Co-Regulation Manual Therapy Columbus

by SharonHartnett | Jan 11, 2026 | Craniosacral Therapy

The Benefits of Co-Regulation with Craniosacral Therapy

When your nervous system has been under stress, it can be hard to calm down, even when you want to. This is where co-regulation becomes life changing.

Craniosacral Therapy (CST) supports co-regulation by providing a steady, calm, and attuned presence that helps your nervous system settle and reset. Through gentle, hands-on contact, your body begins to sense safety and shift out of fight-or-flight.

We all have a deeper “Source” inside that shifts and centers when we sit with a peaceful listening observer-gently in physical touch. The melding and bringing together of a different system that is balanced and peaceful is powerful. The osteopathic approach taught at the Upledger Institute provides Certified Craniosacral Therapists with the techniques that work well.

Why Co-Regulation Matters

Many people with chronic pain, anxiety, trauma, or long-term stress live in a state of constant alert. Co-regulation helps your nervous system remember what balance feels like—often before you can do it on your own. When a client feels the movement from stress to calm, they remember that they have access to their inner resources. The real person is the “being”without all the stress.

Benefits of Co-Regulation in Craniosacral Therapy

Helps calm an overactive nervous system
Reduces chronic stress and tension
Supports healing from trauma and overwhelm
Improves sleep, digestion, and emotional regulation
Builds your body’s ability to self-regulate over time

Over repeated sessions, this gentle support strengthens your own capacity for self-regulation, so calm and stability become more accessible in daily life.

Craniosacral Therapy doesn’t force change—it listens to your body and allows healing to unfold naturally, at your pace.

Craniosacral Therapy and Co-Regulation Columbus Ohio

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

614 653-8111

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

Serving Worthington and the Columbus Area.

by SharonHartnett | Jan 3, 2026 | change, Craniosacral Therapy, healthy

Chronic Pain Relief in Columbus, Ohio

If you’re living with chronic pain and you’re in Columbus or Worthington, I want to say this first: pain isn’t the problem. It’s a signal.

Most people try to push through pain or ignore it. Some rely on medication to get by. Sometimes that helps short-term. But chronic pain usually doesn’t resolve that way. It gets stored in the body. Over time, things tighten, movement changes, and the pain becomes part of daily life.

What actually helps is learning how to listen to the body and meet the pain in a way that is right for you.

Why Somatic Work Helps Chronic Pain

I’ve worked with people in pain for nearly 30 years. What I’ve seen again and again is that chronic pain doesn’t just live in muscles or joints. It lives in the nervous system, the fascia, and the tissues themselves.

This is where somatic work—like craniosacral therapy, gentle bodywork, or Hakomi-informed approaches—can make a real difference. Instead of forcing change, we meet what’s there and allow the body to respond.

Medication can dull pain. Somatic work helps the body reorganize so the pain doesn’t need to stay.

Pain Is Different for Everyone

There isn’t one kind of chronic pain. Everyone carries it differently. Body structure, stress, emotional history, and past injuries all play a role.

That’s why I don’t follow a formula. In my practice in Columbus and Worthington, I meet each person where they are. The body tells the story. My job is to listen. Most of the work is listening and gentle touch, but sometimes I do go deeper at points if that is what the body calls for. For some people, I will refer out if they need a wonderful massage therapist. One I recommend locally is Mia Mogavero. If I feel someone needs more active motion, I’ll add to the healing team and highlight people like Kelsey at Shift Motion. She offers great pilates classes which can help get movement, balance and strength in alignment. I am always looking toward my client’s real needs first.

Listening Changes Everything

Especially in the beginning, it can be important to talk about the pain—how it started, what it feels like, what makes it worse or better. Pain wants to be acknowledged.

After that, I listen more with my hands than with words. I follow the tissues, the fluids, and the subtle movements in the body. Over time, the body begins to show us what it needs.

Some people like quiet sessions. Others need to talk. Both are fine. There’s no right way to heal.

Chronic Pain Is Often Old Pain

Most long-term pain isn’t just about what’s happening now. It’s layered. Old injuries. Old stress. Sometimes old trauma.

Earlier in my career, I worked more assertively through Structural Integration. Change often happened quickly. Now I work mostly with craniosacral therapy. It’s gentler. Slower. Built on trust. For many people, it leads to deeper and more lasting relief.

When Trauma Is Part of the Picture

Some people don’t feel much in their bodies at all, especially if they learned early on to disconnect to survive. In those cases, we go slowly. Sometimes touch isn’t the starting point. Sometimes it’s simply sitting, listening, and establishing safety.

Healing doesn’t need to be forced.

Restoring Movement and Ease

The body is meant to move. Every tissue has its own rhythm. Chronic pain often shows us where that movement has been restricted—commonly in the neck, the cranial base, or the fascia.

When those areas are supported with care, things can soften. Movement returns. Pain often settles on its own.

The Way Through Chronic Pain

Pain isn’t something to fight. It’s information. It’s asking for attention and support.

If you’re looking for chronic pain relief in Columbus or Worthington, Ohio, my approach is gentle, respectful, and led by your body. You’re always in charge. We move at your pace.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

614 653-8111

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

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Return to a Regulated Nervous System

by SharonHartnett | Dec 29, 2025 | Craniosacral Therapy, Healthy Body, mindfulness

Your Body Can Change Its Stress Response through Regulation

Find Centered Regulation Inside

We can return to regulation inside our body through mindfulness and healthy feedback. To move toward equilibrium, it is helpful to find a craniosacral therapist who knows how to balance, and bring symmetry, quality, amplitude and a healthy rate back to the craniosacral system.

Through inviting change by melding with the body- we can discover our authentic self and essence. When stress disappears, we become more present. More real.

Have you ever met people who seem very centered and can deal with lifes up and downs easily?

Craniosacral Therapy can help us all find this experience.

Unwind and Regulate with Sharon Hartnett CST

When our body needs a new pathway to healing, a gentle nudge is all we need.

Sharon Hartnett CST-D

614 653-8111

www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com

The Importance of Facing Pain and Suffering in Order to Heal

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

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

by SharonHartnett | 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

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You Are Always Beautiful

by SharonHartnett | 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

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