Issues in Your Tissues is a book about listening to your body’s innate wisdom and using it to heal yourself - from the inside, out.

Most health books talk about the mind-body connection as if that’s all there is to it. You read the book and think, "Yes, that’s interesting, I get the concepts." You may even do a few of the exercises, but the information stays in your mind and there’s no substantial change in your body or shift in the way you go about your life. What they leave out of the equation is emotion, which is the mind-body link itself. You need to feel emotion for change to occur in your body. As you come to understand the emotions you carry physically and how to work with them, you don’t have to feel at the mercy of them any more.
As you learn to feel your emotions in your body - allow them to roll through you like a wave and out - you make room for positive change and healing.


You can reclaim the energized aliveness you were born with. You can glide through your days with more ease in your body and more energy in your life. It only takes a little understanding and the will to improve. The first step toward living more alive in your body and less in your mind is taking a full breath. Chapter One gives you an easy way to do that. From there, you will explore the embodied energy that gets carried from unresolved emotion through stories, learn how to release it, and move on to greater physical and emotional well-being.


Issues in Your Tissues will show you how to breathe fully throughout your day – in the transitions - and how much better you will feel when you do. LaBarre's stories will inspire you to venture inside and explore the long locked-off territory of your inner emotional landscape. You will rediscover lost parts of yourself including emotions that you need to be whole and healthy. The process can be fast, easy, and painless. It starts simply, with intention and a deep breath.


Whether or not these ideas are new to you, the goal is to help you see them from a perspective you haven’t seen before, plus give you inspiration and simple tools to help you reconnect into your body more of the time and henceforth. Here are twenty inspiring healing stories to entertain your mind while re-inspiring your intuitive self to do its healing work. They show you how this reconnecting process looks and feels. Plus, each chapter has simple exercises to bring the ideas and insights home, into your body, now. They only help if you do them.

Chapters include:

Breathing Like you Mean It

Listening to Your Body

Stress, the Body's "No"

Emotion - the Missing Link

Coming into Alignment

Healing is a Practice Sport

Story titles: (20 in all)

A Briefcase Full of Blues

Top Gun

The Man with Sobbing Shoulders

The Onion of Incest

Going Large

The Woman with Stained Glass Eyes