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Ep 21.2: Movement Snack/Release the jaw tension

September 23, 2021 Courtney McManus
Moving through Midlife | Habit Stack & Movement Snacks for Midlife Moms, Parenting in Midlife | Fitness over 40
Ep 21.2: Movement Snack/Release the jaw tension
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If you are drinking smoothie each and every morning and notice that you also deal with morning tension headaches.  I want you to begin to practice adding some nuts to your breakfast on the side to help your jaw work to relieve some of the tension you are dealing with.

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It is a another movement snack for the week. And today I just wanted to check in with you to see how you all are doing, you are working on supporting your immune system. And on Monday in Episode 21, I spoke to you about the four things that you can be doing to help support your immune immune system. Those being drinking smoothies, which help to get more fruits and vegetables into your daily diet, salads, making sure that you are eating salads every single day, making sure that you are eating salmon, or seafood, salmon and seafood or something you want to work on trying to get in one to two times a week is a recommendation that I tried to practice myself. And then spices, making sure that you're trying different spices, really changing it up, get fun, have fun with it, get creative, and really just enjoy it. And then one thing I do want to mention in regards to salads that I was just thinking about was one thing that we do, we don't always have salads. But when we don't have salads with our meals, what I try to do is I just make greens. And it's really simple, I just take some olive oil or avocado oil and I place in my pan. And then I will chop up some onions and garlic like one onion and one to two cloves of garlic, and I sauteed those in the pan. And then I add a green. And like I just bought rainbow chard. So that's what we're going to have tomorrow night. Some nights I'll do spinach, some nights, I'll do kale, and it's just an extra. And I don't put a ton on the plate because you know what happens when you have your spinach it turns into like this little ball, like where where did all this spinach go. So I just add a little bit on the side for the kids and for my husband and I and that is just that is our greens. So it's not always a salad, just an aside your movement snack for the week, this is going to come maybe a little out of left field here. But it has to do with drinking smoothies. And many people, myself included will drink smoothies in the morning. It is something that you know, when I'm rushing around, and I know I need quick protein, I will just make a smoothie because it's quick and easy. And I'll do that before I run out the door. Here's something I want you to think about. If you're one of those people who deals with tension headaches a lot, I need you to start adding something like a handful of nuts, not to this movie, but something to have on the side. And here's why. When we deal with a lot of tension, stress, there are many of us who will clench our jaws at night. And that creates tension and can lead to headaches. If we are not doing anything to work the muscle in our jaws, we will continue to deal with that headache. So a way to start working on releasing that tension is get the jaw working. So you may need to allow that jaw to work through eating and unfortunately a lot of our foods are mass aerated kind of already and I think I've mentioned this before I always feel like I as I'm doing this I feel like wait a second, I think I just talked about this. But anyway, so we want to make sure that we are getting that job moving and working it so if you're gonna drink a smoothie, that's fine. It's already been mass rated for you so to speak through your blender. But find something an apple or some nuts or something that you can crunch on even if it's chewing gum, something that you can crunch on to allow those muscles to work within the job. So that's pretty much it for your movement snack this week is just to work on that. And then I'm also going to recommend that you look into if you are dealing with those tension headaches and you know your jaw clincher. There are some really cool exercises that you can do. I do have them on my blog on my forum thread. At online.com page you can look into but there are different things that you can do to start massaging that area. And you can even just go like right where your jaw connects, just kind of go right in there and gently press your my middle finger that I'm doing my middle finger right into that area and gently massage it and you'll feel if you have tension, so that is something you can do as well. And that is an easy one that is your movement snack for the day, just finding some way to work the muscles within your jaw. And also, I want to let you know that each month, we do five day tight boot camps in our form set mom community. This month, we are working on movement. And all we are doing is a five day and I'm actually it's going to be like seven days, it's going to be a seven day challenge where you are going to start working on moving more in your everyday life. So make sure to join me over there, you will get seven days exercises and tips and information for re to try. You also can go click on our guide section and you're going to be able to see past ones that we have done as well that you can take part in and then if you want to we are also doing a 30 day challenge where we're providing some prizes and things that you can also join us with that that is a 30 day challenge. And that is pretty much it. So join me over in the forum fit mom community, make sure you are eating something crunchy in the morning to get that jaw working to relieve some of that tension that you might have had from the night of sleeping. And I hope you all have a wonderful day