Gift of Health Massage

11/14/2025

Nope. No. Never.

11/11/2025

Your body remembers the shape of your childhood nervous system. Far beyond simple memories, early experiences of safety, fear, and connection leave lasting imprints that can be measured into adulthood.

The Dunedin Birth Cohort in New Zealand followed individuals from birth into midlife. It found that childhood adversity leaves signatures in brain structure, stress hormones, immune responses, and even epigenetic patterns. Adults who experienced early trauma showed differences in multiple brain regions, not explained by adult life stress. This demonstrates that the nervous system itself remembers childhood experiences.

Other research highlights the extracellular matrix, the connective tissue around cells, as part of this memory system. It stabilizes circuits, holds biochemical cues, and locks in patterns of regulation or dysregulation. This means that anxiety, heart rhythms, digestion, and immune responses may echo our early environment.

Emerging therapies like Matrix Reimprinting work directly with these early patterns. By revisiting younger parts of ourselves, the nervous system can be gently reprogrammed, creating new neural pathways and emotional resilience. Studies show improvements in depression, anxiety, self esteem, and wellbeing after such interventions.

The body remembering childhood is not just a metaphor. It is a biological fact, and healing can start by honoring and reshaping those early imprints.

11/03/2025

Currently I have a 6 person waitlist for November. Booked out until mid January. I appreciate my clients very much 💕

05/20/2025

Taking some time off with my family, new booking website in comments 👇

04/12/2025

One of the biggest things I hear from people I work with and through my colleagues at the Pain Psycology Center is the worry about something being structurally ‘wrong’, like something they saw on an MRI or X-ray. And I get it, it’s natural to want to find a physical reason for our pain. But here’s the thing, and it’s super important: sometimes those things we see on scans, like a bulging disc or arthritis, they’re actually just there and not necessarily the cause of your pain. These can be incidental findings, not the main driver.

What we’re learning is that, especially with chronic pain, a lot of it is actually coming from how the brain interprets signals and threat levels, it’s like a “false alarm” of tissue damage. So, while those findings might seem scary, they are often not the thing you should be focusing on. Most adults have normal abnormalities in their body on imaging, but these findings do not necessarily correlate with having pain.

It’s like your brain is like a sensitive smoke alarm. It might go off even if there’s no fire, just because it’s overly sensitive. That’s what can happen with chronic pain. We often get caught up in thinking it’s all about what’s going on in your body’s tissues, but it’s really about how your brain is processing things. The good news is that your brain is plastic, meaning it’s always changing. So when we help you to shift how you think about the source of your pain, we help your brain to change, we change the pathways and reduce threat, fear and anxiety and therefore the pain experience also reduces. If the structural issue was the main problem, this kind of focus wouldn’t be as effective as it is.

04/10/2025

No.

03/13/2025

Opening Saturday 3/15 90 minute massage @ 12 pm

03/02/2025

Opening Monday 3/3
1 hour @ 10:45 am

02/03/2025

Thank your body 🙏

01/16/2025

Very good reminder

Don’t get me wrong, I love the pace of the modern world, it’s given us medical breakthroughs, international travel, and seventy-two different flavours of Oreos. But it’s also given us a level of stimulation that’s unheard of in the rest of the animal kingdom. We’re constantly bombarded with emails, texts, calls, meetings, articles, adverts and videos and they are massively overstimulating to a primitive brain only interested in safety or survival.

Whether due to fear, stress or simply overstimulation, when your brain is on high alert it’s far more sensitive to symptoms. This might seem like bad news, as we live in a world determined to keep us on high alert, but that is good news. By recognizing how you unintentionally put your brain on high alert can allow you to make simple adjustments that keep your brain in a calmer state and reduce your pain.