Abby McHale and Marigold Women Bodywork
Meet Abby —
My relationship with bodywork has never just been about the body.
Your body remembers everything. It’s a roadmap of everything you have ever lived through, and you have a lifetime of experiences that have shaped you.
But your body is not only a time capsule of the past — it’s your bridge to experience this life. Bodywork is wildly underestimated for how profoundly it can support one’s mental health and enrich one's quality of life.
I have my own history that’s dense with trauma, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders — I know what it's like to not love your body, or your life. I’m not a licensed mental health counselor, but I’ve been a bodyworker for 15 years, working with women. I have held circles and retreats for women for the past 10 years, and have a vast background in energetics, somatics, and a degree in women’s studies.
My passion is women’s empowerment and liberation — in this world, and in body, spirit, and mind. Bodywork has been a profound part of my own healing, and I consider it a privilege to work with those who feel called.
Anyone who identifies as a woman, non-binary folx who identify with the feminine, and anyone with a female form is welcome. Our stories as women, and in female bodies, are complicated, and I am here to hold space for it all.
A little bit more + Somatics and Specialties
I have been a massage therapist since 2011 and started my work with women, largely working with those processing sexual trauma in their bodies and wombs, and those suffering from various gynecological and hormonal disorders — things like PCOS, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, and chronic pelvic pain. I closed my private practice at the start of the pandemic and began working at Mama’s clinic, where I was immersed in working with women through conscious pre-conception, pregnancy, and postpartum, and I simultaneously became a mother myself.
After having my daughter, I decided it was finally time to become a mental health counselor, but I ended up shifting gears along the way to an alternative somatic therapy program for women because I didn’t want to have to separate the bodywork, women’s circles, and feminine embodiment work I was already doing too rigidly — and now I uniquely weave it all.
I have a sister site, The Marigold Women, with more feminine-centric and ceremonial-esque offerings, where I also offer somatic therapy and feminine embodiment sessions virtually — but bodywork is my primary way I work with women in person these days.
You get to make these sessions your own —they can look more like traditional therapy, conversing in chairs, it can be fully silent on the table, or somewhere in between — you can share as much or as little as you want.
You can spill your guts first, we can talk, and I can guide you into your body to listen before or after you get on the table. And this may all change from session to session. All modalities are the same rate intentionally because I like the fluidity of you showing up any day, and feeling into whatever you want and need.
I was born to listen and hold space for women — I love it. I adore working with mamas and with women in all stages of life. I cherish being with women as they dance with their unique relationship with their womb and pelvis, with themselves as women, with their bodies, hearts, and lives.
If you want to set up a free consult and chat about what you’re looking for first, you are more than welcome; otherwise, it would be an honor to work with you.