Karina Phillips - Advanced Clinical Massage Therapist

01/05/2026

You are enough! Exactly as you are!
You can choose to disregard anything, including the voices in your head, that tell you anything different!
Remember that the majority if not all of the messaging suggesting something other than this are trying to encourage you to buy something! And that's cool, but make the choice from a place of loving yourself amd not from a place of not feeling enough as you are!!

Love yourself, choose joy, be perfectly imperfect - exactly as you are!!!

30/04/2026

It's here!!!
The hardbound copy of my dissertation into the effects of the Jing Method of Clinical massage on the mental health of women living with chronic pain!!!
And yes, the colour matches my branding - love it!!

So very proud of what this symbolises and of the results I got!

If you want to join the Conference on 30th June to see me presenting my findings as well as hearing about all the other wonderful studies that the 24-26 BTEC cohort poured our hearts/heads/hands (IYKYK) and love into.... follow the link and get signed up!

https://jingmassage.com/product/online-clinical-massage-research-conference-30-6-26/

13/04/2026

*disclaimer - this is a very big and complex subject, I'm not sure why I thought it would be a good idea to try and address it with a 3min post! This doesn't even scratch the surface... the intention is purely to give a v brief and high level idea in case you want to investigate more!

Pain is created in your brain 100% of the time.
This does NOT mean it's 'in your head' or imaginary, or any less real.
It just means that your brain is what takes on board all of the information available to it from all sources of information and decides whether or not to create pain in response to certain stimuli.

This stimuli includes:
- info from your senses
- info from your memory (both conscious AND subconscious)
- info from your current state, I.e your mood, your feelings, your emotions

The brain pieces this information to decide whether or not pain is required so that it can protect you and encourage you to remove yourself from the situation, i.e hand out of the fire!

If, as an example, your back 'goes into spasm' because you picked up a washing basket, or a banana (this happened to me once!), or because you bent down, this is likely to be an indicator of there being a lot more going on...
What are your stress levels like right now? Honestly!
What is p1ssing you off right now?
Are you fearful about something? Unhappy with the direction life is taking? Feeling stuck? Holding onto things that have happened to you in life?

Sometimes just spending a little time thinking about these things can be really helpful, note them down maybe, show your mind and body rhat you care enough to sit ans give it some time, trust what comes up, your body and mind already know the answers, you just might not consciously be aware and accepting off them right now.

Anyway, musings over!
If you want to know more about the complexities of Chroni pain I recommend the following books...
The painful Truth (Dr Monty Lyman)
The Way Out (Dr Alan Gordon)

19/03/2026

What a week!
Well, what a couple of years really - in fact, what a decade - I started with Jing in 2017 and have now gone all the way to the top of their qualifications!

As it seems to be the way with this beautiful life of mine, I've not followed the normal path, I've done it in my own time and I'm so pleased I have - had I done it any other way I wouldn't have allowed the precious time for absorbing knowledge between courses, I wouldn't have revisited content to develop a deeper and more meaningful understanding and most importantly I wouldn't have met the wonderful people that have been my BTEC cohort for the past 2 years 🥰 That's the power of divine timing!

Feeling so blessed, grateful and incredibly proud of myself and my colleagues! Also a little sad - but still get to see everyone again for graduation in September!

Here's to returning to a study free life for a while so I can absorb all the wonderful learnings from the past 2 years while growing my lovely little business some more 😊

23/01/2026

Clinical massage with me is about so much more than the physical massage...
- it's taking time to hear what you have to say and how whatever it is that your seeing me for is impacting your life
- it's genuinely caring about how we can improve whatever it is that is causing you pain or stress
- it's creating a space in which you are not rushed
- it's making sure you're super comfy on the couch
- its advising you about changes that you can make or habits you can introduce that will make a positive difference to your life, and if for whatever reason you're not managing to implement specific homecare I give you, it's altering the plan to something that is acheiveable, or suggesting ways that you can fit it into your life more seamlessly
- it's checking in with you to see how you reacted to the treatment and answering any questions or queries you have between appointments

It is so.much.more than simply massaging you!

If you want to make a difference to your health and wellbeing, come work with me and I'll help you feel great!

18/12/2025

🥰😍❤️
My absolutely stunning Mandala, hand-crafted just for me, with love in every single dot, by the incredibly talented Niki (apologies for getting your surname wrong in the audio 😆🤦🏼‍♀️)
Appropriately named 'Purple Sun'.
Love love love!!! Couldn't be happier!!!
Now I want one for home 🏡 😆

16/12/2025

Only the best massage for Santa 🎅

The best Christmas wish of them all.

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Tag your business, spread the love this christmas

16/12/2025

I was so excited to make The Space Place a little festive this year and my clients have been loving it too 🥰

I hope everyone's Christmas prep is coming along nicely - if you're like me and a bit of a last minute crammer when it comes to shopping I do gift vouchers that can be used for one off treatments or my discounted treatment bundles - what better gift to give than one to encourage focus on health and wellbeing!?
DM or Whatsapp me if you'd like gift vouchers as they aren't available via my booking system.

www.kpacmt.com
07727 262925

05/12/2025

Told you folks! See, I don't just make things up 🤪

This makes the fascia system arguably the body’s largest sensory organ.

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05/12/2025

What a difference 48hours makes (I won't even talk about yesterday, too wet to get the phone out for pics 😆).

Just remember folks, even when life is misty and murky, this too shall pass, the sun is always there behind the clouds (or behind the planet) and will never be that long, in the grand scheme of things, until we can bask in it's warmth and glory again.

Nature is so incredibly healing and there are so many lessons and insights it can give us to help manage our emotions and mental health 🥰

Wishing you a beautiful and joyful Friday you gorgeous being... yes you! Now put your phone down and go find something beautiful in nature to appreciate ✨️ ☺️




What have you appreciated today?

04/12/2025

I woke today to this beautiful feedback from a very special client of mine ❤️

It really means so much when people take the time to share things like this; made my day it did 🥰

Then I got some more beautiful feedback for one of my case studies which literally made me sob. I know I'm good at what I do, I'm told often - but sometimes seeing it written down, and having those feelings validated by others is really really powerful...
Especially on day 26 apparently 🥹😭🥹😆

#ʟᴏᴠᴇᴍʏᴊᴏʙ ❤️