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My Bodyworks Pain & Movement solutions specialist. Helping you piece together your body's unique clues to reduce pain and move freely. Move Better. Recover Faster.
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Specialising in abdominal surgery recovery and the perimenopausal transition. Feel Empowered.

Pain isn’t always a damage signal.Often, it’s a PROTECTION STRATEGY.When my clients use brain-based approaches, they don...
05/02/2026

Pain isn’t always a damage signal.

Often, it’s a PROTECTION STRATEGY.

When my clients use brain-based approaches, they don’t just feel better they stop living in fear of their back 'going again.'

Your brain remembers:
• past injuries
• surgeries
• stress
• emotional overload

If it hasn’t updated the file, it keeps the pain alarm switched on.

How to apply this:
✨ calm first, then move
✨ breathe, don't brace
✨ build safety before strength
✨️ update the systems protecting old injuries

👉 If this resonates, save this post - your future back will thank you.

Is your jaw stabilising your pelvis?If you’re clenching your teeth, holding tension in your jaw, or constantly “bracing”...
29/01/2026

Is your jaw stabilising your pelvis?

If you’re clenching your teeth, holding tension in your jaw, or constantly “bracing” without realising,
your body might be using your jaw as a stand-in stabiliser.

When the pelvis feels unsafe, unstable, or overloaded (think pain, injury, surgery, stress, hormonal change), the brain often borrows stability from somewhere else.

And very often, the jaw steps in.

Jaw tension isn’t just about stress.

The jaw and pelvis have many connections:
• through the nervous system via posture and tone
• through breathing and pressure management mechanics (the tongue, diaphragm and pelvic floor)
• the deep fascial lines of the body

So if one end overworks or underworks, the other compensates.

This can result in the following symptoms:
• hip, SI or low back pain
• pelvic floor issues
• neck and shoulder tension
• clenching, grinding or headaches
• a core that never quite feels “online”

When we improve the inputs to the brain via breath, sensory feedback and safety signals, the body no longer needs to outsource stability to the jaw.

This means less gripping and better movement choices.

🕵️‍♀️ Your body isn’t broken.
It’s very very clever. 🧠

This week it was reported that “menopause is linked to Alzheimer’s-like brain changes.”And honestly, in the words of , ...
29/01/2026

This week it was reported that “menopause is linked to Alzheimer’s-like brain changes.”
And honestly, in the words of , it boils my p**s.

Not because the brain changes - it does.
But because this kind of messaging is dropped into the world without context, without hope, and without strategies.

To be clear - peri/menopause are a time of three depleting s*x hormones - oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone.
They matter because there are receptors for these hormones in almost every area of the brain.
When hormone levels shift, brain performance shifts too.
That is not decline - it is adaptation.

What women are rarely told is this:
✨️You still have many other hormones and systems at your disposal

✨️The same brain areas affected by s*x hormone changes respond to movement, breath, rhythm, safety cues, novelty, emotion and sensory input

✨️When we deliberately target the brain, it forms new neural pathways to cope and thrive

This is not a slippery slope.
You are not broken.
You are not “done.”
And you are absolutely not walking into doom.

You are in a period of neurological rewiring and rewiring needs the right inputs.

That’s why, in my course The Positive Perimenopause, I teach this transition through a brain-based lens.
Because when we improve the inputs to the brain, we improve the outputs and the brain is the most overlooked part of this whole conversation.

✨ I have one place left on my LIVE online 6-week Beta course, starting Tuesday 3rd February.
If you want to change your experience of peri/menopause by looking through a different lens - one rooted in curiosity, science, safety and empowerment -I'd love for you to come and join us.

You are not declining.
You are recalibrating. 💛

Book the last remaining spot at the link in the comments below 👇

This week it was reported that “menopause is linked to Alzheimer’s-like brain changes.”And honestly, in the words of Dan...
29/01/2026

This week it was reported that “menopause is linked to Alzheimer’s-like brain changes.”
And honestly, in the words of Dani Wallace, it boils my p**s.

Not because the brain changes - it does.
But because this kind of messaging is dropped into the world without context, without hope, and without strategies.

To be clear - peri/menopause are a time of three depleting s*x hormones - oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone.
They matter because there are receptors for these hormones in almost every area of the brain.
When hormone levels shift, brain performance shifts too.
That is not decline - it is adaptation.

What women are rarely told is this:
✨️You still have many other hormones and systems at your disposal

✨️The same brain areas affected by s*x hormone changes respond to movement, breath, rhythm, safety cues, novelty, emotion and sensory input

✨️When we deliberately target the brain, it forms new neural pathways to cope and thrive

This is not a slippery slope.
You are not broken.
You are not “done.”
And you are absolutely not walking into doom.

You are in a period of neurological rewiring and rewiring needs the right inputs.

That’s why, in my course The Positive Perimenopause, I teach this transition through a brain-based lens.
Because when we improve the inputs to the brain, we improve the outputs and the brain is the most overlooked part of this whole conversation.

✨ I have one place left on my LIVE online 6-week Beta course, starting Tuesday 3rd February.
If you want to change your experience of peri/menopause by looking through a different lens - one rooted in curiosity, science, safety and empowerment -I'd love for you to come and join us.

You are not declining.
You are recalibrating. 💛

Book the last remaining spot at the link in the comments below 👇

If navigating perimenopause feels confusing, unpredictable, or like your body has changed its rules without warning… you...
12/01/2026

If navigating perimenopause feels confusing, unpredictable, or like your body has changed its rules without warning… you’re not imagining it.

Most women are given advice that focuses only on hormones but perimenopause is also a neurological shift.

Your brain is adapting to new signals, recalibrating systems like mood, memory, sleep, stress tolerance, and emotional regulation.
When no one tells you this, the symptoms feel chaotic.
When you understand the why, everything becomes clearer, calmer, and far less frightening.

Your journey is unique.
Your brain is unique.
And when you learn how to give it the right inputs, this transition becomes something you can navigate with far more confidence and steadiness.

🌟 If you'd love to understand what’s really happening in your brain during perimenopause and how to support it in a way that works for your system, my The Positive Perimenopause beta course starts Tuesday 3rd Feb.

A small group, live calls, gentle guidance, and a completely brain-based lens.
ONLY 3 SPOTS LEFT
DM BRAIN for the details 🧠

Just had a fab confidence session with .washington at the Show Up with Confidence day with There is so much expectatio...
18/10/2025

Just had a fab confidence session with .washington at the Show Up with Confidence day with


There is so much expectation by others as to what I do that sometimes I reign myself in so as to make me not completely off the beaten path of people's experience.

But I've just realised that the authentic Nat is exactly why people work with me and what makes me the amazing Pain and Movement Detective with the impact I have 💖

I'm here for it 🥰💖

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Natalie Nicholson is a qualified Sports and Remedial massage therapist whose further training and development has taken her into working with the nervous system, working with a whole system approach to the structural, neurological, physiological and emotional stressors on the body to get long term results.

Her unique approach is very focused on finding the root cause of the problem to eliminate pain, rather than working with the symptoms that the client presents with.

She works very closely with her client’s historical timeline of their body to uncover the chain of compensation patterns laid down by the body to cope with the events that have happened to it in the past.

By piecing the clues together, she sees and works with the bigger picture of how and why your body is where it is so that you can get back to living life at its fullest potential.