Under My Hands

These are real outcomes from real clients. They represent the depth and range of what becomes possible when the body, nervous system, and emotional life are worked with as one system. Each person arrived after conventional approaches had reached their limit. What you will read here is what happens when the body is finally heard.

David
Mid-40s — Alcohol dependency & old injury

A wrist injury at 16 ended a promising baseball career, leaving limited finger mobility and a nerve bundle that had persisted for nearly 30 years. He never played baseball again, not even for fun with his now 18 year old son. Working together with Thai massage and daily personalized yoga, we treated his injury as part of his entire body rather than as a local problem.

The nerve bundle shrank significantly. His finger mobility increased. He reconnected with his son — for the first time in 18 years they played baseball together. This started a cascade of positive effects, leading to significantly less alcohol consumption and more positive relationships with his children and wife.
Genevieve
Ankle replacement surgery — 11 months post-op

Despite weekly physiotherapy after ankle joint replacement surgery, she had barely regained any mobility. Her nervous system was in chronic fight-or-flight. Within 15 minutes of Thai massage, I identified the pattern blocking her recovery: under any stress or pain, she reflexively lifted her toes — locking the ankle, tightening the IT band, compressing the hip flexor. No practitioner had identified this.

Once she became aware of the pattern, she could interrupt it. Her healing resumed. The issue was not structural — it was a nervous system response that had never been addressed.
Caitlyn
Late 30s — Cancer survivor, hormonal disruption

She had lost her period during chemotherapy two years prior and it had never returned, despite ongoing treatment and extensive talk therapy. In our very first Compassionate Inquiry session, she was guided to sit with physical sensations directly — something she had never been invited to do. She experienced significant emotional release.

Her period returned within days and has remained regular ever since. The body was holding something that talk alone could not reach.
Mickey
30 years old — Crohn's disease, 8 years of chronic pain

Crohn's disease onset shortly after his mother died when he was 16. Eight years of chronic abdominal pain, decades of medical treatment — nothing resolved it. His entire adult life was defined by limitation. Rather than trying to eliminate the pain, we sat with it — its sensation, its emotion, its memory.

After 2.5 months, his chronic pain disappeared completely. One year later it has not returned. The pain was not a malfunction. It was an unheard message.
Carol
Age 69 — Decades of talk therapy, seeking peace

She came to me at 69, after decades of talk therapy — dedicated, consistent work that had brought insight, but never the feeling that things were truly resolved. Her goal was simple and profound: to finally find peace. Rather than letting her mind speak again, we let her listen to what her body still held.

At 70, she ended our weekly sessions. For the first time in her life, she felt like her work was done. She found her peace.
Eric
Mid-20s — Autism, severe anger issues, trauma response to authority

He had tried massage therapy before and been sent away mid-session for undesirable behaviour. Severely autistic, with deep anger rooted in school trauma — particularly around authority. He arrived agitated, and during the session there was swearing, aggression, and significant dysregulation. Rather than managing or suppressing it, we worked with it: safety words, regular breaks, and consistent debriefing so he understood what was happening in his body and felt in control throughout.

After the first session, as I had warned him, his anger surfaced harder before it softened. He came back for the second session as agreed, and began a daily personalised yoga practice at home. By his third session, he reported his anger outbursts had reduced to 10% of what they used to be.
"The body speaks first in whispers. If we don't listen, it speaks in screams."

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