Practical Bodywork

Integrated Massage for Pain Relief

Tag: pain

  • Ridiculous Shoes

    I’m addicted to shoe shopping.  The shoes in my wardrobe fall into two categories: the Beautiful and the Comfortable. The Beautiful ones stand around gathering dust. The comfortable ones only exit my life due to structural collapse. This is the case because I have Problem Feet. They are long, flat, strangely shaped (the technical term…

  • How To Master Pain

    How To Master Pain

    ately, I’ve been tackling something way harder than forearm stands–fear, anxiety, and pain. When I notice myself doing things like surfing social media for hours, reaching for sugar, carbs and alcohol, finding ANYTHING to do except the next thing on my task list, that’s a red flag. I’m suppressing feelings that I don’t like having.