Massage Therapist Self Care

Financial Self Care- setting fees and policies and procedures to support your self and your massage business. It is about learning to create spending plans and tracking your income and expenses and planning to meet your needs with vacations, time off, weekly massage and whatever else you need. It is about learning about your hidden money issues and learning that you are of value and

that it is OK and even Good to charge for massage services.

Bodymechanics - Using your body effectively and being able to work with your body in alignment can take the strain out of using your body and reduce injuries and wear and tear.
Nutrition
Exercise, Movement
Self awareness
Meditation
Supervision and Peer Supervision -Getting the support you need from an experienced massage therapist can help you in building your massage business. Supervision is not someone telling you what to do. It is all about You and getting the support you need to take the actions that will support your massage business.
Personal Growth work
Getting Regular massage is one of the keys to keeping in touch with what it is that you are doing with clients on a regular basis. You can learn so much about client communications and honing in on client issues when you learn to pay more attention to clients needs. Getting regular massage will help you to see it from the clients side and also help keep you healthy so that you can avoid injuries and work pain free for a long career in massage.
Psychology for Massage Therapists
The Code of the Caretaker
Avoiding Burnout - Avoiding Burnout and dealing with burnout is one of the challenges for many massage therapists. The biggest cause of burnout that I have seen is not being able to take care of the financial needs of a massage business and having the money to live on and keep the business going. If you don't have that, you won't be able to do the other self care steps like getting weekly massage, taking vacations and getting your own needs met.

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