Jody (57) went from 25 years of foot pain and exercise-triggered fibromyalgia flare-ups to running up and down the stairs like a teenager
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After 25 years of foot pain and exercise-triggered fibro flare-ups, Jody discovered an approach that didn’t knock her out – and started feeling like herself again.
Jody’s fibro flare-ups stopped, her energy came back, and she started thinking very differently about aging
Jody wasn’t afraid of exercise. She had tried hard workouts, easy workouts, HIIT, gyms, and plenty in between. The problem wasn’t willingness – it was what happened afterward.
Her fibromyalgia had been particularly difficult for the previous few years, and whenever she tried to get back into exercise, even a medium-intensity HIIT workout could leave her out for a week.
Then she would slowly build herself back up, try again, and end up in the same place.
“It was like one foot forward, two steps back. I just wasn’t getting anywhere.”
And that was starting to affect her mentally as much as physically.
Then there were her feet. Jody had been dealing with foot pain for more than 25 years, with bunion surgery, orthotics, Morton’s neuromas, more surgery, scar tissue, podiatrists, orthopedic appointments, X-rays, and discussions about potentially needing more procedures.
She had reached the point where she didn’t really expect that part of her body to change. Then she started the Reshape Method®.
Within roughly two-and-a-half weeks, something very unexpected happened: her foot pain was dramatically better ... and she could walk barefoot again.
JODY’S RESULTS AT A GLANCE
25 YEARS OF FOOT PAIN CHANGED WITHIN WEEKS
Jody had been dealing with painful feet since her twenties. She had bunion surgery at 25, then orthotics, followed by Morton’s neuromas, more surgery, and years of ongoing discomfort.
Even ordinary shoes could leave her feet aching by the end of the day. Walking barefoot was out of the question. She would even bring indoor shoes to other people’s homes because standing on a hard floor without them hurt too much.
Then, a couple of weeks into the Reshape Method®, she noticed something.
“My pain is gone. I was like, ‘I don’t feel the pain as much anymore.’”
She still had a few specific spots that bothered her, and she wasn’t claiming her feet had suddenly become perfect, but the constant pain she had lived around for decades had changed dramatically.
“Now I’m walking barefoot.”
For Jody, that was the biggest aha moment of the whole program because she had never really considered it a possibility.
SHE DIDN’T HAVE A FIBROMYALGIA FLARE-UP
Before the Reshape Method®, exercise could easily trigger a fibromyalgia flare-up that took her out for days. That cycle made consistency almost impossible.
But from her first Reshape Method® workout, Jody noticed a very different response.
“I never got a flare-up at all.”
Instead of feeling flattened afterward, she felt looser and more energized.
“From the first workout that I had, I felt energized.”
For someone who had spent years bracing for the aftermath of exercise, that was a major change.
SHE HAD MORE ENERGY
Energy was one of the three biggest results Jody named at the beginning of this conversation. Without the repeated exercise-crash-recover cycle, movement started giving her something back instead of continually draining her.
She could do the 30-minute Reshape Method® workouts, follow the program, and get on with her day. That made consistency feel far more realistic.
SHE FELT LIKE A TEENAGER RUNNING DOWN THE STAIRS
Once the constant foot pain eased, Jody realized how much it had been affecting her without her fully noticing.
“I felt like a teenager in that I would run up and down stairs.”
She describes having a spring in her step, smiling more, and feeling lighter in herself.
Then she said something that gets right to the heart of chronic pain:
“I did not realize how unhappy I was until I saw how happy I could be.”
Jody had become so accustomed to discomfort that it had simply become normal. It took feeling different to realize how much mental space the pain had been taking up.
SHE STARTED THINKING ABOUT HER 70s, 80s, AND 90s DIFFERENTLY
At 57, Jody wasn’t only thinking about how she felt right now. She was thinking about grandchildren, getting down on the floor, getting back up again, staying mobile, and being able to take care of herself as she gets older.
Her mother was 90 and using a walker, and that had made the future feel very real.
“This is basically investing in my future.”
For Jody, the Reshape Method® became less about completing a 12-week program and more about keeping her body useful for the life she wants decades from now.
IT SOUNDED ALMOST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
Jody’s hesitation wasn’t really about whether she wanted the result – she did. It was whether she wanted to spend money on one more program after already investing in so many things that hadn’t worked. She had promised herself she wouldn’t do that again.
Then she booked a Midlife Alignment Reveal™. What was meant to be a short conversation turned into a much longer one, and what she heard and felt was different enough to make her reconsider.
“This is a different approach. This is logic. This is science. And it just made sense.”
Jody kept talking about it afterward until eventually her husband said, essentially, just try it ... so she did.
ALIGNMENT GAVE HER A DIFFERENT WAY TO LOOK AT THE PROBLEM
What caught Jody’s attention was the idea that aches in different parts of the body might not need to be treated as completely separate problems. Instead of continually asking what individual part needed fixing next, the Reshape Method® gave her a way to look at how the whole structure was aligned and moving.
That logic clicked for her.
“If our body is perfectly aligned, it’s going to work perfectly or better. If we’re misaligned, we get sore knees, we get sore hips.”
That’s how Jody understood it – and it gave her a very different starting point from the harder, more intense programs she had repeatedly tried before.
HARDER EXERCISE HAD BEEN SENDING HER BACKWARD
Jody didn’t shy away from hard exercise – the problem was that her body couldn’t keep absorbing it.
She could start a program with the best intentions, then a flare-up would wipe out the progress she had made. The Reshape Method® didn’t ask her to prove anything by pushing harder.
The workouts were doable, specific, and only around 30 minutes long.
“It didn’t throw me over the edge.”
That mattered far more than doing the most impressive-looking workout in the room. Because when your body can actually recover from the exercise you’re doing, you can keep going.
THE COACHING HELPED HER GET MORE FROM THE WORK
Jody also valued being able to ask questions and get individual feedback during both the private and group coaching.
A small adjustment could change what she was feeling in a movement, and hearing other women being coached often taught her something about her own body too.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s about you or about the other person that Tracy is helping out. You’re learning more about the program and how it can work and how it can be better for you.”
For Jody, the group became useful “me time”, spent learning how her body worked.
And because she has lifetime access to the Reshape Method®, she can revisit earlier phases with a different level of understanding than she had the first time through.
SHE STARTED TO SEE HER BODY DIFFERENTLY
Jody talks about the Reshape Method® reshaping more than just how she exercises. It changed how she saw her own structure.
“I don’t think I ever was able to see the true structure that I was meant to be.”
After years of assuming painful feet, fibro flare-ups, and exercise setbacks were simply things she had to work around, she began to feel that her body still had room to change.
At 57, that mattered. She wants to be able to move: to get down on the floor with grandchildren; to put on her own shoes and socks; to keep her independence.
And to feel like the woman running down the stairs with a spring in her step – not someone whose world is gradually getting smaller because movement hurts.
COULD ALIGNMENT BE YOUR MISSING PIECE?
Jody had already tried plenty of exercise programs, specialists, orthotics, and procedures. What changed was the way she approached her whole body.
When she reshaped her alignment, her long-standing foot pain eased dramatically, she stopped cycling through exercise-triggered fibro flare-ups, and she found a way to move that gave her more energy instead of taking it away.
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