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  • 4 Ways To Help That Post Massage Feeling Last

    You just got finished with 90 minutes of bliss. You feel like you’re almost floating. Your massage therapist smiles at you and walks out the room to wait for you to get dressed. Everything in your body feels relaxed and you’re wondering if you were snoring when you fell asleep. You’re walking on a cloud…

  • The Power of Touch

    First take a moment and count how many times you have been touched by another person today. Now think about how good it feels when your favorite person runs up and gives you a giant hug and doesn’t want to let go. Or how comforting a hand on your shoulder is during a funeral. Or…

  • Overcoming Stress

    Stressing Out A personal life filled with problems, someone being a pain at work, and bills just keep piling on. The stress is just too much to take. Overwhelmed, frustrated and just plain tired is the only way to describe what it feels like. We have all been there a couple times, drowning in problems…

  • Ice Pack or Heating Pad?

    You hurt yourself trying to become the “new you” for 2019. Your body wasn’t ready to go from winter hibernation to the track team and now your knee is killing you. It’s not bad enough to warrant a doctor visit, so what do you do? Does your hurt knee need heat or ice? About three…

  • Should I take off my underwear? and other FAQs

    I’m going to take all the mystery out of getting your massage. It’s hard to relax when you have a million questions swirling in your head. There is nothing more important to me than my clients being relaxed, safe and comfortable during their sessions. These are the questions I hear at least once a week.…

  • Seasonal Changes

    When the daylight starts decreasing, so does my energy. I am a reverse vampire, without the sun light I feel like I’m dying. I suffer from what is commonly known as seasonal depression, and it’s a struggle every year. Last fall/winter was intense and I felt like I was in an awful movie that wouldn’t…

  • Pain, Pain Go Away…

    Imagine waking up every morning in pain. Serious pain, pain at 5 on a scale of 1-10. Every. Single. Day.The pain you feel dictates every choice you make and you live in fear of moving the wrong way. This is reality for Jane. Jane lives with chronic pain. What is Chronic Pain? The short answer…

  • Self Care is a Mindset

    Where do you see the hashtag self-care? I see it under a picture of a beautiful model sitting in a bath, or a picture of yogi on the edge of a cliff, or even under a picture of a women trying to sell detox tea. Those pictures are great and all, but they aren’t the…

  • Intro to Reiki

    When I tell people I am a Reiki Practitioner here in the Midwest, I often receive funny looks. My mom calls it the “woo woo” and wiggles her fingers like a cartoon witch. What my mom doesn’t understand, Reiki is not magic, its not religious, it’s not “woo woo”. Reiki helps us channel the energy…

  • Should I take off my underwear? and other FAQs

    I’m going to take all the mystery out of getting your massage. It’s hard to relax when you have a million questions swirling in your head. There is nothing more important to me than my clients being relaxed, safe and comfortable during their sessions. These are the questions I hear at least once a week.…