Ever McRae Holistic Body Therapies

23/01/2026

The neurobiology when under constant stress and tension builds effective pathways to control future trauma and stress’s which can translate as hyper vigilance and express as anxiety, hypotension and muscular contraction.
The body/mind knows itself through the input it experiences via hormones and sensory stimulation, if this is consistently received via a lens of the ANTICIPATION of more negativity with a concern for more trauma or more negative experience the mind and body can exhaust itself with this vigilance, watching for more danger , discomfort, rather than settling into rest and digest .
Conscious bodywork with a trauma informed lens is a tool to interupt this signalling by facilitating the experience of a nervous system reset , encouraging a softening and integration of the mind to rewrite itself to experience PRESENCE rather than anticipate the WORST.
I understand this because I have experienced this
And bodywork , acupuncture , yoga , nature , music , whatever it is for each individual assists to restore a sense of balance and peace which then allows the nervous system to breathe thus the body to adapt again towards safety .
Body work is an excellent tool for this recalibration

Once the body experiences a sense of peace and balance, there is an invitation to experience this MORE .
The body/mind as a whole invites peace and compassion like a sunset invites the horizon .
A coming home …

This is one reason why I truly encourage people to receive some form of therapeutic bodywork to allow the system to experience a contrast to give a sense of DIFFERENCE to the nervous system to share with the mind -
Safety
Ease
Peace
Light
Integration

This is my invitation …

I have a clinic coming up in Perth
Link is below

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I also work Tuesday to Friday in Launceston

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&
One Friday a month in Cygnet The Healing Space Cygnet

For my cygnet clinic I only have two appointments remaining until June 🙏🏽

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21/01/2026

I am very excited to announce this !!
I am heading back to WA , for a visit and will be offering

🕊️Integrated Remedial
🕊️Biodynamic CranialSacral
🕊️Facial Massage with Buccal

Booking link is below 👇

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I look forward to meeting new faces and reuniting with previous clients 🕊️

15/01/2026

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Booked now 🙏🏽

07/01/2026

Hello everyone , I am back working this week and I look forward to welcoming previous clients and meeting new ones 🕊️.

The paradigm shift that we are experiencing is a movement from the cultural conditioning that we are “not enough “ towards the intuitive knowing that we ARE complete WE are resonance and already divinely beautiful.
As our energetic within refines and our awareness softens the focus sharpens so that we can feel the energetic, become aware of the shields that we wear as protection, as defence
The storage of hurt/betrayal/ and abandonment can show up in the physical as an anchor, often felt as heaviness.
Body intelligence holds these sensations patiently until conscious recognition arrives and buoyancy returns.

The brain can only comprehend so much , so the body intelligence takes over and says - let me take that heaviness in your mind and I will hold it for you until another moment another time /to when you have the strength the capacity to settle the inner waters towards harmony again …

So much gratitude towards the body and its wisdom , its intelligence It has a knowing that is often beyond our mental comprehension.
We can acknowledge that our stored heavier sensations can be a reaction towards environments/circumstances that may not have had the eyes ,inner sight to see what was needed to be seen , to be held ,to be loved.
Often our learned reactions is to store this incongruent resonance , somewhere in the temple of our body , somewhere hidden somewhere often dark .
Culturally we learn to cultivate an aversion towards this sense of displacement and injustice, and with this avoidance to discomfort we shield, harden disassociate .
However with love there can be are turning towards
these “shadows” that exist within the temple of body ❤️🕊️❤️
From a body work perspective if ignored these shadows can persistently knock at our inner door waiting to be heard.
Pain is a deep longing for inclusion , for integration , for acknowledgement .

This is the lens I have when giving , holding , facilitating the relational field between myself and another in my work .

The techniques I use are based in the body/mind , the sense of releasing blockage , stagnation , and how I will continue to work is also changing as I soften in my own system .

06/01/2026

Cupping has a long and rich history , the “pulling” suction method originally was utilised to pull the disease the “disharmony” from the body, to harmonise the spirit.
Cupping often now is described as a way to shift fascia congestion , disperse patterns of heat, stagnation , phlegm , cold .
But connection with the body is connection with the depths and removal of stagnation lightens the spirit .

I have so much respect for cupping and the revelatory experience it can bring .

Book with me now for your own shift

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Long before the term “post-traumatic stress” entered modern medicine, many African communities had an intuitive understanding of the invisible wounds of war. A returning warrior was not immediately welcomed back into daily life. Instead, he entered a sacred period of transition—often lasting three lunar cycles—under the guidance of a spiritual healer or shaman. This was not punishment or exile; it was a ritual of healing, an acknowledgment that violence fractures more than the body—it disrupts the spirit.

The belief was that the warrior carried a chaotic energy, a spiritual imbalance that could harm both himself and his community if left unaddressed. One of the oldest healing practices involved placing animal horns on the skin to draw out “stagnant blood”—a technique later misnamed “African cupping” by colonizers. It was more than medicine: it was ceremony. It released not just physical toxins, but the unspoken pain, the emotional residue of violence.

Today, we call it trauma. They called it spiritual imbalance. In our clinical, pill-driven world, we often treat only symptoms. But these ancestral practices remind us that true healing restores harmony—within the self, and between the self and the world. Perhaps in our rush to advance, we’ve overlooked the power of ritual, of community, of soul-level care. Perhaps it’s time to remember.

24/12/2025

Well that’s it folks !!
2025 was a definite “growth”year for me 🕊️
I want to thank all of the clients who have worked with me over this past year.
I am continually inspired by the depth and visionary precision of techniques such as Biodynamic cranial sacral and what this space reveals.
It has been a peaceful way to work with people increasingly this year, inclusive of cupping , techniques of Orthobionomy and BCST These combinations aligned for clients with oncology related , trauma, anxiety, cancer, post op needs - I have had the privilege to work alongside many people in this capacity 2025.
I am grateful for this partnership and to give my best 🙌🏼
I will be giving all of these offerings and more next year 😌

I am looking for a space to teach a small beginner Yoga class with asana , pranayama , meditation and yoga nidra , so hit me up if you know of anything 🙏🏽🧡

So this is my husband and I rocking it out playing some music (first pic)when I am not working I play music , hubby and I are releasing an album pretty soon ( although it has been soon for a loooong time now !!) but yes just mixing to do and we are away !!
Nashville here we come !
Bye bye guys , no more massage off on tour 🤩🤔

😊🤘🎸

I have loved the effect of new techniques I have gathered this year.
Facials with massage, and facial cupping 🙌🏼
Buccal
Spiritual Hawaiian LomiLomi .
It has been such a beautiful experience working in my studio space with “that” green wall, a real favourite with clients ❤️
It was special decorating this space with my daughter Darcie, from nothing into a sanctuary for body , mind and spirit

I wish you all a fun, peaceful , bountiful festive season ###

May the force be with you

See you 2026🌹🌹

Back to .mcrae.therapies 6th January 2026 !!

Happy holidays everyone stay safe 🎊🎊🌻😌❤️hu

17/12/2025

Endometriosis Part Two - Bodywork

When we begin to understand what endometriosis does inside the body, we begin to understand why the body stiffens and protects itself the way it does. Endo does not simply sprinkle pain throughout the pelvis; it alters the architecture of the entire region. Adhesions form the way ivy climbs a wall, slowly weaving itself into places it doesn’t belong. Fascia, irritated by months and years of inflammation, thickens and loses its suppleness until it behaves less like a silk ribbon and more like a dense felt mat. The organs, which were meant to slip and glide past one another like dancers crossing a stage, begin to cling to one another instead. This loss of glide is not a poetic exaggeration. Researchers like Stecco and Nezhat describe it precisely this way. The reproductive organs lose their choreography. They tug. They resist. They hold tension the way a frightened body holds its breath.

This is where bodywork becomes meaningful, because our work is not to force movement but to remind the body that movement is still possible. When we place our hands on the abdomen, we are meeting a landscape shaped by years of micro-bracing and survival strategies. Visceral work encourages the organs to rediscover their natural pathways. A gentle lift of the uterus creates just enough space for blood flow to return. A soft rocking of the sigmoid colon loosens the adhesions that have tangled themselves into the digestive rhythm. The broad ligament, when coaxed with patience, begins to soften. These changes are small, but small is powerful in a body clenched in self-protection.

The psoas also carries its own story here. It is a deep, loyal muscle that responds to pain the way a mother pulls a child close in danger. It curls inward. It tightens around the pelvis. It creates a physical shield around the organs. But in doing so, it becomes part of the problem. A shortened psoas presses the uterus forward, compresses the ovaries, and arches the lumbar spine, increasing pelvic pressure. When we soften the psoas, it is like opening a window in a room that has been closed for years. The pelvis inhales. The abdomen expands. Nerve pathways quiet. Space returns in places the client did not even realize had felt crowded.

The surrounding muscles join this story. The iliacus grips along the inside of the hip like a clenched fist. The obliques tighten over the abdomen like armor. The quadratus lumborum holds tension that radiates downward into the pelvis, adding to the ache that endometriosis already creates. Even the diaphragm, which sits like a protective dome over the abdominal cavity, begins to freeze. Breath stays shallow, and the lymph stagnates. The natural massage of breathing never quite reaches the inflamed tissues below. When we release the diaphragm, it is as if the entire pelvic bowl exhales. Research has shown that this simple shift can reduce inflammatory signaling and improve organ motility, enabling clients to experience their first full breath in years.

We need to understand that all of this tightening happens for a reason. The body is not malfunctioning; it is protecting. Inflammation sends chemical messages that something is wrong, so fascia contracts to stabilize the area. Pain fires through the nerves, so the muscles brace to hold the region still. Scar tissue forms to patch irritated surfaces, but these patches limit movement and create new discomfort. Breathing narrows because the body believes stillness is safer. This is not a body betraying itself. This is a body doing everything it can to survive what hurts.

This is why our work matters. When we restore even a little movement to the organs, the body interprets it as a sign of safety. When we free the diaphragm, the nervous system loosens its grip. When we melt fascial densification, circulation improves, and pain softens. When we balance the sacrum beneath our hands, the entire pelvis reorganizes around this new sense of ease. And when we support lymphatic flow, swelling lessens, and pressure dissolves.

For clients at home, even something as simple as a warm compress over the lower abdomen can help the tissues soften between sessions. Warmth soothes inflamed fascia, invites the psoas to release its hold, and helps the organs settle. A warm castor oil pack with ginger and clary sage, a heated rice bag, or even a gentle hot shower becomes a way of telling the body it doesn’t have to brace all the time. Heat becomes a quiet form of self-compassion.

Bodywork cannot remove endometriosis, but it can change the way it is lived. It can return a sense of mobility to a pelvis that felt locked in place. It can create warmth where the tissues have gone cold. It can give a client a moment of quiet in a body that has been noisy for years, and it can help someone feel at home inside themselves again, even if the condition remains.

Just as the first part of this story honored the weight of this condition, this second part honors the possibility within it. The body is not broken; it is asking for room to breathe. And when we meet it with understanding, with skilled hands, with warmth, with presence, we give it the chance to remember its own resilience. We allow it to hope again.

17/12/2025

The Body’s Archive

Understanding the science of trauma begins with recognizing that the body reacts far faster than the mind. Trauma is not only a story of what happened, but it is also a physiological imprint that alters how a person breathes, moves, feels, and processes the world. When something overwhelms the system, the body responds in ways that bypass thought entirely. These reactions live deep in the nervous system, the muscles, the fascia, and the receptors that gather and interpret sensation.

The limbic system is the body’s emotional lighthouse. It scans every environment for signs of danger and remembers the subtle details of past overwhelm long before a person is consciously aware of them. When something familiar touches that memory, even gently, the limbic system illuminates the entire internal landscape as if the original threat were happening again. It is not betraying the person. It is trying to keep them safe.

The amygdala acts as the guardian of survival. It does not differentiate between yesterday and today. It only knows what once felt threatening. When it senses a reminder, it signals the body to prepare. Your heart rate rises, breathing shifts, and muscles contract. This is why trauma responses appear instantly and powerfully. They are ancient reflexes shaped for protection.

The insula is a crucial region of the cerebral cortex that allows a person to feel themselves from within. It determines how much sensation and emotion the system can tolerate at any given moment. When danger is perceived, the insula may dim internal awareness to prevent overwhelm, creating numbness or dissociation. Or it may amplify it, making every sensation feel sharp. It is the body’s internal dimmer switch, adjusting intensity moment by moment.

The vagus nerve, which connects the brain to the heart, lungs, gut, and organs, shifts into its protective pathways during trauma. This can create shallow breathing, emotional distance, digestive shutdown, or a muted sense of connection. When safety returns, the vagus nerve slowly widens its communication again, allowing the body to reenter a state of rest, integration, and presence.

Muscles respond instantly to threat. Inside each fiber, chemical messengers activate actin and myosin, creating contraction patterns that mirror the body’s survival needs. These patterns are not random. They are survival etched into muscle memory, created by repetition and necessity.

Fascia is the body’s great storyteller, a living web that surrounds every muscle, bone, organ, and nerve. It responds to trauma by thickening, tightening, and changing its internal fluidity. Collagen fibers reorganize themselves into protective shapes. Mechanoreceptors, proprioceptors, and nociceptors within the fascia begin sending altered messages to the brain, shaped by what the body has endured. Fascia can hold emotional energy, bracing patterns, and unprocessed survival responses like a woven archive of experience. It is not just connective tissue; it is a sensory organ that records the history of what you have lived through.

Trauma imprints through every one of these systems. Neural pathways fire in practiced patterns. Breath becomes guarded. Movement becomes shaped by what once hurt, and the body protects until it believes it no longer needs to. And in many people, that protection outlives the original danger.

Understanding this science allows both clients and bodyworkers to approach the body with compassion rather than confusion. Trauma responses are intelligent adaptations, not weaknesses. The body is not malfunctioning. It is remembering. And with the right conditions of safety, warmth, steady touch, and presence, these patterns can soften and reorganize.

When we understand what is happening inside, we honor the body not as something to be corrected, but as something that, in every way it knew, has tried to protect the person carrying it. This is the foundation of trauma-informed bodywork. It is where science meets art, and where healing begins.

17/12/2025

Endometriosis - The Pain No One Sees

Endometriosis is a quiet ache the world rarely sees, yet those who live inside it know its shadows intimately. It is a condition that reshapes the landscape of a woman’s body, not just through lesions and adhesions, but through the way pain curls itself into her days, her choices, her breath. There is a tenderness to the way she learns to navigate her abdomen, as if the body has become a house with locked rooms and thin floorboards, each step requiring awareness, each movement carrying the memory of something that hurt.

The pain is not one note. It is a symphony with too many instruments. There is the deep, dragging ache that feels like the organs are pulling against each other. There is the burning, the pressure, the swelling that comes like a tide that cannot be predicted. There is the exhaustion that spreads through the body like dusk, dimming the light behind the eyes. There is the cruelty of a disease that refuses to stay in one place, shifting its weight from the pelvis to the back to the ribs, asking the nervous system to remain on high alert. And beneath it all, there is the grief that comes with wondering why your body feels like a battlefield when all you want is to live inside it with ease.

Yet even in the heaviness, there is something quietly heroic about the women who carry this condition. They move through the world as if their pain is a private language, one they speak fluently even when others cannot hear it. They learn to hide the sharpest edges, to soften their winces, to work and parent and show up while their abdomen feels like it is being stitched from the inside. They learn to smile through waves that could bring them to their knees. They learn to hope even when hope feels fragile.

But their bodies are not lying. The fatigue is not imagined. The bloating is not vanity. Infertility is not a failure. The pain is not exaggerated. Their symptoms are not scattered confessions; they are a map, a living testament to the internal story that too often goes unseen. The adhesions bind, the inflammation rises, the nerves fire their alarms, and the fascia tightens like a net woven too small. This is the physiology of survival, not weakness.

Still, within these patterns of tension, there is space for light. Hope does not arrive as a sudden sunrise; it comes gently, like a thread of gold pulling through the darker fibers. It comes in knowing what is happening inside your body rather than guessing. It comes in finding a provider who listens with their whole attention. It comes in the moment someone says, “I believe you.” It comes in understanding that your body has been working for you, not against you, adapting in the only ways it knows how.

If you are living with endometriosis, I hope you know this truth. You are not broken. You are not too much. Your pain is real. Your exhaustion is real. Your story is real. You are carrying something heavy, but you are also carrying courage you rarely give yourself credit for. And even on the days when your hope feels small, it is still there, steady and warm at the center of you.

Your body is not the enemy. It is doing the best it can in a storm it never asked for. And you deserve tenderness. You deserve care. You deserve to be seen without minimizing what you feel. May this remind you that you are not alone and that even in the darkest corners of this condition, there is a way forward. It may be slow. It may come in pieces. But it exists. And so do you. Always.

Some stories ask to be felt before they are explained, and this is one of them. Endometriosis lives in the quiet places of the body and deserves both reverence and understanding. Tomorrow, I’ll share the pathology and the bodywork that can support this journey, but for now, may you carry the knowing that you are seen, you are believed, and your body’s story matters.

10/12/2025

I would like to thank both the Launceston and Cygnet community for supporting my small business Ever McRae Holistic Body Therapies this past year 2025🙏🏽🕊️❤️
I have witnessed the most profound bravery and commitment in clients who show up for themselves to improve the most challenging of circumstances.
It makes me very happy as a practitioner to observe the ways in which clients rekindle their connection to body , to self , to their dreams !!

Bodywork is soul work

I have my booking pages open now for 2026, so there is opportunity to book with me as we move from the intense … OMG intense YIN introspective , let’s merge with the underworld 2025 towards the forward momentum YANG movement into 2026,
completely different energies .

Movement towards freedom 🕊️🕊️🕊️

Peace 🙏🏽

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10/12/2025

A wonderful review from an equally wonderful person 🙌🏼❤️🙏🏽

04/12/2025

2025 is shedding its final resonance , bodywork is available with me to integrate.

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