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Integrative Bodywork by Alex Mart

Nervous System-Centered Healing:

Craniosacral Therapy, Gentle Bodywork

& Pain/Symptom Reprocessing Therapy

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    Articles, Science, Practices & Poetry

    for Nervous System

    & Chronic Pain/Sypmtom Healing

    Cultivating Self-Trust
    March 19, 2026
    I recently listened to a moving podcast from Like Mind, Like Body: "Healing When Pain is Both...
    Returning to Ease
    February 11, 2026
    Words from Adam Moskowitz, teacher of Living Stillness Retreats and Rainbow Mind, a weekly online...
    Criteria for Evaluating if Pain & Symptoms are Neuroplastic
    December 4, 2025
    How can we tell what is causing our pain and symptoms? Below is a list of criteria developed by...
    Completing Stress Cycles
    We can't control what happens, but we can choose how we respond. Response-ability (for our state...
    Interoception
    August 14, 2025
    If you can't truly feel how you are, how can you know what you need or want (in this moment, or...
    What Is Pain?
    September 22, 2024
    New Neuroscience & What It Means for Treatment & Healing: My own journey with chronic pain has...
    20-Second Body Relaxation Scan
    March 27, 2024
    Relaxation is a practice, one we are not taught to value much in our culture. It's normal to...
    Osteopaths on 14 easy and effective ways to treat back pain
    February 12, 2024
    While there is no cookie-cutter treatment for pain, this recent article in the Guardian is full...
    Sigh... Breath as a Doorway to Healing
    January 30, 2024 · Poetry,Inspiration
    I often talk about breath with my clients—it is perhaps the most direct and immediate doorway we...
    What is Craniosacral Therapy?
    December 3, 2023
    Physiological Foundations, Therapeutic Approach, Benefits, & Complementary Therapies   ...
    Nature Poems for Inner Peace
    November 28, 2023 · Poetry
    We just passed my grandfather's, Pop-pop's, birthday. He passed away a few years ago, and one of...
    Healing is Not Telling Yourself to Relax
    August 15, 2023
    Telling myself to be something other than what I am just creates more struggle, reinforces my...
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