My story begins in the City of Lynn, Massachusetts in 1989.
I was born to an entrepreneurial pair of parents. My dad owned multiple businesses in the automotive industry, which became a family business, as my siblings and I grew older; so you can say that being an entrepreneur is in my blood. My mom runs her own bookkeeping business. I learned many great skills from them that I utilize now in my own business. My mom has always been a ray of sunshine and my biggest supporter through everything. I grew up in a great family, am a middle child and have 2 brothers and 1 sister. My parents got divorced when I was 13 years old.
Growing up wasn't the easiest. I struggled hard! I endured many hardships through my adolescence; I call it the "perfect storm". I am a survivor of bullying, sexual abuse, anxiety and depression, an eating disorder and addiction.
I am a Leo Sun.... Virgo Moon, Capricorn Rising! :)
While all of the struggles were happening in my youth, I often found myself in a Physical Therapists office. I was a softball pitcher and needed shoulder surgery three times through my high school career. This blew my shot at a scholarship, but I grew an affinity for the human anatomy from all the diagrams on the walls and I built a love for movement and exercise! I always loved helping others through their struggles.
When I graduated high school, I went to University of MA - Lowell where I got my Bachelors of Science in Exercise Physiology with a Nutrition and Psychology minor. I graduated in 2011 with hopes of going to Physical Therapy school, but my dad was struggling with brain cancer at the time, so I wanted to be close to home. He passed in June 2013. Before he passed, he gave me the permission to do what I really wanted to do.
In September of 2013, I began my own journey. I went back to school for Holistic Massage Therapy at Spa Tech Institute in Ipswich, MA. This new beginning was when my journey of self healing began as well. I graduated in June 2014 and immediately started my own business, a single room at the Cummings Center in Beverly, MA. I kept taking more classes, continued to learn, continued to evolve, expanded the business a couple times, and now operate my bodywork practice, as a sole proprietor, in Danvers, MA.
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Melissa McLaughlin Wellness is a practice located in Danvers, MA that helps those overcome physical and emotional pain through bodywork, mindset coaching, and mobility training.
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