Childhood Trauma & Its Effect On Our Adult Lives

Brain and body work can help to release these traumas from our tissues. Working out our past traumas and setting free our tissues can help us to get rid of stresses and pains that have plagued us. Imagine realizing that you’ve been carrying a backpack full of heavy useless rocks around your whole life. Then imagine being able to drop each rock from your pack and continue forward. In time your shoulders and spine hurt less, your step feels lighter and your mind will be more at ease. All of us carry around things not meant for us. Read More

Plants, Your New Best Friends!

Caring for something outside of yourself is one of the best and fastest ways to care for ourselves. Getting a houseplant or tending an entire jungle inside your home, when done mindfully, can help increase our well-being. Read More

A Rose To The Living: There is no better time than the present for compassion

Some people go through their entire lives and never receive a flower. They never receive a corsage, let alone a bouquet. They may never be gifted a bloom until their funerals. A rose to the living is more sumptuous than a wreath to the dead! Read More

3 Life-Changing Words

Saying “I love this” can be a game changer for people. They are able to adapt to life’s challenges and even thrive better by viewing things more positively and also by integrating changes into their narratives with positive feelings and vibes. A lot of the torment we experience in this life as human beings is due to not letting go or refusing to accept what has already occurred. This does not mean that those occurrences were not important, crucial, or traumatizing, but changing our outlook and processing them with a sense of love can help us to embrace change and grow. Read More

Thinking Happy Thoughts and Stuck Tissue

The chemicals, hormones, emotions, and feelings that we experience from traumatic experiences (both physical and psychological) can lock up or be locked up within muscles and tissues. Focusing your mind on a time that brought you joy or happy moments helps you to infuse happy chemicals into your bloodstream and reset these tissues. Read More

Life Is A Revolving Door

As creatures that generally do not like change, especially with our social life and relationships, humans can get unsettled as people exit their lives. Here are some tips to keep in mind as our revolving door spins people in and out. Read More

A Posture Massage Christmas Carol

Many of you are quite familiar with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. No matter your faith or denomination the story holds a lot of great lessons and metaphors on self awareness, healing, and growing into a better person. Put your bah humbugs aside and join me as I imagine the classic Christmas Carol characters through the lens of body and brain work! Read More

Gratitude

The more we improve our mental health through gratitude the more our physical health will follow. When we turn away from negativity and lean into positive grateful thoughts, the more our bodies will release negative past emotions from our tissues and the more healthy we will feel. Read More

Thanks To You, Posture Massage is Turning 13!

Posture Massage is now a rowdy teenager thanks to you, my many amazing clients! Several great things have happened since turning 10 years old in 2019. Here are a few great highlights! Read More

Empathy & Sympathy: Which One Is Serving You Best?

Can empathy help you to unlock your compassion and aid those around you? It most certainly can! Sympathy can do the same and possibly in a healthier way! Read More