Your body has one main job: keep you alive and functioning. It doesn’t care if you’re busy, productive, or “fine.” It cares about survival. And just like the brain, the body gets a little…creative. A lot of the aches, tension, numbness, and exhaustion people live with aren’t random. They’re protective patterns — your body adapting to stress, injury, emotional overload, and years of pushing through. Here are 8 unhinged things your body does to “protect” you — whether you asked

Your Legal Right. Your Health. Your Holistic Care. Washington is one of the strongest supporters of holistic, hands-on healthcare in the country. Under Washington State law, all state-regulated health insurance plans are required to cover at least 6 medically-necessary massage therapy visits per year when prescribed by a licensed provider. That 6-visit minimum is the legal floor — not the clinical standard. In real medical practice, most doctors prescribe massage therapy for