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Triangle Wellness Bodywork: Same Great Massage, Plus More




Hey folks, so I'm changing things up just a little bit with how I show up in my work.


I've been looking inward this past year and clarifying what feels most resonant for me to offer the world, and I believe I have achieved enough of a direction to move forward.

The Name Change

When I started Triangle Wellness *Collective*, it felt like I was escaping into unknown waters, because the chances of survival staying where I was were worse than the mysterious territory of full time self-employment. To put it bluntly, I had no idea what I was doing when it came to running a business. I knew how to massage, and how to hold space for those that bigger spas seem to have forgotten, but I didn't know anything about marketing, accounting, etc. I still don’t think I know a lot, but I have dialed in a little tighter how I want my work to be perceived.


Through the work I offer at Triangle Wellness, I wanted to shift to highlight the emphasis on the body. I want people to be empowered to achieve stability and grow into community connection more easily through their work with me. Maybe for some that looks like managing chronic pain with massage, for some that might be nervous system regulation through sound healing, and for some that might look like education and space holding around trans advocacy, stress, trauma, or grief.


The Logo

My massage practice has coalesced into a beautiful community, and I wanted to more clearly honor the way that I have been blessed by my connection to the community through my work. I chose to represent this with the triangle within the Flower of Life to honor the creative life force that develops among a community that is regularly making time to honor their own humanness.


New offerings


Private Sound Healing and Chair Massage

Bring well-being into your office, support group, or conference! I have gotten the opportunity to do a number of chair massage offerings in offices, as well as some private sound healing gigs for conferences and support groups. I love seeing the magic of a group that already knows each other experiencing healing together, and I'd like to facilitate more of that work!


Trans advocacy

I've recently gotten the opportunity to share my experiences as a person of trans, queer, disabled experience, and I've discovered that I really enjoy getting to share my story. Perhaps I can permit myself to allow people to support my wellbeing in exchange for the telling of my story.


In October I was a part of a panel discussion at First St. Charles United Methodist Church discussing the experience of those with LGBTQ+ experiences, where I got the opportunity to share about my life experience as a queer trans person, and all the joy, wonder, trauma, and community building that entails. It was honestly so lovely to have to opportunity to connect with folks who have experienced life through different lenses than myself, and a privilege to make the invitation for us to be in community together regardless of any differences we have been told would keep us apart.


Education around stress, burnout, and trauma-informed care

Beyond my personal story, I have also acquired quite a bit of knowledge about how to manage stress as I have been navigating my life, and I delight in the balance I can offer between studying the neuroscience of trauma and experimenting with coping strategies firsthand in order to survive my experience. I'm not afraid to talk about the hard stuff with a kind smile. I've been through the stressful STEM career, I've been denied services by DMV clerks (3 in fact!) who felt that I didn't deserve to be trans unharassed, and I've been taking my healing into my own hands since I was 10, struggling to survive one chaotic enviroment after another. What's mentionable is manageable-- I'm here to help folks have hard conversations.


I recently gave a presentation on stress and burnout to a group of pharmacy students at the University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy. I felt something light up inside me watching these young adults who are under an immense amount of pressure and stress, slowly open up to being and caring for their body through breathwork, mindfulness, and movement. We discussed the hard truths about how the current systems we're all doing our best to survive are not designed for our wellbeing, and it is up to us to care for ourselves and each other within these systems. We took a moment to acknowledge that pharmacists with less work experience and those without solid coping skills (so, all of the students in the audience) are more likely to experience burnout-- I leveled with them that I can't do much about the first risk factor, but I can certainly put them on the right path to handle the second. But a presentation with me is not all doom and gloom, we also had fun experiencing coping skills that can be helpful in moments under pressure, particularly breathwork, mindfulness, and movement.


Grief ritual space holding

Over the past few weeks I have held a memorial and healing circle in proximity to a community member that died by suicide. I’ve found that holding space for grief is such powerful medicine that I am called to lean more into. I am continuing my study in this area, but on a case by case basis, I am available to hold space for rituals around grief for folks in the community.

What Can we Learn from Each Other?

I'm at a place in my life where I'm hopeful that I've found some stability, but maybe I've just gotten better at surfing the chaos, because the chaos around me doesn't seem to be slowing down. I want to help folks surf the chaos with me: I want us all to be able to get our needs met. I'm here to say, "Here we are in this mess together. Let me hold the space for us to be humans, and all the chaos that entails. How can we honor our humanity together?"


I look forward to exploring new waters with you all.


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