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A space where you can experience holistic services that are intentional & purposeful.

We are a small collective of professional practitioners constantly expanding our knowledge & skillset, able to explore avenues that we each feel best suit our individual & collective growth. We focus on holistic wellness because we believe that by looking at our purpose & existence as a whole, we can live our happiest lives while holding space for others on their wellness journey.

10/20/2026

A very unofficial body check-in. 😂

Shoulders up by your ears?
Jaw auditioning to crack walnuts?
Have you blinked in the last hour?

Consider this your friendly reminder to unclench something. Drop your shoulders. Let your teeth stop touching. Take one actual breath that isn’t just the tiny one you’ve been surviving on.
There. Look at us. Doing wellness. 😌

Now tell me: what part of your body has been working overtime this week? 👇

(And no, “all of it” is not an invalid answer. 😂)

10/17/2026

Cold weather reminder from your massage therapist:

Your body is not a machine that needs to perform exactly the same way in every season.
Colder days can make us want to curl inward, move a little less, eat warmer food, sleep more, slow down.
That isn’t necessarily laziness.
Sometimes it’s just your body asking for a different kind of support.
So this weekend:

eat something warm,
move enough to stay loose,
drink some water,
get outside if you can,
stretch if it feels good,
take the nap if you need it.

Sometimes slowing down is part of taking care of yourself.

Warm food. Warm socks. Warm body.

Very advanced wellness advice from your massage therapist. 😂

10/13/2026

Halloween is creeping up! 🎃

And if you’ve ever walked through my neighborhood in October, you know we take spooky season seriously.

These are a few favorites from my recent walks — and a little reminder that I’m still collecting donations to help stock the treat bowls this year.

Candy is great, but donations don’t have to be candy.

Granola bars, popcorn, little bags of cookies, applesauce, ramen, easy shelf-stable snacks — all of it helps.

Bring something along to your next appointment or drop it off at The Pushy Goat.

Thank you to everyone who has already contributed. I love seeing what shows up, and I really appreciate you helping make Halloween a little more fun — and a little more useful — for the kids who come through the neighborhood. 🧡👻 #🧡👻

10/08/2026

PSA FROM YOUR MASSAGE THERAPIST:
PLEASE FILL OUT YOUR FORMS.

I know.
Forms are boring.

Intake forms. Liability waivers. Cancellation policies. Consent forms.

Nobody wakes up excited to fill them out.

But here’s the thing:
You’d fill them out at the doctor.
You’d sign them before a procedure.
You’d expect a licensed professional to document your health history, explain risks, establish consent and protect both of you.

Massage therapy deserves that same level of respect.

These forms aren’t busywork.
They help me know what’s going on with your body.
They help me identify contraindications.
They document informed consent.
They protect my license, my business and my career.
And yes, they also make expectations around cancellations, illness and appointments very clear.

With the new booking software, you’ll also see a few very short check-in questions before each appointment.

Things like:
Have there been any medication changes?
Have you been feeling under the weather?
Is there anything specific you’d like me to focus on today?

Those do not need an essay. A yes, no, or quick summary is perfect.

The goal is actually to save us time when you arrive so we can spend less of your appointment gathering basic updates and get you onto the table faster.

And the “how have you been feeling over the last two weeks?” question is there for a reason too.

Sometimes we normalize the lingering cough, sniffle or “I’m probably fine” feeling and don’t really stop to think about whether it belongs in a massage room.
That question is just a little nudge to check in with yourself before you come in.

The good news?
The long questionnaire and waivers only need to be updated once a year.

So when one lands in your inbox, please don’t treat it like optional homework. Read it. Answer the questions. Sign the thing.
Then come get your massage. 😂

10/06/2026

Spooky season seemed like a good time to talk about the things that ACTUALLY scare your massage therapist. 👻

“I woke up with a fever/I’ve been sick all week, but I didn’t want to cancel.”
Please cancel. Truly. I would much rather rearrange my schedule than spend the next several days wondering which symptom is going to show up first.

“I know my appointment started 15 minutes ago, but I’m on my way!”
This one makes my eye twitch because there is, unfortunately, no secret stash of extra minutes hiding somewhere between appointments.

“You can go as deep as you can. I can take A LOT of pressure.”
Massage is not an endurance event. You do not get a medal for surviving me. More pressure also isn’t automatically better work.

Requesting a full-body therapeutic massage in 60 minutes.
I love ambition. I really do. But sometimes there simply is not enough TIME. 👻

“My last massage therapist did my massage like this…”
Totally fine to tell me what you liked! But every therapist works differently, and I’m probably going to approach your body like… me.

“Do you do couples massages?”
Nope. Still nope. 😂 We also still don’t sell gift certificates 😉

Asking what “types of bodies” we work on.
Bodies. We work on bodies. I’m not worried about your size, shape, hair, cellulite, scars, stretch marks or whatever else you’ve decided needs apologizing for.

“Has anybody ever asked you for…?”
If you know, you know. Enough said. DO NOT EVEN ASK. 😬

And finally…

A no-call/no-show followed by a card that declines or can’t be processed.
This one isn’t really funny. Service providers set aside that time specifically for you. Leaving someone without the appointment and without payment is just deeply uncool.

So yes — there are things that scare your massage therapist.

But your hairy legs still aren’t one of them. 🎃

Happy from The Pushy Goat.

10/02/2026

Halloween in College Hill is no joke. 🎃

Last year, just TWO DAYS before Halloween, I threw out a last-minute request for donations — and you guys absolutely showed up.

So this year I thought maybe I’d give us a little more than 48 hours. 😂

I’m collecting donations at The Pushy Goat throughout October. Yes, we need Halloween candy (a truly ridiculous amount of it), but I’m also collecting easy grab-and-go food like granola bars, ramen and other shelf-stable snacks.

Last year reminded me how quickly a bunch of small contributions can turn into a whole lot of help.

So if you’re coming in for an appointment this month and want to bring something along, toss a bag or a box in the car. No pressure and no need to go crazy. It all adds up.

And judging by last year, apparently you all just needed someone to give you an excuse to buy snacks in bulk. 😂

Let’s see what we can do with an entire month this time. 🎃🖤

10/01/2026

There are seasons when you don’t realize how much you’ve been carrying until you finally get to put something down.

The clenched jaw.
The raised shoulders.
The stomach that never quite settles.
The constant feeling that you need to be ready for whatever comes next.

And then, eventually, something ends.
Not everything needs to be carried forward.
Sometimes the healthiest thing we can do is acknowledge what happened, take whatever it taught us, and leave the rest where it belongs.

No fixing it.
No rewriting it.
No convincing anyone of anything.
And no needing everyone to understand it the same way.

Just an exhale.

A little more room in the body.
A little more quiet in the mind.
A little more space for whatever comes next.

I’ve been thinking lately about how letting go isn’t always some big, beautiful act of closure.

Sometimes it’s simply deciding:
I don’t want to carry this anymore.
So I’m leaving a few things in September.
And walking into October a little lighter. 🖤 🍁 Happy Autumn 🍂 Everyone #𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑚𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑠

09/14/2026

Just in case you’ve ever wondered what I’m thinking while you’re on my table…

I promise I’m not keeping tabs on whether you shaved, what your feet look like, whether your stomach growled, or what your body looks like.

My brain is usually somewhere around: Did her breathing just change? Why is this moving
differently on this side? Is she cold? What happens if I change this position? And don’t forget to come back to that spot.

You’re allowed to just have a body here.

I’ll be over here being curious about what it’s telling me.

09/05/2026

I’ve been trying to build a small ritual into my workdays lately.

I get to the office, set up my room, make sure everything is ready for my first client—and then, before anyone walks through the door, I meditate.

I use the Calm app, and I swear there are mornings when I open the Daily Calm and wonder how it knew what I needed to hear that day.

Today was about worry.

About noticing when it shows up, grounding yourself, and actually checking in with what’s happening in your body.

What does this feel like?

Is this anxiety? Fear? Uncertainty?

And one thing that really stuck with me: worry can become a habit.

Our brains can get so practiced at anticipating what might go wrong that negative thinking starts to feel like the natural place to go.

Which got me thinking about something I talk about all the time in a completely different context:

The mind and body are not separate systems.

Thoughts have physical experiences attached to them.

Worry can change your breathing. Fear can change how you hold yourself. Stress can show up in your jaw, your shoulders, your stomach, your sleep.

And sometimes simply noticing what’s happening—without immediately trying to fix it—is a way of interrupting the pattern.

The timing felt especially impeccable today.

I’ve had plenty on my mind lately, and apparently I needed the reminder that worrying about what might happen isn’t the same thing as preparing for what does.

It also made me think of my friend Lauren mindofherowntherapy , who is a hypnotherapist and does a lot of work around these patterns—how our brains learn them, how our bodies participate in them, and how we can begin creating different ones.

I spend so much of my work paying attention to bodies.

I’m trying to get better at paying attention to my own mind, too.

Turns out they’ve been talking to each other the whole time.

09/02/2026

BODIES IN CONTEXT: THE MASSAGE THERAPIST
You might think you know something about her body from her job.

She’s been a massage therapist for more than twenty years. She works with her hands. Stands for hours. Bends, reaches, lifts. Some days she climbs onto the table and uses her feet. And then she does it again. And again. So yes, the work is physical.

But ask what has been hardest over the years and she won’t tell you about her shoulders. She’ll tell you about learning boundaries. About wanting people to feel heard and cared for without becoming responsible for everything they carry into the room.

About listening to stories of marriages, grief, work, families and fear. Working with people in pain and caring whether they get better. Learning to be present with another person without giving all of herself away.

Because a career doesn’t only ask something of a body. Sometimes it asks something of a person.

And “massage therapist” still doesn’t tell you very much about this one.

Her hobby, she says, is having hobbies.

Pottery. Language courses. Books. Travel. Working on a vintage motorcycle. Ballroom dancing—and even competing. Now she lifts weights.

Her body has also stood behind a bar. Worked on cruise ships. Walked for miles with a dog. Lived in a car.

It has carried her through more than one chapter she wasn’t entirely sure how she’d get through.

Her body would probably tell you it has rarely been still.

Some of its strength was built intentionally. Some of the ways it learned to support her probably weren’t.

There would be evidence of repetition. Strength. Wear. Adaptation.

Probably some stubbornness.

But mostly, it would tell the story of someone who has spent a lot of her life doing.

Working. Learning. Touching. Making. Moving. Trying.

Someone with more fear and anxiety than people tend to assume—and who keeps reminding herself that bravery isn’t the absence of fear.

Sometimes it’s looking fear in the face and doing the thing anyway.

Maybe living isn’t about getting past fear. Maybe it’s learning how to move through it.

Her body hasn’t just carried her through her life. It’s been how she’s experienced it.

If I’d only told you she was a massage therapist, how much of her would you have missed?

Bodies have biographies.

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