Soma Wellness

Are you curious about energy medicine but don't know where to start?  This is a great introduction to a daily energetic alignment practice to keep you aligned and on track.  Come back to it any time during the day if you feel like you energy is being hijacked by the world around you.

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What if lasting change didn’t begin with fixing everything you believe is broken—but with defining what you actually want?

The Soma Rewire System uses the power of your own superconscious to identify and reprogram unconscious barriers, bring your body, mind and soul back into coherence, and help you take aligned action in your health, wealth, love and soul-aligned success.

• Book a Soma Rewire session — [link]
• Try Soma Tribe for $1 — [link]

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If this episode touched your heart, please share it with someone you love and help awaken others to the Golden Path.

Website: soma-massage.net

Instagram: @somawellness.center or @tabitharmacdonald

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YouTube: @tabitharmacdonald

Tabitha MacDonald is an Intuitive Coach and Bodyworker committed to helping people overcome pain fast so they can experience the love, success, freedom, and fulfillment they deserve.

Additional Resources:

• 💻 Book a Free Consultation: Schedule now
• 💻 Save $200 on an Introductory Soma Rewire Session.  Book Now
• 🌀 Soma Flow Library of Healing (Free Trial!)
• 🌀Try Soma Tribe for $1!  Get started on your healing journey today.
• 📺 YouTube: Tabitha MacDonald Channel
• 📸 Instagram: @tabitharmacdonald

Soma Wellness Podcast: Where Science Meets the Healing Intelligence of You.

This podcast is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical or mental-health condition and is not a substitute for individualized medical, psychological or therapeutic care.

In This Episode

A concussion or traumatic brain injury can affect far more than memory, concentration, and physical comfort. It can disrupt your emotions, relationships, confidence, identity, ability to follow through, and connection to the person you were before the injury.

In this episode, Tabitha guides you through a gentle Soma Rewired session to help you choose one area of your life you are ready to reclaim, update the unconscious patterns affecting your recovery, and identify an aligned next step.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• How concussion symptoms can affect the physical, mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual areas of your life
• How to shift your attention from everything that feels wrong toward what you genuinely want to experience and create
• How protective patterns and unconscious resistance may influence your confidence, choices, energy, and ability to move forward
• How to choose one realistic, aligned action that supports the future you are ready to embody

The Soma Wellness Podcast explores the intersection of science, the body, the unconscious mind, and the healing intelligence already within you.

Where Science Meets the Healing Intelligence of You.

Try the Soma Rewire System

What if lasting change didn’t begin with fixing everything you believe is broken—but with defining what you actually want?

The Soma Rewire System uses the power of your own superconscious to identify and reprogram unconscious barriers, bring your body, mind and soul back into coherence, and help you take aligned action in your health, wealth, love and soul-aligned success.

• Book a Soma Rewire session — [link]
• Try Soma Tribe for $1 — [link]

Continue Your Journey

If this episode touched your heart, please share it with someone you love and help awaken others to the Golden Path.

Website: soma-massage.net

Instagram: @somawellness.center or @tabitharmacdonald

TikTok: @tabitharmacdonald

YouTube: @tabitharmacdonald

Tabitha MacDonald is an Intuitive Coach and Bodyworker committed to helping people overcome pain fast so they can experience the love, success, freedom, and fulfillment they deserve.

Additional Resources:

• 💻 Book a Free Consultation: Schedule now
• 💻 Save $200 on an Introductory Soma Rewire Session.  Book Now
• 🌀 Soma Flow Library of Healing (Free Trial!)
• 🌀Try Soma Tribe for $1!  Get started on your healing journey today.
• 📺 YouTube: Tabitha MacDonald Channel
• 📸 Instagram: @tabitharmacdonald

Soma Wellness Podcast: Where Science Meets the Healing Intelligence of You.

This podcast is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical or mental-health condition and is not a substitute for individualized medical, psychological or therapeutic care.

What Type of Massage Should I Book? How to Get the Treatment You Actually Want

When people call a massage clinic for the first time, one of the first questions they often ask is, “Do you offer deep tissue massage?”

But what does “deep tissue” actually mean—and is it really the treatment you need?

In this episode of the Soma Wellness Podcast, Tabitha breaks down the difference between pressure, technique, and treatment purpose. You’ll learn why deep tissue doesn’t simply mean “push harder,” why an effective treatment doesn’t have to hurt, and how to choose a massage or manual therapy session based on the outcome you actually want.

Whether you want to relax, address a specific pain pattern, improve movement, recover from an injury, or explore a more specialized form of bodywork, this episode will help you ask better questions and book with greater confidence.

In This Episode

• Why people ask for deep tissue—even when they aren’t sure what it means
• The important difference between pressure and tissue depth
• Why more pressure doesn’t automatically create better results
• Swedish and relaxation massage versus focused, results-driven bodywork
• What manual therapy means and who may provide it
• How Precision Neuromuscular Therapy uses assessment, treatment, and reassessment
• An introduction to visceral manipulation, neural mobilization, and craniosacral therapy
• Why your massage doesn’t have to hurt to be effective
• How to communicate your preferences and expectations during treatment
• What to ask a practitioner before investing in a session

Questions to Ask Before Booking

• Is this something you regularly work with?
• What type of session would you recommend for the outcome I want?
• Will this be a full-body massage or focused treatment?
• Do you assess and reassess movement during the session?
• What specialized training do you have for this particular concern?
• Will I remain dressed or undressed?
• How much communication or movement happens during the session?
• What can I reasonably expect from one appointment?
• Are there symptoms that should be medically evaluated first?

The Most Important Takeaway

You don’t need to know the name of every massage modality.

Start by asking:

What do I want to be different when this session is over?

You aren’t simply booking a pressure level. You’re booking a purpose.

The best treatment is not necessarily the deepest, most painful, most expensive, or most complicated. It is the treatment that fits your body, your goals, and what you need right now.

Ready to Find the Right Treatment?

At Soma Massage & Wellness, we don’t expect you to know exactly what modality you need. We begin with a conversation about what you’re experiencing, what you want to change, and the type of experience you’re looking for.

From therapeutic relaxation massage to focused pain and rehabilitative bodywork and advanced manual therapy, we’ll help you choose the session that best fits your desired outcome.

Learn more or book an appointment with Soma Massage & Wellness in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

About the Soma Wellness Podcast

The Soma Wellness Podcast is where science meets the healing intelligence of you.

Hosted by Tabitha MacDonald, LMT, each episode explores the body, nervous system, pain, healing, identity, behavior, relationships, and the science behind why we get stuck—and, more importantly, how we change.

Disclaimer

This podcast is intended for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for individualized medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Persistent pain, numbness, tingling, weakness, sudden changes in function, or other concerning symptoms should be evaluated by an appropriately licensed healthcare professional.

In This Episode

Why can you consciously want healing, change or success—and still find yourself doing the exact opposite?

In this episode of the newly evolved Soma Wellness Podcast, Tabitha shares how her work moved beyond love and relationships into a deeper exploration of the body, unconscious patterns and the healing intelligence within us. You’ll learn how the conscious, unconscious and superconscious levels interact, why protective parts may resist the very change you want, and how curiosity can help you stop fighting yourself and begin creating internal coherence.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• The three levels of consciousness and the role each plays in lasting change
• Why self-sabotage may actually be an unconscious form of protection
• How parts work helps you understand the conflict between what you want and what feels safe
• A gentle three-chair practice for listening to pain, tension or resistance and identifying one aligned action you can take today

Try the Soma Rewire System

What if lasting change didn’t begin with fixing everything you believe is broken—but with defining what you actually want?

The Soma Rewire System uses the power of your own superconscious to identify and reprogram unconscious barriers, bring your body, mind and soul back into coherence, and help you take aligned action in your health, wealth, love and soul-aligned success.

• Book a Soma Rewire session — [link]
• Try Soma Tribe for $1 — [link]

Continue Your Journey

If this episode touched your heart, please share it with someone you love and help awaken others to the Golden Path.

Website: soma-massage.net

Instagram: @somawellness.center or @tabitharmacdonald

TikTok: @tabitharmacdonald

YouTube: @tabitharmacdonald

Tabitha MacDonald is an Intuitive Coach and Bodyworker committed to helping people overcome pain fast so they can experience the love, success, freedom, and fulfillment they deserve.

Additional Resources:

• 💻 Book a Free Consultation: Schedule now
• 💻 Save $200 on an Introductory Soma Rewire Session.  Book Now
• 🌀 Soma Flow Library of Healing (Free Trial!)
• 🌀Try Soma Tribe for $1!  Get started on your healing journey today.
• 📺 YouTube: Tabitha MacDonald Channel
• 📸 Instagram: @tabitharmacdonald

Soma Wellness Podcast: Where Science Meets the Healing Intelligence of You.

This podcast is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medical or mental-health condition and is not a substitute for individualized medical, psychological or therapeutic care.

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The Failure Pattern: When Your Greatest Gift Becomes the Pattern

There's a pattern that almost nobody talks about in the personal growth space — not because it's hidden, but because it's nearly impossible to see from the inside.

Your biggest failure pattern won't feel like a failure pattern. It will feel like your greatest gift.

In this episode, Tabitha shares the three areas of her own life where the same unconscious program quietly ran the show — her business, a relationship, and right here at this microphone — and why it took her so long to catch it. Because it didn't feel like self-sabotage. It felt like flow.

She also breaks down the secret failure pattern hiding inside each Enneagram type — not the obvious one, but the one that sounds exactly like your gift.

In this episode:

• Why distraction disguised as intuition feels exactly like intuition — and the one question that tells them apart
• The both/and of analytical and intuitive thinking, and what happens when one takes over completely
• The secret shadow pattern of each Enneagram type — and why yours will always sound like the most authentic version of you
• The simple discernment practice that doesn't ask you to distrust yourself — just to pause for one breath

The one question from this episode worth writing down: Does this make my life more simple, or more complicated?

Resources mentioned:

• Book a Soma Rewire session — [link]
• Try Soma Tribe for $1 — [link]

Continue Your Journey

If this episode touched your heart, please share it with someone you love and help awaken others to the Golden Path.

Website: soma-massage.net

Instagram: @somawellness.center or @tabitharmacdonald

TikTok: @tabitharmacdonald

YouTube: @tabitharmacdonald

✨ Ready to take this work deeper?

If today’s episode spoke to your soul and you’re ready to rise into a life aligned with your truth, I’d love to invite you into Soma Tribe—my signature transformational journey for people who are done playing small and ready to reclaim their power, purpose, and intuitive knowing.

✨ Learn more and sign up online.

Tabitha MacDonald is an Intuitive Coach and Bodyworker committed to helping people overcome pain fast so they can experience the love, success, freedom, and fulfillment they deserve.

Additional Resources:

• 💻 Book a Free Consultation: Schedule now
• 💻 Save $200 on an Introductory Soma Rewire Session.  Book Now
• 🌀 Soma Flow Library of Healing (Free Trial!)
• 🌀Try Soma Tribe for $1!  Get started on your healing journey today.
• 📺 YouTube: Tabitha MacDonald Channel
• 📸 Instagram: @tabitharmacdonald

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The pain that drops you to your knees rarely arrives with a dramatic story. It shows up when you’re doing something laughably normal: opening a shower curtain, putting on socks, standing up from the toilet. That’s not proof your body is fragile. It’s often proof your body has been whispering for a long time and finally found a moment you couldn’t ignore.

We walk through how pain actually escalates, why your perception is the only pain scale that matters, and what we can learn by tracking what the pain prevents you from doing. Then we share a powerful Zoom coaching moment: a business-owning mom walks in with 8 out of 10 head pain and leaves at a 2 in about 20 minutes. No touch, no tricks. We unpack the Double Bubble process, rooted in paradoxical intention, and why “choosing the pain” can stop the internal war that keeps the nervous system locked in threat.

We also break down a four-layer framework for chronic pain relief and recurring symptoms: emotional patterns like grief, mental stories and beliefs, energetic or inherited programming (yes, epigenetics comes up), and the physical body. Finally, we explain craniosacral therapy in plain language and why pairing nervous system coaching with skilled bodywork can help changes last, especially when pain flares around certain times of year or meaningful anniversaries.

If you’ve tried everything and the pain keeps coming back, listen with an open mind and a curious body. Subscribe, share this with someone who’s stuck, and leave a review so more people can find a smarter path to real relief.

Continue Your Journey

If this episode touched your heart, please share it with someone you love and help awaken others to the Golden Path.

Website: soma-massage.net

Instagram: @somawellness.center or @tabitharmacdonald

TikTok: @tabitharmacdonald

YouTube: @tabitharmacdonald

✨ Ready to take this work deeper?

If today’s episode spoke to your soul and you’re ready to rise into a life aligned with your truth, I’d love to invite you into Soma Tribe—my signature transformational journey for people who are done playing small and ready to reclaim their power, purpose, and intuitive knowing.

✨ Learn more and sign up online.

Tabitha MacDonald is an Intuitive Coach and Bodyworker committed to helping people overcome pain fast so they can experience the love, success, freedom, and fulfillment they deserve.

Additional Resources:

• 💻 Book a Free Consultation: Schedule now
• 💻 Save $200 on an Introductory Soma Rewire Session.  Book Now
• 🌀 Soma Flow Library of Healing (Free Trial!)
• 🌀Try Soma Tribe for $1!  Get started on your healing journey today.
• 📺 YouTube: Tabitha MacDonald Channel
• 📸 Instagram: @tabitharmacdonald

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In this special Mother’s Day episode, we explore the changing landscape of motherhood — and the invisible emotional weight mothers have carried across generations.

From the silent sacrifices of the 1950s… to latchkey parenting, rising divorce rates, war, social media, active shooter drills, influencer culture, pandemic parenting, and the impossible pressure of modern motherhood — this episode looks at how deeply the world has changed for women raising children.

We talk about the mother wound not as blame, but as inheritance. A pattern passed quietly from generation to generation. The ways fear, hypervigilance, perfectionism, emotional suppression, codependency, and survival get carried through families without anyone realizing it.

And we hold a truth that can be both painful and freeing:  Your mother may have loved you deeply… and still not known how to give you what you needed.

This episode explores:

• generational trauma and inherited survival patterns
• why modern motherhood feels emotionally overwhelming
• social media, influencer culture, and raising children in the digital age
• compassion without excusing harm
• healing the mother wound without losing yourself in blame

We also move into a gentle healing journey with Kwan Yin, exploring self-forgiveness, inner child healing, ancestral patterns, and what becomes possible when we stop carrying pain that was never ours to hold alone.

If you’ve ever felt unseen, emotionally responsible for everyone, disconnected from yourself, or trapped inside inherited patterns you couldn’t explain… this episode is for you.

Continue Your Journey

If this episode touched your heart, please share it with someone you love and help awaken others to the Golden Path.

Website: soma-massage.net

Instagram: @somawellness.center or @tabitharmacdonald

TikTok: @tabitharmacdonald

YouTube: @tabitharmacdonald

✨ Ready to take this work deeper?

If today’s episode spoke to your soul and you’re ready to rise into a life aligned with your truth, I’d love to invite you into Soma Tribe—my signature transformational journey for people who are done playing small and ready to reclaim their power, purpose, and intuitive knowing.

✨ Learn more and sign up online.

Tabitha MacDonald is an Intuitive Coach and Bodyworker committed to helping people overcome pain fast so they can experience the love, success, freedom, and fulfillment they deserve.

Additional Resources:

• 💻 Book a Free Consultation: Schedule now
• 💻 Save $200 on an Introductory Soma Rewire Session.  Book Now
• 🌀 Soma Flow Library of Healing (Free Trial!)
• 🌀Try Soma Tribe for $1!  Get started on your healing journey today.
• 📺 YouTube: Tabitha MacDonald Channel
• 📸 Instagram: @tabitharmacdonald

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When your life starts slipping sideways, it is easy to blame your mindset, your trauma, your hormones, your ADHD, or your willpower. I tell a story that changed how I see all of that: I fell, hit my head, told myself I was fine, and kept going until my behavior started telling the truth for me. What followed was months of dizziness, brain fog, avoidance, mood changes, impulsive spending, and a creeping belief that I was “broken” even though I’ve spent years studying healing and self-coaching.

We get painfully specific about mild traumatic brain injury and post-concussion symptoms, including how executive dysfunction can hide in plain sight. I walk through the symptom list that can look like burnout, depression, anxiety, empty nest grief, or perimenopause and explain why the brain can’t always connect the dots after an impact. We also talk about the coaching and wellness trap of trying to “think your way” out of physiology, and why positive thinking supports healing but cannot override brain science.

If this resonates, subscribe, share it with a single mom or caregiver who needs validation, and leave a review so more people can find these conversations.

Continue Your Journey

If this episode touched your heart, please share it with someone you love and help awaken others to the Golden Path.

Website: soma-massage.net

Instagram: @somawellness.center or @tabitharmacdonald

TikTok: @tabitharmacdonald

YouTube: @tabitharmacdonald

✨ Ready to take this work deeper?

If today’s episode spoke to your soul and you’re ready to rise into a life aligned with your truth, I’d love to invite you into Soma Tribe—my signature transformational journey for people who are done playing small and ready to reclaim their power, purpose, and intuitive knowing.

✨ Learn more and sign up online.

Tabitha MacDonald is an Intuitive Coach and Bodyworker committed to helping people overcome pain fast so they can experience the love, success, freedom, and fulfillment they deserve.

Additional Resources:

• 💻 Book a Free Consultation: Schedule now
• 💻 Save $200 on an Introductory Soma Rewire Session.  Book Now
• 🌀 Soma Flow Library of Healing (Free Trial!)
• 🌀Try Soma Tribe for $1!  Get started on your healing journey today.
• 📺 YouTube: Tabitha MacDonald Channel
• 📸 Instagram: @tabitharmacdonald

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Bullying leaves clues in places most of us never think to look: your posture, your pain patterns, your fear of being seen, and the reflex to manage other people’s moods just to stay safe. We go back to the root of it, what happens inside a chaotic home where addiction, intimidation, and “jokes” that feel cruel teach kids the wrong definition of love. When that’s the training ground, sibling bullying is not random. It’s a nervous system strategy that assigns roles, the target who learns to disappear and the protector who uses aggression to avoid getting hurt.

From there, we widen the lens to bullying culture in schools, cliques, and online spaces, including how scarcity and social hierarchy turn outsiders into enforcers. We also talk about why healthy conflict is not the same as bullying, and how repetition, power imbalance, and lack of repair push the body into freeze, people pleasing, hypervigilance, and shame loops. If you’ve ever felt stuck waiting for an apology, we challenge that pattern directly: closure is something you create, not something you receive.

We end with tools you can actually use, nervous system regulation, forgiveness meditation, mindset work that helps you witness thoughts instead of obeying them, and frameworks like the Enneagram to understand your internal “user manual.” If you’re untangling childhood trauma, sibling dynamics, or online bullying stress, this conversation is built to help you reclaim your voice. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review with the biggest insight you’re taking with you.

Dr. Matt Forgiveness Video

Continue Your Journey

If this episode touched your heart, please share it with someone you love and help awaken others to the Golden Path.

Website: soma-massage.net

Instagram: @somawellness.center or @tabitharmacdonald

TikTok: @tabitharmacdonald

YouTube: @tabitharmacdonald

✨ Ready to take this work deeper?

If today’s episode spoke to your soul and you’re ready to rise into a life aligned with your truth, I’d love to invite you into Soma Tribe—my signature transformational journey for people who are done playing small and ready to reclaim their power, purpose, and intuitive knowing.

✨ Learn more and sign up online.

Tabitha MacDonald is an Intuitive Coach and Bodyworker committed to helping people overcome pain fast so they can experience the love, success, freedom, and fulfillment they deserve.

Additional Resources:

• 💻 Book a Free Consultation: Schedule now
• 💻 Save $200 on an Introductory Soma Rewire Session.  Book Now
• 🌀 Soma Flow Library of Healing (Free Trial!)
• 🌀Try Soma Tribe for $1!  Get started on your healing journey today.
• 📺 YouTube: Tabitha MacDonald Channel
• 📸 Instagram: @tabitharmacdonald

Send us Fan Mail

Balance sounds simple until you’re the one holding everything together. Under the Libra full moon, we guide you through a deeply calming meditation designed to reset boundaries, soften people pleasing, and bring your relationships back into alignment without abandoning your own needs.

We start with breathwork and a clear intention, then move into vivid guided imagery: a moonlit garden with two reflecting pools, one for your rest, dreams, and personal boundaries, and one for the needs of others. Instead of choosing one side, we practice true Libra energy by building harmony between both. From there, we drop into an ocean rhythm that calms the nervous system, surround you with aquamarine light, and use a “superconscious recode” approach to clear old patterns like carrying other people’s baggage, losing trust in intuition, and living in chaos.

If you feel pulled between harmony and burnout, press play and come back to center. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs calm, and leave a review with what your “letter” revealed.

Continue Your Journey

If this episode touched your heart, please share it with someone you love and help awaken others to the Golden Path.

Website: soma-massage.net

Instagram: @somawellness.center or @tabitharmacdonald

TikTok: @tabitharmacdonald

YouTube: @tabitharmacdonald

✨ Ready to take this work deeper?

If today’s episode spoke to your soul and you’re ready to rise into a life aligned with your truth, I’d love to invite you into Soma Tribe—my signature transformational journey for people who are done playing small and ready to reclaim their power, purpose, and intuitive knowing.

✨ Learn more and sign up online.

Tabitha MacDonald is an Intuitive Coach and Bodyworker committed to helping people overcome pain fast so they can experience the love, success, freedom, and fulfillment they deserve.

Additional Resources:

• 💻 Book a Free Consultation: Schedule now
• 💻 Save $200 on an Introductory Soma Rewire Session.  Book Now
• 🌀 Soma Flow Library of Healing (Free Trial!)
• 🌀Try Soma Tribe for $1!  Get started on your healing journey today.
• 📺 YouTube: Tabitha MacDonald Channel
• 📸 Instagram: @tabitharmacdonald