05/08/2026
🦴 The Body Keeps Score - Scoliosis 🦴
For the past 18 months I’ve been working at a high end retreat. 🍃✨
Since working here, I’ve been able to give treatments to people that in all honestly, would probably never book a private treatment with me - Med students, nurses, doctors, psychologists and the like. 👨⚕️ 👩⚕️
One day I was giving a massage to a doctor from Taiwan.
During the treatment, I brought up about the spine and scoliosis.
I mentioned how, at the beginning of my path in this field, I had seen an intuitive healer who had been an osteopath for most of her career.
During this treatment with the intuitive healer, she read my back and proceeds to tell me…..
“You have scoliosis”
“Yes, I’m aware of that”
Then what she proceeded to tell me left me in a state of ‘whoa’
“Your tailbone is crooked, that indicates something happened either when your mum was pregnant with you, or something at or around birth. Your spine curves outwards then bends back, crossing the middle of your back at roughly…”
She pauses, then says “at roughly the age of 4”
“Your spine then bends again (Imagine an ‘S’ bend) and comes back and crosses the centre of your back at roughly age…… 8…… it then continues on that bend and straightens up at roughly age 16.
Do these ages bring up any memories or did anything happen around this time in your life?” ~~~
🤯
My mum always told me about how painful and rough my birth was, even mentioning that she found it hard to even hold me because of the pain she went through. 🤰🏽
When I was about 3 - 4 years old, my parents separated. 💔
When I was 8 - 9 years old, I went from living in Melbourne, which was everything I ever knew, to living in Queensland on the Gold Coast.
Queenslanders are different, and on top of that, they play a different sport to the one I grew up with.. (And in all honestly, I remember hating moving up there.)
After telling my story about my scoliosis to the Taiwanese doctor she proceeds to tell me
“Wow, thats really interesting…. I have a lot to do with an orphanage back in Taiwan, and most, if not all the children in the orphanage have scoliosis.”
The body really does keep the score.
