Calm Heart Therapeutic Massage

Happy Friday! Do something today that will make your body thank you 🤸🏽‍♀️

Massage therapy is an essential part of a well-rounded health and wellness regimen. Commit to regular bodywork and feel the luxurious benefits for yourself!

Have questions? Call or text me directly at 817-938-1821 💫

What’s the secret of a great massage? Listening.

And I mean more than just listening to what our clients say. This is a given.

I’m talking about listening to the body.

How does the client carry their body? What temperature is their skin? Does the muscle tissue feel hydrated? Inflamed? Malleable? How do the muscles respond to the touch? Is the client breathing deeper or are they holding their breath?

These are just a few of the questions any massage therapist worth their sheets is constantly asking themselves.

These are the sorts of observations that quickly grow into intuition. It all starts with listening.

Let me know, when you’re laying on the massage table, can you tell the difference between someone who knows how to listen to your body in this way vs someone who doesn’t?

Happy anniversary to us!!! I LOVE YOU, Spencer!! 🥰💚💚💚

4 benefits of regular massages:

✅ Reduces anxiety
✅ Promotes better sleep
✅ Increased mobility and range of motion
✅ Increases the production of the body’s natural painkillers, endorphins

Massage therapy is the best form of self care!

Click the link in my bio to start reaping these rewards 🤩🙌🏽

Move your body! Dance, do yoga, go for a walk, lift weights, stretch.

Reprogram your body’s fascial lines by switching it up and varying what you do for exercise.

& remember unlocking your body so that it can perform at its best is the basis of massage therapy. 😘

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B O D Y • L A N G U A G E

Our body language reveals SO MUCH information about us. As a massage therapist, I’ve learned to look at the way a person sits, stands, walks, etc. These visual cues (+ the client’s goals) tell me what muscle groups I’ll be working on. It allows me to start crafting a treatment plan long before the client is on the massage table.

Isn’t life an adventure? If 10 years ago, someone would’ve told me I’d be giving therapeutic massages with my feet for a living, I wouldn’t have believed it. (But I would’ve definitley sat down to hear more. 😆) It’s nice to know that sometimes reality can surpass even your wildest dreams. ✨

Could you have predicted 10 years ago that you’d be where you are today?

The Calm Heart website got a new look!! You'll find the new site easier to navigate, as well as some new additions to the blog. (More like a total revamp of the blog-- the old one was looking ROUGH. 😆)

Check it out and let me know what you think: www.calmheartmassage.com 💛

Here’s a quick reminder for us both: If I’m comfortable, I’m not growing. Sometimes this is easier said than done, since my comfort zone feels like I’m laying on a table warmer on a cold winter day. 😌❄️ Nevertheless, here’s to never getting comfortable, friends! What’s your mantra for the day?

They say, “Home is where the heart is,” and for me that couldn't be more true! I first started feeling at home in my work when I did my very first practice massage while in massage therapy school and ever since then, I've been obsessed (yes, the tiktok sound is playing in my head as I write this 😂).

To me, there’s just something about seeing someone come in tired, tense, perhaps with limited mobility in a certain area, and leave relaxed, with much more movement and most importantly, a smile. That certainly feels like home to me.

Where is home to you?