Chronic stress doesn’t just feel mental. It settles into the body~ quietly, persistently, and often without clear origin wrapping around muscles, bones, nerves, and organs.

The body stores experience. Especially overwhelming or unresolved experiences. And it speaks to us through tension, fatigue, guarded posture, chronic pain, or emotional release.

Many clients come into my practice with chronic tension, unexplained pain, or an intuitive sense that their body is holding onto something they can’t quite name. More and more, research is affirming what massage therapists and somatic practitioners have witnessed for years: the body keeps the score. So what does that really mean? And how can therapeutic massage play a role in releasing that stored trauma