Elizabeth Scupham Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork

12/11/2025

You might find my "Prayer to the Algorithms" interesting. It's in my newsletter, linked to in the comments. Below is an excerpt.

We pray: Dear Algorithms, connect us with people who are able to hold nuance. Not those who mistake complication for depth, not those who pile qualification upon qualification until meaning suffocates under the weight of their own cleverness.

We ask you to connect us with souls who can stand in the tension between competing truths without flinching and without reaching for the comfort of false certainty. We mean those who know that two things can be true at once.

Context doesn’t excuse but it does explain. Understanding something is not the same as endorsing it.

These nuance-holders are rare in the algorithmic ecosystem. They don’t generate the clean dopamine hit of outrage or the satisfying click of a perfectly tribal signal. They make us work and think. They refuse to let us off the hook of our own complexity. For this reason, you, dear Algorithms, often bury them, preferring the sharp edges of certainty to the soft blur of wisdom . . .

art by Anastasiya Drake

12/11/2025

The core, also known as the abdominal and spinal muscles, needs to be adaptive and responsive to the forces of movement and posture, just like any other muscle group.

Unfortunately, some muscles are treated differently to others based more on tradition or certain belief systems than on science or critical thinking.

For example, the deep abdominal muscles, although important for helping to stabilise the spine, also need to be able to contract dynamically in response to breathing, movement, and changes in alignment.

If we are always engaging these muscles because we think this is how they are supposed to be active, this can create problems, mainly by restricting movement and creating unnecessary tension.

If the so called core were always supposed to be on at a certain level, it would simply have evolved into bone, like ribs that extend all the way down to the pelvis.

The fact that it is muscle tissue is an evolutionary sign that this area needs to be dynamic in its tension and tone so that we can function optimally.

It is okay to let the abdominals switch off and move when needed.

Movement is medicine

Tom

12/11/2025

12/07/2025

First draft of a request from yesterday, exploring the centerline through the cranium and its opposition bones and sutures.

I want to maybe find a better angle and include the sphenobasilar junction and highlight the specific sutures.

Draw to know.

12/07/2025

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