Thank You Parenting — Sarah McAreavey | Coach for Hypermobile Bodies

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No, I haven’t done an oopsie and accidentally jumped on the 2016 ten year trend.

Today marks the start of the Chinese New Year of the Fire Horse.

We are also back at a Year 1, after 2025 closed out a full nine year cycle for us all.

So I fou

Pre op assessments look closely at the heart, lungs, and bloods.
But there’s very little space given to the nervous system and the brain, and how it will cope with anaesthesia.

For bodies and brains like mine, that isn’t a side note.

Hy

This birthday feels like a threshold.

And is bringing clarity as much as celebration.

Not a big bubbly and birthday cake moment… 
more a quiet turning of the page.

I’m closing out Year 9 and coming to the end of the Year of the Snake,

This time of year often feels heavier than we expect. The body seems to feel it before the mind does.

I’m still in the final stretch of the Year of the Snake, which ends on Feb 17, a year of endings, shedding, and deep internal change.
For me,

If hypermobility had a soulmate… it would honestly be biohacking.

Not because it fixes anything, but because it understands the assignment.

When your joints, gut, hormones, sleep, and nervous system start to feel like a set of little wind-up

I first signed up to Netflix back when rental DVDs were posted through your door (yes really… 1998!).

That’s when I fell in love with art films.

One of the first I watched was the French film The Page Turner or La Tourneuse de pages if

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