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What the Body Carries
When It Can't Let Go

Pain is never just physical. It is a message, a memory, a story still unfolding.

Sometimes pain stays long after the injury has healed—long after the scans come back clear, long after the treatments are supposed to have worked. It can feel confusing, exhausting, even defeating. But what if your body isn’t broken? What if it’s holding something that hasn’t yet been given space to release?

 

Pain can be the body’s way of protecting what once felt unsafe to feel. It may be layered with old patterns of tension, early reflexes that never fully resolved, or the silent echoes of experiences the nervous system had no choice but to carry.

 

In this work, we don’t try to override pain or force it away. Instead, we listen—with curiosity and care—to what your body has been holding. Through hands-on support, gentle movement, and nervous system regulation, we create the conditions for release, safety, and reconnection. Slowly, the body learns it doesn’t have to brace anymore.

 

You don’t need to fight your body to heal. There is another way—one rooted in presence, trust, and a return to what your system already knows deep down: that healing happens when we feel safe enough to let go.

Your system knows.
Sometimes, we don’t need more effort. We need more listening.
If something in you feels seen reading this—trust it.

Morgan Hickey,  CCC-SLP, LMT

Restorative, Regulation-Focused Bodywork Across the Lifespan
Serving clients in Loveland & Denver Metro Region, CO and online

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