Healing Traditions: Therapeutic Massage, Essential Oils, Herbs and more

03/23/2026

I have an opening this Wednesday March 25 ar 2 pm and 4:30

Call or text me at 301-268-8405 to schedule your massage therapy session.

02/14/2026

Proud to be a BCTMB LMT

🎉 Board Certification in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (BCTMB®) has been NCCA reaccredited! 🎉

The National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) granted accreditation to the BCTMB for demonstrating compliance with the NCCA Standards for the Accreditation of Certification Programs.

NCCA is the accrediting body of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence. NCBTMB joins an elite group of more than 130 organizations representing over 310 programs that have received and maintained NCCA accreditation.

01/30/2026

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People look at me some sort of way when I say I get a massage at least once a month — so let’s clear something up.

Massage is healthcare. Period.

It regulates the nervous system.
It lowers stress hormones.
It improves circulation and lymphatic flow.
It reduces chronic tension before it becomes chronic pain.
It supports sleep, digestion, hormones, posture, and mental clarity.

Most of what we’re walking around calling “normal” — tight shoulders, jaw pain, headaches, poor sleep, burnout — is a body that hasn’t been given a chance to release.

Touch is a biological need, not a luxury.
Maintenance is smarter than crisis care.
Prevention is still healthcare.

I don’t wait until my body is screaming to listen.
I don’t believe care has to hurt to count.
And I refuse to treat regulation like an indulgence.

Luxury is excess.
Massage is maintenance.

Treat yourself like someone you love — because that is healthcare.

I do not pay for or carry health insurance the way most people do. Massage is my assurance that my body can heal itself if I take care of her.

Get ahold of your local massage therapist and get ahold of your selfcare.

Massage therapists also take note that what you use on our skin, can multiply the benefits! Especially products like Mystical Mindset Medicinals

01/25/2026

Need a boost mentally and physically?

You need a massage

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Receiving a twice-weekly massage with sweet orange, geranium, and basil encourages a more positive outlook and mood possibly by increasing blood flow to the cerebral cortex (the part of the brain responsible for regulating behavior).
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01/16/2026

Available massage therapy sessions
January 19th at 1 pm and 2:30 pm
January 20th at 3:30pm
January 21st at 2:15 pm and 3:45 pm
January 23rd at 10:30 am.

Call or text me at 301-268-8405 to schedule your massage therapy session

01/16/2026

I love this.
Science has never proven anything. Science's purpose is to question the world in which we live and try to explain it.
You have to explore and question why something is happening before you can figure out how to work with the body to return function.

I was prompted to write this after seeing a practitioner post that carried a tone of “case closed.” And I keep noticing something: when certainty becomes a weapon, healing gets smaller.

Here are a few things I question about the way we use the word “medicine.”

First: medicine isn’t owned by an institution.
The body doesn’t check credentials— it responds to inputs. Sunlight can be medicine. Sleep can be medicine. Music can be medicine. Feeling safe can be medicine. Breath, movement, nourishment, touch, connection… all of these change physiology in measurable ways. Biomedical tools can be medicine too—sometimes lifesaving—but they are not the only form of medicine, and not automatically superior because a system approves them.

Second: science and allopathic medicine aren’t synonyms.
Science is a method: observe, test, revise. Medicine is a system: training pathways, protocols, incentives, liability pressures, insurance structures. Systems can be brilliant and still have blind spots. Pretending otherwise isn’t “more scientific”—it’s more ideological.

Third: symptoms aren’t the enemy.
Symptoms are communication. Sometimes they’re protective. Sometimes they’re stuck or excessive. Relief can be wise and humane. But I question the belief that silencing symptoms automatically equals healing. Turning down the alarm may be part of care… but it’s not the same as finding the smoke.

Fourth: institutional authority doesn’t equal physiological wisdom.
What matters is the net direction over time: does this increase capacity, restore regulation, and support repair… or does it cloud signals, fragment function, and create ongoing dependence?

Finally: I question the ridicule.
Science doesn’t fear questions. Science requires them. When curiosity gets mocked, what’s being protected often isn’t health—it’s authority.

Natural Wayz stance: we don’t worship institutions. We don’t demonize them either. We ask a better question:

Does this support physiology? Does this increase capacity? Does this restore function?

Because the goal isn’t winning a paradigm argument. The goal is healing.

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01/16/2026

01/16/2026

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01/15/2026

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01/11/2026

Yes after 18 years of working with clients my fingers really can feel the muscle fibers release as I work. Deep work is not always what the body needs.

Schedule your next session today. Evening sessions are available.

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01/10/2026

Available sessions for January 12 to 16:
Monday 1/12 at 2 pm & 4:30
Tuesday 1/13 at 2:15
Friday 1/16 at 12 and 1:30

Call or text me at 301-268-8405 to schedule your massage therapy session

01/02/2026

Available massage therapy sessions for the week of January 5th to 9th.
January 6 at 2 pm and 3:30 pm
January 7th at 2:30 pm.

Call or text me at 301-268-8405 to schedule your massage therapy session now.