Soma Wellness

Tabitha MacDonald
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The Soma Wellness Podcast is where science meets the healing intelligence of you. If you’re living with pain, struggling to change patterns that keep repeating, feeling disconnected from your body, or simply know there has to be a better way to feel and live—this show is for you. Hosted by Tabitha MacDonald, Licensed Massage Therapist, Intuitive Coach, and creator of the Soma Rewire System, the Soma Wellness Podcast explores the connection between the body, brain, nervous system, unconscious mind, and superconscious—and how working with all of them can create lasting change. We’ll explore everything from chronic pain, manual therapy, the nervous system, soul healing and the mind-body connection to creating loving relationships, unwavering self-worth, emotional patterns, identity conflict and how to align with the highest expression of health, wealth, love and success for you in this lifetime. You’ll learn how approaches like manual therapy, neuroscience, parts work, hypnosis, NLP, somatic awareness, and superconscious healing can help uncover and change the patterns keeping you stuck. Healing isn’t about endlessly searching for what’s broken and trying to fix it. It begins by defining what you actually want—not what you think will fix the broken parts of your life—and using the infinite power of your own superconscious to identify and remove the barriers preventing you from having it. It’s about understanding what your body, mind, and soul are trying to do for you, bringing them back into coherence, and creating a clear path toward the life you choose. Soma Wellness Podcast — Where Science Meets the Healing Intelligence of You.

  1. 2d ago

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

    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 meansThe important difference between pressure and tissue depthWhy more pressure doesn’t automatically create better resultsSwedish and relaxation massage versus focused, results-driven bodyworkWhat manual therapy means and who may provide itHow Precision Neuromuscular Therapy uses assessment, treatment, and reassessmentAn introduction to visceral manipulation, neural mobilization, and craniosacral therapyWhy your massage doesn’t have to hurt to be effectiveHow to communicate your preferences and expectations during treatmentWhat to ask a practitioner before investing in a sessionQuestions 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.

  2. 4d ago

    How to Meet Your Pain: Listening to the Parts of You That Hurt

    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 changeWhy self-sabotage may actually be an unconscious form of protectionHow parts work helps you understand the conflict between what you want and what feels safeA gentle three-chair practice for listening to pain, tension or resistance and identifying one aligned action you can take todayTry 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. 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.

  3. May 22

    The Failure Pattern: When Your Greatest Gift Becomes the Pattern

    Send us Fan Mail 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 apartThe both/and of analytical and intuitive thinking, and what happens when one takes over completelyThe secret shadow pattern of each Enneagram type — and why yours will always sound like the most authentic version of youThe simple discernment practice that doesn't ask you to distrust yourself — just to pause for one breathThe 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]This is Soma Rising: Conversations for a Conscious Future —where health, wealth, love, and purpose flow together on the Golden Path of alignment.  Learn more at somatribe.org 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

    The Failure Pattern: When Your Greatest Gift Becomes the Pattern

  4. May 15

    What Your Pain is Actually Trying to Tell You (And What to Do About It)

    Send us Fan Mail 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. This is Soma Rising: Conversations for a Conscious Future —where health, wealth, love, and purpose flow together on the Golden Path of alignment.  Learn more at somatribe.org 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

    What Your Pain is Actually Trying to Tell You (And What to Do About It)

  5. May 13

    What If The Mother Wound Ends With You: A Guided Journey with Kwan Yin

    Send us Fan Mail 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 patternswhy modern motherhood feels emotionally overwhelmingsocial media, influencer culture, and raising children in the digital agecompassion without excusing harmhealing the mother wound without losing yourself in blameWe 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. This is Soma Rising: Conversations for a Conscious Future —where health, wealth, love, and purpose flow together on the Golden Path of alignment.  Learn more at somatribe.org 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

    What If The Mother Wound Ends With You: A Guided Journey with Kwan Yin

  6. May 1

    How A Mild Concussion Quietly Hijacks Your Life

    Send us Fan Mail 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. This is Soma Rising: Conversations for a Conscious Future —where health, wealth, love, and purpose flow together on the Golden Path of alignment.  Learn more at somatribe.org 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

    How A Mild Concussion Quietly Hijacks Your Life

  7. Apr 4

    How to Get Closure Without an Apology?

    Send us Fan Mail 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 This is Soma Rising: Conversations for a Conscious Future —where health, wealth, love, and purpose flow together on the Golden Path of alignment.  Learn more at somatribe.org 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

    How to Get Closure Without an Apology?

  8. Apr 1

    What Changes When You Stop People Pleasing? A Superconscious Journey for the Libra Full Moon

    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. This is Soma Rising: Conversations for a Conscious Future —where health, wealth, love, and purpose flow together on the Golden Path of alignment.  Learn more at somatribe.org 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

    What Changes When You Stop People Pleasing? A Superconscious Journey for the Libra Full Moon
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The Soma Wellness Podcast is where science meets the healing intelligence of you. If you’re living with pain, struggling to change patterns that keep repeating, feeling disconnected from your body, or simply know there has to be a better way to feel and live—this show is for you. Hosted by Tabitha MacDonald, Licensed Massage Therapist, Intuitive Coach, and creator of the Soma Rewire System, the Soma Wellness Podcast explores the connection between the body, brain, nervous system, unconscious mind, and superconscious—and how working with all of them can create lasting change. We’ll explore everything from chronic pain, manual therapy, the nervous system, soul healing and the mind-body connection to creating loving relationships, unwavering self-worth, emotional patterns, identity conflict and how to align with the highest expression of health, wealth, love and success for you in this lifetime. You’ll learn how approaches like manual therapy, neuroscience, parts work, hypnosis, NLP, somatic awareness, and superconscious healing can help uncover and change the patterns keeping you stuck. Healing isn’t about endlessly searching for what’s broken and trying to fix it. It begins by defining what you actually want—not what you think will fix the broken parts of your life—and using the infinite power of your own superconscious to identify and remove the barriers preventing you from having it. It’s about understanding what your body, mind, and soul are trying to do for you, bringing them back into coherence, and creating a clear path toward the life you choose. Soma Wellness Podcast — Where Science Meets the Healing Intelligence of You.

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  • Creator
    Tabitha MacDonald
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    87
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Soma Rising
  • Show Website
    Soma Wellness