From Patient to Provider

I’m a physical therapist, a learning experience designer, and I have bad glue.

I know what it’s like to have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.

To be in pain and not be believed.
To sit in sterile rooms while experts shrug.
To be handed generic advice that doesn't make sense for your body.

When I was diagnosed, I was overwhelmed.
Everything I found was either too clinical or too chaotic.
So I went back to school, earned my Doctorate in Physical Therapy, and started learning how to take care of my body—on my terms.

And somewhere along the way, I realized:
I wasn’t just doing this for me anymore.

Bending Better is my way of giving you what I needed back then: real, science-backed strategies delivered with compassion. Tools that help you feel safer in your body—not more afraid of it.

Because when pain feels unpredictable, we don’t need to “push through.” We need calm. We need clarity. We need a way to trust ourselves again.

That’s what this space is for.
And I’m so glad you’re here.

- Caroline