Changing Course

For 20 years, I’ve loved focusing on massage therapy. Now, I’m shifting to birth support and perinatal emotional wellness coaching.

In October 2024, it was with both a heavy heart and excitement for the future, I announced my retirement from office massage therapy. After 20 incredible years and 4 location moves, I closed that chapter of my career to fully embrace my passion for birth and postpartum support. Since graduating from massage school in September 2004, I never imagined my life without a massage therapy office. Over the years, life has presented me with many challenges: raising my two boys, being a caregiver to several aging family members in the final years of their lives, enduring the devastating loss of my big sister to domestic violence homicide six years ago, navigating the pandemic, and managing my own physical injuries and health struggles. But through it all, working with my birth and massage clients—has gotten me through some very dark days, reminding me of how wonderful life is and reaffirming my place as my sister’s legacy. 

It still feels bittersweet to say goodbye, especially to so many wonderful women who have entrusted me with their wellness over the years, some for over a decade.

It’s been a few months now, and I’m still deep in the work of completing this transition, but each day, I get confirmation that this turn in my journey was the right one at the right time.

That said, I couldn’t fully walk away from massage (I’m sure you saw that coming!). I decided to give my massage chair some much-needed TLC so I can offer massage as an add-on feature to my Postpartum Doula home visits.

To all my massage clients, thank you for choosing me and “Tranquil Touch” for your massage therapy needs since 2004,

Exie Buehler ❤️