Christina Cunningham Bodywork & Coaching

Christina Cunningham Bodywork & Coaching I am Christina Cunningham. Welcome to Feel Free where deeply perceptive humans evolve their sensitivity into sacred artistry. Hello, I’m Christina.

My passion is helping people discover the aliveness of their bodymindspirt and ignite their joy of living. Twenty+ years ago, I was burned out and uncertain what direction I should pursue in life and career, until I enrolled in therapeutic massage therapy school. Through that training, I discovered my own joy of living bodymindspirit connected and it gave me the clear direction that I needed. I re

alized that all my previous burnout and indecision was based on overthinking everything and not being able to stay present and grounded in my own skin. I’ve since learned that for me to be the calm, creative, contributor that I desire to be, I must cultivate an intimate and daily practice of experiencing myself as more than just a collection of thoughts. If you are experiencing something similar and are ready to regain the joy of your life and say yes to new adventures, deepen your relationships, have robust health and rediscover the aliveness of your body, I am here for you. I’m a trauma-sensitive therapeutic bodyworker, certified Body Thrive coach and expert in habit change, and I can’t wait to help you embrace all that makes you feel alive!! I offer free 20 minute chats to discuss the potential and I won't try to sell you anything! Message me for more details. Faithfully,
Christina

For most of my early life I was extraordinarily good at feeling everyone around me.But I had almost no capacity to hold ...
05/24/2026

For most of my early life I was extraordinarily good at feeling everyone around me.

But I had almost no capacity to hold myself together.

Not because I wasn't sensitive enough. Because my inner experience was so loud and so full of sensation that overwhelm and burnout was the norm.

So, I did the only thing that made sense, I aimed my sensitivity outward where it was useful and safe.

And then I numbed the rest.

I wrote about this - the specific shadow that highly sensitive women rarely name, and what it actually took to change it - in my latest Substack essay.

If you have ever been the one who holds everyone else's world together while your own interior is crumbling - this one is for you.

The path to embodied sovereignty begins with a single gaze - turned toward yourself

Always an earth lover for most of my life. Going vegetarian at age 12, starting a recycling program at a deli where I wo...
04/30/2026

Always an earth lover for most of my life. Going vegetarian at age 12, starting a recycling program at a deli where I worked in college, making conscious choices about products, eating organic, acquiring knowledge about medicinal herbs, practicing kindness and gently being a good steward.

But when I took a course in Andean Nature Mysticism and I realized that this beautiful planet and everything else upon and within her lovely skin was alive and desiring to be in relationship with ME.

Everything changed and I knew that I always have a place that I UNCONDITIONALLY belong, am cherished and embraced with so much love.

What a blessing to be so held
🌀💚🌎

The highly perceptive woman is not here to become less sensitive.She is here to become conductive.A clear vessel.A coher...
04/29/2026

The highly perceptive woman is not here to become less sensitive.

She is here to become conductive.

A clear vessel.

A coherent field.

A living bridge between Heaven and Earth.

A mountain once told me that I have always belonged to the Earth - and always will.This changed everything.Join us for N...
04/10/2026

A mountain once told me that I have always belonged to the Earth - and always will.

This changed everything.

Join us for Nature Nurture for this kind of goodness. 💚🌀✨

May 2nd at Indigo Nature Retreat.

DM me for the details.

If I were given one wish for humanity… it would be that we remember how to listen again.There is a word for this kind of...
04/09/2026

If I were given one wish for humanity…

it would be that we remember how to listen again.

There is a word for this kind of knowing: Epinoia.

It refers to an inner intelligence -
a quiet, creative knowing that emerges from within, rather than being imposed from outside.

It’s not analytical.
It’s not performative.
It’s not something you force.

It’s the kind of knowing that arises when you slow down…
when you feel into your body…
when you allow life to speak through sensation, intuition, and subtle perception.

Historically, this wasn’t unusual.

Many cultures lived this way:
• Listening to dreams
• Sensing into decisions
• Moving at the pace of nature
• Trusting the intelligence of the body

This wasn’t called intuition.
It was simply how humans lived.

But modern life has pulled us away from this.

We’ve learned to override signals.
To think faster instead of feeling deeper.

To seek answers outside ourselves.

And yet…
this intelligence never disappears.

It waits quietly beneath the noise.

In many ways, my work - and the work of my Feel Free ecosystem - is simply about helping people return to this:

Sensitivity as sacred intelligence.
Inner sensing as guidance.
Life designed from within.

This is Epinoia. And it is always available to all of us.

And when we begin to listen again…
life softens, clarity emerges, and we remember something essential:

We were never meant to think our way through life -
we were meant to feel our way into it. 🌿

02/27/2026

12/50 being Transparent
My client helped me understand something new about massage.

Massage is receiving meditation

There is walking meditation, chanting meditation and massage is also a meditation in co-here-nce with another.

What a lovely thing ✨

12/51 being Transparent Believe it if you need it ::  You Are Not StuckYou’re Only MID QuestKEEP GOING 🙌 🙌 🙌
02/26/2026

12/51 being Transparent

Believe it if you need it ::

You Are Not Stuck
You’re Only MID Quest
KEEP GOING

🙌 🙌 🙌

02/23/2026

11/50 being Transparent
HOT TAKE
Nervous System Coherence IS THE NEW Nervous System regulation

2026 REQUIRES us to be able to STAY even though we are “triggered.”

Because as we are already clear about … there’s is a ton of sh*t to be trippin on.

Ask yourself:
can you feel your feelings AND remain oriented toward love ?

can you feel activation and stay self-led?

Can you create enough space in your own capacity to allow your own feelings AND to allow the other person to have theirs?

Ps. Kayaking is a beautiful metaphor for life …. Listen to find out how.

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