Dr. Rose Bricker What exactly defines a “toxic person?” Do you get a gut feeling that things aren’t right when you engage with certain people? Do you leave the situation or encounter with feelings of confusion and anger that you are being used, manipulated, belittled, and hurt? These types of interactions never feel good! These interactions can keep you…
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Features, January 2024
2 Your Health: It’s a New Year! A New Opportunity to Make This Year a Great Year!
Dr. Rose Bricker We all have the ability to improve our thought patterns, behaviors, insights, skills, and perspectives. When we work on these issues, we can find our peace, joy, and contentment. Wouldn’t that make it a great year? Changing your thinking from negative to positive, being grateful, having healthy coping skills, communicating in healthy…
Features, October 2023
2 Your Health: Self-Worth and Massage
Heidi Overman, LMT #MT-24997 One of the themes I have tried to live by is: Self-care is not selfish. For the last few years, I’ve spoken about this to my clients, hoping they understand the value of what they are doing for themselves by receiving regular massages. However, in dissecting and really exploring, I’ve found…
Features, September 2023
2 Your Health: Relationship Stress: How Therapy Can Help
Dr. Rose Bricker, Blue Lemon Health & Wellness Anger and conflict within relationships can be challenging. When we have difficulty expressing our feelings, boundaries, and desires to others, it often creates stress that we are not prepared to manage. Sometimes, anger is used to express that stress. But when anger is expressed in destructive ways, such…
Features, August 2023
2 Your Health: Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness—How Massage Can Help
Heidi Overman, LMT #MT-24997 Brain health concerns are becoming more and more prevalent. As we age, we start to notice small changes in our memory, brain fog, and possibly more severe memory issues. There are many things we can do to help improve brain health. Nutrition, exercise, supplements, puzzles, and massage are just a few…
Features, July 2023
2 Your Health: Anxiety: How Therapy and Coaching Can Help
Dr. Rose Bricker, Blue Lemon Health & Wellness Anxiety can be challenging. The symptoms can be wide-reaching and varied. Anxiety doesn’t have to be diagnosed as a disorder to create huge discomfort in our lives. Anxiety affects your whole being. It is a physiological, behavioral, and psychological reaction all at once. Some symptoms of anxiety/panic…
Features, June 2023
2 Your Health: Alzheimer’s and Brain Health—How Therapy and Coaching Can Help
Dr. Rose Bricker, Blue Lemon Health & Wellness If you or a loved one is experiencing symptoms of Alzheimer’s, dementia, and poor brain health, you are not alone. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, 6.7 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s. Eleven million Americans provide unpaid care for those with Alzheimer’s and other types of…
Features, February 2023
2 Your Health: Body Awareness and Massage
Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist #MT-24997 Body awareness. It is so important to know when there is something going on with your body. Healthline.com defines body awareness as how conscious and connected you are to your own body. It’s also known as kinesthesia, or the awareness of the position and movement of body parts in…
Features, August 2022
2 Your Health: Repetitive Motion and Muscle Memory—Suddenly You Are in Pain!
Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist The most common comment I get as a massage therapist is, “Wow, I did not realize how bad my muscles are, until you started working on them. How did that happen?” The truth is this, humans are creatures of habit. We sleep in the same position, we get up and have…
Features, July 2022
2 Your Health: Pain Management: How Can Massage Help?
Heidi Overman, Licensed Massage Therapist Pain. It will disrupt your day. Your week. Your month. Your retirement years. But what can you do? A lifetime of medications? Surgeries? Shots? How about regular massage? Yes, regular massage can help with muscular pain management. Have you ever had a doctor tell you that your pain is muscular? Then…