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Pain is often viewed as central to every health specialty within our healthcare system. This pain can have such damaging impacts on our physical bodies and our emotional feelings of well-being. In the demanding lifestyles that many working people are subjected to, it is commonplace to have pain become chronic in nature, stuck in patterns that we unknowingly allow to continue.

My own experience of chronic pain was in my mid-back. I attributed it to a series of health challenges that resulted in me pulling back from my usual exercise routine.

Following this period of inactivity, I was in the process of moving, and I found the physical demands of lifting heavy boxes.

This pain was often experienced as a “throbbing” that would often impact my last 2-3 hours of sleep, a very unsettling feeling as I place such importance on restful sleep. I tried many different strategies in an effort to combat this problem, including returning to my running and lifting weights, applying a magnesium lotion to relax the affected muscles, positioning in bed with bolsters, my wife massaging the area, but nothing seemed to work. I was stuck, the above techniques was what I “knew” to do, and despite my seemingly best efforts I was left with my ongoing pain for over 1 ½ years.

Once I entered massage therapy school, I slowly began to feel empowered, not helpless to my pain. Over time, I began to realize that I had the tools to not only “fix” my pain, but understand how to avoid its recurrence. Massage is the greatest source of self-care and self-connection I know, and having massages (sometimes) weekly in my hands-on classes was such an enormous lesson for me.

Despite your seemingly best efforts, do you feel “stuck” in looking for answers to your pain problems? Perhaps it feels like you’ve tried everything. I can appreciate how challenging this can feel. What I have found, in my work as an occupational therapist and as a Reiki master that there is often an energy block that can contribute to tight muscles, impacting posture and vitality. Think back on when you might have created open space for yourself, breathed deeply and released all the feelings you may have been holding in that moment. You likely experienced a “release”, perhaps tight muscles softening, the energy pattern of heavy emotions let-go…… this space is always accessible to you, whether on a therapy table or greeting the sunrise of a beautiful summer morning. I consider myself an energy healer and a bodywork specialist. When we seek answers to our health challenges outside ourselves, building out a trusted healthcare team, we may just find we have all the solutions to solve that problem once and for all.

I wish you health and progress on whatever health journey you may be on…….