Nov 19, 2025
Author Butch Phelps discusses his new book Stretch n’ Release: The Missing Piece to a More Pain-Free Life. Butch knows what pain feels like firsthand. At age 18, a car crash left him with a broken arm and a broken pelvis. By age 40, he was in such terrible shape and his back pain so severe that he had to roll out of bed in the morning onto his knees and crawl out of his car, using the door handles to pull himself upright. Butch began to study muscle therapy, eventually becoming a licensed therapist and certified health coach, and developed his own stretch-and-release technique over the span of twenty years working in the field. Stretch n’ Release took four years to write. The end result is a book that is part memoir, chronicling Butch’s own battles with pain, and part do-it-yourself guide that helps people heal themselves.