Denise LaBarre was born in 1964 in Ohio and grew up in Northern California. At age 7, she began doing regular massage on her overworked, stressed-out mother when she intuitively heard her mother's body calling for help. At age eleven she began reading her mother's graduate school psychology textbooks and then mowed through the public library's psychology holdings. She could also "hear" what other bodies were trying to communicate through tension, pain and other symptoms and steadily built up her knowledge and experience. By the time she left for college, she was thoroughly steeped in and usin more...