Michelle Ratz-McGuire: Registered Massage Therapy and Hypnotherapy

Comment "money" and I'll send you my rate calculator so you can reverse engineer your income goals!

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𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵.

I ask about your job, your commute, your sleep, your stress - not just where it hurts. Because where it hurts is almost never the whole story.

Then I spend the session treating the 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 that created the problem - 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴. That's the difference between feeling better for two days and actually changing something.

And before you leave I tell you what I found, what we worked on, and what to expect over the next few days. You walk out understanding your body better than when you walked in - and that understanding is part of the work.

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. But it will start something, and I'll be honest with you about what it's going to take and what a realistic plan looks like for your body specifically.
That's whatI do. Every single time.

I'm in uptown Waterloo and if you've been looking for a therapist who thinks beyond the session, we should talk.

📍Uptown Waterloo | Link in Bio to book

The daily grind but it's just stretching, good music, and helping people remember they have a body.

Here's the honest answer to the "is it worth it" question:

It depends on what you're comparing it to.

If you're comparing it to a treat - something nice you do for yourself when you've been especially good or especially stressed - then maybe the math is harder to justify.

But if you're comparing it to the cost of ignoring what your body has been trying to tell you… the sleep that doesn't restore, the headache that shows up every week, the tension that has become so normal you've stopped noticing it… then the math looks completely different.

It starts something that the hot bath, the foam roller, and the "I'll feel better on my own" have not been able to start.

The fence is comfortable. I get it. But your body has been on the other side of it for a while now - and it's ready when you are.