Dysautonomia Episodes

If you live with hypermobility, EDS, POTS, or MCAS, you've likely been told to stay "safe," stay small, and never push — advice that can leave you feeling like a jellyfish with no sense of where your body is in space. Heidi Pasch offers a different path. A trainer, author, and artist who went from competitive athlete to disabled after seven surgeries, she rebuilt her body by ignoring the templates and learning to read the body in front of her. In this conversation, Heidi and Dr. Adam Rinde unpack why flexibility without control is the real danger, what "earned range of motion" means, and how strength — not restriction — protects a hypermobile joint. They dig into why the scale misses everything that matters, how a body can show up completely different day to day (mast cell reactions, POTS flares, hormonal shifts), and why recovery is where the real rebuilding happens. Heidi also shares her book, Beyond Weight: Body and Context, and her art exploring the lived experience of connecti…