I’ve been a massage therapist for 11 years, but I’ve been curious about bodies for much longer than that.

Why do we hurt? Why does something work beautifully for one person and not another? Why does the body sometimes hold on so tightly—and why can the smallest shift sometimes change everything?

That curiosity has taken me through more than a decade of training, research, and hands-on work. I’ve studied Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy®, Chi Nei Tsang, Craniosacral Fascial Therapy (CFT), the Baby Listening Method with Jen Holland CST, The Vaughn Approach, Tongue Tie Experts Practitioner Training with Lisa Paladino, and many other approaches along the way.

But the story of how I got here really begins with my own body.

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Hi, I’m Sherri

The belly became my first home…

Before I became a massage therapist, I was a mother who desperately wanted more children.

I experienced miscarriage before the birth of my first son, and years later, another devastating loss. After that second miscarriage, my husband encouraged me to step away from the job I had been pouring myself into, and I found myself working as an office manager at a small country birth center in Oregon.

Suddenly, I was surrounded by pregnancy and birth. Midwives and mothers. Babies. Loss. Hope. New beginnings. And all the complicated, beautiful things that exist between them.

For a while, I thought I might become a home birth midwife.

Instead, something pulled me toward massage school.

While I was there, I experienced another loss—a molar pregnancy that required surgery. Somewhere in the middle of that season, I stumbled across an article about Mayan abdominal massage.

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Abdominal and womb work became the first kind of bodywork that truly felt like mine. It felt like divine alignment—something deeper than simply being in the right place at the right time. It felt strong. Important. Holy.

I studied Mayan abdominal massage, then Chi Nei Tsang and deeper visceral work. I became fascinated by the belly—not just as a collection of muscles and organs, but as a center of movement, digestion, breath, reproduction, emotion, protection, and connection.

My curiosity kept growing.

So did my family.

I experienced two more miscarriages along the way, and I also went on to welcome three more beautiful children.

Today, I live in Chattanooga with the love of my life, our four children, our dog, and our wonderfully wild garden.

And I’m still curious…

I remember thinking:

This. I need to know this.

I had no idea how much that little thread of curiosity would change my life.

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