Kat McArthur Wellness LLC /Kat's Massage and Wellness

11/27/2025

This is me! I’m better at promoting other small businesses than my own! And I love it!! ❤️♥️

You don’t have to spend money to support your favorite local small businesses. 🤑 People are looking for perfect gifts for loved ones right now and you can help businesses by:

🎁 Like, comment on, or share their social media posts.
🎁 Give them a personalized shout out.
🎁 Leave a positive review on their Google or business website.
🎁 Leave a recommendation on their page.
🎁 Refer them to friends and family.

Be sure to include specific details of why you recommend them, it makes a difference! ✨

11/19/2025

The Lymphatic System of a Griever 🌿

Post 5/30: The Body Remembers What the Mind Tries to Forget

There are wounds the world cannot see.
The ones you never speak about.
The ones you try to bury under strength, responsibility and routine.

You tell yourself you’re fine.
You tell yourself you’ve moved on.
You tell yourself that “time heals.”

But your body knows the truth.
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Because your body remembers everything your mind tries so hard to forget.

Grief doesn’t disappear just because you silence it.
Trauma doesn’t dissolve simply because you refuse to look at it.
Pain doesn’t leave the body because you decided to “be strong.”

The body stores what the heart cannot carry.
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It hides in the fascia, the deepest connective tissue holding your life stories.
It sits in the tightness of your shoulders, the lump in your throat, the heaviness behind your sternum.
It wraps itself around the diaphragm, stealing the breath you need to heal.
It settles in the abdomen, slowing digestion and filling the lymphatic system with inflammation.

This is not weakness.
This is physiology.
This is a nervous system that has had to protect you for too long.

When grief goes unspoken, the lymphatic system becomes overloaded.
Stress hormones thicken lymph.
The fascia tightens and restricts drainage.
The vagus nerve retreats.
The body shifts into a long-term protective state.

And then you start to feel it.
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The swelling that won’t leave.
The bloating out of nowhere.
The sudden weight around the belly.
The fatigue that rest can’t touch.
The random pains held in places where memories once broke you.

Your body is not betraying you.
It is communicating.
It is whispering, “There is something here that needs your compassion.”

Healing begins when you allow your body to exhale.
When you soften the areas that have been holding the hardest.
When you release the lymphatic pathways that froze in moments of fear, loss or shock.
When you finally give yourself permission to feel what you avoided just to survive.

You do not heal by pretending the pain isn’t there.
You heal by creating safety for your body to let go.

Because here is the truth:
Your body has always remembered you.
It held the parts of you your mind could not face.
And it is ready to release — the moment you are ready to listen.

🌿✨

11/18/2025

Join me for adaptable and transformative chair yoga each Wednesday at 9am! We'll embark on a journey of conditioning flexibility, mobility, strength, stability, and stillness (a principle from Nia Fitness), as well as practice breath-work, corrective exercise, yoga philosophy, and more 🙂 . Please contact me or UU for more info. There are also Chair Yoga classes at 12pm Tuesdays with Maya!

11/10/2025

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! As an integrative practitioner, dialoguing and balancing the nervous system is incorporated and sometimes the bulk of a session. I promise, it’s not as scary as it looks

10/20/2025

The vagus nerve is your body’s chill button-regulating heart rate, digestion, mood and inflammation. 
 
Having seen tens of thousands of labs over the past 16 years of people around the world I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t when it comes to health and lab optimization. 
 
People with autoimmune issues, hormone imbalances fertility problems, digestive problems, anxiety, depression, brain fog and fatigue have to have both-and, not either-or approach to heal and optimize. As much as we implement tools like peptides, food protocols, natural medicines for our telehealth patients, we always “prescribe” mind-body somatic practices like the ones on this list to improve vagal tone. 
 
     
     
     
     
     
        
        
                                   
 

10/10/2025

09/26/2025