‍ ‍Hi, I’m Heather — the H in HMT.

Hometown Massage Therapy is my practice, and one of the things I say probably more than anything else is: your body isn't giving you a hard time. It's having a hard time.

Pain, tension, stiffness, and all the weird little ways our bodies compensate usually have a reason—and none of them are something you need to apologize for.

You don't have to be flexible, know what muscle hurts, or even know what kind of massage you need. And please don't apologize because you haven't stretched enough. I promise I'm not grading you.

My job is to listen to you, pay attention to what your body is telling me, and use my training and experience to figure out what makes sense from there.

Sometimes that's focused therapeutic work. Sometimes your nervous system needs everybody to knock it off for an hour. Usually, it's somewhere in between.

Because I don't believe massage should be about forcing your body into what we think it should be doing. I want HMT to be a place where you can understand your body a little better, trust it a little more, and maybe stop being quite so mad at it.

Your body got you here. It has a story to tell.
And your body deserves to be heard.