My grandmother had arthritis. She chose to live life and enjoy herself regardless of what she was feeling. This taught me that pain can be a part of life but it doesn’t have to consume your life. Grandma showed compassion for all living things and felt it was our duty as human beings to help those in need. She fully supported my desire to be a massage therapist, which gave me confidence to seek training in massage therapy since I felt strongly that pain and suffering could be helped.

As I've gotten older, pain has been a teacher. I've learned a lot about how to manage my life to reduce painful occurrences and who to seek out when I need care. I found that I felt better sooner when getting care from a few different practitioners. Regular massage therapy sessions, Chiropractic adjustments, acupuncture, RYC© Method movement and a home-based yoga practice are my go-to's for managing my health. Adjusting my diet and looking deeper at how I thought about my life and my pain were also important factors to my healing. I believe a team approach is the best path to address the many facets of any health issue.

I feel very grateful to have found the combination of care that works for me. To have had an experience of pain as a fluid thing that may come and go instead of a fixed thing that hangs on has been instrumental to my health and healing.  Although I cannot say I'm pain free since I do have the occasional 'pain days', I have less of them.    

In my eagerness to heal and my belief in ‘movement as healing’, I’ve explored everything from the power of dance to developmental movement. Manual therapy education explorations have ranged from Structural Integration and manual lymph drainage (MLD) to techniques that work with the nerves and organs (Visceral Manipulation). I enjoy learning, and these truly effective techniques have helped me to help others.   

Over the past three decades our understanding of the inner workings of our bodies and how we move, along with the research being done in the fields of pain science and fascial research have informed and shaped the massage therapy and bodywork profession and support its continued evolution. The benefits of massage therapy are now well known and have been integrated into our health care protocols. I consistently enhanced my professional knowledge with advanced training and ongoing study of the latest developments in related fields including pain management, neurology, manual therapy, fascial research and somatic movement approaches.  
 

            Chicago School of Massage Therapy
            Advanced Sports Massage I
            Structural Bodywork I, II
            Reiki - Master Level
            Barnes Myofascial Freedom
            Aston Therapeutics I
            CranioSacral Therapy I
            Manual Lymphatic Drainage I, II
            Visceral Manipulation I, II
            Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians 
            Eric Dalton's Myoskeletal Alignment Technique I, II
            Eric Dalton's Posture and Pain I, II
            Prairie Yoga Teacher Training, 200 Hour
            Restore Your Core© - The Method
                      

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