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The Importance of Facing Pain and Suffering in Order to Heal

The Importance of Facing Pain and Suffering in Order to Heal

by | Dec 22, 2025 | craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, fear, grounding, Healthy Body

Facing Your Pain and Suffering

Why Facing Pain and Suffering Is Essential for Healing and Growth

Pain and suffering are part of being human. Yet many people spend years trying to avoid them. We distract ourselves. We push through. We numb. While this can help short-term, avoiding pain often makes it last longer.

Facing pain—physical, emotional, or psychological—is a necessary step toward real healing and long-term well-being.

Pain is Information. Not Failure

The way that our bodies signal that something is off is usually through pain.  It helps us to pay attention.  Physical pain shows us our biological history.  It can point to injuries that have not healed, illness,  nervous system dysregulation,  or burnout.  Emotional pain may be related to old trauma stories left unresolved,  and unmet needs.

Early Attention can help us avoid Chronic Conditions.

Believe it or not, staying positive is not the way to health.  Often people bypass the valuable information that pain speaks.  The sooner you address pain signals-the better off you are.

Avoidance Can Keep You Stuck

Many people ignore or push pain away. In reality, avoidance often leads to:

  • Chronic tension or inflammation

  • Anxiety and depression

  • Repeated patterns in relationships

  • Fatigue and loss of motivation

When pain is suppressed, it doesn’t disappear. It shows up in other ways.

Facing suffering does not mean dwelling on it. It means acknowledging what is present so change can occur.

In my practice in Worthington, Ohio, I often work with people who wait too long to move onto an active healing path.  But I’d like to let you know that staying present and in charge of your wellbeing is an empowering step.  Facing pain and suffering helps you to respond more powerfully on a path of ease.  We have less compensations, and  more simplicity is taking the courageous steps to address what is here.

Take the time to get grounded and take care of your health and wellbeing.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

614 653-8111

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

Listening to your Body Holistically

Listening to your Body Holistically

by | Dec 8, 2025 | Craniosacral Therapy

The Body Speaks

One of my clients let me know that when I say that I listen to the body, most people might not understand what that is. So I have decided to use the best of words I know to describe it.

Listening to the body is an art.

It’s about tapping into the aliveness of our biology

Everything from the cellular (smaller particles as well) to the whole person has a blueprint of its right to exist- and of course-it course of action.

Sometimes the flow is hindered. But there is something that each of our biological states of being are made out of which is deeper than the obstacles, and more expanded and full of potential. That is not only of the physical world really. It’e energy. It is aliveness. It can have centers or it can be a pathway.

I am not getting metaphysical here – rather I am explaining the electrical system that is our brain and our nervous system . It’s like a superhighway. I listen to how that energy plays itself out both inside and outside of an our tissues. The matrix has a story, and it reveals itself to my hands, my presence, and the many fields of energy in which we live. The fluids & tissues change whether I am connected by touching the skin, or feet away. It depends what your system wants and needs. The membranes either open or not to change and evolution. Sometimes I go more deep if that is the “calling”. Sometimes, I sit with in patience.

Listening is allowing my sensory input to take a person in on so many levels. I feel rhythm, skin, bones, fascia, organs, waves of consciousness- and I trust that core- the origin of life within that does inform me of what is ready to happen. I nudge, and I give space for freedom and expansion.

Doing healer work, in my opinion, is taking the sacred information of each individual that emerges, and nourishing it to express its best SELF. That means listening to you, seeing you, acknowledging you, and supporting to help you can find your depth and your freedom.

This is why I see the world as I do. The grounding all the way to the Cosmos is part of life. Interconnected, and self-expressing. It’s important to honor and respect what is.

 

Sharon Hartnett

614 653-8111

Serving the Columbus, Ohio area

You can learn more about my Somatic Craniosacral Therapy on my main page.

You Are Always Beautiful

You Are Always Beautiful

by | Dec 6, 2025 | Craniosacral Therapy

Learning to Look at Real Beauty with Grace as we Age.

Beauty Comes from Within from the moment we are born until the moment we die.

The mind can be a tricky thing-believing all the marketing, cultural and societal norms, projection from men and even other women shaping and defining beauty. It’s so easy to believe what you have been told rather than to live from the inside out.

Here’s the thing. You can discover your Inner Beauty that shines through every cell of your body every moment. It starts by going inward and connecting to yourself. How do you want to express your authentic self? See your wrinkles for the life they have given you. Touch your softness knowing how many friends and family leaned into you. Then push back all the negative or demanding input that tells you to be something other than your real self. What anyone else says about you is theirs, not yours to carry. Know your value. Know your Power.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D
614 653-8111
To learn to find out more about my work with discovering beauty, check out my main page.
Finding the Best Somatic Therapist to Help Resolve Your Chronic Pain and Discomfort.

Finding the Best Somatic Therapist to Help Resolve Your Chronic Pain and Discomfort.

by | Nov 28, 2025 | barbara brennan, concussion, Craniosacral Therapy, Energy Healing, grounding, hakomi, healing, meditation, migraine, Structural Integration, trauma, upledger institute

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Healing Touch with Craniosacral Therapy

I am a Craniosacral Therapist, working with an integrative somatic approach  in Worthington-serving Columbus, Ohio.

What “Somatic”  means is that I use my various trainings and experience to help you feel better, and feel more at home inside of your body with ease and peace through using techniques in connection with the body. Often clients end up leaving with a  more embodied natural flow of energy as well.  It is important to me that you find value and quality when you sign in for a somatic session.

Symptom Relief:  Through mindful listening and skill, Sharon’s Holistic Therapy can help you with:

  • Brain and Spinal Cord Dysfunction
  • Concussions
  • TMJ
  • Chronic Neck and Back Pain
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Learning Disabilities in Children
  • Tinnitus
  • Headaches/Migraines,
  • Foot and Ankle stiffness/Circulation
  • Grief
  • Addiction 
  • Autism 
  • Anxiety/PTSD
  • Increased Mobility
  • Postural Alignment
  • Deep Relaxation
  • Support for Trauma Recovery

 The body is super intelligence, and with the right support can move into its own healing direction.

 

Background as a Craniosacral Therapist

My background started off with energy healing in the 90’s, but then about 27 years ago, I decided to become licensed in massage therapy. Never did that very long, but invested  and worked in learning and practicing Structural Integration, and later attended and taught at the Barbara Brennan School.  One thing led to the other, and next I studied Hakomi, and Trauma Informed Work at SPI.  The work evolved with my clients, so I decided in the early 2000’s to move into Craniosacral Therapy at the Upledger Institute, and Visceral Manipulation at the Barral Institute.  Now I am certified at the highest level, “Diplomate”.

One reason I decided to write this particular blog is because when I searched other therapists, I realized there was some confusing marketing out there. I felt compelled to speak up about this because, you-as paying clients-deserve to understand what you are getting when you call and make an appointment.  Make sure that you interview by phone and get a real clear idea of credentials. For example, you may search someone and they list at the top, but never took a class in what they are marketing.  Also, there is a big difference between a person who takes one class, and someone who is committed to extensive training and practice. When someone markets Craniosacral Therapy as a massage-that isn’t accurate.  It’s not massage- it’s a whole other system.  Also- ask direct questions to make sure that the therapist are marketing according to their real backgrounds.  This is so you can find the best match for you.  I want you to receive what you are looking for!

My recommendations to you is:

  • If someone is advertising or coming up in searches as for example, a visceral manipulation practitioner- ask them about their training and experience.  Are they being upfront with you about their training?
  • If you are looking for an expert Craniosacral Therapist- ask if they are certified, and at which level.
  • If you want to find a manual therapist who has trained in body centered psychotherapy and/or trained in trauma inflormed work- ask which school they attended.

My hope is that when you do your searches you are getting accurate and beneficial information to assure you that you are in “hands of integrity”.

Best Craniosacral Therapist in the Columbus Area

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

614 653-8111

To learn about my Craniosacral Therapy services, visit my main page here

Situated in Worthington, Ohio, and serving the Columbus, Ohio area.

 

A More Holistic Approach to Pain|Worthington Ohio

A More Holistic Approach to Pain|Worthington Ohio

by | Nov 19, 2025 | barbara brennan, craniosacral, Craniosacral Therapy, Energy Healing, hakomi, healing, healthy, Structural Integration, upledger institute

Craniosacral Therapist Sharon hartnett Holistic Approach to Pain Medicine

Craniosacral Therapist Sharon Hartnett, located in the Columbus, Ohio area offers an integrative whole body approach to healing pain.

Often enough, people don’t stay home when they are sick to take care of themselves.  Often enough they ignore pain because they have been taught to move forward at all costs.  However, PAIN usually will find a way to speak, and can eventually disrupt your life.

Pain is a personal experience.  How we relate to it is an individualized experience based on our own biology, but also on psychological and social feedback we receive.  Learning to ignore it won’t make it go away.  Stored maybe, but still alive in the tissues.

Craniosacral Therapy is a modality of manual therapy which Listens to the body, what is being shared, and what is even quiet.  It’s in the melding between two people in a personal relationship that builds connection and allows support which can shift the dynamics of a person’s life toward health.

Allowing pain to be present and felt while being held through the craniosacral system can be rather miraculous.  It can transform our perception of our body, as well as our whole life.  The body is a doorway to learning and discovering self, and the release and integration process of our essential self which is rather empowering.

Dealing and facing pain can:

1.  Improve your day to day mindset.

2.  Can assist in relieving tension and suffering.

3.  Help you to achieve future goals.

I have been working with people for about 30 years.  Human connection, understaning and support is vital to our every day health.

 

 

 

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Sharon Hartnett CST-D

Craniosacral Therapist

Somatic Therapist

Structural integration Therapist

Energy Healer

Trauma Informed

Visceral Manipluation

614 653-8111

 

To learn about my Craniosacral Therapy services, visit my main page here