Is Your Mind Standing In The Way Of Your Flexibility?
Most people assume flexibility depends on muscle length. In truth, how far you can go...
Written by: Pippa Thackeray
Written on: August 4, 2025
Pippa is a content writer and qualified Nutritional Therapist (DipNT) creating research-based content with a passion for many areas of wellbeing, including hormonal health, mental health and digestive health.
As a contributor to The Healf Source, she regularly attends seminars and programmes on a plethora of contemporary health issues and modern research insights with a drive to never stop learning. In addition, interviewing experts and specialists across The Four Pillars: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP.
In her spare time, she is an avid swimmer, mindfulness and yoga lover, occasionally bringing a raw, honest approach to the topics she faces. You may also discover some personal accounts of eye-opening wellbeing experiences amidst the reality of a disorientating, and often conflicting, modern wellbeing space.
- 1. You’re probably not as tight as you think
- 2. So, what’s really stopping you?
- 3. Your brain decides how far you go
- 4. The breath signals safety
- 5. When mind and body align: trauma, tension and perception
- 6. How to train your brain to trust the stretch
- 7. Tools to support deeper flexibility
- 8. What to consider for your flexibility
