There is so much about this work that is unknown.
For providers, the most damaging soft tissue trauma appears to be sustained in-utero compressive fascial strain(s). Severe structural issues can result requiring years of Gillespie Approach therapy and other modalities.
I have seen a fifty-year-old patient over a period of 4.5 years for 51 hours of CFT. She works on herself at home, sometimes an hour at night, but tells me she does better when I listen to her body. She is slowly clearing her multiple fetal birth traumas.
For any prospective child or adult patient, if you have chronic issues that have been with you as far back as you can remember and nothing has worked for you, this may be your situation too. I cannot tell you on the first visit if you have it. If we get into it, I do not know how many visits are needed for clearing it.
I do not know how to best get you through it other than just listening to your body. As much as you want to be done now, healing does not have a time factor. When you finally have a quiet fascial web, I am never sure if you are completely done because there may be deeper layers of restricted fascia in your onion lurking.
Help stop the suffering; let’s make the work happen at birth.
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