Your Self-Care Scoop: Winter 2023 Edition

As I sit sipping a hot cup of tea to warm up, I realize I’m a bit late with the winter newsletter. Though with the season we’re having, it seems to be perfectly timed! I can’t help but let the harsh winter and the hope of spring influence my article choices this time around. One article describes the many benefits of teas (other than for keeping warm), another looks to the not-too-distant future when we’ll be able to garden.

The main article focuses on a topic that has come up quite often over the last few months – conversation in the massage studio. Here’s my summation on the topic:

• Clients, myself included, often don’t communicate their wants and needs as we aren’t comfortable speaking up. Yet client comfort is the most important thing during a session. It may be something small like you don’t like my music; it may be a bigger issue with the technique I’m using. Whatever your needs, I want to hear them and work together to make your session better for you.

• The client is in charge of how much we do or don’t chat during a session. If you want to bliss out and say nothing more than things relating to the massage, that’s great! If you like to chat about our last vacations, our weekend, our dinner plans, sounds good to me. If we normally chat, but you just need some quiet time during your session, you got it. The only conversation we have to have during a session is anything relating to your body and the massage.

• Topics that should never come up in the massage room: politics, religion, anything sensual or sexual, anything deep about my personal life, or anything else that makes you (or I) uncomfortable. I stop the conversation when I see it going down any of these roads, and if I miss it, simply say you don’t want to talk about this.

If this brings anything up for you, please let me know! If you’re like me and it’s hard to speak up during a session, feel free to send me an email prior to or after your session. My goal is for us to create the perfect atmosphere for you.