When Pain Speaks — We Listen
For years, we lived with pain that no one could explain. We've felt the weight of unspoken emotions and the tension of holding it all in. We created The Healing Barn because we believe healing starts when you feel truly heard.
We don’t fight pain — we listen to it.
We've learned that your body is incredibly wise. When the usual answers don't fit—when the doctors can't pinpoint the cause—it's often because your body is trying to communicate something deeper. That enduring ache in your back, or the tightness in your shoulders that never seems to ease... what if these aren't just physical problems? We believe they are signals, a call to listen to what your body is trying to tell you. This is the tension you've been avoiding, and your body is ready to show you the way through it.
Scott & Melissa Holdem, Your Wellbeing Practitioners
Pain and the Nervous System
This is a different path forward—one that honours your experience and gently explores the many layers of what might be contributing to your discomfort. It's not about dismissing what you've been through or the diagnoses you've received, but about opening up to the possibility that there are other pieces to the puzzle.
Imagine a path where you feel truly heard and understood, where your body's messages are acknowledged, and where you can finally begin to unravel the underlying tensions contributing to your pain. This is where you can stop struggling and start letting go, creating space for profound relief when other methods may have fallen short.
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This might be for you if…
...your chest feels heavy, and you don’t know why.
...you’re tired of pushing through and ready to start letting go.
...you've been told 'it's all in your head,' but your body is screaming for attention.
...you know you’re holding onto emotional weight that your body can't shake.
...you’ve thought your way through it, and now you’re ready to feel your way out.
A New Way to Understand Pain: ConTact CARE
Sometimes pain isn’t caused by what we did, but by what happened to us.
ConTact CARE is a physical yet gentle hands-on approach that helps your body release flinch-locks—those instinctive tension patterns that form in response to shock, trauma, or overwhelm.
These locked-up reactions can stay buried in the body for years, often showing up as chronic pain, stiffness, or fatigue. ConTact CARE brings calm awareness to the body, allowing your nervous system to feel safe, unwind, and re-balance.
It’s simple, grounded, and effective—especially for those who’ve tried everything else without lasting results.
This isn’t about forcing the body to change. It’s about giving it the support and safety it needs to heal itself.
Your Path to Healing in the Waikato
We provide a safe and supportive space in Cambridge, NZ, to explore your chronic pain experience. Through our unique blend of Emotion code, ConTact CARE and Coaching, we help you connect with your body in a new way, understand its signals, and gently facilitate the release of long-held patterns that may be contributing to your pain.
This isn't about a quick fix, but about fostering a deeper understanding of yourself and empowering your body's natural capacity for healing and well-being. Discover an alternative to traditional methods and find sustainable relief for fibromyalgia, back pain, migraines, or persistent joint pain.
Ready to take the next step on your journey?
Melissa’s work with the Emotion Code, Belief Code, and ConTact C.A.R.E - Flinchlock Release offers a tender way back to yourself. Not the self shaped by pain, protection, or old beliefs - but the part of you that’s been quietly waiting beneath it all.
Pain and tension aren’t always about injury. So often, they’re the body’s way of saying: “Something mattered here” A moment that landed too hard, too fast, too young.
A flinch that never released. An emotion that didn’t have space to move. A belief that settled in and silently began running the show.
In session, we listen - not to the noise of fixing or figuring out - but to the soft signals beneath it all.
We follow the body’s cues, and gently meet the places that still think they need to hold on.
Melissa creates a space that is steady and kind, where your system can begin to feel what it’s safe to let go of. As the flinch releases, as old emotion and belief patterns dissolve, the body begins to exhale. And what’s left is something quieter, lighter, more true.
You’re not broken. You don’t need to be fixed. You’ve just been carrying more than you realised - and now, there’s space to lay it down.
If you’re living with ongoing pain — tight shoulders, aching hips, old injuries that never quite settled — you’ve probably already tried a lot. Maybe you've stretched, seen specialists, or pushed through it. But the pain keeps coming back.
Scott works with pain differently.
Using a mix of ConTact C.A.R.E, somatic bodywork, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), he helps you tune in to what your body might really be trying to say. Pain is often the body’s way of protecting you — holding tension from old impacts, stress, or emotions that were never fully processed.
Scott doesn’t aim to “fix” you. Instead, he works gently with your body’s natural protective responses, helping you release what’s been held — physically and emotionally.
This is a safe, down-to-earth space to stop fighting your pain and start understanding it. And when your body feels heard, it can finally start to let go.
More Than Just Managing Pain – Let’s Transform It
Expanding Your Journey: Other Ways We Can Support You
When you have pain and pressure in your body that causes restricted movement, recurring injuries, a body locked in a certain position, and you want to regain mobility and freedom back into your life ConTact CARE can help.
ConTact cARE
If you have unresolved issues that are giving you symptoms but nothing helps, if you feel like something is holding you back but you can't put your finger on it, Emotion Code, Body Code or Belief Code can help.
Emotion, body & Belief Code
If you would like support and guidance to rediscover the freedom of living and regain a sense of yourself. Purpose and Wellbeing Coaching could be right for you.