The Calm Mind ~ Pain Free Body website is designed and written by Twyla Carolan, who is a walking, biking, hiking, hunting, fishing, broomball playing, writing, reading, medical qigong, tai chi, yoga, personal training, kinesiology, massage for pain and tension relieving, cooking, bread baking, photo taking, mushroom hunting, nature loving kind of person.
Twyla used to be a fat, potato chip eating and beer drinking couch potato. ‘Obese’ is the term the doctor used. He had looked shocked when he took Twyla’s sky high blood pressure, 245/145, likely surprised her head hadn’t exploded from the pressure. It was that look on his tired jaded face, more than anything, that caused Twyla to turn her life around.
She saw a dietician, stopped drinking beer and eating potato chips, and began exercising. Within six months she had lost 65 pounds and her blood pressure dropped to normal. It wasn’t all rosy though. At that point she had progressed from walking to running everyday and the pounding down the pavement caught up to her. Debilitating pain hit the back, glutes, legs, and especially the feet.
Twyla’s been a freelance writer since 1998, and presently writes a weekly column, ‘Twyla’s Tales,’ for her local newspaper, the Atikokan Progress. Many of these articles were first published there.
Twyla’s goal in life is to help people become as relaxed, fit, and pain free as possible. No more frazzled mind, no more pain.
With that in mind, she’s heading back to school for her Masters of Physiotherapy at McMaster University. Graduation date is fall of 2011.