Integral Balance Bodywork, LLC

01/12/2022

TW: Trauma/Bodywork
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Hello dear clients. At this holiday season I know it seems a little weird to discuss trauma in regards to bodywork, but I have heard stories over the past 21 years and worked with clients who have it, want to understand it, want to not be controlled by it. This is a tall order which requires professional psychological support, a tribe with which you can relate, communicate with, and be vulnerable around, the medical establishment and their medicines, alternative healthcare and it's different medicine, and a lot of courage.

As someone with CPTSD (Complex PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder, 17 surgeries, a broken neck, among other things, I am familiar with trauma on many levels.
Bodywork can be a very effective addition to all the measures I stated above. Reminding your nervous system where home is, where the "soft" lives, where rest and repair are the order of the day. As a species, we have traveled far away from ourselves. In this holiday season, consider giving yourself the gift of experiencing, rest, and integration. Your muscles will be positively affected, your pain can decrease, your awareness can become more finely tuned, and you can become empowered in body, mind, and spirit.

If you are experiencing acute trauma, please feel free to always know you can reach out to me. I have many, many referrals of MDs, DCs, LMTs, PhDs, PTs, MSWs, and every letter you can think of. You do not have to live in fear alone. Come let me reintroduce you to yourself.

https://www.psychguides.com/guides/ptsd-hotline/
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

I hope you are safe, warm, and enjoying the presence of those you love most.

Love,

Stine

3 Pillars Scheduling:
https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBV3MQ

Lake City Scheduling:
https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBNXD6
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Integral Balance Bodywork, LLC has been helping clients with their nervous systems since 2001. Through employing craniosacral/myofascial techniques, client education, and self-care, clients will experience increased wellness and embodiment.

14/11/2022

Hello clients,

Sending a message today for multiple reasons. I am currently adding an 11:15am appointment at my home office on Mondays, and also adding a 4:15 appointment at Three Pillars on Thursdays. Hopefully this will allow some of you a little more freedom in scheduling.

Also, for those of you who are clients at Three Pillars, I got an adjustment from Dr. Lindley (who is taking care of Dr. Flood's clients while she is away), and folks, this young upstart ROCKED my world, and I'm really old and opinionated. Anyway, for those of you who would benefit from adjustments the next month and a half, Dr. Jack is your guy!

And lastly, I wanted to say thank you to all of you. Referrals are such a good form of feedback, and I wanted to get on and thank each of you who show up and are present for your appointments, and who send other loved ones and friends for some bodywork. Thank you,I wouldn't be able to do it without you.

* If you would like to be removed from this list, please respond to the email simply with the word, "remove"*

Lake City Office: https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBNXD6

3 Pillars Clinic: https://wwwschedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBV3MQ

11/11/2022

If you are interested in reading about some of the real time effects of trauma: how it can manifest in the treatment room, how it can affect your current responses and resiliency, and how it is very easy to become dissociated and bury this physiology deep, that it can be very scary, uncomfortable, and work to process and integrate those walled off experiences and emotions:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207191/ #:~:text=Initial%20reactions%20to%20trauma%20can,effective%2C%20and%20self%2Dlimited.

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/

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11/11/2022

If you are interested in reading about some of the real time effects of trauma: how it can manifest in the treatment room, how it can affect your current responses and resiliency, and how it is very easy to become dissociated and bury this physiology deep, that it can be very scary, uncomfortable, and work to process and integrate those walled off experiences and emotions:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207191/ #:~:text=Initial%20reactions%20to%20trauma%20can,effective%2C%20and%20self%2Dlimited.

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/awareness/ptsd_treatment_works.asp?utm_source=GoogleSearch&utm_medium=GS1F&utm_campaign=PTSDOA&utm_id=2023&gclid=Cj0KCQiAgribBhDkARIsAASA5bu_zEI5hCrZgKY6gr5D6jEURSvLJj-jX1nf63I0xtgzH7TKyh8p8g8aAqg6EALw_wcB

11/11/2022

If you are interested in reading about some of the real time effects of trauma: how it can manifest in the treatment room, how it can affect your current responses and resiliency, and how it is very easy to become dissociated and bury this physiology deep, that it can be very scary, uncomfortable, and work to process and integrate those walled off experiences and emotions:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207191/ #:~:text=Initial%20reactions%20to%20trauma%20can,effective%2C%20and%20self%2Dlimited.

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/awareness/ptsd_treatment_works.asp?utm_source=GoogleSearch&utm_medium=GS1F&utm_campaign=PTSDOA&utm_id=2023&gclid=Cj0KCQiAgribBhDkARIsAASA5bu_zEI5hCrZgKY6gr5D6jEURSvLJj-jX1nf63I0xtgzH7TKyh8p8g8aAqg6EALw_wcB

Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.

21/10/2022

Happy Friday dear clients and friends,

I want to speak a little today about what my biggest objective as a bodyworker when someone is having a session with me. Getting you out of pain is ALWAYS a wonderful thing when it occurs. That said, pain is a very elusive phenomenon, much of which is an interpretation of suffering taking part in our brain. Nociception happens, suffering is malleable and is subject to your conscious brain. I teach people how to think. And in addition to changing some of the messages we constantly tell ourselves in our heads, changing these messages can and DOES change physiology. My job is to shine a light on your shoulders up by your ears, or your tmj grinding beyond the telling of it. It does not matter if *I* know your shoulders are up by your ears, but it surely matters if you do.

Come feel, assimilate, integrate, and learn. I welcome your nervous system to school.

Stine

Lake City: https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBNXD6

3 Pillars: https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBV3MQ

Integral Balance Bodywork, LLC has been helping clients with their nervous systems since 2001. Through employing craniosacral/myofascial techniques, client education, and self-care, clients will experience increased wellness and embodiment.

21/10/2022

Dear friends and clients, I had an 11:15 appointment open up tomorrow. If you'd like it, feel free to schedule at:

Integral Balance Bodywork, LLC has been helping clients with their nervous systems since 2001. Through employing craniosacral/myofascial techniques, client education, and self-care, clients will experience increased wellness and embodiment.

02/10/2022

Happy 21st Birthday Integral Balance Bodywork!

Dear clients, you have made the last 21 years the best if my life. I am SO grateful to get to work with each of you.

🙏

25/09/2022

About to start a Tom Meyers (Anatomy Trains) webinar on Fascia Science and Fascia as a pain driver. Can't wait to tell you what I learn.

20/09/2022

3 appointments available at 3 Pillars Clinic tomorrow Wednesday.

Integral Balance Bodywork, LLC has been helping clients with their nervous systems since 2001. Through employing craniosacral/myofascial techniques, client education, and self-care, clients will experience increased wellness and embodiment.

08/09/2022

If you are over the age of 40, what does "Wellness" mean in your life? What are indicators you are 'unwell'? What aren't you able to do because of being 'unwell? What are the things you are able to/or want to do when you feel well?

Lake City - https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBNXD6

3 Pillars - https://schedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBV3MQ.

31/08/2022

Hello dear clients and friends,

I hope this email finds you all well. As someone who has lived with chronic pain for many years, and acute debilitating pain for significant periods of time during those years, I can tell you that massage is most definitely an effective tool in pain management.

"Based on the evidence, massage therapy, compared to no treatment, should be strongly recommended as a pain management option. Massage therapy is weakly recommended for reducing pain, compared to other sham or active comparators, and improving mood and health-related quality of life, compared to other active comparators. Massage therapy safety, research challenges, how to address identified research gaps, and necessary next steps for implementing massage therapy as a viable pain management option are discussed."

Check out this study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4925170/

I look forward to seeing you on my table.

Lake City Home Office Scheduling: https://www.sachedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBNXD6

Three Pillars Body Restoration Clinic: https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBV3MQ

Integral Balance Bodywork, LLC has been helping clients with their nervous systems since 2001. Through employing craniosacral/myofascial techniques, client education, and self-care, clients will experience increased wellness and embodiment.

15/08/2022

Hello dear friends and clients,

I am back to work in 1 WEEK!!!! I'm SO excited to be back and see all of you.

The schedule is filling up FAST! If you would like to get yourself on the schedule, you can do so at:

Lake City Home Office (Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays: https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBNXD6

Three Pillars Body Restoration Clinic (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays): https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/IBBV3MQ

I look forward to seeing you on my table. Feel free to shoot me any questions you may have about my return to work.

Happy Monday,

Stine

Integral Balance Bodywork, LLC has been helping clients with their nervous systems since 2001. Through employing craniosacral/myofascial techniques, client education, and self-care, clients will experience increased wellness and embodiment.

12/08/2022

Hello Facebook. It's now 7:10 and my computer is still not connecting to the video source. Give us 5 more minutes.

08/08/2022

Hello my dear clients and friends. I wanted to let you know about a self-care and nervous system presentation I will be giving for 18th and Union's "Wellness Week". Those who would like to attend in person can do so by making a reservation here:

https://18thandunion.org/

For those who cannot attend in person, I will be going live with the presentation this Thursday at 7pm Pacific time.

I look forward to seeing you or having you join us online.

Love,

Stine

18th & Union; Performance Space; arts space; solo performances