Most people have at least heard of the term “body memory” or “tissue memory.” The Myofascial Release perspective believes that it is within the intricate matrix of the myofascial, or connective tissue that holds this memory and the myofascial tissue is literally the “record keeper” of memory in the body/mind complex.
When trauma occurs, whether physical, mental, emotional or a combination of these, people respond with a flight/fight or freeze response. It is this unresolved freeze response that MFR therapists believe is what holds us back from fully and naturally healing from a traumatic event.
Kathy Monkman, BSN, LMT, who is a Myofascial Release therapist with over 20 years of experience, has had a very creative idea that I would like to share with you.
“I’m excited to share with you a project I’ve launched this week that you might want to affiliate with and/or help me promote.
Last year I had one of those “aha” moments related to returning service persons struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how I (we) could help them with Myofascial Release but really didn’t know how or where to begin. Life went on and this summer a pebble got kicked in me that started a momentum to get this project started and the “In One Peace Project” was born.
The “In One Peace Project” is created to offer once per month, 100% free clinics to returning service persons using John F. Barnes Myofascial Release to help them resolve issues with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and/or body/head injury. At my office the 3 of us MFR therapists are going to offer this service to this population each month for a full day of free sessions. As I say in the mission statement, “we are here to serve those who are serving us.”
So, please take a look at my site, and friend me on Facebook and affiliate if you’re so inclined and help me get the word out! Thank you to John for giving me this opportunity to get this out there as well!”
Thank you, Kathy. We look forward to participating at my Myofascial Release Treatment Centers in Paoli, Pennsylvania (http://www.myofascialrelease.com/fascia_massage/public/treatmentcenter_paoli.asp)
and Sedona, Arizona (http://www.myofascialrelease.com/fascia_massage/public/treatmentcenter_sedona.asp).
If you are interested in helping those brave men and women who have risked their lives protecting us, please contact Kathy at: http://www.inonepeaceproject.org/. For more detailed information about this project, you can also access my new Therapeutic Insight column titled, “Wounded Warriors!”, at the following link: http://www.massagemag.com/News/massage-news.php?id=9623
Sincerely,
John
For more information about Myofascial Release, you can now access two separate excerpts from the Fireside Chat with John F. Barnes, PT DVD on ‘You Tube’! Just click on the following links:
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWRuS9xAbMo
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWRuS9xAbMo>
Part 2
24 responses so far ↓
Kathy Monkman // Aug 28th 2010 at 10:16 am
Thank you so much John for getting on board this important project, writing about it and promoting it in this huge way and most of all, sharing and teaching with me this profound healing art that gave me my life back so I can help others!
No words can ever express my gratitude.
love,
Kathy
Antonia Nelson // Aug 28th 2010 at 10:32 am
Thank you Kathy for bringing this project forward and thank you John for your work and sharing how Myofascial Release supports the healing of trauma. I have experiencing that in my life through this work. Working with Veterans has been a powerful experience, my life has been changed! Many found this work very beneficial and would ask, “why isn’t this work offered at the VA.” Now we have a chance to come together and offer it directly to the returning service men and women!
thank you both!!
love
Antonia
Janelle // Aug 28th 2010 at 10:43 am
What a great project!
MFR gave me my life back and I know it will help those returning service people with PTSD.
Thank you to those who are serving our country and to those providing myofascial release!
Abigail Buktenica LMT // Aug 28th 2010 at 11:30 am
Dear John,
After years of trying all types of traditional treatments and therapies, it was only when I began to work with a MFR therapist that I began to free myself from my PSTD. The releasing of long held frozen experiences that are trapped within our fascial system is the pathway to living a joy filled life.
I am excited about this project. A friend and I have been throwing ideas around for several months, she has a horse/pony farm. We are wanting to combine horses, MFR, families and healing for Vets.
Kathy you have shown a way.
Thank you!!!
Abigail
Jill RehrigPTA/MT // Aug 29th 2010 at 5:17 am
Dear John and Kathy,
I, too, am behind this incredible idea! Count my company,”New Beginnings,” in! Even though I am a sole practioner at this piont, I will do what I can…
Sincerely,
Jill Rehrig
Jill RehrigPTA/MT // Aug 29th 2010 at 5:22 am
Giving to the Giving! It doesn’t get better than this! Count me in on this incredible idea!
Sincerely, Jill Rehrig
Lisa Ganfield, OTR/L, CHT // Aug 29th 2010 at 9:56 am
John,
Thank you so much for this article.
We have seen the incredible work that MFR has on PTSD. We have been assisting the Vets in our area through their insurance but will be watching this additional program as well. It is a blessing to see this work used in such a beautiful way,
Lisa Ganfield, OTR/L, CHT
Marion Young, RMT // Aug 29th 2010 at 11:57 am
WOW! This is so inspiring.
For the past few years I have offered a free treatment for new born babies up to 3 months of age. Kathy, you’re making me think it would be cool to do the same thing for newborns. I’m going to look at offering a free day a week in my clinic.
You go girl.
I think your project is going to take off like wildfire with the exposure it’s already getting.
Good things tend to.
Ann Udofia, DPT // Aug 29th 2010 at 1:09 pm
Congratulations Kathy! JFB- MFR has truly transformed my life personally and professionally and it would an honor to share this gift with our troops. Please also count us Washington D. C. based MFR therapists in at Body Connect Physical Therapy and TAVO Total Health.
Ann Udofia, DPT
Jan Lambert, PT // Aug 29th 2010 at 1:10 pm
Kathy and John, Thank-you Kathy for such an MFR inspired way to make a difference in the lives of many who have given their all for our country and are now so needy. And thank-you again John for supporting this as well as many other endeavors and helping Kathy reach so many others, so many more people can participate. As we all know, PTSD can be emotionally (and physically) crippling and through MFR, people can heal! I am sorry I am unable to participate personally through where I work, but truly support you! I will be looking for opportunities to help in some way. Jan Lambert, PT
Kathy Monkman // Aug 29th 2010 at 3:15 pm
Yahoo to all those coming on board!
Wow!
So please write to me at the In One Peace site (link above) and I will get back to you about helping you get your program established and link you to my site. And suggestions about promotion, etc. And let this pebble become an avalanche! Let’s get some people on our tables who need this and help create a new generation other than the one that might have been.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
And again, thank you JOHN!
-Kathy
Karen Remele,PTA/L // Aug 30th 2010 at 3:50 pm
Thank you Kathy and John,
This sounds very exciting and hits home for us. We personally know several young men from our area currently serving our country. Soon my son and niece will be leaving for the US Air Force. I will do what I can to be a part of this great effort!
Molly McMillan // Aug 30th 2010 at 7:15 pm
I agree with everyone else who says this is this is an incredible mission and your vision is inspiring. I look very much forward to hearing more as the project progresses. Having worked with PTSD clients who’s lives have changed profoundly with MFR, I can imagine how many families will get the life of their loved ones back through this project.
Amy Beyer, LAT, WCMT // Aug 31st 2010 at 7:35 am
I am so excited for this project. I haven’t had the opportunity to work with vets, but am excited to look into this option through Kathy’s project. These men and women are so deserving.
thank you John and Kathy.
Patti Howitt // Aug 31st 2010 at 9:05 am
I began as a client with chronic, severe PTSD. After a 2 week MFR intensive at John’s Sedona center, my psychologist retested me and I was at the mild – moderate level of symptoms. She had never seen that quick a response with no meds, so she got John’s book so she could understand. 6 months later I no longer needed a psychologist or medication. That was 5 years ago.
It is hard to explain how someone recovers from PTSD with MFR treatment. You just have to experience it.
Thank you Kathy, for opening up this opportunity for these men and women. It will change lives!
Denny Doyle, LMT // Aug 31st 2010 at 12:08 pm
Whohoo, John & Kathy!
In One Peace an outstanding way to give back to our service people.
I, too, would love to participate in this project for the vets in Annapolis, MD at Denergy Myofascial Release.
Blessings, Denny Doyle
Nancy Ogorek PT // Sep 1st 2010 at 6:28 pm
Kathy – thank you for getting this program started & John for your support of “In One Peace”. As a Mom of a Marine (getting ready for her second deployment ) and an Airman, I am grateful for your support of our servicemen & women. I wish the military could get on board & start some “rebounding in the field” for early treatment! With much gratitude!
Sue Bransky, PT // Sep 1st 2010 at 10:09 pm
Great idea, Kathy!
Thanks to all who support this very worthy project. I am excited to get on board with this as well. JBMFR can help so many people with pain and trauma. This is a small way that we can give back to our servicemen and women who sacrifice so much for us. In the process, we can continue to spread the knowledge/benefits/feel of what is the John Barnes myofascial release approach.
Barbara Long // Sep 5th 2010 at 9:57 pm
Kathy,
I am located very near a Naval Air Station and do have the opportunity to work w/ Vets and their wives.
I would be honored to contribute to your In One Peace Project and join the many exceptional MFR therapists across the country in assisting our Troops. Like you said… let’s help create a new generation other than the one that might have been.
Love,
Barbara Long
MFR of Central California
Joyce Patterson PT // Sep 6th 2010 at 12:14 pm
I can’t imagine a better way to welcome these men and women home and help them to decompress than to honor them with the gift of MFR.
Great idea, Kathy!
Stephen Sanacore // Sep 16th 2010 at 8:20 am
Kathy,
This is a wonderful project. The power of the mind for these men and women are so strong for them to do what they do. But there is a limit and those limits must be released in order heal. My exprience from 9/11 tells that how strong mentally you are , these memories can get frozen in the body, and you are unaware of them. Like ticking time bombs sooner or later they will explode. Using MFR to gently defuse these ticking time bombs is a safe effective way to help the body heal itself.
william s. cohen // Sep 19th 2010 at 3:35 am
I am a former student of John’s, and would very much like to take part in the program. I can do this at least one day a month, as a vet myself, I’d be honored to serve again. I’m in South Carolina ,and we can do this !! Better Care Associates, 150 Rental Drive,Suite 1208, Holly Hill, S.C. 29059-1208.Thank-you for doing this program. Bless you.
William S. Cohen,.BS,.LMT.NCBTMB(843) 753-2049 /(843) 377-9439
Tara Carrington // Sep 19th 2010 at 7:59 pm
Dear John and Kathy,
I recently had the honor of working with a Vet and his wife. MFR is a tremendously effective, compassionate way to work through PTSD for those who are experiencing it, and also for their loved ones.
Kathy, your project is truly inspired and I am looking forward to joining your efforts. I have started gathering the advanced MFR therapists here in the west/central region of Florida so that we can offer our participation through my practice.
With much respect,
Tara Carrington
Myofascial Release of West Florida
Bradenton, FL
Eileen Huber, RN, MRT, CMT // Sep 25th 2010 at 3:47 pm
I experienced PTSD symptoms for many, many years following long term childhood traumas. Psychotherapy helped, true chiropractic and massage and some other modalites helped. And what finally opened the door to release of the “haunting”, as I call it, was JFB Myofascial Release.
So many of the triggers, so many of the symptoms gone now. And treatment and help always there if/when new layers of the onion open.
And the gift of being able to share this work with others, as an MFR therapist myself.
Gratefully, Eileen Huber
Indymyofascial, Indianapolis, IN
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