The Space In Between
What if the most powerful change you could make in your life begins with a single moment of awareness?
Every day, we encounter situations that trigger frustration, anger, anxiety, defensiveness, or fear. Before we realize what is happening, we react. We say things we regret, repeat familiar patterns, and allow our emotions to dictate our behavior.
But between what happens to us and how we respond lies a powerful opportunity: the space in between.
In The Space In Between, Jodi Medell explores the relationship between the brain, emotions, ego, and nervous system, revealing how automatic patterns of reactivity develop and how greater self-awareness can help us change them.
Blending neuroscience, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and practical self-reflection, this book offers a path toward understanding your triggers, recognizing the physical and emotional signals of stress, and cultivating the ability to pause before responding.
Through accessible explanations and practical exercises, you'll explore how to:
Recognize the unconscious patterns that drive emotional reactions.
Understand the influence of the ego and the brain's survival responses.
Develop mindfulness and greater awareness of your thoughts and emotions.
Strengthen emotional regulation through breathing, reflection, and intentional practice.
Move beyond impulsive reactions toward more thoughtful communication, healthier relationships, and inner peace.
Transformation doesn't begin by controlling everything around you. It begins by becoming aware of what is happening within you.
The Space In Between is an invitation to move from living on autopilot toward a life of greater awareness, intention, resilience, and conscious choice.
The Three Pillars of Fitness
What if lasting strength isn't where rehabilitation begins, but where it leads?
Drawing on more than 30 years of clinical experience, Jodi Medell, PT, DPT, FMACP, introduces a practical framework for understanding, assessing, and restoring human movement through three essential pillars: Mobility, Stability, and Strength.
Rather than simply treating symptoms or prescribing exercises, The Three Pillars of Fitness challenges clinicians to look deeper—identifying movement dysfunction, understanding its underlying mechanics, and determining what the body needs before progressing to the next stage of rehabilitation.
Through clinical examples, joint-specific applications, and evidence-informed principles, this expanded second edition offers physical therapists and movement professionals a thoughtful approach to rehabilitation, injury prevention, and long-term physical performance.
Because effective rehabilitation isn't simply about getting stronger. It's about creating the foundation that makes strength sustainable.
Wired to Survive
Why High Achievers Can't Slow Down, How Survival Became Identity, and the Way Back to You
What happens when being strong, capable, productive, and always in control becomes more than how you live—it becomes who you are?
Wired to Survive explores how years of stress, responsibility, and high achievement can quietly shape our nervous system, our behaviors, and ultimately our identity. What once helped us survive can become the very thing that prevents us from truly living.
Blending personal insight with an understanding of the nervous system, Jodi Medell invites readers to recognize the patterns that keep them in survival mode and begin discovering a different way of being.
This isn't a book about doing more to become better. It's about discovering who you are when you no longer have to prove, perform, or protect.
