Blog Post Category: Self Care
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Plantar Fasciitis (and how to fix it)
Plantar Fasciitis can be excruciating, but there’s more to its treatment than orthotics and shoes. Discover the benefits of going barefoot, strengthening muscles, and avoiding risky cortisone injections. Prioritize your foot health!
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Massage and Stretching
Stretching!… some people hate it & some love it. Now, if you are a client of Michigan Massage and Wellness, you know how much we LOVE stretching! Rebecca is a Level 2 Fascial Stretch Therapist, and once a week teaches people how to stretch through our weekly mobility classes. For those in pain stretching often…
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Take a Break
It’s time to stop wearing fatigue as a badge of honor. Breaks, whether short or long, offer incredible benefits. They increase productivity, prevent burnout, improve stress management, and provide essential personal time. Prioritize self-care; your mind and body will thank you.
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Meditation for pain relief
While massage can do wonders for many types of pain, self-care is just as important, and meditation has been proven time and again to be one of the most effective forms of self-care to treat pain. In fact, just like massage therapy, studies have shown meditation to work better than pain killers specifically for low…
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The importance of sleep
Do you even practice good sleep hygiene? Oh sleep. It seems like it should be easy. Our bodies and minds require sleep, so it should just happen naturally, right? But for many, tossing and turning, lying awake for hours staring at the ceiling, and overall struggling to fall asleep or stay asleep is a nightly…
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The (un)spiritual side of yoga
How spiritual are you with your yoga practice? I recently set up a work date with my long time friend/client/fellow badass boss lady Julie and she had to push it back and said “I need to sneak into a yoga class before”. Of course I retorted with “you should be sneaking into one of my…
