Welcome to the Revitalize Massage & Wellness, LLC July newsletter!
Happy 4th of July! I hope your summer is going well!
In this newsletter, I share a grounding practice to help when feeling disconnected, anxious, or experiencing other negative emotions and highlight a new service offering a free session for those currently undergoing or who are post-cancer treatment.
Grounding
When our daughter, Allie, was in yoga teacher training, she was introduced to a grounding process she shared with me. This practice has helped us both in many situations. We use this complementary health approach to refocus on the present moment when experiencing overactive thinking or feeling anxious, disconnected, or experiencing other negative emotions. Here is how it works:
- Sit, stand, or walk as comfortably as you can in the moment. Doing this with your bare feet on the ground can be very powerful—a great summer benefit!
- Think or state out loud:
- 5 things you can currently see.
- 4 things you can feel.
- 3 things you can hear.
- 2 things you can smell.
- 1 good thing about yourself.
We created a flyer with this Grounding 5 4 3 2 1 practice. If you would like a copy, please contact me, and I will email it to you. For further reading about grounding, please see the resources below.
New Free Session Offering
Through my experience as an Oncology Massage therapist, clients have found that complementary health approaches can bring a feeling of relaxation while easing tension, pain, neuropathy, stress, fatigue, and other side effects of cancer treatment. My hope is that everyone going through a cancer journey finds approaches that can help ease the side effects.
To support this, I now offer a free 45-minute combination session of oncology massage, Reiki, and Craniosacral Therapy (or any combo they want to try) for individuals undergoing cancer treatment or experiencing post-treatment side effects. This session aims to determine if one or more of these approaches is right for them.
If you or someone you know is interested in scheduling or discussing this opportunity, please feel free to reach out to me at revitalize.massage.karen@gmail.com or Google Voice: 734-489-1547.
Wishing you a wonderful July and joyful July 4th celebration!
In health,
Karen
Resources
Mayo Clinic: What is somatic therapy? (includes a definition of grounding) https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/living-well/the-befenits-of-somatic-exercises/
Cleveland Clinic: This is an article on Earthing (a subset of grounding), but it has a great discussion on the difference between grounding and earthing: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/earthing
More information about the 45-minute free session can be found on my LinkedIn post:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7211378976823332864/