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Here’s where you’ll find health and fitness coaching and inspirational material created by Cindy Killip. She looks for fun around every corner and invites you to join her as she “lives in the silver lining.” Cindy focuses on healthy pain-free living, empathy, maximizing success, and finding happiness despite what life throws your way. She primarily writes and teaches about health and fitness, lifestyle, and living well with chronic illness.

As you will soon learn, Cindy is a master at making difficult concepts and complex subject matter easy to understand, fun, and simple. She combines her compassion, humor, and joy with a wealth of knowledge to help people develop their personal stories through a healthy, fulfilling, pain-free lifestyle. In a career spanning four decades, she has had the opportunity to work with renowned experts and dig deep into research, exercise, lifestyle management, and treatment options for chronic neurological and musculoskeletal diseases and injuries. She has taught and/or written about everything from exercise, sports, bodywork, and meditation to chronic illness, lifestyle management, stress management, pain management, and nutrition. Cindy has an endless supply of tips and techniques to help you live a balanced lifestyle, manage pain and disability, heal, and navigate life’s challenges while embracing positive, joyful, and playful experiences. Hopefully you will find what you are looking for here on her website.

For the past three decades, her research and teaching has focused on movement, exercise, bodywork, and relaxation for pain management, rehabilitation, and chronic illness. As a Medical Exercise Specialist, Cindy’s clients and students call her, ‘The Balance Coach.’ She emphasizes the importance of listening to your body and the power of positive movement through kinesthetic awareness, play, mindfulness, and flow. She combines principles and exercises from a multitude of disciplines including neuroplasticity, functional strength training, aquatic exercise, sports, dance, somatics, pilates, yoga, martial arts, and meditation, among others. Through her writing, teaching, and coaching, Cindy has enjoyed the opportunity to guide and support people of all ages and abilities, helping them reach their goals and live the life they desire.

In an ironic twist of fate over the past 15 years, she’s had the unique opportunity to evolve from knowing about the challenges her clients and audience face to truly KNOWING their challenges. Progressive neurodegeneration from her own diagnosis of Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease and complications from a lifelong battle with Hemiplegic Migraine Disease have challenged her to adapt to a new set of abilities, chronic pain, and a wheelchair. She has experienced first hand the power of positive movement and neuroplasticity, the gift of adaptive devices, and the need for a strong support system. Most importantly, she’s cemented her belief in a positive mindset, finding joy in each moment, and moving forward through life’s challenges.

While her lifestyle and routine have changed and she can no longer live by the clock, Cindy continues to encourage, inspire, and teach others. After an 8-year work hiatus that included many unplanned “retreats” in hospitals and the opportunity to focus on her own health and self-care, Cindy is returning to her self-help book series about managing chronic illness through lifestyle changes and positive movement with renewed passion and insight. The first book in this series, Living The Bones Lifestyle: A Practical Guide To Conquering The Fear Of Osteoporosis was published in 2012. It explains what osteoporosis is and how it’s diagnosed and it offers step-by-step instructions on how to do exercises specific to treating osteoporosis. There are also chapters explaining nutrition for osteoporosis, as well as supplements and medication. She’s currently writing the second book in the series — one about migraine disease. Building on her own lifelong experience of living with this neurological disease, Cindy will share the facts and up-to-date research about migraine disease, as well as treatment options, lifestyle modifications, and exercises that help people live happy and successful lives with the 2nd most disabling disease in the world. Together with her team, she is expanding this series into digital, audio/video products, courses, and supporting apps.