Sharla Lindsay 𖨬 Love Nourish Flow

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Sharla Lindsay 𖨬 Love Nourish Flow

Where Bodywork Meets Soul Work
Massage + Craniosacral Therapy + Somatic Healing Massage Therapist

08/14/2025

She said she didn’t know, yet named the anger rising to the surface. She said didn’t know, yet named she felt stuck:

‘Like a fly in a honey trap’.

The right way. The right move. The right words.

How easy it is for ‘them’ to speak them.
State them.
Command them…
 The invitation, the suggestion, the push to ‘just take the next right step’…
 But what about when you have no idea what that step might look like?
Might feel like?
When fear has settled so deep in your bones, your trabeculae become a prison.

We share the reminders for others and for self: Indecision is still a decision. Choosing not to choose is still a choice.

But no one talks about what to do when the tips and tricks fall flat.
When the aesthetic quotes feel hollow.
 When the tapping, shaking, humming - the plunges and breathwork and grounding - when ALL the rituals and all the borrowed wisdom leave you exactly where you are…

When the part of you stuck in fear like a fly in honey over-shadows the part of you straining for the light.
 No one talks about no matter how sweet the honey flowing through your bones may be - it can crystallize. Can hold you still. Can suspend the soul - the self - within.

And yet - I hold onto hope.
Feel into the warmth in her flesh, her blood, her bones and offer it back to her in compassion. In presence, In LOVE.

Knowing that even crystallized honey can be warmed again.
Can flow through bones that once felt like a prison. Can soften into a pathway. Spill into a river…

That the sweetness once mistaken for a trap can lead her home.
🍯💀💛

07/30/2025

What might your body say if you stopped trying to manage her and gave her the space and the stillness in which to speak?

04/12/2025

I had so much fun with this.

I’m not much for ChatGPT however when I saw share this prompt in her stories a while back I decided to give it a try… may have to hire her (Chat) to be my new publicist…

ps: personally I don’t drink, my body doesn’t like it and neither do I, however, if Chat wants to have a few and rav about me… I’m okay with that 😉😆💛

04/09/2025

Art with meaning (and heart) thanks to a beautiful client and soul:

“This illustration is a visual representation of the bodywork you peform. My intention was for both the physical and metaphysical parts of yourself to be shown. The physical self holds the body at the root, as the metaphysical self reaches through the veil and works its miracles.”

💛

04/02/2025

I felt the brief urge to yell in front of a client this past week.

“It’s NOT just physical!”

I felt like screaming those words… instead I spoke them calmly - a gentle reminder to a client who already knows this to be true.

A client who has shifted her life in ways she never thought possible months ago. A client who, after years of working with me, felt ready to dive into her body and what she’s been storing there, afraid to feel her whole life.

A small part of that for her was self pelvic massage and mapping as taught by a teacher of mine, Tami Lynn Kent.

She shared she had felt something that scared her. A part and piece she was afraid to touch.
What if it ‘snaps’?
What if it breaks?
What if I’m broken?

So I invited her to consult with her pelvic PT (I don’t currently offer internal work) to confirm the structure in question and in the meantime:
Be curious.
Be gentle.
Be soft.

Hold it and your body - but not to fix her. Touch her, hold her, so you know she and you won’t break.

And she did talk to her pelvic PT. She shared what I do and what I suggested with her physio, and what her physio said with me:

That it was pointless, it was’t going to do anything - that it’s the muscles - they need to be worked on and released.

And she’s not wrong - the muscles are holding too much - and yet I think she missed, maybe didn’t understand the point.
Worried I did too, I asked my client:

Me: Were you afraid to touch that part of your body?
Her: Yes.
Me: Do you feel afraid now? Do you think that part of you is broken?
Her: No. Not at all. I feel better, more grounded and stable and confident in my body. I don’t feel about it the way I did before.

And that was the point. It’s not just physical. It’s not just about releasing the muscles and working things out.

It’s about how you feel in and about your body. What you believe about your body. The relationship you have with her and yourself.

It’s about learning to hold the parts that feel broken and scary. To sit with and to hold the parts of you that feel afraid, while being afraid yourself.

You can’t heal - or expect someone else to heal a part of you that you can’t or won’t touch and connect with yourself - out of fear, disgust, shame…

Ironically it’s why many modalities that focus on just the physical often (not never, but often) don’t create lasting physical change.

I believe what many women are missing is the understanding that their emotions and relationship with their body are the roots of their physical well-being.

The body-based knowing that when you can hold and sit with the parts that are afraid, the parts that feel broken - when you tend to these roots, you create space for healing.
(you, not me, not her, not them - you)

When you acknowledge and honor the emotional roots and beliefs woven into and around your body and yourself, the physical will follow - with the help of whatever combination of modalities and practitioners you choose.

03/29/2025

To all the women who carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, are carrying more than they share, are carrying more than they wish they were - remember to nurture your body and soul.

Remember that you are worthy of rest, happiness, peace, and love.

Remember that at your core you are L O V E. 💛

(feel free to share with someone who could use the reminder too.)

03/27/2025

It’s not ‘just hormonal’.

Can you soften, slow down, and give yourself space to hear what your body may be trying to share?

03/19/2025

I want you to know to know 3 things: ⬇️⬇️⬇️

1 - I’m a body first practitioner.

2 - I want you to know that YOU live the body I’m tending to, that what you believe, the stories that you’re holding in your flesh, your blood, and your bones - they’re just as important as your body.

3 - I want you to know your stories and beliefs need - deserve - to be held, honoured, and tended to as well.

03/14/2025

I find it fascinating how we talk about healing, self-discovery, learning, and growth.
 The language we use often implies that what we’ve done in the past, or what we’re currently doing, is wrong.

Something that needs to be undone.

One word that keeps coming to mind is the idea of “unlearning.”

We often think that our goal is to unlearn, as if healing is about forgetting, turning away from, or abandoning parts of ourselves.

And yet, so many of us - myself included - are healing from those exact things.
Being forgotten. Being abandoned. Being left alone, behind, and on our own.

It’s a little ironic don’t you think? That the very phrase we use to describe healing - unlearning - suggests that something needs to be forgotten in order to move forward.

Yesterday I asked a question in my IG stories:
“What’s standing in the way of your progress?”

Every woman who replied gave the same answer: it wasn’t her body - it was her mind.
Her thoughts.
Herself.

Not one mentioned the body.

It’s almost as if we instinctively know that our bodies are there for us, even when we don’t consciously acknowledge it.

And yet, in the process of unlearning what we’ve been taught or are trying to heal from - I wonder if we’ve left the body behind…

In focusing on the perceived problem of the mind and the self if we’re unknowingly using language that continues to divide and separate us from the very thing that holds us together: our bodies.

But what if we didn’t have to “unlearn” at all?
 What if we simply kept learning instead?

What if instead of trying to forget what we’ve learned we could embrace what our bodies remember?

What if, instead of pushing away parts of ourselves, we leaned into them - honouring every experience, every scar, every lesson, every tear, every feeling of hurt and pain?

What if that’s the key? Not unlearning - but being open to truly feeling and integrating the lessons our bodies have been trying to share with us all along?

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