Paula's Body Shop
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Post Session Help

​Take what works, discard what doesn't.

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If you have been helped, please be so kind as to offer a kind word or testimonial. Gratitude keeps us all going.

I know that I am deeply grateful to my clients whose insights and bodies have taught me what healing is all about: Quality of Attitude and Attention.

The Basics

  • How Often Should I Come Back? - The question new clients ask the most. Here's your answer.
  • About Those Sharpies - Take the fear out of the unknown and start healing; article needs updating but is still useful.
  • DIY Low Back Pain Relief - A minute or two before rising or before going to sleep, is all it takes.
  • Anxiety and Emotional Healing - We can live without our thinking brain, but we'll die without our emotional brain; shutting off feelings in a stressful world is no way to live and may even be a major source of anxiety.
  • More About Water - What's not mentioned is that we must not rely on our sense of thirst to determine our water needs, not the least because our sense of thirst fades as we age.
  • The Sensitives Corner - If I mentioned you were sensitive and strong, you might appreciate these insights. 

Food's Influence on Health

 
As a victim of well-meaning-but-harmful medical dietary advice, Paula suffered for too long before experimenting and finding answers that made a true difference. Other professionals have, too, and they are getting organized:
  • Fasting For Immunity by Dr. PJ, MD 
  • How to Fast Safely
  • Irrational Dietary Advice That Works​
  • Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2 Work Together
  • The Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners and Low Carb USA may help you find - or educate - clinicians who are diet enlightened. Please report any providers who claim understanding but don't practice it with their patients.
  • Got brain fog or declining cognition? Try this recipe.

Your Childhood and Your Health Today

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​The relationship environment created by our parental figures in our formative years - as well as our choice of response - often determines our health and wellbeing throughout our lives
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Those who score high on the ACEs 
questionnaire are more likely to have chronic health problems that only worsen with aging.
Find out your Adverse Childhood Experience score.
Parenting styles may contribute to or help offset trauma:
​Pathological relating/parenting is:
  • Irresponsible
  • Disrespectful
  • Aggressive, passive, or passive-aggressive
  • Too confining or too free;
Healthy relating/parenting is:
  • Responsible
  • Respectful
  • Assertive
  • Appropriately bounded;
The will and ability of each child determines how health problems manifest over time. For example:
  • Resolute children may internalize and end up with chronic personal health problems;
  • Children that give up may externalize and end up being part of chronic societal health problems.  

 

Fasting For Immunity

Because my only witness to fasting was by people doing it irresponsibly, I delayed for too long the very health-promoting dietary activity I needed to turn my girth and immune situations around. Now I have a tool - with guidance - that I can use anytime I need it. But don't take my word for it. Hear what Dr. PJ has to say.
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How to Fast Safely

​Like most anything in life there is a right way to do it, and it usually comes with boundary-defining caveats. No one is better at defining the fasting boundaries, without the unnecessary surplus that can cloud the picture, than Dr. Jason Fung, author of The Obesity Code, The Diabetes Code, and of many articles freely shared. You need not have diabetes to need to fast, yet it's a good place to start understanding.
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Irrational Dietary Advice That Works

Diet is a tricky subject. We are each biochemically unique.  Our diets may need to reflect that if we have unsolvable health problems. Once we learn what different foods can do to us, it is easier to be motivated to remove a food if we know it is behind our aching bones or inflamed flesh. Dr. Ken Berry had his own health struggles. His medical education led him down the path of chronic disease. So, he went rogue, got scientific, experimented - and found a better way. He has many wonderful videos to choose from, yet this one is special. If it doesn't float your boat, visit Dr. Berry's channel, search on something that interests you, and get to know thyself. 
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Vitamin D3 and K2 Work Together


​Vitamin D levels are mysteriously low in many people and therefore require supplementation. Dr. John Campbell is one of the more reliable and worthy advisors available at no charge. His advice on D3 and K2 is spot on. Paula had her own, acute issues related to lack of vitamin D and wishes she'd known about Campbell, before. He offers an informed, evidence-based, and enlightened view worth having for your own protection.
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Hours

By Appointment
​10 AM - 4 PM

Location

Manhattan Valley
Between the Upper West Side and Harlem

Contact

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No walk-ins
No last-minute appointments
​No advance or phone consultations
No sales or marketing calls

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About

Repairing the human body since 2003

Fasciae (connective tissue) healing from skin to muscle to bone through innovative, no-nonsense bodywork and education.
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Prevention, Pain Management, Pain Solutions, Rehabilitation, Special Needs, Body as Instrument (Singers, Dancers, Athletes, Brainiacs, etc.), Stress Reduction, Anti-aging, Sports, Geriatric, Prenatal, etc.

Paula's brand of bodywork is derived from  professional training in Western therapies including but not limited to: Swedish medical massage, Neuromuscular (NMT), and Trigger Point, as well as therapies of Eastern origin including but not limited to: massage cupping by machine and for joint therapy, Acupressure, Shiatsu, and Smooth Gua Sha (similar yet superior to Graston Technique), along with various manual vibrational therapies from dense to subtle like: Tok Sen (hammer massage) and BioSyntonie.
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 Paula's Body Shop
Paula Mae, LMT
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The word 'massage' denotes Paula's Fasciae Therapy, aka Connective Tissue therapy, and is remedy-based to solve the root of the issues in your tissues.
  • Appointments:
    • Location and Hours
    • How to Book with Paula
    • Choose Your Session
    • Agree to Office Policies
    • Contact Paula
    • Make a Payment
  • Praise
  • FAQ
  • About:
    • About Paula Mae, LMT
    • About Paula's Massage Therapy
    • About Palpation
    • About Fascia Therapy
    • About Biosyntonie
    • About Tok Sen
    • About Gua Sha
    • About Massage Cupping
    • About Foot Reflexology
  • Info:
    • Post Session Help
    • Products Used: >
      • Herbals
      • Miracle II
      • Aires Tech
    • EMF Solutions
    • First Time Energy Users
  • Blog