Donald Lavoie Thank you so much for this comment. I am touched (pun intended for a massage therapist!) by the work you are doing — just being a source of healing touch and an open and compassionate ear is making a huge impact on your clients, no doubt.

I think women, especially of my generation, struggle so much, having not been taught that they own their bodies. So many of us live outside it, somewhere. And so, so many of us have been assaulted or otherwise traumatized, and that trauma lives in the body — heavily. That might manifest as weight or chronic pain or disease… I see it all the time in my life and in the lives of my friends and family members.

Thank you for the work you are doing and the insight and kindness you shared in your comment.