Massage & Wellness Blog
Health Partnerships That Matter
On the road-trip to health, you are the driver, but I'll keep you on track (and bring snacks)! In healthcare, you can often observe the relationship of the "all knowing expert” and the "passive patient”, a powerful dynamic which is often reinforced by factors...
Why Diagnostic Imaging Isn’t Your Whole Story
Breaking news: Diagnostics are not the ‘be all and end all’! Sometimes your health journey can feel challenging. You may have been making progress but then somewhere along the way you hit a wall, and you start to wonder if all your efforts have been in vain. Instead...
Small Steps, Big Outcomes: It’s never too late to start
Growing old is inevitable, but choosing to “age well” is a choice you get to make every day. Admittedly, as fundamental as good health is to your wellbeing, achieving and maintaining it can sometimes come with a host of challenging factors. Genetic predispositions,...
From Setbacks to Success: A Fresh Approach
Sometimes challenges lead to the best opportunities. I’m sure there have been times in your life when a plan fell through, a goal wasn’t achieved, or an expectation wasn't met and although this may have left you feeling rejected or like a failure, it is sometimes, in...
Walk it off: Why movement is medicine
Movement matters. At Theralleve, we advocate for our clients to 'get moving' after our treatments. We purposely provide simple "home-care" to not only improve daily routines around things like posture and breath-work, but also provide exercises that can help with...
Cupping: is it all hype?
When most people hear the word “cupping”, they may think of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps when he revealed his fixation towards this technique by showing the world his large, purple, and painless welts on his back. Regardless if we’ve jogged your memory about Phelps...
When opportunity knocks twice, answer!
Have you ever said "no" to doing something but really wished you'd said "yes"? I did. Back in late February, a mentor of mine advertised the opportunity to speak at one of her upcoming online events. The event was called the Women's Spirit Festival and it would be a...
Avoiding burnout for better productivity
Want to know an amazing secret weapon against burnout? With only two sleeps left before I go away for a family-focused weekend, I am considering doing something that will take considerable effort: leaving my work at home. In a world that glorifies "hustle" culture,...
2024: Focus on what matters
It's January 4th and I just put the finishing touches on something I have tried to do every year since opening my business, and that is: create a vision board. For me, a vision board is a collection of visual cues that help align my intentions on the inside...
Massage misconception #2: water and toxins and massage – oh my!
Drinking water is, without question, one of the best things you can do for your body. Not only are we made of it (roughly 60-70% depending on which health journal you read), but water provides many other benefits to the body including: - Maintaining homeostasis (the...
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