Issues in Your Tissues is a practical, easy-to read guide to exploring the emotional holding that creates physical stress, pain and dis-ease. Full of stories, cartoons, exercises and clear descriptions, this book gives you the insight and tools you need to go into your body and get the healing answers you've been looking for."Our bodies continue to experience physical symptoms as long as we carry the emotional “charge” or vibration associated with them. Your bones may have knitted back together and you may have regained physical function, but if you have not also released the sadness or anger or fear in those tissues, your body will continue to let you know there are still issues to work on. The trick is recognizing your symptoms as an indication that there may be something non-physical to heal and then letting your body guide you to a solution." Issues in Your Tissues: Heal Body and Emotion from the Inside Out by Denise LaBarre is a practical, easy-to read guide to exploring the emotional holding that creates physical stress, pain and dis-ease. Full of stories, cartoons, exercises, and clear descriptions that catalyze direct personal healing, this book offers the insight and tools readers need to go into their own body and get the healing answers they've been looking for. LaBarre's insights help readers unravel their own "issues" layer by layer for deep and lasting results. I wrote this book for seekers - for you, if you are seeking answers about your health and how you have come to this point in your physical and emotional journey.  I believe we all have access to the answers we seek, yet our innate ability to feel them intuitively gets pinched off by our formative - often traumatic - experiences, and the course of socialization.  I seek to empower everyone I connect with. I want to show you that you are already whole, already capable, and simply need to re-member the brilliance you were born to manifest. If you know you are meant for better health than you currently enjoy, if you sense that you might need a little cognitive or intuitive nudge to catalyze greater healing, this is the book for you. This book is not about massage.  Massage is only the forum through which I sharpened my intuitive skills.  This book makes a great gift for massage therapists and other healing professionals - especially those interested in integrating knowledge and understanding from different sources.  It is also a great resource for healing professionals to hand to their clients and patients to give them a working understanding of the emotional aspects of their physical problems. I invite you to come on a journey - from the inside, out.  Your healing answers are closer than they may appear and I can show you the way in.  My book has stories, cartoons, and exercises that ring of Intuitive Truth .  I promise it's not like any self-help book you've ever read.  It's ful of love.  I wrote it as a gift to you, when you're ready.  Come see if that time is now. "Our bodies continue to experience physical symptoms as long as we carry the emotional "charge" or vibration associated with them. Your bones may have knitted back together and you may have regained physical function, but if you have not also released the sadness or anger or fear in those tissues, your body will continue to let you know there are still issues to work on. The trick is recognizing your symptoms as an indication that there may be something non-physical to heal and then letting your body guide you to a solution." Find the causes of persistent or unexplained pain - Learn to breathe easily and fully throughout your day - Alleviate stress and the physical problems it can cause - Feel younger, more alive, and relaxed in your body - Find out what your body is telling you! LaBarre uses stories from her decades of bodywork practice to take you directly to the calm eye of your emotional hurricane - where healing happens. Make the internal connections, breathe energy through yoru body, relolve pain and symptoms and have more energy to play with. ~ Your healing is a breath away. Issues in Your Tissues is compelling, honest, from the heart, grounded, and believable. I recommend this book to anyone seeking insight into how to feel better. ~ Alan Cohen, author of I Had It All the Time and many others Denise LaBarre has been listening to bodies for over 35 years. She embodies a unique combination of compassionate teacher, healer, scholar and mother to become a mind-body translator for all of us. Denise LaBarre began listening to bodies with her hands at age 7. She studied psychology and language and asked questions of every body she touched, connecting the dots for herself and telling stories that help others make the healing connections for themselves. She realized as she worked with more people as a massage therapist that she was also re-learning the universal language of the body and translating it for minds that had gotten socialized out of the h