Body Balance Massage & Aesthetics

Body Balance Massage & Aesthetics Over all, Trina offers Head to toe care! Achieve total wellness though massage therapy with Trina Physick CMT. 10 years in practice.

Specializing in addressing chronic conditions through Manual Lymphatic Massage Therapy, post-surgery MLD & body contouring, lymphatic facials, anti-aging, and Hydrafacial provider, and nutritional guidance. Specializing in Medical Massage, manual lymphatic massage, and post surgery lymphatic / swelling care, body contouring with Radio Frequency for optimal post surgery results such as liposuction and tummy tucks. Reduce swelling, tighten skin, and lighten incision scaring.

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THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM OF A GRIEVER 🌿

Post 5/30: When Shock Breaks the Heart

There are moments in life that don’t just shake you.
They break you open.

I remember standing in my practice, trying to continue with my day, when the world suddenly tilted. My chest tightened. My breath disappeared. My legs gave way beneath me. One moment I was upright. The next I was on the floor, unable to move.

At 33 years old, I was diagnosed with Broken Heart Syndrome. 💔

People think heartbreak is emotional.
But sometimes heartbreak is medical.
Sometimes human grief is so severe that it physically stuns the heart.

And that’s only the beginning of the story.

When trauma takes you to ICU

Those days are blurry, but the fear is unforgettable.
I spent more than eight days in Cardiac ICU —
Eight days attached to machines.
Eight days listening to monitors beep.
Eight days sleeping under bright lights because they never turn off.
Eight days of doctors watching my numbers because they weren’t stable.
Eight days of fearing that if I closed my eyes, I might not open them again.

Nothing prepares you for seeing your own heart on a screen and realising that it’s barely keeping rhythm.

Nothing prepares you for the moment you wonder if your life is quietly ending in a hospital bed.

And nothing prepares you for surviving it…
and then trying to live in the same body afterwards.

How shock and ICU trauma change the body

Trauma doesn’t leave when you leave the ward.
It settles inside your systems.

When you experience extreme emotional shock plus the physical intensity of Cardiac ICU, several things happen:

💔 The heart becomes stunned
💔 The nervous system goes into permanent survival mode
💔 The lymphatic system slows dramatically
💔 Organ rhythms change
💔 Inflammation remains high for months

This is why grievers often say:
“I feel swollen.”
“My chest hurts randomly.”
“My gut is not the same.”
“My face looks puffy.”
“I’m exhausted all the time.”
“I don’t trust my own body anymore.”

You’re not imagining it.
ICU changes you.
Shock changes you.
Grief changes you.

Why the lymphatic system suffers so deeply

The lymphatic system is the silent witness to trauma.

During extreme stress and fear, your body releases:

• High cortisol
• Adrenaline surges
• Inflammatory proteins
• Stress metabolites
• Cellular waste
• Fluid-shifting hormones

Your lymph has to process all of this.
But when you’re traumatised, the lymph slows down, thickens, becomes sluggish and overwhelmed.

This is why:
✨ swelling increases
✨ water retention rises
✨ your gut becomes inflamed
✨ your face changes
✨ chronic pain begins
✨ fatigue becomes daily

Your lymph remembers the fear you carried in that bed.

Why it lasts so long

Because the body does not reset after trauma.
It protects.
It guards.
It adapts.

Your heart beats differently.
Your breath becomes shallow.
Your vagus nerve becomes tight.
Your organs move slower.
Your lymph becomes heavier.
Your chemistry stays in alert mode.

This is not weakness.
It is survival intelligence. 🕊️

If this is your story too

If you’ve ever stood in shock, fainted, collapsed, or spent nights in a hospital wondering whether your heart will keep beating…

If you’ve walked out of ICU but your body never returned to “normal,” please hear me clearly:

You are not dramatic.
You are not broken.
You are not failing.

Your body lived through trauma.
Your heart endured terror.
Your lymph carried the weight of fear.
Your organs adapted so you could survive.

This is not the end of your story.
Your body can come back from this.
Your heart can regrow its strength.
Your lymph can flow again.
Your organs can remember peace.
Your nervous system can learn safety again.

You are not the same person who entered ICU.
But you are becoming someone stronger, wiser and deeply alive. 🌿

And this series is for you.
To help your body release what it has been holding for far too long.

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My Goals For You...

My goal through each massage is to #1 Restore a glimps of how your body is suppose to feel on a regular basis and to give your body a boost to help your body heal. But that feeling won‘t last after just one visit. So #2 is to have you get massage therapy on a regular bases to help repair your body and give it more than just a boost. After a few regular visits, meaning once a week or every two weeks, you will feel #3 occure, which is a NEW you. This is Stage 3, “Renew”. At this stage we keep your body on a new course and begin a maintenance plan. We look at your diet, excersise, and wellbeing. We find a way for your body to be as efficient as possible on its own with out pain killers and take away bad habits such as poor posture, sitting a lot, lack of sleep, and also lower your stress level in the best way we can.

With me, I promis to help your body find peace inside and out.

I am here for you.

Trina Physick BA, CMT