pain from somewhere else that causes pain there. The big question is, how do you fix it? You need to find somebody, first, that understands the SI joint and all its different pathologies. You need to understand that the soft tissue around the area controls how well the SI joint is managed.

Just going to somebody to crack and pop it, put it back or to tell you to sit on a foam roller or whatever, that is not going to get it done whatsoever. You need to have somebody go in there and assess what’s going on, and then the main thing you need to do is exercise. Treatment is good, exercise is better. Exercise is going to re-educate the body. Those ligaments I told you about, the anterior, posterior, the iliolumbar ligaments, they’re the smart part of your body, along with the other ligaments. They’re intelligent but they become unintelligent when they become dysfunctional. They have bad information, they have no information, they’re turned off. So you don’t work with just the SI. You don’t go straight to the joint. You don’t just move the sacrum and ilium, try and pop it back into place or roll on something to try to release the muscle like a dumb fashion.

You need to work with those ligaments. That’s going to allow the SI joint to go back in place. But then the most important, like I said, is you need to do exercise. The most effective exercises I come across to work with joints are ELDOA’s. They take a joint in different specific areas and normalize it. Normalize, that means they help put it back in place by using soft tissue. When they help put it back in place by using the soft tissue, through a posture, then they also make the soft tissue and the joint smarter. That’s what you want. You want it to go back in place and be smart so you use an exercise to do that. The therapy will help specifically if something needs a little adjustment here and there, but the exercise is the big thing. Have you been struggling with SI joint issues, have you been able to fix it? Let me know in the comments.

I know you might be feeling a little bit let down because I didn’t give you some formula to follow to fix your SI joint and I apologize. But there’s no formula that you can do for your body to make it better. Your body’s complex. There’s a lot of working parts to go together so on this channel I don’t give people prescriptions, I don’t give people formulas to follow, to correct certain things because everybody’s body is different. It’s a joke in the people who do what I do that whenever somebody comes in we say take off your pants. It’s a joke, but it’s not a joke because any type of overuse injury, I would say the SI is 95% always a part of it, if not the part that causes issues. So again, to give you a recipe would be a disservice to you and probably cause you more issues than you already have.

The best thing to do is to reach out and get some support. Now, you can get some support from me from a multitude of different ways. If you want to join my free Facebook group, then that’s a great way to be interactive to join the group. I interact with members. I do little mini one to three minute trainings, information for you to follow. I do master classes where I take a topic and talk about it and interact with people, ask questions. I also do challenges, which I take a topic, we go from information, but we also do some exercises included with the information. The link is in the description below to sign up. If you’re not an interactive person, not a Facebook person, no problem. I also have a free e-book. It’s, How to Move Better, Get Out of Pain, and Live the Life of Your Choosing.

Again, in the description there’s a link for it. You just click on it, put your information in, instant access. But for those of you who are ready to go, who want to work on your issues, then you can reach out to me personally for a free consultation. Again, in the description below, there’s a link. You click on it, you can then choose your time to talk with me. You can talk with me through the phone or through Zoom, it doesn’t matter to me, but I can now give you valuable information once we talk. I’m going to find out where you are now, what you’re doing, where you want to go, and I can start to see the holes in your system. I can tell you, “Hey, this is what I think is going on with you and where you need to go.” If I see you’re a good fit for our program, only then will I reach out and let you know, “Hey, I have this opportunity for you to join us, would you like a spot?” I hope this is helpful. I hope I can help you. Thanks so much for watching, take care.

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Human beings love stories.

Let’s talk about stories – the stories you tell yourself every day with you as the lead character.

See, from the earliest cave paintings to Netflix, we humans have always craved stories — following characters as they overcome challenges to fulfill their dreams.

And guess what? You’re the protagonist of your own story! We’re all crafting stories about ourselves all the time. 

But here’s where we often miss the mark – we mistake fleeting thoughts for the epic stories they can become, and we just let them be.

Take the thought, “I’m too busy and tired to exercise and eat right.” It’s like the starting point of a story waiting to be told, but it’s not a story itself!

You can play it forward, though, and see how to easily turn this into a winning tale.

👉🏽 Step 1: Identify the problem. This is weird and hard! I have so far to g.”
👉🏽 Step 2: Realize it is just the opening scene. Make the next statement or plot point: “Well, I wasn’t getting results doing the traditional exercises; this is just going to be a learning and growing phase.”
👉🏽 Step 3: Cue the training montage, the challenges, and your determination. And then, the triumphant climax – you standing tall at the end of your own (metaphorical) athletic competition.
Step 4: Introducing the new thought: “I never knew I could feel and move this well.”

That’s how you tell a story about yourself, my friend. It’s not about dwelling on negative thoughts; it’s about transforming them into stories that empower you.

The challenges you face just plot twists that make your journey all the more compelling.

Your tale of triumph is waiting to be told, and I’m here, cheering you on every step of the way.

And if you are looking for a coach to help and guide you, reach out!

➡️ DM me with “help please,” then…
➡️ Friend me. It allows me to see the DM easier, then…
➡️ In the comments, let me know that you did. So I can look for it, hen…
➡️ I will reach out to you.💪🏽

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