There are voices that break through the noise not with volume, but with truth. Sam Mishra—known to many as The Medical Massage Lady—is one such voice. Her work, spanning podcasting, workshops, guides, and community outreach, is built on a foundation of both medical expertise and lived experience. A nurse and midwife by training, Mishra carries with her not only clinical knowledge but also a life marked by profound adversity: childhood disability, abuse, chronic pain, depression, PTSD, and complicated grief. It is from this tapestry of hardship that she has woven a career dedicated to understanding, educating, and above all, healing.

Mishra is, by her own admission, best known for her trauma work. Yet her practice resists being neatly defined by a single word. On her podcast, MML Talks, she approaches subjects that society often prefers to leave unspoken. Childhood trauma and its echoes in adult intimacy. The quiet devastation of absent parents on self-worth. The lasting damage of narcissistic abuse. Self-harm, generational trauma, cycles of despair. These are not topics for the faint-hearted, but Mishra does not flinch. Instead, she approaches them with a rare blend of candor and compassion, inviting listeners to explore their own challenges with curiosity rather than shame. Her episodes are less lectures than conversations—a kind of verbal holding space in which listeners can feel both seen and understood.

The podcast is not where her mission ends. Twice a year, Mishra convenes her Transformation Workshop, a 15-week live online program that attracts individuals from all walks of life who find themselves caught in toxic patterns or weighed down by unresolved trauma. Far from a quick-fix course, the workshop unfolds deliberately, week by week, through exploration of personas, emotional triggers, narcissism, co-dependency, and the repetitive loops trauma creates. Later sessions dive deeper—into inner child work, shadow integration, and reflective exercises that ask participants not merely to learn but to transform.

Mishra’s approach is unflinchingly holistic. Breathwork, mindfulness, journaling, and paired exercises sit alongside discussion and accountability. What emerges is a kind of apprenticeship in self-awareness—an invitation to stop running from pain and instead interrogate it, to alchemize trauma into growth. She does not promise ease. She promises authenticity. In 2026, she will add a new course: the delicate subject of developing intimacy after trauma, a theme she has long recognized as one of the most misunderstood, and most necessary, in the field of healing.

Where many therapists or educators stop at theory, Mishra also offers practical, tangible guides. Her self-help series spans from the highly clinical—comprehensive manuals on endometriosis and PCOS that marry medical science with lifestyle strategies—to the deeply personal, including intimacy guides for couples navigating touch after trauma, and a primer on understanding trauma itself. These are not sterile resources; they carry the unmistakable fingerprint of someone who has lived what she teaches. When Mishra writes about CPTSD, she writes not only as a clinician but as a survivor who knows the struggle of explaining the inexplicable to those untouched by trauma.

Yet perhaps the most striking dimension of her work lies in her commitment to community. To date, Mishra has helped raise more than £12,000 for charities including Bloody Good Period, Savera UK, and the Helen Bamber Foundation. She has created free treatment programs for survivors of domestic abuse, victims of sexual assault, refugees, and disadvantaged youth. She accepts referrals through organizations like The Survivors Network, extending care to those who might otherwise be excluded from therapeutic spaces. This is no small feat; it represents not only professional dedication but a moral stance. Healing, in Mishra’s hands, is not a privilege but a right.

Her advocacy also extends to the profession itself. Within the massage industry—a field often trivialized or stigmatized—Mishra has become an outspoken critic of the boundaries imposed by cultural misconceptions. She challenges not only the stigmas attached to trauma survivors but those levied against the very practice of therapeutic massage. In doing so, she carves a space where bodywork and trauma education can coexist with integrity, dignity, and credibility.

What makes Mishra’s work so compelling is not merely its breadth but its coherence. Every element—from her podcast and workshops to her guides and charity programs—circles back to a central philosophy: that adversity, when confronted, can become a source of transformation. She does not deny pain, nor does she romanticize it. Instead, she insists on facing it head-on, using her own life as a testament to the fact that survival can evolve into something greater.

In an era that thrives on superficial narratives of wellness, Mishra’s voice is a rare antidote: unvarnished, unapologetic, and resolutely human. She invites us to consider that healing is not about erasing scars but learning to live with them openly, even beautifully. Through MML Talks and beyond, she continues to remind us that the most powerful transformations often begin in the places we least want to look.

Learn more about her work and connect with Sam Mishra at:

Website: themedicalmassagelady.co.uk (treatments) | medicalmassagelady.com (training)

LinkedIn: Sam Mishra

Brainz Magazine: Executive Contributor Page

Facebook: @SSMKent

Instagram: @themedicalmassagelady