When pain or stress persistently live in your body, resilient relief starts from within.
Restorative massage, corrective exercise, and therapeutic meditation designed for lasting relief from chronic pain and stress-driven tension; offered locally (to Mission Hills, Hillcrest, North Park, and surrounding San Diego areas) and virtually.
Why Pain & Stress Can Persist Even When You’re Doing Everything to Resolve Them
Exercise, therapy, and medication can help relieve pain and stress, but many approaches don’t retrain the underlying patterns that keep your body tense, flared up, or fatigued.
That’s why we can follow all the right advice and still feel stuck. Not because something is wrong with us, but because the methods we’re using don’t change the body’s relationship to the root causes of the stress or pain.
Resilient Relief helps motivated empaths reduce chronic pain and stress-related tension through a structured combination of restorative bodywork, corrective exercise, and therapeutic meditations.
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How Resilient Relief Works
Persistent stress, pain, or fatigue is rarely caused by one factor. Most cases involve both:
mechanical patterns from movement, posture, and muscle guarding
stress patterns from nervous system activation and relational systems
That’s why Resilient Relief integrates four modalities:
Restorative Massage: orthopedic-informed bodywork to reduce tension and restore mobility
Corrective Exercise: simple, pain-aware movements that rebuild stability and coordination.
Therapeutic Meditation: guided nervous system exercises that retrain stress and pain responses
Somatic Support Group Meetings: virtual gatherings where participants connect with and support each other in applying the work to their daily lives
Together, these four modalities form the Resilient Relief system for reducing chronic pain and retraining stress patterns over time, so relief becomes trainable, not temporary.
FEM is…
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You practice a lot of self-care but still feel stuck
You feel stress or emotional pain in your body but don’t always have words for it
You’re tired of being told your struggle is “in your head”
You sense there’s a deeper inner journey calling you
You want to grow emotionally and relationally, not just manage symptoms
You want to let go of the belief that something’s wrong with you and needs to be fixed
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You’re looking for quick fixes rather than practices that build lasting change.
You can’t invest time and energy into yourself.
You only want symptom relief and not holistic growth.
You’re not open to exploring the ways you’re keeping yourself stuck.
You’re not open to processing the institutional, ancestral, or environmental dimensions of your stress or trauma
Think this is for you?
Just a supportive conversation. No pressure :)
The 12-week Program
Available both in-home in San Diego and virtually, this program teaches you how to work with pain and stress so your body becomes more resilient to them over time.
Over 12 weeks, you receive:
personalized daily practices
bi-weekly 1:1 guidance
structured progress tracking
optional in-person sessions (within San Diego)
Outcomes clients commonly report:
reduced chronic pain
fewer flare-ups
improved mobility and stability
calmer stress responses
faster recovery from fatigue, stress and injury
greater body awareness and confidence
This program is designed for people willing to participate actively in their own recovery own process.
Ready for Lasting Relief?
Book a consultation to see whether the Resilient Relief approach is right for you.
San Diego in-home sessions + virtual coaching available.
About Nicky
Nicky Macaluso
Chronic Pain Specialist, Orthopedic Massage Therapist, and Somatic Coach in San Diego
Nicky is a licensed massage therapist and chronic pain specialist in San Diego who integrates somatic therapy, corrective exercise, and meditation-based nervous system training to help clients build durable relief rather than temporary results.
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Thank you!
Serving San Diego and surrounding neighborhoods; virtual somatic coaching available worldwide.